Alfred von Auerswald

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Alfred von Auerswald (1847)

Alfred von Auerswald (born October 16, 1797 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † July 3, 1870 in Berlin ) was a German general landscape director and interior minister in Prussia.

Life

origin

He came from the old nobility in the margraviate of Meissen . The parent company of the same name Auerswalde is today a district of Lichtenau (Saxony) , which was first mentioned in a document in 1263. He was the son of Hans Jakob von Auerswald (1757-1833), from 1797 chamber president and since 1802 Oberpräsident in Königsberg . His mother was Countess Albertine zu Dohna-Lauck (1760–1831). His older brothers were the Royal Prussian Major General Hans Adolf Erdmann von Auerswald (1792–1848) and the Prussian Prime Minister Rudolf von Auerswald (1795–1866).

Career

Auerswald first attended high school in Königsberg and then took part in the Wars of Liberation in 1815 at the age of 18 . During his subsequent studies at the Albertus University in Königsberg , he was the co-founder of the old Königsberg fraternity .

From 1830 to 1844 he was district administrator of the Rosenberg i. Western pr. , from 1845 to 1853 general landscape director of the province of Prussia . In 1846 he was a member of the Prussian General Synod and from March to June 1848 Prussian Minister of the Interior . After that he was re-elected general landscape director, but not confirmed by the king.

From 1837 Auerswald was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Prussia , in 1847 a member of the United State Parliament and in 1848 a member of the Prussian National Assembly . From 1849 to 1852 he was a member of the Second Chamber (fraction Auerswald-Schwerin) and in 1849 its first vice-president. In 1850 he was a member of the Erfurt Volkshaus and from 1854 to 1855 again a member of the Second Chamber as a member of the Center . In the years 1859 to 1861 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives (left parliamentary group) and from 1862 to 1863 ( Georg Freiherr von Vincke parliamentary group ) and 1867 to 1870 (constitutional parliamentary group).

Alfred von Auerswald died in Berlin in 1870 at the age of 72 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

family

He married Franziska Natalie Frey from Königsberg, a daughter of Johann Gottfried Frey (1762–1831). The couple had two daughters including Lydia (* October 18, 1827, † August 15, 1898). She married Heinrich Eduard Fabian Hermann zu Dohna-Schlobitten (* June 21, 1821, † February 16, 1859) a son of Alexander Fabian zu Dohna-Schlobitten .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 33-34.
  2. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia , 2nd edition, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Company, p. 271. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  3. ↑ Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the assistance of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne: Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 50; for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 726-729.
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 299.
  5. ^ Kaehler, Siegfried:  Frey, Johann Gottfried. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 416 ( digitized version ).
  6. ^ Genealogical paperback of the German count's houses , Volume 18, p. 227, digitized
personal data
SURNAME Auerswald, Alfred von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general landscape director and interior minister
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1870
Place of death Berlin