Caspar Hubert Gustav Schulze Pellengahr

Caspar Hubert Gustav Schulze Pellengahr (born November 21, 1825 in Ascheberg ; † December 19, 1896 there ) was a German politician of the Center Party .

Life

Caspar Hubert Gustav Schulze Pellengahr was born on November 21, 1825 on his parents' farm, Haus Steinhorst near Ascheberg (Westphalia), as the eldest son of the married couple Franz Joseph Adolph Heinrich Schulze Pellengahr and Elisabeth Juliane, born. Moormann born. His father, a Roman Catholic landowner, was a member of the first Westphalian state parliament in Münster from 1826 until his early death in 1829 , which was held there under the Prussian reformer and former minister of state. D. Karl vom und zum Stein first met on October 29, 1826.

Hubert was prepared from an early age to take over his parents' agricultural and forestry business and completed an agricultural training, which was followed by a visit to the provincial trade school in Münster before he took over his father's farm in Davert. On July 1, 1860, he married Anna Maria Elisabeth gt. Bertha geb. Schulze Eyringhoff, who gave him eight children, six sons and two daughters.

He began to get involved in professional, hunting and church associations at an early age, represented his home community for many years in the district assembly of Lüdinghausen and was then elected to the Prussian House of Representatives in Berlin on November 5, 1885 as a representative of the Center Party. He was a member of the constituency 205: Münster 5: Lüdinghausen - Beckum - Warendorf . As a parliamentarian under the center leaders Ludwig Windthorst and Burghard Freiherr von Schorlemer-Alst , he experienced the high phase of the culture war under Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , to whom he, as a Catholic, stood with clear distance. He was committed to the construction of the Dortmund-Ems Canal and called for local self-government to be strengthened. The core of this project was the adoption of the Westphalian provincial order on August 1, 1886, through which the previous Westphalian provincial estates were transferred to the Westphalian provincial association, which was now assigned additional tasks and competencies (analogous to the procedure in the other Prussian provinces). Closely related to this was the adoption of the district regulation for the province of Westphalia on July 31, 1886, which Schulze Pellengahr also strongly promoted. In 1888, Schulze Pellengahr was re-elected. He resigned his mandate in June 1892 for health reasons. His successor was the District Court Judge Joseph Willebrand from Warendorf , who remained a member of the Prussian House of Representatives until 1903.

Caspar Hubert Gustav Schulze Pellengahr died on December 19, 1896 in Ascheberg at the age of 71 and was buried in the family crypt there. He had appointed his eldest son, Heinrich Franz Julius, to succeed him in the management of the Steinhorst family. This was both politically and professionally active, u. a. District chairman of the Center Party in Lüdinghausen, parliamentary group leader in the district assembly of Lüdinghausen and from 1909 to 1933 member of the Westphalian provincial assembly in Münster. Towards the end of the monarchy, Heinrich Franz Julius was raised to the hereditary baron status by the Prussian King Wilhelm II in recognition of his services , and since then has been called "Schulze Pellengahr Freiherr von Freusberg-Steinhorst". His son, Hubert Schulze Pellengahr (1899–1985), represented the constituency of Lüdinghausen - Coesfeld in the German Bundestag from 1949 to 1961 as a CDU politician .

literature

• Bernhard Mann : Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918 (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 1708.
• Thomas Kühne: Handbook of the elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918. Election results, electoral alliances and election candidates. Düsseldorf 1994, pp. 205ff.
• Joseph Freusberg: From the history of the former prince-bishop's Schultenhof Steinhorst near Ascheberg, in: Geschichtsblätter des Kreises Coesfeld, 30th year (2005), Coesfeld 2005, pp. 55, 72.