Verwaltungsjurist Kurt From Wilmowsky (1850-1941): Signed Letter Berlin 1885

You are bidding on onehandwritten, signed letter of Manor owner, later head of the Reich Chancellery, President of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein and Governor of the Province of Saxony Kurt von Wilmowsky (1850-1941).

He was the father the administrative lawyer, manor owner and industrialist Tilo von Wilmowsky (1878-1966) and the lieutenant general and cavalry commander as well as knight of honor of the Order of St. John Friedrich von Wilmowsky (1881-1970).

autographs by Kurt von Wilmowsky very rare!

Dated Berlin, the 9th February 1885.

At that time Kurt von Wilmowsky was government council in Berlin (listed in the 1885 address book as "v. Wilmowsky, K., Reg. Rath, Drakestr. 2").

Transcription: "On the happy arrival of a heir, send their heartiest congratulations to Reg. Rath v. Wilmowsky and wife."

Scope: one written on four pages (17.7 x 11.4 cm); without envelope.

addressed to the Berliner District Judge Heinrich Georg Althaus (* 25. February 1845 in Berlin, died. on the 31st October 1894 in Berlin) and his wife Marie Adelgunde Auguste von Dechend (b. on the 22nd November 1855 in Berlin-Kladow, died. on the 30th March 1917 in Teupitz), a daughter of Reichsbank President Hermann von Dechend (1814-1890) and Adelgunde von Dechend, b. Wilke (1823-1915).

Kurt von Wilmowsky's wife was also a née (von) Wilke (so there is certainly a relationship): Auguste von Wilke (* 7. April 1856), daughter of Hermann Karl von Wilke (Consul General in London and Secret Legation Counselor in the Foreign Office) and Sidonie von Wilke née. nuglish.

Related to the birth of the son george Althaus (* 7. February 1885 in Berlin, died at the age of 10 on 13. October 1895 in Halle as a student of the Francke Foundations).

Condition: letter folded; without envelope. Strong paper browned and stained, with creases. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: Althaus 2023-3 documents

About Kurt von Wilmosky and his sons Tilo and Friedrich (source: wikipedia):

Adolf Wilhelm Kurt Freiherr von Wilmowsky (* 7. May 1850 in Merseburg; † 6 August 1941 in Jena) was a German manor owner, chief of the Reich Chancellery, chief president of the province of Schleswig-Holstein and governor of the province of Saxony.

Life: The Wilmowsky (also Wilmowski) family was founded in 1558 by King Sigismund II. August raised by Poland in the Polish nobility. In 1561 members of the family received a Bohemian coat of arms letter.

Kurt von Wilmowsky was the son of Karl von Wilmowski (1817-1893), 1869-1888 chief of the secret civil cabinet of Kaiser Wilhelm I and a member of the Prussian House of Lords, who was elevated to the hereditary status of baron in the Kingdom of Prussia in 1888, and Anna Freifrau von Wilmowsky born from Seebach († 1895) to Marienthal. Gustav von Wilmowski was his uncle.

Wilmowsky attended the French Gymnasium in Berlin, where he graduated on 10. September 1867 passed the matriculation examination. He studied law at the Universities of Lausanne, Heidelberg and Berlin. After the first state examination on 26. In July 1870, von Wilmowsky began a civil service career as a junior court clerk. In 1876, after passing the 2. State examination appointed court assessor and worked from 1877 as a government assessor in Hanover. He then became a magistrate in the north (East Friesland). In 1891 he was promoted to Privy High Government Council and worked as a member of the Settlement Commission for Posen and West Prussia and on the Committee on Flood Issues. From 1894 he served in Berlin as head of the Reich Chancellery under Chancellor Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. In 1895 he moved to the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture as a lecturer.

In 1901 von Wilmowsky was appointed President of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein. From 1906 to 1908 he was President of the Province of Saxony in Magdeburg. From 1908 to 1921 he was Governor of the Province of Saxony.

In 1919 von Wilmowsky became a member of the Academy of Public Sciences in Erfurt.

Out of special royal trust, he was appointed by the highest decree of 16. June 1913 appointed for life to the Prussian House of Lords. This mandate ended with the November Revolution of 1918. In the House of Lords he was leader of the Conservatives. On the 28th. In December 1915 he became a district deputy in the Eckartsberga district. In 1918 he became a member of the DNVP. For this he was elected to the provincial parliament of the province of Saxony. In 1921 he was elected to the Prussian State Council, which he chaired as senior president at the constituent meeting. He was a member of the Council of State until 31. December 1928 on. He was Vice Chairman of the Constitutional Committee of the State Council.

Von Wilmowsky married on 28. May 1877 Auguste von Wilke (born 7. April 1856), the daughter of Hermann Karl von Wilke (Consul General in London and Secret Legation Counselor in the Foreign Office) and Sidonie von Wilke née. nuglish. In 1893 he took over the Marienthal manor with Marienthal Castle near Eckartsberga in the province of Saxony from his parents. Around 1920, the Gotha names a Marienthal property size with the secondary estates Burgholzhausen and Lindenberg of 805 ha. His son Tilo von Wilmowsky was an agricultural politician for the German National People's Party and, after his marriage to Barbara Krupp, deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Friedrich Krupp AG. His second-born son Friedrich von Wilmowsky became a lieutenant general and was active as such until 1945.

Tilo von Wilmowsky (born 3rd March 1878 in Hanover; died 28. January 1966 in Essen-Bredeney; full name: Karl Adolf Thilo Freiherr von Wilmowsky) was a German administrative lawyer, manor owner and industrialist.

Life: His father Kurt von Wilmowsky was head of the Reich Chancellery in 1894/95. His mother was Auguste von Wilke. Tilo von Wilmowsky passed his Abitur at the French Gymnasium in Berlin and then studied jura at the universities of Munich, Göttingen, Halle (Saale) and in Great Britain. In 1898 he joined the Corps Saxonia in Göttingen.

After passing the state examination and subsequent legal clerkship, von Wilmowsky initially worked as an unskilled worker in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. He married on the 7th. May 1907 in the Villa Hügel in Essen Barbara Krupp, the second daughter of Friedrich Alfred Krupp and his wife Margarethe. The marriage produced six children: Ursula (1908-1975), Friedrich (1911-1988), Renate (* 1914), Kurt (1916-1940), Brigitte (1918-2006) and Reinhild (1925-2011). The family lived at Schloss Marienthal near Eckartsberga in the province of Saxony, the family manor acquired in 1893 and remodeled in 1910 by the architect Paul Schultze-Naumburg.[6] The estate was managed by a tenant, although Wilmowsky became a lobbyist for the development of agricultural infrastructure and technology in addition to his function as district administrator in Merseburg (1913 to 1919).

From 1915 to 1918, during the First World War, he was seconded to the General Government of Belgium as Head of the German Civil Chancellery under the Governors General Moritz von Bissing and Ludwig von Falkenhausen. At the Emperor's Crown Council on 11. On September 19, 1917, on the other hand, a detailed memorandum was drawn up for the Governor General von Falkenhausen, which only called for a customs union.

In 1919 he retired from government service. From 1920 to 1933 he worked as chairman of the Landbund and at the same time from 1922 to 1933 as vice-president of the Chamber of Agriculture in the province of Saxony. He created the Reich Board of Trustees for Technology in Agriculture, which he chaired as President from 1922 to 1933. During his brother-in-law Gustav Krupp's seven-month imprisonment in 1923, he managed Friedrich Krupp AG, of which he had been Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board since September 9, 1923. December 1918, he had been a member of the Supervisory Board since December 3. December 1910. From 1925 to 1930 he led the DNVP faction in the provincial parliament of the province of Saxony. However, his departure from Alfred Hugenberg's German-national course in 1929 was only half-hearted, he accompanied the transfer of power to Hitler with a quietly doubtful "I think he has the good will" (diary entry on January 1, 2001). January 1934).

From 1925 he headed the Central Germany Business Association for ten years. In 1930 he was briefly a member of the Prussian Council of State, and from 1931 to 1933 he was deputy chairman of the League for the Renewal of the Reich (Lutherbund), which was to plan comprehensive constitutional and administrative reforms intended to reverse Prussian dominance in the German Reich.

From 1931 to 1944, Wilmowsky headed the Central European Business Day as Chairman of the Presidium, an interest group of leading German companies and associations that worked towards the long-term economic unification of Central and South-Eastern Europe under the control of German industry. In the autumn of 1932 he did not accept the post of Oberpresident of the Province of Saxony that had been offered to him by the Papen cabinet. The office was vacant as a result of the dismissal of the democratic Prussian state government of Braun-Severing.

In 1933 he was forced out of public office by the National Socialists, but nevertheless joined the NSDAP in 1937 and, "in retrospect," was one of those who "persevered to prevent worse things from happening". He remained a member of the board of directors of the Reichsbahn and was thus an influential business leader even under National Socialism, with his chairmanship of the Central European Business Day and the deputy chairmanship of the supervisory board at Krupp. After the failed assassination attempt on 20 In July 1944 he and his wife Barbara were arrested. He was accused of participation in the Reusch circle and Goerdeler's diary entries, which fell into the hands of the Gestapo, about a conversation in which Johannes Popitz and Ulrich von Hassell had also taken part. Although it could not be proven that he was directly involved in the assassination, he was transferred from the Halle police prison to the Lehrter Straße cell prison for six weeks and then to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. He survived the eleven-day march of concentration camp prisoners to Schwerin and returned to Marienthal after liberation.

After the end of the war, the couple tried to keep the Marienthal estate, but after the region was handed over by the Americans to the Soviet occupying power, political pressure increased enormously, so that in the course of land reform, due to the size of the agricultural estate of over 100 hectares, were expropriated and expelled. They first found shelter in their forest estate in Buchenau near Bad Hersfeld. They later lived in a generously converted former goalkeeper's house in the Villa Hügel park in Essen.

At the Krupp trial he was heard as a defense witness. His brother-in-law was convicted and he wrote a pamphlet against the Nuremberg trials, which was published in 1950 just before Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach died on March 31. pardoned in January 1951.

He was also a member of the Krupp Board of Directors after the war. He held a seat on the family council until his death. At the funeral service in February 1966 in the Villa Hügel, the then Federal President Heinrich Lübke paid tribute to Tilo von Wilmowsky, whom he had known personally for more than forty years, as a man of balance, freedom and understanding between people. The burial took place in the Krupp Cemetery of the Bredeney Cemetery.

Honours: In 1953 Wilmowsky was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Tilo von Wilmowsky received an honorary doctorate from the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.

The Board of Trustees for Technology and Construction in Agriculture (KTBL), the successor organization to the Reich Board of Trustees for Technology in Agriculture headed by Wilmowsky, has been awarding the Tilo Freiherr von Wilmowsky Medal since 1978, honoring “personalities who provide valuable impulses for the benefit of agricultural active people, have served the KTBL in its objectives and have sustainably promoted agricultural progress. The endowment includes the medal worth approx.

Granddaughter: Wilmowsky's granddaughter Barbara Rogers took part in a project in 2001 in which she reflected on the aftermath of the Krupp family's lies about forced labor and the Holocaust.

writings

Origin, activity and future tasks of the liaison offices of the German Agricultural Council. German publishing company, Berlin 1933.

Why was Krupp convicted? Legend and Miscarriage of Justice. Vorwerk, Stuttgart 1950; 3. rev. A. Econ, Düsseldorf 1962.

My hunting memories. Self-published, Ebersteinburg 1958.

Looking back I want to say... On the threshold of the 150th anniversary of Krupp. Stalling, Oldenburg 1961; Reprint: Münster-Hiltrup 1990.

Hermann Paul Friedrich Freiherr von Wilmowsky (* 26. June 1881 in Hanover; † 4 November 1970 in Göttingen) was a German lieutenant general and cavalry commander as well as knight of honor of the Order of St. John and owner of a manor.

Life: He came from the noble family von Wilmowsky and was after Tilo von Wilmowsky the second son of the senior president and temporary head of the German Reich Chancellery Kurt von Wilmowsky and his wife Auguste, née von Wilke. Unlike other family members, he did not pursue an administrative career, but initially a military career in the Prussian army. Wilmowsky took part in World War I and was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross and the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords. After the end of the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr and from 1929 served as commander of the 3. (Prussian) cavalry regiments in Rathenow. During the National Socialist period, Wilmowsky continued to serve in the army, was in Hanover with the 3. cavalry brigade and in Potsdam at the military replacements inspection, until he was finally promoted to lieutenant general in 1935. The end of the Second World War also meant the end of his military career. He spent the rest of his life in Göttingen in Lower Saxony.

In 1912 Wilmowsky married Mary von Poseck (1892-1975) in Schwedt/Oder, daughter of the later cavalry general Maximilian von Poseck. From this marriage came two daughters, Marie-Luise and Liselotte, and their son Hans Jürgen.