Axel von Kaphengst

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Axel von Kaphengst

Axel Caspar Ernst von Kaphengst (born August 21, 1870 in Reppen , † March 5, 1913 in Nervi ) was the owner of the manor and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

origin

Axel was the son of the landowner of Erich von Kaphengst (1836-1882) and his wife Adelheid, née Vogel von Falkenstein (1829-1882). His father was the master of Kohlow , Klein-Lübbichow and Reppen .

Career

Kaphengst attended grammar school in Frankfurt (Oder) and the knight academy in Brandenburg Cathedral . From 1890 to 1893 he was an active officer in the Uhlan Regiment "Emperor Alexander II of Russia" (1st Brandenburg) No. 3 of the Prussian Army in Fürstenwalde . Then he went over to the reserve officers of the regiment, advanced to Rittmeister and received the first class military service award . Kaphengst then took over the Kohlow manor owned by his family near Reppen in Neumark .

He was a member of the district council and district committee of the Weststernberg district , chairman and founder of the Association for Social Internal Colonization of Germany, chairman of the Central Association of German Workers Colonies , the Brandenburg Provincial Association for Combating Vagabondism, the Association of Savings and Loan Funds in the State of Sternberg and the District Warrior Association in the Weststernberg district.

From 1907 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency district of Frankfurt  5 Oststernberg , Weststernberg and the German Conservative Party .

Kaphengst was a legal knight of the Order of St. John and owner of the Mount of Olives Cross .

family

He married Elisabeth Richter (* 1873) on November 14, 1893 in Frauendorf. The marriage had two children.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ralf Thies: Ethnographer of Dark Berlin. Hans Ostwald and the “ Big City Documents ” (1904–1908). Böhlau, Cologne 2006, p. 226ff.