Alfred zu Stolberg-Stolberg

Count Alfred zu Stolberg-Stolberg (born November 18, 1835 in Brauna , † October 1, 1880 on the boat trip from Bordeaux to Madeira ) was a German manor owner and member of the Reichstag .

Life

Alfred was the son of Johann Peter Cajus zu Stolberg-Stolberg . He attended the Jesuit college in Tournay and the Rhenish Knight Academy in Bedburg . After graduating from high school, he began to study at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . In 1856 he became active in the Corps Borussia Bonn . When he was inactive , he moved to the University of Innsbruck and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin .

After graduating, he was an auscultator at the court of appeal and trainee lawyer at the government in Münster . As a Knight of Malta, he participated in voluntary nursing in the German-Danish War , the German War and the Franco-German War .

From 1872 to 1876 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives , initially for the constituency Aachen 3 ( Düren - Jülich , from 1873 for the same constituency that he also represented in the Reichstag. In March 1873 he was elected by replacement for the deceased Eduard Böhmer ) for the constituency administrative district Koblenz 2 ( Neuwied - Altenkirchen ), he represented this constituency until 1878, for the center a member of the Reichstag.

family

In 1866 he married Anna von Arco-Zinneberg, a daughter of Count Maximilian von Arco-Zinneberg . The couple had the following children:

• Friedrich Leopold (July 1, 1868 - September 4, 1955) ∞ Countess Maria von Spee (June 23, 1895 - October 30, 1975)
• Maria Pia (* August 21, 1870; † September 1, 1913) ∞ Freiherr Moritz von und zu Franckenstein (* March 18, 1869; † January 24, 1931)
• Leopoldine (born September 13, 1872 - † January 2, 1948)
• Sophie (* May 31, 1874; † January 22, 1945) ∞ Count Johannes-Edgar Henckel von Donnersmarck (* June 24, 1861; † October 17, 1911)

literature

• Bernhard Mann: Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives (1867-1918). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties, volume 3).
• GG Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928 . Aschaffenburg 1928.

Web links

• Historical-Political Yearbook from 1880
• Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg, Alfred in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Alfred Graf-Comte zu Stolberg-Stolberg . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
• Alfred zu Stolberg-Stolberg at geneall.net

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 364.
2. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 377 ( handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties, vol. 3).
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. 159; 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 . Berlin: Verlag Louis Gerschel, 1883, p. 108.