Wilhelm Augustin Balthasar-Wolfradt

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Wilhelm Augustin Balthasar-Wolfradt (born February 15, 1864 in Schlatkow , Western Pomerania , † April 29, 1945 in Potsdam ) was a Prussian military officer and master of the Grand State Lodge of the Freemasons of Germany . The original family name was Balthasar . The Prussian Ministry of Justice approved the double name on February 8, 1921.

Life

He was the fifth child (four daughters) of the landowner Wilhelm Ludwig Augustin Balthasar (born August 23, 1829 in Groß Rakow, † October 5, 1866 in Schlatkow ) and Caroline Friederike Henriette, née von Wolfradt (born November 21, 1831 in Schmatzin , † February 11, 1908 in Berlin-Schöneberg).

Career

New high school in Anklam from 1851, today houses the ev. School Peeneburg

Balthasar attended the Anklam high school and studied law from the winter semester 1882/83 at the University of Leipzig . He renoncierte the Corps Lusatia Leipzig , but still different than Fox for study reasons from. From the summer semester of 1883 at the University of Greifswald , he became active at Borussia Greifswald .

In 1886 he was second lieutenant in the 3rd Pomeranian Infantry Regiment No. 14 of the Prussian Army in Stralsund , later Graudenz . Since 1893 Prime Lieutenant , in 1895 he switched to the director's career and began as an assessor at the XIV Army Corps in Karlsruhe . In 1900 he was appointed director of the II. Army Corps in Stettin and in 1907 the IX. Army Corps was transferred to Altona , where he was appointed chief executive officer in 1912. Since 1914 Privy Council of War , he came as a lecturing council to the War Ministry . During the First World War , he was the director of an army on the Eastern Front from 1914 to 1916 . In 1917 he returned to the Ministry of War and was appointed the Real Secret War Council on September 17, 1918. In 1921 he received the Lusatia corps bow, which in 1929 gave him the ribbon .

Entitled to wear the uniform of the lecturing councilors of the Reichswehr Ministry , he left the Reichswehr in 1922 and moved to the Reich Treasury Ministry as Ministerialrat . Retired as a secret councilor , he lived in Potsdam. In view of the conquest of the city by the Red Army , he shot himself.

Freemasons

During the First World War , Balthasar-Wolfradt was instrumental in founding the field box Zum Deutschen Schwert in Mitau in the east . He only held the office of lodge master there for a short time because he was transferred from the front to organize a people's food office at the War Ministry in Berlin . As the successor to Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia , he was Master of the Order of the Grand State Lodge of Freemasons of Germany from 1919 .

family

On January 26, 1893, he married Helene Friederike Natalie von Kries (1865–1929) on the West Prussian domain of Osterwitt . The son Friedrich, born in 1895, died on August 27, 1918 in Vrancourt .

Awards

literature

  • EE Leonhardt: The first 150 years of the Great Order Chapter of the Great State Lodge of the Freemasons of Germany (Fraternitas indissolubilis). December 20, 1776 to December 20, 1926 . Handwriting only for chapter brothers (knights of the west). Printed by Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, Buchdruckerei G. mb H. (Br. K. Toeche-Mittler), Berlin 1926 (with a portrait of Wilhelm A. Balthasar-Wolfradt on one of the plates).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Archives Corps Lusatia
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 54 , 333
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 87 , 974
  4. ^ Ferdinand Runkel: History of Freemasonry in Germany. 3rd volumes, Berlin: Hobbing 1931-32; Reprint in 1 vol. And dt .: History of Freemasonry. Königswinter: Edition Lempertz 2006 (p. 145)
  5. ↑ Prussian War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1914, p. 81.
  6. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 88 of July 13, 1912, p. 1996.
personal data
SURNAME Balthasar-Wolfradt, Wilhelm Augustin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balthasar, Wilhelm Augustin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Freemasons
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlatkow , Western Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1945
Place of death Potsdam