Alexander von Munchausen

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Alexander von Münchhausen, 1867; Wood engraving by Hermann Scherenberg

Alexander Freiherr von Münchhausen (born September 10, 1813 in Apelern , Grafschaft Schaumburg , † November 4, 1886 in Göttingen ) was a German administrative lawyer in the Kingdom of Hanover , whose Prime Minister he was from 1850 to 1851. From February 1867 to March 6, 1869 he sat in the Reichstag (North German Confederation) .

Life

Alexander von Münchhausen attended high school in Rinteln . From 1831 he studied law at the Philipps University of Marburg and was active in the Corps Schaumburgia. As an inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .

After the exams he entered the state service as an auditor in Hanover, where he was promoted to the chamber council until 1844 . From 1841 he sat for the knighthood of the County of Hoya in the First Chamber of the Estates Assembly of the Kingdom of Hanover , in which he professed to moderate aristocratic principles. In 1847 he became cabinet advisor to King Ernst August . After the resignation of the March Ministry , he became Prime Minister on October 26, 1850 and took a moderately conservative direction. After George V took office , he was released on November 22, 1851.

“Diploma” from the Natural History Society of Hanover from October 1, 1859 for the Minister of State with the signature of Friedrich Ernst Witte ;
Print by Julius Giere's lithographic press

In 1856 he was elected member of the Second Chamber in Stade . With Alexander Levin von Bennigsen , Ludwig Windthorst and others, he set further backward steps than those contained in the October 1855, and especially the so-called emergency laws of Wilhelm von Borries , resolutely opposed. In particular, he also fought government policy on the domain question and thereby incurred the king's disfavor. In the spring of 1866 he was elected to the chamber by the Göttingen University and tried in vain to persuade the ministry to be neutral in the German war . After the annexation of Hanover, he completely reverted to Hanover's particularist standpoint and gave a violent speech against Prussian policy on March 11, 1867 in the North German Reichstag , of which he was a member of the Hanover district , which Otto von Bismarck vigorously rejected. In 1870 he was arrested on suspicion of Guelph activities on the orders of General von Falckenstein and spent a time in Königsberg i. Pr. Held captive. From 1870 to 1871 he sat as a non-attached member of the constituency of Hanover 26 (Uelzen) in the Prussian House of Representatives . He died in Göttingen at the age of 83.

Alexander von Münchhausen died in Göttingen at the age of 83.

Münchhausen's manor in Apelern

As the son of Karl von Münchhausen and Henriette von und zu Schachten , he was landlord at Gut Apelern (owned by Münchhausen since 1370) and Nienfeld . In 1844 he married Countess Doraline Grote , daughter of Count Adolf Grote-Breese and Caroline von und zu Schachten. Since the couple remained childless, his property fell to cousin Börries (1845–1931), father of the poet Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen and district administrator Hans Georg von Münchhausen (1877–1952), who subsequently inherited Apelern.

See also

literature

  • Bernhard Mann : Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918 (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 278.

Web links

Commons : Alexander von Münchhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Rintelner Gymnasium as reflected in the period 1817–1967. Edited by the Ernestinum Gymnasium. Bösendahl, Rinteln 1967, p. 101.
  2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 165 , 18
  3. ^ 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. 121.

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personal data
SURNAME Münchhausen, Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Münchhausen, Alexander Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian statesman
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Apelern , County of Schaumburg
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1886
Place of death Goettingen