Alexander Andrae (politician)
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Alexander Ferdinand Ludwig Andrae (17 December 1821 – 13 March 1903), better known as Andrae-Roman, was a German farmer and politician.
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Biography
Andrae was born in Hannover, the son of a merchant and landowner and studied in Berlin and Bonn. During his studies, he became a member of the Fridericia Bonn fraternity in 1843 and was in contact with Ernst Moritz Arndt, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann and Gottfried Kinkel.
He was married to Helene Flügge. In 1845, her father Wilhelm Flügge acquired the Ramelow estate in the district of Kolberg-Körlin in Pomerania, divided it into two estates - Niedergut and Obergut - managed the Niedergut and sold the Obergut to his son-in-law. Alexander Andrae and his wife moved to the Obergut Ramelow in 1845.[1]
A few years later Andrae sold the upper estate Ramelow to a brother-in-law. In 1851 he bought the manor Roman with Buchwald, also located in the district of Kolberg-Körlin, where he founded Waldhaus, an asylum for released prisoners, in 1853.[2]
He was friends with Bismarck,[3][4] who made him join the circle of the Pomeranian revival movement in 1846. He worked in the Inner Mission of Pomerania, was active as an author, and from 1848/49 was a member of the Second Chamber of the Landtag of Prussia.
In 1881, after selling Roman, he lived in Stettin. There, too, he was involved in the Inner Mission. He was a board member of the Kückenmühler Anstalten, the Magdalenenstift, an institution for the education of neglected girls, and the Stettiner Stadtmission. He died in Stettin in 1903.
Eleven children were born of his marriage. His daughter Marie Andrae was a writer, educator and nurse. She also published under the pseudonym Marie Andrae-Romanek. His son Hans was a well-known lawyer.
Works
- Aktenmäßige Beleuchtung der Erwiederung des Königl. Ober-Kirchenraths auf die Eingabe der Pommerschen Patrone vom Januar 1858 (1858)
- Erinnerungen eines alten Mannes aus dem Jahre 1848 (1895)
- Aus längstvergangenen Tagen. Erinnerungen eines alten Mannes (1899)
Notes
- ↑ Vollack, Manfred (1999). Das Kolberger Land. Seine Städte und Dörfer. Ein pommersches Heimatbuch. Husum: Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, pp. 535–36.
- ↑ Berghaus, Heinrich (1867). Landbuch des Herzogtums Pommern und des Fürstentums Rügen 1. W. Anklam: Dietze, p. 421.
- ↑ Andrae-Roman, Alexander (1899). "An Old Man's Reminiscences of Prince Bismarck," The New Century Review, Vol. V, No. 30, pp. 431–42.
- ↑ Andrae-Roman, Alexander (1899). "An Old Man's Reminiscences of Prince Bismarck, II," The New Century Review, Vol. VI, No. 31, pp. 39–46.
References
- Marie Andrae, Roman-Erinnerungen an A. Andrae-Roman und seine Frau Helene geb. Flügge (1922).
- Helge Dvorak, Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft. I: Politiker. Teilband 1: A–E. Heidelberg: Winter (1996), pp. 22–23.
- Kurt Gassen, "Andrae, Ferdinand Ludwig Alexander". In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). 1. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot (1953), p. 274.
- Eckhard Wendt, Stettiner Lebensbilder (= Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Pommern. 40. Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau (2004), pp. 35–36.
