Werner von der Schulenburg-Burgscheidungen

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Georg Ludwig Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, lord of castle and church divisions (born June 9, 1836 in Leipzig , † April 8, 1893 in Nervi ) was a large Prussian landowner and member of the Prussian manor house .

Origin and family environment

Was Georg Ludwig Werner von der Schulenburg member of the of the Knights justified Bernhard von der Schulenburg (1302-1341) white tribe of his ramified gender from altmärkischem nobility . It came from the branch castle divisions of the II line of the White Tribe, founded by Count Levin Friedrich von der Schulenburg (1738-1801) , to which the Fideikommissgut castle and church divisions in the Querfurt district in today's Saxony-Anhalt until 1945 in what was then Soviet Occupation zone ensued expropriation belonged to the land reform .

Life

Burgscheidungen Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Werner von der Schulenburg studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1856 he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg . Before he took over the Fideikommissgüter Burg- und Kirchscheidungen and the Branderode estate in the Querfurt district from his father, he served in the Prussian army, from which he left as first lieutenant. He became a Prussian chamberlain and, as a Protestant nobleman as a legal knight of the Order of St. John , was involved in charitable tasks in addition to managing his extensive property. Since he was also involved in agricultural policy issues, the landowners in the East Thuringia region sent him to the Prussian mansion in 1872, of which he remained a member until his death.

Werner von der Schulenburg had been married to Countess Henriette von der Schulenburg (1856–1937) since his marriage on March 9, 1876 in Filehne . The couple had two sons and a daughter who was married to Leopold von Kleist , the Prussian minister.

The eldest son of Werner von der Schulenburg-Burgscheidungen, Adelbert Karl Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, married Countess Elisabeth Margarete von der Schulenburg on July 6, 1912 (* July 8, 1892 in Ippenburg; † January 30, 1976 in Berlin), a Daughter of Werner-Karl-Hermann Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg . Children from the marriage: Rose Renate, Gabriele, Elisabeth, Asta Gisela and Adelheid. This marriage ended in divorce in 1927. Elisabeth married the Naumburg photographer and visual artist Prof. Walter Hege in 1928 and moved with him to Weimar. Her children from her second marriage: Reglindis Maria and Ursula Ingeborg Hege.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data on Geneall.net
  2. ^ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume GA IV, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg 1962, p. 413.
  3. ↑ a b c Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume GA IV, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg 1962, p. 437.
  4. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 120 , 487
personal data
SURNAME Schulenburg-Burgscheidungen, Werner von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian landowner and member of the Prussian manor house
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1893
Place of death Nervi