Wilhelm von Oertzen (1828–1895)

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Wilhelm Fritz Julius Heinrich Thedwig von Oertzen (born March 21, 1828 in Barsdorf , † January 16, 1895 in Malchin ) was a German landowner, diplomat and head of the monastery in Mecklenburg.

Life

Grave site in Lübbersdorf (1997)

Wilhelm von Oertzen came from the Lübbersdorf line of the widely ramified Mecklenburg noble family . He was born as the eldest son of the landowner and captain Wilhelm von Oertzen (1803–1889; # 405) and his wife Auguste , b. von Balthasar (1809–1879) from the Pritzier family, born in Barsdorf (then part of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz region) and grew up there as the eldest child of six siblings. Later he inherited the Barsdorf, Lübbersdorf and Cosa goods in south-east Mecklenburg.

education

As a high school graduate, Oertzen cannot be found in any list of graduates from any secondary school in either of the Mecklenburg states. In 1849 he studied law at the University of Bonn, where he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . At the same time, the future Emperor Friedrich belonged to this, whose personal boy was Oertzen. From this time he had an intimate friendship with the Crown Prince until his death.

vocation

Then Oertzen entered the civil service in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. From 1858 to 1882 he headed the Feldberg domain office as (Land-) Drost and was temporarily Mecklenburg-Strelitz Federal Councilor . Whenever Wilhelm von Oertzen came to the meetings of the Federal Council in Berlin, he was greeted by the Crown Prince, who chaired the Federal Council meetings, before everyone else with the words: Hello, Laibbursch! We have to work first, but then come You with me to my wife and we will talk further. Oertzen received two large engravings from the Crown Prince with the pictures of the Crown Prince and his wife signed by hand.

Oertzen was Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Strelitzscher Chamberlain. Contemporary sources mention him both as district administrator and as Landdrost, which may be due to a confusion between the two names.

On January 14, 1872, he took part in the constitution of the Berlin Northern Railway Company . Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm (II.) Had given Oertzen the state supervision of Mecklenburg-Strelitz over the business conduct of the railway company. In his capacity as government commissioner, he was named in 1889 when the railway line from Neustrelitz via Wesenberg to Mirow was built.

Dobbertin Monastery

From 1882 to 1894, Wilhelm von Oertzen was the monastery captain of the Dobbertin monastery and the asset manager of the entire monastery office. As managing director, he was in charge of the monastery office with his two provisional agents and the chef as a tax officer. He was elected to the state parliament for six years and divided the tasks according to fixed rules. The official inauguration took place on June 16, 1882 in the office of the monastery governor's house by taking an oath and handshake. The presentation of the village mayors as mayors of all monastery villages, all foresters, monastery officials and some servants took place on June 17, 1882 in the courtroom and then the conventual women with Domina Hedwig von Schack ad H. Pankelow as head of the convent in the convent hall.

During his 12-year tenure as head of the monastery, he was particularly committed to improving the entire school system in the monastery villages. According to his school regulations, which were issued for the localities on August 13, 1886 with the provisional Josias von Plüskow auf Kowalz and Diederich von Mecklenburg auf Wieschendorf, regular school attendance had to be ensured. The head of the monastery and the pastor were in charge of the supervision, assisted by the village schoolteacher and the teacher, who also jointly determined the curriculum, the textbooks and the teaching materials. There were plenty of holidays, for example at Christmas, Easter, Whitsun, during the grain and potato harvest and on market days in Dobbertin and Goldberg . In the surrounding forests of the Schwinzer Heide , he shot his strongest stag while hunting big game in the Klädener district of the monastery forest .

Awards

On November 29, 1867 Oertzen was honored as a knight of the house order of the Wendish Crown . As an authorized representative of the Order of St. John , he took part in the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871 and received the Iron Cross on a white ribbon for his services .

family

Wilhelm von Oertzen had been with the landowner's daughter Clementine, born on August 2, 1859, from Stolpe in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. von Warburg (born October 2, 1839) and moved to Feldberg with his young wife.

In his marriage daughter Louise was born in 1860 , son Wilhelm in 1862 , son Detlof in 1863 and son Fritz in 1867 . The oldest and only daughter married Friedrich von Neumann-Cosel in Leistenow near Utzedel. Son Wilhelm von Oertzen stayed at Lübbersdorf and Cosa and was with Olga, née. von Kühlewein, married. Detlof von Oertzen later went to Barsdorf and married Sophie Freiin von Uslar-Gleichen. The youngest son Fritz von Oertzen emigrated to Brazil because of high debts and is missing there.

Wilhelm von Oertzen died of a heart attack in Malchin in 1895 during the state assembly. In addition to a boil on his neck, he also had wound fever. Clementine moved to the Lübbersdorf residence in Cosa and then via Neubrandenburg to the residential city of Neustrelitz. Here she belonged to the close circle of the old Grand Duchess Augusta Caroline (1822–1916), who often had her own court equipage pick her up for walks. She died in 1911 at the age of 72 and was buried next to her husband in Lübbersdorf. From the estate of Clementine von Oertzen, b. von Warburg, there is still a small oil painting of her parents' house in Stolpe.

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1827-1902. Düsseldorf 1902. p. 134. ( digital )
  • Wilhelm Thedwig von Oertzen: Wilhelm Fritz Julius Heinrich Thedwig von Oertzen. In: Oertzen-Blätter. No. 40, Hamburg 1997, p. 66.
  • Wilhelm Thedwig von Oertzen: From the memoirs of Wilhelm von Oertzen. Hamburg 1997. (unpublished)
  • Wilhelm Thedwig von Oertzen: monastery captain Wilhelm von Oertzen and Clementine, b. v. Warburg. No. 69, Hamburg 2004, p. 171.
  • Horst Alsleben : The Jungfrauenkloster as a Protestant women's monastery. A monastery office in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In: Dobbertin Monastery. History-Build-Life. Contributions to art history and monument preservation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Volume 2. Schwerin 2012 ISBN 978-3-935770-35-4 , p. 51.

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Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
    • LHAS 2.12-3 / 2 Monasteries and orders of knights. Generalia Dobbertin. No. 27, 31 Appointment and confirmation of the monastery captains.
    • LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin. No. 371 b, Introduction of the monastery captains.
  • Ribnitz town archive, Dobbertin monastery files, D 70.

Printed sources

  • Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Calendar , years 1883–1893, section eight. Monasteries, charitable foundations and charitable institutions, A. Jungfrauen Monasteries, 1. Dobbertin Monastery, a. Monastery officials, monastery captain Landdrost a. D., Chamberlain Wilhelm von Oertzen, on Barsdorf and Lübbersdorf.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ today district of Fürstenberg / Havel
  2. ↑ Like all the younger descendants of his family, he was no longer assigned a number in the gender census. - Cf. Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Documented history of the von Oertzen family. Part IV (1886). P. 503.
  3. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 290.
  4. ^ Wilhelm Thedwig von Oertzen : Notes from the memoirs of his grandfather. 1997.
  5. ^ Wilhelm Thedwig von Oertzen: From the memoirs of Wilhelm von Oertzen. 1997 (unpublished)
  6. ↑ The territorial jurisdiction of this office is still unclear.
  7. ^ An honorary title or an official title for high-ranking officials in the Mecklenburg administrative service
  8. ^ Werner Lexow: Railways in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Regionalmuseum Neubrandenburg, issue 26, p. 38, Neubrandenburg, December 1995.
  9. ↑ Horst Alsleben: The Jungfrauenkloster as a Protestant women's monastery - a monastery office in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. 2012, p. 51.
  10. ↑ LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Landesamt / Klosteramt Dobbertin. No. 371 b.
  11. ↑ LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 State Office / Dobbertin Monastery. No. 371 b.
  12. ↑ Horst Alsleben: Holidays on market days and at harvest time. SVZ Lübz-Goldberg-Plau, June 13, 2005.
  13. ↑ See entry in the marriage register of the parish Warbende-Quadenschönfeld. The wedding took place in the branch church of Quadenschönfeld belonging to Warbende.
  14. ↑ The Stolpe manor house was built by court architect Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel in the mid-19th century for Oertzen's father-in-law, Helmuth von Warburg. In the last days of the Second World War, the manor house was blown up by a special SS command by order of the then Reichsleiter of the NSDAP, Martin Bormann.
  15. ↑ Oertzen-Blätter No. 69 November 2004, p. 171.
  16. ↑ Oertzen-Blätter No. 56 May 1998, No. 60 May 2000, No. 66 May 2003, No. 69 November 2004, No. 70 May 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Oertzen, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oertzen, Wilhelm Fritz Julius Heinrich Thedwig von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Administrative officer, official governor, monastery governor, diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Barsdorf
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1895
Place of death Malchin