Botho Heinrich zu Eulenburg
Count Botho Heinrich zu Eulenburg auf Wicken (born December 27, 1804 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † April 17, 1879 in Berlin ) was a German administrative lawyer and landowner in the Kingdom of Prussia .
family
He was the son of Count Heinrich zu Eulenburg auf Wicken (1779–1842) and his wife Charlotte nee. Countess Finck von Finckenstein (1782–1812). He himself married Countess Therese von Dönhoff in 1830 (born October 4, 1806 in Königsberg; † February 13, 1885 in Berlin). Several children were born from the marriage. Among them were August zu Eulenburg , Botho zu Eulenburg , Karl Botho zu Eulenburg and the diplomat Wendt zu Eulenburg (1845–1875).
Life
Eulenburg studied law at the Albertus University and became a member of Pappenhemia . He then worked at the Commerz- und Admiralty College before turning to the management of his Wicken estate . In 1835 he became district administrator of the Friedland district . From 1849 he was senior government councilor and department head of the government in Königsberg. In the same year he was briefly vice-president of the government in Szczecin as well as extraordinary agent at the state government of Schleswig. Between 1850 and 1873 Eulenburg was district president of Marienwerder . After that he was President of the Prussian National Debt Administration from 1874.
Eulenburg was a member of the Conservative Party (Prussia) and sat in the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Prussia from 1840 to 1875 . In 1849 he was a member of the First Chamber of the Prussian Landtag . In 1850 he was elected to the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament in a by- election. He accepted the mandate but never formally entered the chamber. From 1855 to 1858 he sat in the Prussian House of Representatives . He was President of Parliament. In 1866 he was appointed to the Prussian manor house . From 1868 Eulenburg was also a member of the North German and later the German Reichstag . In 1867 he was honored with the title of Oberburggrave and in 1874 with that of the Landhofmeister.
literature
- Karl Forstreuter: Eulenburg, Botho Heinrich to. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 680 ( digitized version ).
- Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , p. 44.
Web links
- Graf zu Eulenburg, Botho Heinrich in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Biography of Botho Heinrich Graf-Comte zu Eulenburg . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 117, short biography p. 398–399.
- ^ 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. 21.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eulenburg, Botho Heinrich to |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eulenburg auf Wicken, Count Botho Heinrich zu (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian civil servant and politician, MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1879 |
| Place of death | Berlin |