You are bidding on onehandwritten, self-written humorous Play from 1913.
Auguste Seidelmann (Berlin): on the 20th November 1913. 90th anniversary festival Your Exc's Birthday Party Madam President v. Dechend.
Clio: Annemarie v. Dechend.
Reichsbanknote: Dörthe v. Dechend.
Original dialogue performed at 90. Birthday of Adelgunde von Dechend, b. Wilke (1823-1915), widow of the first president of the Reichsbank Hermann von Dechend (1814-1890).
Enclosed is a beautiful cabinet photo of the woman celebrating her anniversary; probably from this time.
Format (cardboard): 16.3 x 10.7 cm.
Photographer: W. Herrmann, Eisenach, Karlstr. 6.
Inscribed on the back: "Adelgunde v. Dechend // born. Wilke."
Written by Auguste Seidelmann, b. Mettner (* around 1851 in Münsterberg / Silesia as the daughter of 1820 born. Music director Carl Mettner, died. on 2. June 1921 in Berlin-Charlottenburg at the age of 70). On the 24th In July 1873 she married the postal secretary Eugen Hermann Maria Albert Seidelmann in Münsterberg, son of the music director and composer Eugen Seidelmann (1806-1864) in Breslau.
Her death certificate was signed by the painter Prof. Raffael Schuster-Woldan (1870-1951) testifies; so she also had contacts with artistic circles.
At a young age she performed as a concert pianist; she was onepupil the Polish pianist and composer Carl Tausig (1841-1871).
Auguste Seidelmann was the "Music teacher of the then young imperial princess". This is what the internist Prof. reports. Adolf von Strümpell (1853-1925) in his memoirs "From the Life of a German Clinician" (Leipzig 1925), about a congratulation from Auguste Seidelmann on his appointment as professor in Vienna in 1909: "Among the numerous congratulatory letters that were sent to me at the time by a friend Page, a poetic greeting sent to me from Berlin by a musical friend, Mrs. Auguste Seidelmann, the music teacher of the then young imperial princess, read as follows:
Good luck, my friend! You chose well.
Your fate has probably advised you.
It led you to do new things
Into the land of Schubert songs and Brahms sonatas."
The actresses were probably granddaughters of the celebrant. Annemarie is probably Annemarie von Dechend (1896-1982), daughter of the Prussian Lieutenant Colonel Max von Dechend (1852-1922), who became Colonel General in 1917 Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889-1962) was supposed to marry.
Scope: 9 sheets written on one side (29 x 22.8 cm); including the front page.
Without cover.
Condition:Folded lengthwise in the middle; Paper browned and slightly wrinkled, partly with a tear in the fold. The photo rubbed, cardboard slightly bent. bPlease also note the pictures!
Internal note: Althaus 2023-3 Documents 2 Autograph Autograph Adel
About Hermann von Dechend (source: wikipedia):
Hermann Friedrich Alexander Dechend, from Dechend from 1865 (*2. April 1814 in Marienwerder, West Prussia; † 30. April 1890 in Berlin) was a German lawyer in the Prussian financial administration. He was the first president of the Reichsbank and sat on the Prussian State Council.
Life: Dechend was the son of the lawyer Theodor Dechend in Marienwerder. He married Adelgunde Wilke (* 20. November 1823 in Berlin; † 1915). His daughter Susanne (1859–1929) married Hugo von Kathen, who later became General of the Infantry, in Berlin in 1884.
Dechend attended the Marienwerder high school and graduated on the 17th. October 1834 the Abitur exam. He studied law and camera studies at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. In 1835 he became a member, later an honorary member, of the Borussia Bonn Corps. After the exams, he first went to the regional and city courts, then to the higher regional court in Marienwerder. He moved to Prussia's internal administration and was a government trainee from 1837. He became a government assessor in 1841 and completed technical and commercial training in Berlin in 1844/45. In the province of Westphalia he worked for the government in Arnsberg in 1846 and in Münster in 1847. In 1848 he came to the main bank, but soon afterwards he was put in charge of the Prussian Loan Fund. In 1849 he became a government councilor in the Ministry of Commerce. From 1851 onwards he was a member of the main bank management board of the Prussian Bank. In 1853 he became Privy Chief Financial Officer. In 1863 he was promoted to vice president and finally to president of the Prussian Bank in 1864. He held the office of president until 1875. After the founding of the German Empire, Dechend was the first president of the newly founded German Reichsbank from 1876 to 1890, which took over the organization of the Prussian Bank to create a central bank.
The Prussian Bank essentially owed its development from a simple central bank to one of Europe's leading central banks to Dechend. Herrmann von Dechend was therefore significantly involved in creating the organizational requirements for the Reichsbank, which later emerged from the Prussian Bank. The banknotes of the Preußische Bank from 1867 to 1874 and the German Reichsbanknotes from 1876 to 1884 bear Dechend's signature.
From 1867 to 1869, Dechend was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives as a member of the Reich and Free Conservative Party (RFKP), and from 1872 until his death (1890) he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives. In 1884 he became a member of the State Council. Since 1877 he was the Imperial Privy Councilor. Because of his achievements, Dechend was appointed on the 12th. Raised to the Prussian nobility in June 1865.
Hermann von Dechend died in Berlin in 1890 at the age of 76 and was buried in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Church in front of the Halle Gate. The grave has not been preserved.