Gustav zu Putlitz

Gustav Heinrich Gans Noble Lord to Putlitzstrasse ( born March 20, 1821 Good Retzin, Groß Pankow, Prignitz, † September 5, 1890 ) was a German landowner, writer, theater director and politician. From 1888 until his death he was a member of the Prussian House of Lords.

Family

Gustav Gans Noble Lord to Putlitzstrasse came from the Brandenburg Uradelsgeschlecht goose Putlitzstrasse in Prignitz. The family had held the honorary position of Erbmarschalls the Electorate of Brandenburg, the legitimate to a hereditary seat in the Prussian House.

Gustav to Putlitzstrasse was the second child and eldest son of the landowner and mansion member Eduard Gans to Putlitzstrasse (1789-1881) and his wife Caroline of Guretzky. His younger brother Eugene was also a member of the manor.

Gustav to Putlitzstrasse married on May 18, 1853 Elisabeth Countess of Königsmarck ( 1825-1901 ), a daughter of Adolf of Königsmarck. He lived with her in Königsmarckschen palace, which belonged to his father. The marriage produced six children:

  • Stephan (1854-1883), Professor of Economics
  • Konrad (1855-1924), lord of the manor and manor Member
  • Wolfgang goose Putlitzstrasse (1857-1931)
  • Joachim Gans to Putlitzstrasse (1860-1922)
  • Lita to Putlitzstrasse (1862-1935)
  • Victor goose Putlitzstrasse († 1865 ).

Life

Gustav to Putlitzstrasse studied law in Berlin and Heidelberg. He became in 1842 a member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg. Military service he rendered at the 2nd Guard Regiment in Berlin, before he worked for some time at the provincial government in Magdeburg from 1846. He initially wanted to pursue a diplomatic career. In January 1848 he was appointed to a longer Cavalier trip to Italy, from where he returned to Retzin in May 1848. During this time, his very friendly relationship with Willibald Alexis (1798-1871), which consisted of up to Alexis ' death and formative effect on Gustav's own literary ambitions developed. More and more often he went public with his literary works and stage plays. In 1850 he published a book of fairy tales What the Forest tells himself, which was well received by the audience. He finally gave in because the career in government service and devoted himself for 10 years from 1853, the management of his father's good Retzin. In 1856 he commissioned Edward envy with the beautification of the manor park.

1863 Gustav approached Putlitzstrasse on the suggestion of his friend, the former Schwerin Court Theatre artistic director Friedrich von Flotow ( 1812-1883 ), the Generalintendantur at the Grand Ducal Theater in Schwerin and remained there until 1867. Yet in 1867 he took over for a year, the particular desire of the Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia (1831-1888) - later Emperor Frederick III. - Following the Office of Lord Chamberlain of the Crown Prince's Court in Potsdam. In the 1870s, Gustav led to Putlitzstrasse then extended period of time, the editors of Spenersche newspaper in Berlin. 1873 took over Putlitzstrasse at the request of Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden ( 1826-1907 ) and son of Emperor William I the line of the Karlsruhe Court Theatre. In the summer of 1889 he resigned for reasons of age of this position in order to spend his old age in his native Retzin.

In 1888, Gustav was to Putlitzstrasse senior member of the family and thus hereditary marshal of the Electorate of Brandenburg, as such, moreover, hereditary member of the Prussian House, the first chamber of the Diet. Age and illness, he did not took the Manor House seat. Shortly before his death he experienced his election as an honorary member of the German Theatre Association.

Gustav Gans was also president of the German Theatre Association and wrote in the second half of the 19th century, much-read storybooks as well as his childhood and youth memories in Prignitz under the title My Home. His now forgotten early storybooks as what is told of the forest or forget-me- experienced in 1900 its 50th edition. The lively epistolary exchange that he had with fellow writers such as Paul Heyse and Willibald Alexis, was destroyed for the most part.

Honors

The Karlsruhe Putlitzstraße recalls since 1897 Gladstone Gander to Putlitzstrasse.

Works

A selection:

  • The lien of the blue loop, 1846
  • What to tell the Forest, 1850
  • Testament of the Great Elector, 1858
  • My Home, Berlin 1885 (new edition Berlin 2012 )
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