Alfred von Hompesch

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Alfred von Hompesch
Alfred von Hompesch
Alfred von Hompesch (1826–1909). Photograph by Leopold Haase & Comp., Berlin around 1877

Count Alfred von Hompesch (born September 16, 1826 at Voort Castle near Borgloon , † January 21, 1909 in Berlin ) was a large German landowner in the Rhine Province . He owned the Rurich Castle and the Groß-Künkel manor near Hilfarth in the Aachen region . He sat in the Reichstag (North German Confederation) and in the Reichstag (German Empire) for over 42 years .

origin

His parents were the Prussian chamberlain Count Hermann von Hompesch (born January 10, 1797 - † August 3, 1857) and his wife Countess Octavia Philippine von Arsot-Schoonhoven (* October 10, 1804 - † November 22, 1867). The Belgian entrepreneur Theophil von Hompesch was his uncle.

Political career

He began to study law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and became active in the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg in 1848 . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin .

At a young age he was chamberlain to the future Empress Augusta von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach , the wife of Kaiser Wilhelm I. As a representative of the Count's Association of the Rhine Province , he was appointed a member of the Prussian mansion for life in 1863 and was a representative of the knighthood in the Rhenish provincial parliament . He belonged to the parliamentary group of the Free Conservative Party in the constituent and from 1867 to 1870 in the Reichstag of the North German Confederation . From 1874 he represented constituency 4 of the administrative district of Aachen in the German Reichstag as a member of the central parliamentary group , which he chaired in 1894. Belonged to the Reichstag until his death in 1909.

Count Hompesch died at the age of 83 as a result of a stroke and was buried in the Rurich cemetery. The funeral address in Berlin's St. Hedwig's Cathedral was given on January 23, 1909 by his parliamentary group colleague, Cathedral Chapter Franz Xaver Schädler :

“His piety was not sought, not made, had nothing of the justly condemned sentimentality and sweetness, just as it was equally far removed from harshness and dismissive severity. It was simple, unpretentious, robust and healthy and showed itself in conscientious fulfillment of his religious duties. "

- Franz Xaver Schädler

family

In 1855 he married the German-Baltic woman Olga von Mengden (* March 18, 1824, † January 2, 1902).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 120, 373
  2. ↑ 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. 174, short biography p. 419-420.
  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. Verlag Carl Heymann Berlin 1904, p. 183; 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 . Verlag Louis Gerschel Berlin 1883, p. 114; Compare also short biography in: Georg Hirth (Ed.): German Parliament Almanach . 14th edition from November 1881. Verlag Georg Hirth, Leipzig / Munich 1881, p. 183.
  4. ↑ Bureau des Reichstag (ed.): Reichstag manual. Twelfth legislative term . Berlin 1907, p. 291 f., Picture p. 475.
  5. ↑ Obituary in the Messenger of the Divine Heart of Jesus. Year 1909, p. 111.

literature

  • Obituary with photo in Stadt Gottes (magazine) , volume 32, 1909, p. 321 and 322.
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Grafliche Häuser to the year 1896. S. 483f.

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personal data
SURNAME Hompesch, Alfred von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hompesch, Count Alfred Polycarp von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowners and politicians (free conservatives, center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Voordt Castle near Borgloon
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1909
Place of death Berlin