Albert von Levetzow

Albert von Levetzow,
steel engraving by August Weger (1823–1892), museum in Lützen Castle

Levetzow as President of the Reichstag in the plenary hall on Leipzigerstrasse

Albert von Levetzow (born September 12, 1827 in Gossow near Koenigsberg in the Neumark ; † August 12, 1903 ibid) was a German politician.

Life

Levetzow attended the Marienstiftsgymnasium in Stettin . After graduating from high school, he studied law and political science from 1846 to 1849 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin, the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg and the Friedrichs-Universität in Halle. He became active in the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg (1847) and in the Corps Marchia Halle (1851). Saxo-Borussia later awarded him honorary membership. In 1849 he entered the administration of justice in the Kingdom of Prussia as an auscultator and became a court assessor in 1855/56 . In 1857 he moved to internal administration and came to the Prussian Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs as a government assessor . He took a leave of absence in 1860 and resigned from the civil service a year later to manage the family's own manor . From 1867 to 1876 he was district administrator of the Königsberg (Neumark) district and from 1876 to 1896 regional director of the province of Brandenburg .

For the German Conservative Party , Levetzow sat in the Reichstag (North German Confederation) from 1867 to 1871 . From 1877 to 1903 he was a member of the Reichstag (German Empire) . From 1881 to 1884 and from 1888 to 1895 he was President of the Reichstag . In 1897 he took over the leadership of the German conservative parliamentary group in the Reichstag .

Levetzow had various honorary positions in the Protestant church. In 1880 and 1881 he was President of the Provincial Synod of the ecclesiastical province of Brandenburg . He participated in the Evangelical Church Building Association founded in 1884 . At the request of Auguste Viktorias , he chaired the Evangelical Church Aid Association from its founding on May 28, 1888 until his death. From 1890 he was an honorary member of the Niederlausitz Society for Anthropology and Archeology , and also honorary president of Brandenburgia . In 1884 he became honorary commander and treasurer of the order in the Order of St. John . In 1890 he became commander of the Brandenburg Cooperative and Order Chancellor. In 1895 Levetzowstrasse in Berlin-Moabit was named after him.

See also

• Levetzow (noble family)
• District of Königsberg Nm.
• List of Corps students in the Reichstag of the North German Confederation and in the Customs Parliament
• List of members of the Reichstag of the German Empire
• List of corps students in the Prussian mansion

literature

• Kristina Hübener: Levetzkow, Albert Frhr. v. In: Friedrich Beck , Eckart Henning (Hrsg.): Brandenburgisches Biographisches Lexikon (= individual publication of the Brandenburg Historical Commission eV, Volume 5). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-935035-39-X , pp. 255–256 (with portrait)
• Rainer Paetau (edit.): The Minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Volume 5. In: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Acta Borussica . New episode. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-487-11002-4 , p. 370, bbaw.de ( Memento from January 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) 2.28 MB.

Web links

Commons : Albert Erdmann Karl Gerhard von Levetzow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• von Levetzow, Albert Erdmann Carl Gerhard in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Albert von Levetzow . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

1. ^ WD 1 Stefan Schmidt: German Bundestag - Reichstag in Leipziger Strasse . In: German Bundestag . ( bundestag.de [accessed November 7, 2018]).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Levetzowstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
3. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 120/353; 99/203
4. ^ The provincial parliament elected the provincial director as the provincial head. In other provinces after 1918 the name Landeshauptmann was common, but Brandenburg kept the old title. See Country Director . In: The Great Brockhaus: Handbook of Knowledge in twenty volumes . 21 volumes. 15th edition. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1928–1935; Volume 11 (1932), p. 71.
5. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 210, short biography p. 431–432.
6. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, pp. 39-40.
7. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 12. Leipzig 1908, p. 487 .
8. ↑ Monthly for Inner Mission , 4, 1884, p. 96
9. ↑ Handbook on the Royal Prussian Court and State for the year 1891 , p. 46