Wilhelm Thedwig von Oertzen

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Wilhelm Thedwig von Oertzen (1993)

Wilhelm Thedwig Otto Helmuth Georg von Oertzen (* 26. February 1921 in Lübbersdorf ; † 13. May 2011 in Hamburg ) was a German agricultural journalists, genealogists and recognized historian who researched the diverse interweaving of his family in the complex Mecklenburg- German history meticulous, Found valuable new insights into local, estate, church, military and social history, summarized it as an author with already known specialist articles and made it available to the public as editor in the Oertzen-Blätter.

Life

family

Wilhelm Thedwig von Oertzen was the eldest son of the lieutenant colonel of the reserve and landowner on Lübbersdorf and Cosa, Wilhelm von Oertzen (1890-1981), and the major-general daughter Waltraut Wobring (1893-1976).

Oertzen married on March 12, 1943 in Cosa Elisabeth von Stosch (born October 8, 1922 in Kiel), daughter of the vice-admiral a. D. Hans von Stosch and Susanne Eisleben. The daughters Anna Luise (* 1946 in Salzwedel) and Elisabeth Margaretha (Margret) (* 1949 in Rostock) come from his marriage .

childhood

Manor house in Lübbersdorf

Oertzen spent his youth in a conservative security on the Lübbersdorf estate (1450 hectares) near Friedland in Mecklenburg-Strelitz , which his father had taken over in debt and was managing for the eighth generation in a row. Sunday church attendance led from the large manor house from 1800, crossing the village street, past the Gutsschmiede, to the Protestant village church of Lübbersdorf with the patronage seat adorned with the coat of arms, the commemorative plaque for the war of 1871 and the famous altar with the unicorn. In 1927 the father had to sell the Lübbersdorf estate (5800 acres) to the Pommersche Landbaugesellschaft and the manor house to the Red Cross , the house where they were born was abandoned and the family moved to their second estate in nearby Cosa (1500 acres).

education

He attended elementary school until March 1931 and from Easter 1931 to Easter 1934 the grammar school in Friedland as a driving student, then as a boarding school student at the Marienau school community in Lüneburg Heath and then as a pensioner at the Oberrealschule in Rosenheim in Upper Bavaria. At the end he was in the boarding school in Hohenlychen, Province of Brandenburg, which he left on August 27, 1939 with a secondary school leaving certificate according to the decree of the Reich Minister of August 15, 1942 . From September 1, 1939 to February 4, 1941, he worked in agriculture on his parents' farm in Cosa (1460 acres) under the property manager Adolf Burmeister. After the outbreak of war and the call-up of the father, the Neubrandenburg district peasantry had appointed Burmeister, who was already managing the Brohm, Rattey and Charlottenhof estates, as agricultural manager and trustee from Cosa.

Wehrmacht

Oertzen was drafted into the Wehrmacht in February 1941 and trained as an Inf. Panzerjäger at Ers.Btl.IR 48 in Neustrelitz. His first command took him shortly to central France. From here he was transferred to the front troops in Russia in the northern section in the Novgorod Oblast southeast of the Ilmen Lake . Like his father, he took part in the Demyansk Kessel Battle , when the Russians began encircling the unit on January 8, 1942. In 1942 he was flown out to attend the war school in Poznan. There he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve. In March 1943 he celebrated his war wedding in uniform with a steel helmet in Brohm. He then took over various commands as a training officer. With his last training unit in Graudenz on the Vistula, Oertzen again took part in immediate war events from 1944. In February 1945 he was seriously wounded in fighting back in the Tuchler Heide. After an adventurous journey through various hospitals, always on the run from approaching enemy troops, he ended up in a reserve hospital in Friedland in April 1945. When the Russians approached, he was released from the hospital on April 27, 1945 to his hometown of Cosa near Friedland.

With the exception of his father, he found his whole family and numerous refugees from East Prussia there, who had meanwhile been deployed to defend the island of Usedom. Despite a ban on trekking by the party, a trek attempt with ten wagons was made on April 28, 1945, which failed in the nearby village of Brohm due to a Soviet low-flying attack. On April 28, 1945 the Red Army rolled over the village and estate. "The days after that, with all their horror and horror, elude the description."

  • Manor house Lübbersdorf (1880)

  • Postcard from Lübbersdorf (1912)

  • Smithy and village church in Lübbersdorf (1927)

  • Manor house in Cosa (2006)

Post-war period in the GDR

On October 6, 1945, the parental business Cosa was expropriated as part of the land reform and expulsion of the family with the stipulation that the new residence was at least 20 km away from the old one. After a temporary separation from his wife, he began a new beginning in Rostock . At first he worked as an employee of an agricultural insurance company (hail and animal life insurance) until the University of Rostock was allowed to reopen the agricultural faculty. There he graduated from 1946 to 1949 with a degree in agriculture. The German Economic Commission for the Soviet Zone of Occupation, Head Office for Agriculture and Forestry, hired him with effect from September 1, 1949 for DM 446 gross as a scientific assistant for the Central Research Institute for Animal Breeding in Dummerstorf , founded in 1939 by Kaiser-Wilhelm -Institute for Animal Breeding Research Rostock (Director Prof. Dr. Gerhard Gustav Adolf Frölich). Prof. Dr. Haring from the Central Research Institute for Animal Breeding in Dummerstorf terminated his employment on November 15 at the end of December and confirmed his full satisfaction in a letter from the same day and therefore regretted that various reasons forced him to do so.

Escape and a new beginning in the west

When he was told in November 1949 that he was on the arrest list for the next morning, he immediately secured his belongings, took the night train from Rostock with his family to East Berlin and fled across the green border to West Berlin . After a short stopover in Berlin, they were flown to Schleswig-Holstein at the beginning of 1950 , where he received the permit to move to Neudorf . First he found a job with emergency work in road construction, Hohwacht Lütjenburg, then at the end of 1950 at the Agricultural and Housekeeping Evaluation and Information Service eV, (AID) in Frankfurt / Main . This department of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture was relocated to Bad Godesberg in 1953 and he and his family moved to the Rhineland.

In 1957 he took over the management of the Association for Consumer Education and Nutrition Advice eV in Bonn. In 1960 he became an editor for food, agriculture and forestry on television. First at Freie Fernsehen GmbH in Frankfurt / Main, later at ZDF in Mainz . In 1963 he became a consultant for press and public relations at the working group for agricultural construction in Frankfurt / Main. From 1965 to 1969 he had to undergo lengthy hospital stays as a result of the worsening war wound. He then retired from active professional life, but continued to work as a freelance agricultural journalist.

Reunification in 1989

The expectation linked to the reunification of the return of the expropriated paternal businesses was not fulfilled. The last Oertzen born in Lübbersdorf successfully returned a small settlement in his place of birth that he and his wife inherited in 1994. It was a matter close to his heart to look after this piece of home until his death.

Actual calling

Since 1946 Oertzen conducted extensive genealogical and heraldic studies. He dealt with middle-class, ennobled and noble families. Particular attention was paid to the Huguenots.

As part of the role of secretary in the von Oertzen family association from 1959 to 1995, he was responsible for revising the family lineages that were last published in Gotha A in 1941. He made four post-war publications with special prints.

  • GHdA Volume 24 (Noble Houses A, Volume V) 1960,
  • GHdA Volume 45 (Noble Houses A, Volume X) 1969,
  • GHdA Volume 76 (Noble Houses A, Volume XVI) 1981,
  • GHdA Volume 103 (Noble Houses A, Volume XXII) 1992

From 1970 to 2007 he edited the family's own genealogical journal "Oertzen = Blätter". He held this position for 37 years, during which he published 74 issues. Oertzen became a member of the " Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology ", which was re-established in 1984 as a working group .

Works

  • Lübbersdorf Church in Need. In: Oertzen-Blätter, vol. 50 (2007), 74, p. 68.
  • Mention of the name v. Oertzen in letters to Goethe. In: Oertzen-Blätter, Vol. 50 (2007), 74, p. 76.
  • Malchow Monastery, now in the care of the "German Foundation for Monument Protection"! In: Oertzen-Blätter, Vol. 50 (2007), 74, pp. 65-67.
  • Mecklenburg families as participants in the council in Constance. In: Oertzen-Blätter, 14th vol. No. 2 (1971) pp. 2-4.
  • The progressive monument protection law was enacted over 100 years ago! In: Oertzen-Blätter, Vol. 50 (2007), 74, pp. 62-64.
  • Bäbelitz. In: Oertzen-Blätter, Vol. 49 (2006), 73, pp. 50-51.
  • The “Land constitutional hereditary comparison” in Mecklenburg from 1755 is a family history document! In: Oertzen-Blätter, Vol. 49 (2006), 73, pp. 41-44.
  • How a pagan sacrificial stone became a " Brohmer egg ". In: Oertzen-Blätter, Vol. 49/2006, 72, pp. 32–33
  • On the history of the Rothen manor house: according to a chronicle by Christian v. Lehsten. In: Oertzen-Blätter, Vol. 49/2006, 72, pp. 21-25.
  • News about the work of Consul General Gustav v. Oertzen Kittendorf in New Guinea. In: Oertzen-Blätter, Vol. 48 (2005), 71, pp. 10-11.
  • Who was the German Consul General in China around 1901 who reported on the Boxer Rebellion? In: Oertzen-Blätter, 48th year (2005), 71, p. 9.
  • The Johanniter in Mecklenburg. In: Oertzen Blätter No. 25/1982,
  • Memories of the Mecklenburg Grenadier Regiment No. 89. In: Oertzen-Blätter, 17th year May 1974, No. 8
  • Late memory of Olga v. Oertzen. In: Oertzen-Blätter, Vol. 48 (2005), 71, pp. 4–5.
  • Restoration of the Dobbertin Monastery is making good progress! In: Oertzen-Blätter, Vol. 48 (2005), 70, pp. 181-187.
  • The pedigree of Victor Sigismund von Oertzen in the church of Klockow. In: Oertzen-Blätter, Volume 40, Nov. 1997 No. 55), 76.
  • District Administrator of Oertzen Hof in Schwerin. Schleswigholstein house.
  • Carl von Oertzen Brunn is a co-founder of the Neubrandenburg Museum Association. In: Oertzen-Blätter, Vol. 44, November 2001, No. 63, p. 52.
  • Old monthly memory book of the family v. Oertzen Lübbersdorf discovered (with views of the manor house Lübbersdorf, church, Moltzow, Brohm, church Salow). In: Oertzen-Blätter, Vol. 30, November 1987, No. 35, 88-91.
  • Doberan. Development of a Cistercian abbey into the first seaside resort and racing area in Germany. In: Oertzen-Blätter, May 16, 1973 No. 6
  • Life and work of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Minister of State August von Oertzen Kotelow. In: Oertzen-Blätter, 33rd year May 1990, pp. 181-187.
  • Johann Heinrich Voss and the Oertzens on Ankershagen. In: Oertzen Blätter, November 19, 1976, No. 13
  • In memoriam by the sculptor Roland von Oertzen. In: Oertzen-Blätter No. 29/1984
  • Heinrich v. Oertzen adH Kotelow-Lübbersdorf, killed in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig on October 18, 1813. A picture of life based on his letters. In: Oertzen-Blätter, November 29th, 1986, No. 33
  • A visit to Gudow. In: Oertzen-Blätter, November 29th, 1986, No. 33, pp. 50-53.
  • Oertzen ancestors of Klaus von Amsberg. In: Oertzen-Blätter, May 15, 1972 No. 4
  • The ancestors and grandchildren of Adelheid v. Oertzen, b. v. Fabrice (1774-1842). In: Oertzen-Blätter, Vol. 30, May 1987, No. 34, pp.?
  • The Captain von Oertzen was a do-no! In: Oertzen-Blätter, May 31, 1988, No. 36, pp. 108-111.
  • Jasper von Oertzen founded the CVJM (Christian Association of Young Men) in Hamburg 75 years ago. In: Oertzen-Blätter, 19 year May 1976, No. 12
  • How Klockow got the Oertzensche family and other oddities. In: Oertzen-Blätter, 33rd year May 1990, pp. 187-189.
  • About the creation of the five Fideikommisse Lübbersdorf with Cosa, Salow, Barsdorf, Remlin and Brigow. In: Oertzen-Blätter, 17th year November 1974, No. 9.
  • Our family's property in 1864. (30 estates with periods of ownership) In: Oertzen-Blätter, November 24, 1981 No. 23, p. 38.
  • What became of our goods? Thirty years of communist land reform in the GDR. (With an overview of goods from the 14th century to 1945). In: Oertzen-Blätter 22nd year November 1979 No. 19.
  • Former Oertzen goods according to old postcards. In: Oertzen-Blätter, special issue for the 100th Family Day 1991. For the individual mansions there is a brief profile as well as information on where further information can be found in the Oertzen-Blätter.
Alt-Vorwerk, Amt Gnoien iM, (No. 15/1977) Liessow, Office Schwerin iM (No. 4/1972)
Barsdorf, Amt Fürstenberg in M, -Strelitz, (No. 6/1973) Lübbersdorf, Friedland Office in M.-Strelitz, (No. 1/1970)
Blumenow, Fürstenberg i. Mecklenburg.-Strelitz, (No. 19/1979); Miekenhagen, Amt Bukow i Mecklenburg, (No. 29/1984)
Briggow, Stavenhagen Office in M.-Strelitz, (No. 07/1973) Pamitz, district of Anklam in Western Pomerania, (No. 17/1978
Brohm, Friedland Office in M.-Strelitz, (No. 3/1971) Pempowo, Gostyn County, Poznan Province, (No. 21/1980)
Cosa, Friedland Office in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, (No. 23/1981) Rattey, Friedland Office in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, (No. 25/1983)
Groß Flotow, Amt Waren i. M., (No. 4/1972) Repnitz, Office Gnoin i. M., (No. 16/1978)
Helpt, i, M. Strelitz (No. 27 1983) Roggow, Amt Bukow iM, (No. 24./1982)
Horno, No. 12 1976 Rothen, Amt Sternberg iM, (No. 4/1972), (No. 72/2006)
Kittendorf, Malchin iM (No. 22/1981)
Kotelow, Friedland Office in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, (No. 2/1971) Salow, Friedland Office in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, (No. 5/1972)
Leppin, Stargard Office in Mecklenburg Strelitz, (No. 20/1980) Tessin, Amt Crivitz iM, (No. 4/1972)

literature

  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser A XXII pp. 151-221, Volume 103 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1992,
  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch: Documented history of the von Oertzen family , Schwerin,
  • Oertzen = sheets, messages for members of the von Oertzen family, private printing, published by v. Oertzen'schen Familienverband eV, editor and editor Wilhelm Thedwig von Oertzen, Volumes 1 to 74

Web links

Dataset on and literature on Wilhelm Thedwig von Oertzen in the state bibliography MV - No hit, May 18, 2011.

References and comments

  1. ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : The altar of the church in Lübbersdorf near Friedland. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. 33 vol. (1868), page 168.
  2. ↑ Richard Schreckhas : Commemorative publication for the 600th anniversary of the secondary school in Friedland in Mecklenburg. Friedland 1937, p. 105.
  3. ↑ Certified copy of the Rostock police dated December 29, 1945: Oberschule for boys of the Hohenlychen country school home. State-recognized private high school for boys (grades 1–8). Certificate of departure, Hohenlychen October 6, 1942
  4. ^ Certificate from the property manager Burmeister, Brohm bei Friedland (Meckl.), August 28, 1943.
  5. ↑ letter copy of the freight manager Adolf Burmeister, Bremen Horn On Büten 4, 16 February 1948th
  6. ↑ a b Wilhelm Thedwig von Oertzen: Questionnaire for a book “Mecklenburg 1845” commissioned by the Mecklenburg State Association of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, completed on May 28, 1987 in Hamburg, copy of the private archive of Kuno Rogalla v. Bieberstein
  7. ^ The district administrator for the Neustrelitz district (Stargard), Department II internal administration, Neustrelitz, October 19, 1945
    Certificate: This certifies that ... was resident in Cosa, Krs. Stargard, and at that time as a result of the implementation of the law on the Land reform was expelled from Cosa, with the proviso that they take their new residence at least 20 km away…. On behalf of Martin…. Original private archive Kuno Rogalla v. Bieberstein.
  8. ^ Certificate from the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Property and Person Insurance Institution, Seestadt Rostock, July 15, 1946.
  9. ↑ University of Rostock: Diploma examination certificate with “good passed”. Date Rostock, July 30, 1949.
  10. ^ Letter of employment from the German Economic Commission for the Soviet Zone of Occupation, Head Office for Agriculture and Forestry, file number A / I / 3160 from October 1, 1949
  11. ^ Letter from the Central Research Institute for Animal Breeding, Prof dated November 15, 1949, letter from Dr. Ha./Ha and certificate of the same with the same sign from the same day.
  12. ^ AID Agricultural and Housekeeping Evaluation and Information Service, Bad Godesberg, Heerstr. 124, testimony of March 27, 1957
  13. ↑ Consumer education and nutritional advice eV Bonn, Koblenzerstr. 127, testimony of March 1, 1961.
  14. ^ Free TV GmbH, Frankfurt / M1, Kaiserstr. 48, testimony dated June 30, 1961.
  15. ↑ Oertzen = Blätter, Vol. 50, May 2007, No. 74, leading article by Arndt-Heinrich v. Oertzen: Thank you for 37 years of Oertzen-Blätter!
personal data
SURNAME Oertzen, Wilhelm Thedwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oertzen, Wilhelm Thedwig Otto Helmuth Georg von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural journalist, genealogist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Luebbersdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 2011
Place of death Hamburg