Bolko zu Stolberg-Wernigerode
Count Bolko zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (born January 1, 1823 in Peterswaldau , † December 9, 1884 in Menton ) was a German local politician. From 1869 to 1872 he was district administrator of the Franzburg district .
Life
Count Bolko was a member of the Count House of Stolberg . He was the son of Count Anton zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , who had founded the Silesian line Peterswaldau of the Count's House, and had eleven siblings.
After training with private tutors, he joined the regiment of the Gardes du Corps in 1841 , where he was appointed officer that same year and deployed in Potsdam . In the capital of Prussia, he experienced the March fighting in 1848 and left Berlin with the Prussian army .
After the sudden death of his older brother Conrad, his father gave him the management of the Stolbergian rule of Diersfordt.
On November 5, 1853, Count Bolko married Countess Elisabeth (1832–1900), the eldest daughter of Lieutenant General Wilhelm Ulrich von Thun auf Schlemmin . The marriage remained childless. In the following year he resigned from regimental service as Rittmeister , joined the guards of the Landwehr cavalry and retired to his father-in-law's Gut Schlemmin in Western Pomerania . When his father-in-law died in 1862, he completely took over the management of the estate and expanded the residential and commercial complex.
Count Bolko was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives as early as autumn 1854 . From then on he devoted himself to politics in the Franzburg district , whose district administrator he became in 1869. He held this office until 1872.
On the occasion of an imperial hunt in Wernigerode , he was promoted to major in 1868. But already in the following year he finally left the military in order to devote himself fully to politics and the administration of the estate. Due to his poor health, he went to the Côte d'Azur in 1884 for a cure , during which he died. His body was buried in Schlemmin.
Honors
- 1851: Order of St. John
- 1864: Legal knight of the Order of St. John of the Brandenburg Ballei
- 1867: Johanniterkreuz II class
- Order of the Red Eagle II class
- Order of the Crown
- Austrian-Imperial Leopold Order
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Stolberg-Wernigerode, Bolko too |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stolberg-Wernigerode, Count Bolko too |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Peterswaldau |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1884 |
| Place of death | Menton |