Alexander von Below
Alexander Ewald von Below (born February 18, 1801 at Gut Noistfer near Reval , Estonia ; † September 3, 1882 at Gut Hohendorf near Reichenbach in East Prussia ) was a landowner , member of the Reichstag and member of the Prussian mansion .
family
Alexander von Below was a member of the Baltic branch of the noble family von Below and son of Andreas von Below (* 1763, † 1820), land marshal in Livonia and lord of Perst in Livonia and Anna Dorothea Helene von Helffreich (* 1776, † 1821) . Karl Friedrich von Below was his older brother.
Life
Below attended high school in Reval and then studied philosophy and natural sciences in Dorpat from 1818 to 1821 . In 1822 he took over the management of the Reddentin family's estate in Pomerania. With skill and a lucky hand, he brought the wealth of his cousin Gustav von Below to a considerable height. After he died in 1843, he took over the Hohendorf estate on Lake Drausensee .
The period of upheaval of 1848 made Below become politically active. He colluded with Otto von Bismarck, who was not yet tied to a state position, and a friendship developed between the two. Below became a member of the first Prussian chamber in 1851, and in 1855 a member of the Prussian manor house for life. He joined the conservative faction. In 1867 he was elected to the Reichstag of the North German Confederation for the constituency of Königsberg 7, to which he belonged until 1869. There he especially fought against the introduction of universal equal suffrage. Since 1868 he was also a member of the customs parliament . He was elected in the Reichstag constituency of Königsberg 7 district. He resigned his mandate on December 10, 1868.
Individual evidence
- ^ Oskar Pusch: Von Below, a German family from the Baltic Sea region. Dortmund 1974, p. 435.
- ^ Genealogical handbook of the Baltic knighthoods. Part 2,3: Estonia. Volume 3, Görlitz 1930, pp. 354–355 (digitized version )
- ^ Oskar Pusch: Von Below, a German family from the Baltic Sea region. Dortmund 1974, p. 433.
- ↑ 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 , short biography p. 376.
- ^ 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, p. 5; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Statistics of the elections for the constituent and North German Reichstag, for the customs parliament, as well as for the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag . Louis Gerschel publishing house, Berlin 1883, p. 3.
Web links
- Short biography of the Berlin State Library
- Alexander von Below in the database of the members of the Reichstag
Alexander von Below (1867–1869) | Hans von Kanitz (1869–1871) | Wilhelm von Minnigerode (1871–1877) | Rudolph Wichmann (1877-1893) | Adolf zu Dohna-Schlodien (1893–1905) | Hermann Otto Glüer (1905–1912) | August von Veit (1912–1918)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Below, Alexander von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Below, Alexander Ewald von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian landowner and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1801 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gut Noistfer near Reval , Estonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 3, 1882 |
| Place of death | Gut Hohendorf near Reichenbach , East Prussia |