Wolfram von Richthofen (politician)

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Wolfram von Richthofen as a Göttingen Saxon, 1879

Wolfram von Richthofen (born October 23, 1856 in Barzdorf , Striegau district , † January 13, 1922 in Breslau ) was a Prussian large agrarian and politician.

Life

origin

Karl Friedrich Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen came from the Barzdorfer-Kohlhöher line of his originally bourgeois family, which was raised to the Bohemian knighthood in 1661, and to the baron class in 1735 and 1741. He was born the son of Kgl. prussia. District judge Ulrich Freiherr von Richthofen (1814–1878), Lord of Barzdorf, Mittel- and Nieder-Gutschdorf and Thomaswalde ( Striegau district ), Ober-Faulbrück and Neudorf ( Reichenbach district ), and Bersdorf ( Jauer district ) and Sophie von Grolman ( 1821–1901), a daughter of the Prussian general Karl von Grolman (1777–1843).

Career

Wolfram von Richthofen studied in Göttingen and became a member of the Corps Saxonia there . Later he was Kgl. Prussian Chamberlain . Since his two large estates in Silesia belonged (Barzdorf and Järischau, Circle Striegau), he was not, as is usual in noble families, officers , but farmer . He managed his estates himself and was sent to the Prussian manor by his peers as their representative .

family

He was married to Therese Götz von Olenhusen (1862–1948) since September 28, 1889. The marriage gave birth to two sons, including Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen , who was adopted by Manfred von Richthofen , and a daughter.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume F XXVI, 2014, page 348.
  2. Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume F XXVI, 2014, p. 346.
  3. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume F XXVI, 2014, pp. 340–343.