Wilhelm Malte II.

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Wilhelm Carl Gustav Malte, Count of Wylich and Lottum (born April 16, 1833 in Naples , † April 18, 1907 in Pegli ) was a German prince from the Cleveland noble family of Wylich and Lottum . After the extinction of his mother's family, the Princely House of Putbus on Rügen, in the male line he became its heir and in 1861 the Prussian prince status as Wilhelm Malte II. Prince and Lord of Putbus .

Life

He was the second son of Count Hermann Friedrich von Wylich and Lottum (1796–1849) and his wife Clothilde, born. Countess of Putbus (1809-1894). His paternal grandfather was the Prussian general and finance minister Count Carl Heinrich von Wylich and Lottum , his maternal grandfather was Prince Wilhelm Malte I. zu Putbus, governor general of Swedish-Western Pomerania and, since 1817, of Prussian-Western Pomerania.

After the death of Prince Wilhelm Malte I am 26 September 1854 his wife inherited Princess Louise, divorced Countess of Veltheim, nee Baroness von Lauterbach, as Vorerbin the primogeniture . The only son of the princely couple, Count Malte (1807–1837) was unmarried and died without a legitimate heir (his illegitimate son was not entitled to inheritance). When Princess Luise died on September 27, 1860, Wilhelm Carl Gustav Malte, the second son of Clothilde, the eldest daughter of the princely couple, took over the inheritance.

At the express request of Prince Wilhelm Malte I, the Swedish document about his elevation to the prince status of 1807 stipulated that only the direct male successors should be entitled to the prince title. In 1817 King Friedrich Wilhelm III had him . the princely status also confirmed for Prussia. Therefore, in March 1861, contrary to the Swedish regulation, the Prussian King Wilhelm I elevated his grandson Wilhelm Malte Graf von Wylich and Lottum to the Prussian prince's status with the title Prince and Lord of Putbus . Wilhelm Malte II was a member of the Prussian manor house , until 1888 Obersttruchseß, and hereditary land marshal in the Principality of Rügen and the Land of Barth . As Prince of Putbus entitled to a virile vote, he belonged to the provincial parliament of the province of Pomerania .

Putbus Castle

Already under Wilhelm Malte I there were close relationships between the Prussian royal house and the Putbus family . King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Visited the princely residence in Putbus as Crown Prince in 1820 and 1825 and as King in 1843, 1846 and 1853 . The close ties between Putbus and Berlin were also further strengthened under Wilhelm Malte II. In 1860, still under the rule of Princess Luise, Crown Prince Friedrich and his wife Viktoria visited the residential palace in Putbus .

From 1818 to the middle of the 19th century, Lauterbach , a district of Putbus, was, despite the distance to the sea, a luxury bath for the nobility. In order to make the residence place even more attractive for bathers, Wilhelm Malte II ordered the construction of a railway line from Putbus to the seaside resort of Binz , which was inaugurated in the summer of 1895. Four years later, the entire route to Göhren was completed.

family

Wilhelm Malte II married his cousin Wanda Maria Freiin von Veltheim -Bartensleben on July 1, 1857 (* July 12, 1837 at Schloss Bartensleben ; † December 18, 1867 in Berlin, who later became Princess Wanda von Putbus). The daughters of the first princely couple (Wilhelm Malte I and Luise), Clothilde (* April 25, 1809, † October 19, 1894), married to Count Hermann Friedrich von Wylich and Lottum, and Asta Luise (* June 22, 1812, † March 27, 1850), married to Franz von Veltheim (1812–1874), were the mothers of the second princely couple. Princess Wanda died in Berlin on December 18, 1867, sixteen days after the birth of her fifth daughter, Wanda Auguste.

The marriage produced five daughters:

  • Marie Luise Clotilde Agnes, Countess von Wylich and Lottum, Princess von Putbus (born May 31, 1858 in Merseburg; † March 16, 1930 in Putbus) ⚭ 1877 Franz von Veltheim (* July 13, 1848; † January 30, 1927)
  • Asta Eugenie Countess von Wylich and Lottum, Princess von Putbus (born January 16, 1860 in Berlin; † November 4, 1934 in Putbus) ⚭ Karl von Riepenhausen (born May 31, 1852; † April 7, 1929)
  • Viktoria Wanda, Countess von Wylich and Lottum (born February 1, 1861 in Berlin; † December 7, 1933 in Neklade) ⚭ January 17, 1888 Ludolph Heinrich von Veltheim
  • Margarethe Rosa Alma, Countess von Wylich and Lottum (* September 22, 1864 in Putbus; † July 2, 1948 in Burgfarrnbach) ⚭ Hans Wurmb von Zinck (* October 26, 1849; † December 7, 1892)
  • Wanda Auguste, Countess von Wylich and Lottum (* December 2, 1867 in Berlin; † March 10, 1930 in Kreuzwertheim) ⚭ Ernst Alban Ludwig, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (* September 25, 1854; † April 20, 1931)

First the eldest daughter Marie became heiress of the principality, then her next younger sister Asta. Since both had no surviving descendants of Princely-Putbus'sche fell Fideikommiss 1934 to the son of the third daughter Viktoria, Malte von Veltheim -Lottum that with the permission of the Reich Minister of the Interior the family name on 20 October 1938 Malte von Putbus and took . He died in 1945 in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Johannes Weise: The integration of Swedish Pomerania into the Prussian State Association: Transformation processes within the state and society. GRIN Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-638-91521-2 , p. 213.
  2. ^ Theodor Wengler : The Pomeranian Provincial Association. Directory of the members of the provincial assembly. Publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania, Series V, Volume 44. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20109-8 , p. 2, p. 46f.
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelm Malte II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wylich and Lottum, Wilhelm Carl Gustav Malte von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowner
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1907
Place of death Pegli