Christian Kraft to Hohenlohe-Öhringen

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Christian Kraft to Hohenlohe-Öhringen
Christian Kraft with his wife Ottilie on horseback

Christian Kraft Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Duke of Ujest (born March 21, 1848 in Öhringen , † May 14, 1926 in Somogyszob , Hungary ) was a German nobleman , politician and mining industrialist .

Life

Christian Kraft was the son of Prince Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen and his wife Pauline, née Princess von Fürstenberg. Prince Christian Kraft first attended the Knight Academy in Liegnitz . He then studied law in Bonn until 1870 . He was morganatically married to Countess Ottilie Lubraniec-Dambska, née Brauns, and had no legitimate descendants. Prince Christian Kraft is buried in Javorina (Eng .: Uhrngarten ), a place in the Slovak High Tatras . There he had a 15,000  hectare forest and hunting property. In 1924 he became a senior in the Hohenlohe House .

Entrepreneurship

Share over 1000 RM in Hohenlohe-Werke from May 20, 1905

Prince Christian Kraft greatly expanded his family's industrial possessions ( zinc production ) in Upper Silesia . Several new pits were opened between 1899 and 1917. In 1905, Prince Christian Kraft brought the industrial property into the founding of Hohenlohe-Werke AG in Hohenlohehütte (Kattowitz). In 1913 around 37 million tons of stone were processed for zinc production, and over four million tons of coal were mined. The number of employees increased from 7,244 in 1891 to 10,000 in 1913. Hohenlohe-Werke AG was bought in 1913 by the Bohemian coal industrialist Ignaz Petschek .

For his shares in Hohenlohe Werke AG , Prince Christian Kraft received a settlement of 44 million  marks and an annual pension of four million marks. He also remained chairman of the supervisory board. Prince Christian Kraft used the severance payment together with Max Egon II zu Fürstenberg to found a trading company (also known as the “ Fürstentrust ”). This collapsed in a spectacular way in 1913 and also affected the public limited company. The collapse led to a general banking crisis. The trust was liquidated by Deutsche Bank under Arthur von Gwinner as a result of the personal intervention of Wilhelm II. Prince Christian Kraft is said to have lost 90 million marks as a result .

Up to this point in time, Prince Christian Kraft was one of the richest German aristocrats with an annual income of seven million marks and assets of 151 million marks. From 1914, his new general representative, Kurt Kleefeld , succeeded in gradually restoring the prince's financial situation and reducing the debt obligations that had accrued. Prince Christian Kraft gave Kleefeld as you once in November 1918, while traffic already in November Revolution the ennoblement , the last in Germany. In addition to the economic activities in the vicinity of the Hohenlohe works, the prince was also chairman of the supervisory board of the Preussische Feuerversicherungs AG . Hohenlohe-Öhringen belonged to the Federation of Industrialists (BdI). After the division of Upper Silesia in 1922, the public limited company was split up. In the German part there was the Oehringer Bergbau AG and on the Polish side the Hohenlohe-Werke . Hohenlohe-Öhringen remained involved in both companies. He was also involved in the Upper Silesian electricity company .

politics

In addition to his economic activities, Prince Christian Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen was also politically active. He was a hereditary member of the Prussian manor house . He was a member of the first chamber of the Württemberg estates from 1871 to 1918, and since 1897 as a registrar. He was mostly represented there by other members and was rarely present in person. He was also a member of the Provincial Parliament for Silesia .

Prince Christian Kraft belonged to the Free Conservative Party . For this he sat between 1880 and 1881 and from 1883 to 1912 in the Reichstag . He was also a member of the supervisory board of the German Colonial Society until he left in 1902 .

As a nobleman, Prince Christian Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen held high court and military positions of honor. He was Prussian major general à la suite and between 1895 and 1899 he was chief chamberlain of Kaiser Wilhelm II . He was also chairman of the Union Club in Berlin from 1893 to 1910 .

Honors

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literature

Web links

Commons : Christian Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Fehrenbach (ed.): Nobility and bourgeoisie in Germany 1770–1848. Oldenbourg-Wissenschaftsverlag 1994, ISBN 3486560271 , p. 149. ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Stephan Malinowski : From the king to the leader. Akademie-Verlag Berlin 2001, ISBN 305004070X , p. 142. ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Klemens Skibicki : Industry in the Upper Silesian Principality of Pless in the 18th and 19th centuries. Franz Steiner Verlag 2002, ISBN 3515080368 , p. 27. ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Christian Bommarius: Kurt Kleefeld was the last German to be ennobled in November 1918. He rose to the nobility at the moment when the nobility went under. A melancholy observation: And then nobody came back. Berliner Zeitung, February 5, 2011 , accessed on February 21, 2020
  5. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1901. P. 76.
  6. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1907. p. 31.
  7. ↑ Gottfried Benn : Fürst Krafft , Simplicissimus 31, No. 38, December 20, 1926, p. 502.
personal data
SURNAME Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Christian Kraft too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Christian Kraft zu Fürst; Ujest, Christian Kraft Duke of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gentleman, entrepreneur and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Öhringen
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1926
Place of death Somogyszob