Gustav von Saltzwedel

Gen. Gustav Reinhold Ludwig von Wienskowski of Saltzwedel ( born April 28, 1808 Good Drosdowen, Circle Oletzko, East Prussia, † June 6, 1897 at Good Pötschendorf, County Rastenburg, East Prussia ) was a Royal Prussian administration official, last President of the Government.

Life

Family

He came from a West Prussian noble family and was the son of the royal Prussian landscape Reinhold Director of Wienskowski (1780-1863) and Joan of Saltzwedel ( 1788-1828 ). He was the eldest brother of the Prussian Government President William of Saltzwedel ( 1820-1882 ).

Saltzwedel married on October 28, 1840 in Marggrabowa Auguste Zimmermann ( born November 19, 1822 in Marggrabowa; † July 9, 1911 in Königsberg i Pr, East Prussia ). The couple had one son and three daughters. He died on his estate Pötschendorf.

Education and work

After his matriculation examination at the Collegium Fridericianum Saltzwedel studied from 1827 to 1830 Law at the Albertus University of Königsberg and the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. After the clerkship was Saltzwedel 1833-1841 District Administrator of Oletzko in Marggrabowa.

From 1844 to 1845 was Saltzwedel go. Fiscal and from November 1845 to July 1851 President of the Government in Gumbinnen. Then he was called into question. In the following years he devoted himself to the management of his manor Pötschendorf. In 1875 he retired.

In 1848 he became a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and 1849 Member of the Second Chamber. From 1867 to 1870 he was a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation and from 1867 to 1869 at the same time the Prussian Chamber of Deputies. In the House of Representatives, he represented the constituency Regierungsbezirk Königsberg 6 ( Rastenburg - Gerdauen - Friedland ). In October 1869 he resigned at his own request from the Parliament.

Memberships

In 1828 he became a member of the Littauer Kränzchens within the fraternity Lichen public Königsberg. In 1829, he donated the land Corp. team Lithuania. Later he became their honorary member. A great-grandson of his sister, Lothar Selke, was a hundred years later active in the same corps.

Gustav von Saltzwedel was a Freemason as a member of the Lodge to golden lyre in Gumbinnen. While the management of his estate Pötschendorf he is listed as "permanent visit, the brother " in the matriculation of the Lodge Three gates of the temple in Rastenburg, in later years he was also an honorary member of the lodge to the three crowns in Königsberg.

Quote

" Nowhere in the world ... so great ... Unbound awareness is the students ... given as fortunately the German universities. However, there are some dear, gifted, maybe a little too soft assessed in youth young men perished ... because no one cared about them and no one had a duty to take care of them. We now believed that without the least restriction of this freedom to the full Unbound awareness a correlative must be created by free covenants country teams and similar associations. But ... We hoped thereby to achieve a different purpose, namely, to awaken a sense of community and strengthen the character. The people were taught exactly know only in a narrow community. We have kept ... but also the creation of colors not for something secondary or indifferent, but very important and fulfilled, even though we knew that we would thereby evoke the largest and wildest storm against us. We thought ... that it would be good if the young person to get used to it early on, openly and freely to profess his position and his mind, ie to show your colors. Apart ... from the first time the general excitement were characterized mostly those irritated, even disgusted, which was then called obscure. They feared their weak nerves, that they ... would fain be forced in the end to be uprooted from their love comfortable reserve and indecision. "