Alexander von Dusch (politician, 1851)

Alexander Freiherr von Dusch (born September 11, 1851 in Karlsruhe , † September 17, 1923 at Mauren Castle near Böblingen ) was a German politician and Baden Minister of State from 1905 to 1917 .

Origin and family

Alexander's father Ferdinand (from 1881: Freiherr) von Dusch (1819–1889), a son of the Baden Foreign Minister Alexander von Dusch (1789–1876), was Chamberlain and Privy Legation Councilor in the service of Baden and from 1853–1872 as envoy of Baden in Württemberg and in of Switzerland worked in the diplomatic service. Alexander's mother Adelheid von Dusch (1826–1898) was the daughter of the Württemberg government director and member of the state parliament Karl Johann Sigmund Freiherr Schott von Schottenstein (1792–1882) and his first wife Adelheid Freiin Brand von Lindau (1796–1830) and thus a half-sister of the Württemberg one General and Minister Max Schott von Schottenstein .

Alexander von Dusch was married to Pauline Bassermann (1853-1935), the daughter of the Schwetzingen privateer Gustav Bassermann, from the well-known upper-class family from Mannheim , since 1874 . The couple had three children, a son and two daughters. Alexander built a house for himself and his family in Heidelberg , Kaiserstraße 27. His son of the same name, Dr. jur. Alexander von Dusch (1877–1939), most recently was government director at Reichsstatthalter Wagner in Karlsruhe.

Life

After attending grammar school in Stuttgart , where he grew up in Württemberg because of his father's diplomatic mission, Alexander von Dusch completed a law degree at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg from 1869 to 1874 , which he passed with the first state examination in law. His studies were interrupted in 1870 by the Franco-Prussian War , in which he actively participated as a Baden dragoon . After working as a legal intern and legal trainee, he became a district judge in Mannheim in 1878 and a public prosecutor in 1880. In 1895 he moved to Karlsruhe, where he was promoted to senior public prosecutor at the higher regional court in 1899.

In 1901 he entered the Baden government under Arthur von Brauer and became President of the Baden Ministry of Justice and Culture. From 1901 to 1917 he was a member of the Federal Council in Berlin as Baden Minister . Only in 1904 did he receive the title of minister and in 1905 he became head of government in Baden with the title "Minister of State and President of the Baden State Ministry". In 1911 he gave up the management of the Ministry of Culture and instead took over the Ministry of the Grand Ducal House and Foreign Affairs. As a politician, Alexander von Dusch was close to the National Liberals. In 1917, for health reasons, Dusch asked for his release from his ministerial offices, which he was granted. His successor as head of government was Heinrich von Bodman .

literature

• Frank Raberg : Alexander Freiherr von Dusch in Badische Biographien New Volume 5, ISBN 3-17-018976-X , p. 55.

See also

• Government brewers
• Government shower