Vladimir Ernst zu Munster

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Wladimir Ernst Graf zu Münster von Derneburg (born May 18, 1886 in Meran , South Tyrol ; † March 31, 1954 in Bad Nauheim , Hesse ), was a German lieutenant colonel , landowner and farmer .

family

Between 1923 and 1938, Wladimir Ernst zu Münster ran Gut Kniestedt near Salzgitter
Manor house of Gut Winnerod near Giessen

He was the son of Ernst Adolf Graf zu Münster Freiherr von Grothaus (* August 5, 1856 - † February 3, 1905) and his wife Melanie, née Ghika (Gyika) de Dézsánfalva (* March 19, 1866 - March 21, 1941 ). His grandfather was the diplomat and politician Georg Herbert Fürst zu Münster von Derneburg , his uncle the parliamentarian Alexander Otto Hugo Wladimir Fürst zu Münster von Derneburg , his cousin the writer and Salonnière Helene von Nostitz .

He married Irmgard von Trützschler Freiin zum Falkenstein (* July 14, 1891, † December 14, 1967). The two daughters Alexandrine Sophie Luise (1914–1990) and Renata Irmgard Melanie (1921–1991) as well as the son, the photographer Franz Oswald Wladimir (1917–2003) emerged from the marriage.

Professional development

During the First World War, Münster served in the 1st Baden Leib-Dragoon Regiment No. 20 . After the war he took his leave as first lieutenant . From 1923 he was a farmer on the family's Kniestedt estate near Salzgitter in Lower Saxony. When this was expropriated by the National Socialists in 1938 , the family moved to Winnerod near Gießen in Hesse, again to an estate with agriculture.

Like all members of the Federal soldiers at the front (steel helmet) , he was in 1933 by decree as a lieutenant in the SA transferred. In 1936 he was reactivated as an E-officer with the rank of captain in the army of the Wehrmacht , rose to major in the Wehrbezirkskommando Gießen on October 1, 1938 and advanced to lieutenant colonel in 1942. In 1944, after being wounded due to his state of health, he asked to be released from service. After his death at the age of 67, his son Oswald worked as a farmer at Gut Winnerod.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Münster family . On: derneburg.de. accessed on June 10, 2017
  2. ^ Harry Graf Kessler : The diary 1880-1937. Volume 3, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3768198134 , p. 1058.
  3. ↑ German Officer Association (ed.): Honor ranking list of the former German Army , ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1926, p. 425.
  4. ^ The Kniestedter Herrenhaus ( Memento from May 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). From: salzgitteraner.de, accessed on June 10, 2017
  5. ^ The Kniestedter Gutshaus ( Memento from February 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). From: salzgitteraner.de, accessed on June 10, 2017
  6. ↑ Münster, from or to, gentlemen, barons, counts (since 1792), princes (1899). In: German biography. From: deutsche-biographie.de, accessed on June 10, 2017
  7. ↑ Hans-Henning Podzun (Ed.): Das Deutsche Heer 1939. Structure, locations, staffing and list of all officers on 3.1.1939 , Podzun-Verlag, Bad Nauheim 1953, p. 870.
  8. ^ Gustav Ernst Köhler: Christmas 45th The events in Winnerod. In: Heimatbrief 2, 2009, Heimatgeschichtliche Vereinigung Reiskirchen e. V. (Ed.), Pp. 3-6. From: hgv-reiskirchen.de, accessed on June 10, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Munster, Vladimir too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Münster von Dernburg, Vladimir Ernst Graf zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and squire
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Meran
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1954
Place of death Bad Nauheim