Andreas von Bernstorff (administrative lawyer)

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Andreas von Bernstorff, 1901
Memorial plaque in the St. Abundus Church in Lassahn

Andreas Peter Graf von Bernstorff , also with the property name of Bernstorff- Stintenburg (* May 20, 1844 in Berlin ; † April 21, 1907 there ) was a Prussian administrative lawyer, member of parliament and a leading figure in the community movement in Germany.

Life

He was the son of Albrecht von Bernstorff (1809–1873). In 1854 the family moved to London because their father had taken on the post of Prussian ambassador to England there. From 1861 he studied law at the University of Berlin . In 1869 he was elected to the Committee of the Evangelical Alliance . Together with Eduard von Pückler and Jasper von Oertzen , he was one of the initiators of the first Gnadauer Conference and is thus one of the fathers of the German community movement.

In 1873 he went to Washington as counselor . From 1874 to 1880 he was district administrator of the Duchy of Lauenburg . In this position, according to Hellmut von Gerlach , he earned the nickname of St. Andrew through his piety and loyalty to principles . In 1880, at Otto von Bismarck's instigation, he was transferred from his home district, the Duchy of Lauenburg, to a position specially created for him as a councilor in the Prussian Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs in Berlin. In 1887 he became a secret councilor and in 1902 a real secret councilor. On April 1, 1904, he took his leave for health reasons.

When the first YMCA in Germany was founded in Berlin in 1883 , he was elected deputy chairman. In 1893 and 1898 he was elected to the Reichstag in the Lauenburg constituency for the German Reich Party, to which he belonged until 1903. In 1906, Bernstorff was elected third chairman of the Gnadau community association , alongside Walter Michaelis (first chairman) and Leopold Wittekindt (deputy and secretary) .

From 1896 he was chairman of the Berlin Committee in the German Aid Federation for Armenia , which was founded at the suggestion of Johannes Lepsius as a reaction to the Armenian massacres of Abdülhamid II from 1894 to 1896, which were already genocidal in nature, and from 1900 the German Orient that emerged from it -Mission .

In 1881 he married Augusta von Hottinger (1860-1919) from Vevey , with whom he had five children, three sons and two daughters. The eldest son was the diplomat and resistance fighter Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff (1890–1945).

Awards

Fonts

  • The Acts of the Apostles; 100 considerations. German Evangelical Book and Tract Society, Berlin 1904.
  • The Evangelical Alliance. 2nd rev. Edition, German Evangelical Book and Tract Society, Berlin 1905.
  • The Letters of the Apostle John: Brief Considerations for Bible Readers. 2nd edition, Evangelical Book and Tract Society, Berlin 1907.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jörg Ohlemacher: Bernstorff, Andreas Graf von (1844–1907) . In: Helmut Burkhardt, Uwe Swarat (ed.): Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation . tape 1 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1992, ISBN 3-417-24641-5 , p. 232 .
  2. ↑ Hellmut von Gerlach: My experiences in the Prussian administration. Die Welt am Montag, Berlin 1919, p. 34
  3. ↑ Redern (Lit.), p. 174
  4. ^ 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, pp. 114–115.
  5. ↑ Michael Diener: Staying on course in stormy times . Walter Michaelis (1866–1953), A Life for Church and Community Movement (=  TVG Church History Monographs ). Brunnen Verlag, Giessen 1998, ISBN 3-7655-9422-9 , p. 151 .
  6. ↑ Uwe Feigel: The Evangelical Germany and Armenia: The Armenian Aid of German Evangelical Christians since the end of the 19th century in the context of German-Turkish relations (= Church and denomination. 28). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-525-56531-3 , pp. 73 ff (Feigel has the wrong first name Johann Heinrich several times - a confusion with Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff )
  7. ↑ Atanas Damianov: The work of the “German Orient Mission” among the Turkish Muslims in Bulgaria according to the sources in Dr. Johannes Lepsius Archive (= studies on oriental church history. 23). LIT, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6311-5 , p. 27.
  8. ↑ Handbook on the Royal Prussian Court and State. 1897, p. 17
  9. ↑ Awards mainly based on the manual on the Royal Prussian Court and State. 1897, p. 83
personal data
SURNAME Bernstorff, Andreas von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernstorff, Andreas Peter Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian administrative lawyer and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1907
Place of death Berlin