August von Saucken-Julienfelde

August von Saucken-Julienfelde after v. Waldow, Berlin

August von Saucken-Julienfelde (born September 10, 1798 in Tarputschen , East Prussia ; † January 6, 1873 in Julienfelde ) was a passionate opponent of Otto von Bismarck , like his older brother Ernst Friedrich Fabian von Saucken-Tarputschen . He was the father of Konstanz von Saucken-Julienfelde .

Life

August von Saucken-Julienfelde came from the old Prussian noble family von Saucken and was the son of the royal Prussian lieutenant Ernst Wilhelm Christoph von Saucken (1758-1817) and his wife Christine Amalie Austin (1764-1833). He was one of ten children and the uncle of Karl von Saucken (1822–1871) and Kurt von Saucken-Tarputschen (1825–1890).

In 1813 he joined the Groebisches Institut . He took part in the wars of liberation against Napoleon in 1815. In Riesenburg he then received the officer's license. In 1817 he attended the Königsberg University . In 1822 he took his leave of the military and worked as a farmer, especially in sheep and horse breeding. In 1825 he got the Julienfelde estate in the Darkehmen district when he inherited the estate , and in the same year he married Karoline (Lina) von Below (* July 19, 1804 - September 14, 1871), a daughter of Friedrich Karl Ludwig von Below on Trakehnen .

Political activity

His political activity began in 1843 when he was elected to the provincial parliament of the Province of Prussia . In 1847 he was appointed general councilor. In 1847 and 1848, like his brother Ernst, he was a member of the First and Second United State Parliaments . He was then elected a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly , but the state parliament canceled the nomination, as the pre-parliament stipulated the election of one member for every 50,000 people. In 1848 he worked in Georg von Vincke's committee on a new electoral law. On May 28, 1848, he published in the Vossische Zeitung the wish that the Prince of Prussia should return from England. As a member of the second chamber of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1849, he refused to recognize the constitution and subsequently rejected any revision. So he belonged to the opposition to the ministry of Otto Theodor von Manteuffel . This promptly failed to reaffirm the General Landschaftsrat. In 1852 he was involved in the duel Vincke – Bismarck as a second Vinckes. In the New Era he won the trust of Wilhelm I and Augusta von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach . But in 1862 this influence ended. In the Prussian constitutional conflict he tried in vain to mediate and to convince the king of the loyalty of the opposition. On the other hand, he retained the confidence of the Queen and the Crown Prince when he retired to East Prussia. He became rector of the University of Königsberg and, in 1868, president of the Central Agricultural Association for Lithuania and Mazury, whose committee to combat the East Prussian emergency was able to alleviate the rural population.

literature

• Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the collaboration 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 .
• Bernd Haunfelder : Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives 1849–1867 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5181-5 .
• Yearbook of the German Nobility , Volume 3, 1899, p. 345
• Georg von Below:  Saucken . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 713-717.

Web links

• Facsimile of the Electoral Act of 1848