Clemens zur Lippe-Biesterfeld-Weißenfeld

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Clemens Graf (from 1916 Prince) zur Lippe-Biesterfeld-Weißenfeld (born July 15, 1860 in Dresden , † April 29, 1920 at Proschwitz Castle ) was a German politician in Saxony.

Life

Clemens zur Lippe was a member of the Lippe family . His parents were Franz zur Lippe-Biesterfeld-Weißenfeld and his wife Marie Sophie Freiin von Beschwitz (* August 20, 1836, † August 30, 1921). Imperial Count Clemens was the oldest child in the family. He was followed by six others, including the writer Sophie von Arnim . He came from the Second Hereditary Line (Lippe-Weißenfeld) of the Princely House ruling in Detmold .

Clemens zur Lippe was active in the Corps Saxonia Göttingen from Easter 1880 to Michaelis 1881 . On November 25, 1880 recipiert , he proved to be a Subsenior and Senior . He was a member of the government of the Bautzen district administration and, since 1905, the state elder of the Upper Lusatia margraviate in Bautzen . He sat in Chamber I (Chamber of Estates) of the Kingdom of Saxony .

The ruling Prince Leopold IV zur Lippe awarded him and his descendants the title of Prince on February 28, 1916, with the title of Your Highness . The couple presented in this marriage coat of arms belonged to the dubbed high nobility. It enjoyed the heraldic legitimation to show a heraldic coat of arms and a princely hat in the coat of arms. He was commander of the Order of St. John .

From 1901 until the abolition of the monarchy in the Kingdom of Saxony as part of the November Revolution, he was an elected manor from Upper Lusatia in the I. Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament . He owned the manor Döberkitz near Bautzen and died at the age of 59.

Marriage and offspring

On January 7, 1901, he married his heiress Friederike Freiin von Carlowitz (* August 24, 1878, † January 25, 1942) at Proschwitz Castle . Two children were born to the couple:

  • Carl Franz Ferdinand (1903–1939) ∞ Dorothea Pauline Princess of Schönburg-Waldenburg (1905–2000)
  • Theodor Georg Ludwig Christian (1907–1996) ∞ Pauline Countess zu Ortenburg

See also

literature

  • Klaus Fröhlich, Hinrich Jürgen Petersen: Proschwitz: the village - the castle - the wine: 800 years of changes, transformations. Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-8030-1 .
  • Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 45 , 334
  2. ↑ a b c Wolfgang von der Groeben : Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia zu Göttingen 1844 to 2006 and the Landsmannschaft Saxonia zu Göttingen 1840 to 1844 . Düsseldorf 2006.
  3. ↑ Klaus Fröhlich, Hinrich Jürgen Petersen: Proschwitz: the village - the castle - the wine: 800 years of changes, transformations. Norderstedt 2011, p. 51.
personal data
SURNAME Lippe-Biesterfeld-Weißenfeld, Clemens zur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lippe-Biesterfeld-Weißenfeld, Clemens Graf zur; Lippe-Biesterfeld-Weißenfeld, Clemens Prinz zur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon politician, member of the First Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1920
Place of death Proschwitz Castle