Albert von Carlowitz

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Albert von Carlowitz (1802–1874)

Albert von Carlowitz auf Naundorf (born April 1, 1802 in Freiberg ; † August 9, 1874 in Niederlößnitz ), pseudonym Alwin von Candia , was a Saxon and Prussian politician.

Life

Carlowitz came from the old Meissen noble family Carlowitz and was a son of the Saxon minister Hans Georg von Carlowitz (1772-1840) and his wife Jeanette von Schönberg . After being educated by private tutors, Carlowitz attended the princely schools of St. Afra in Meißen and St. Augustin in Grimma .

At the age of 18 Carlowitz began to study law at the University of Leipzig . There he joined the old Leipzig fraternity in 1820 . After successfully completing this degree with a doctorate , in 1828 he was employed by the Saxon state administration as a trainee lawyer . The idea of ​​a constitutional monarchy was enthusiastically received by Carlowitz and two years later elected by the Meissnian knighthood as a representative in the state parliament. In 1829 Carlowitz published a volume of poetry under the pseudonym Alwin von Candia.

His memorandum “Adress des Saxon People” was addressed to King Friedrich August II and made Carlowitz extremely popular in all parts of the population, as he showed himself to be quite moderate and liberal despite his political orientation towards the conservative-aristocratic camp. Nevertheless, Carlowitz saw his career in Saxony as over, resigned from all offices and in 1831 changed services to Saxony-Coburg-Gotha as a councilor .

In 1833 Carlowitz married his cousin Emilie von Schönberg in Pfaffroda . In the same year he returned to Saxony “politically” and was elected by the House of Schönburg as a representative for its reigns in the First Chamber. As such, he participated from the first constitutional state parliament and was appointed Vice President of the First Chamber there in 1839 and in February 1836 as a councilor at the district directorate in Zwickau . In October 1837 Carlowitz resigned from these offices in order to be able to devote himself to corporate affairs without being disturbed.

Carlowitz remained the representative of the House of Schönburg at various state parliaments until 1843 and was, among other things, significantly involved in the modernization of legislation. In 1845 he took over the parental estate Oberschöna and was appointed by the king as a lifelong member of the First Chamber. There Carlowitz always appeared as moderate, although he could never hide his conservative-aristocratic attitude.

In 1845 Carlowitz became President of the First Chamber and in the autumn of 1846 he succeeded Julius Traugott von Könneritz in the Ministry of Justice. As such, he was mainly concerned with modernizing the code of criminal procedure until he was sent to Leipzig as an associate commissioner on behalf of the government at the beginning of the March Revolution in 1848 . Here, too, he always tried to find compromises, which earned him much praise from the bourgeoisie but also much criticism from the conservative parties. Shortly afterwards, he gave up all political offices and retired to his private estate at Altscherbitz near Schkeuditz .

In the following year he was brought back to the political stage and in the autumn of 1849 he was elected as a member of the Saxon First Chamber in Dresden . On the side of the Prussian Union , Carlowitz defended the upholding of the Three Kings Alliance of May 26, 1849, but had no chance against Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust . That is why Carlowitz resigned again in the fall of 1849.

Soon afterwards the Prussian government appointed him to the administrative council of the Union, and at the Reichstag in Erfurt he acted as its commissioner. After the end of the Reichstag, he resigned from the political scene again, having in the meantime bought the Ebersbach estate near Görlitz . In 1853 he represented the Görlitz district in the Prussian House of Representatives and was there until 1856 the opponent of Otto Theodor von Manteuffel and his ministry.

The conservative party knew how to prevent his election for the next legislative period, but when the reign seemed to bring about a change in the political life of Prussia, Carlowitz rejoined the chamber as a member of parliament in 1859. As a speaker he celebrated a great triumph at the session of April 20, 1860, by energetically expressing the opinion of the entire German people about the Bundestag .

In general he supported the ministry, but took an independent position in the Chamber in 1861, paying special attention to Prussia's relationship to the German question and Italy. In the dissolved chamber of 1862, the former staunch aristocrat approached the so-called Progressive Party . At the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation , he initially fought the government bill and tried to redesign it in a liberal sense, but voted for the constitution in the final vote .

Around 1868 Albert von Carlowitz withdrew from public life and lived at Wackerbarth Castle in Niederlößnitz (today Radebeul ), where he died on August 9, 1874 at the age of 72.

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  • "He (Albert von Carlowitz) was an honorable aristocrat who bravely stood for the German cause." (By Heinrich von Treitschke )

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Matzerath: Carlowitz, Albert von (pseudonym: Alwin von Candia) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 164.

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personal data
SURNAME Carlowitz, Albert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Candia, Alwin von (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1874
Place of death Niederloessnitz