Calixt Biron from Curland

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Calixt Prince Biron of Curland

Prince Calixt Gustav Hermann Biron of Courland (* 3. January 1817 in Schleise , † 8. March 1882 in Wartenberg ) was a Prussian nobleman , soldier and politician and gentleman on wholesale Wartenberg.

origin

Calixt Biron von Curland came from the noble family Biron von Curland . His parents were the Prussian Lieutenant General Gustav Kalixt von Biron (1780-1821) and his wife Countess Antoinette Charlotte Luise Franziska Fanny von Maltzan (* 23 September 1790; † 25 May 1849). After the early death of his father, his mother married Lieutenant General Gustav Adolf von Strantz in 1833 . His sister Fanny Julie Johanna Therese (1815–1888) was married to Infantry General Leopold Hermann von Boyen , his sister Antoinette (1813–1882) to Russian Major General Lasar Jakimovic von Lasarev († 1871).

Life

He was educated in the cadet corps in Berlin . In 1834 he attended the University of Bonn as an officer . From 1835 to 1843 he served in the 7th Uhlan Regiment . He was a royal innkeeper and owner of the Free Standesherrschaft Wartenberg in Silesia . He also created several artistic works for charity and published a work on military history.

In 1847 he was a member of the United Prussian Landtag , and from 1852 to 1854 of the First Chamber of the Prussian Landtag . On October 12, 1854 he was made a hereditary member of the Prussian manor house . He was also a member of the Silesian provincial assembly . From 1867 to 1871 he was a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation for the constituency of Breslau 3 ( Wartenberg , Oels ). In this capacity he was also a member of the Customs Parliament . He belonged to the Conservative Party .

family

He married Princess Helene Mestschersky (Jelena Vassiljevna Mestscherskaja) on August 6, 1845 (* January 14, 1820 - † October 7, 1905). The couple had a son:

∞ 1885 Adele zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (* March 24, 1866; † October 15, 1890), daughter of Wilhelm zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg
∞ 1902 Françoise Lévisse de Montigny (* December 23, 1874 - † July 6, 1957)

literature

  • 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 .
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book together with diplomatic-statistical yearbook 1873, p.119f

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Volume I, page 469, CA Starke-Verlag, Glücksburg 1951
  2. ^ 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. 66.
personal data
SURNAME Biron of Curland, Calixt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biron of Curland, Prince of Calixt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian nobleman, officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleise
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1882
Place of death Wartenberg