Constantin zu Stolberg-Wernigerode

Constantin zu Stolberg-Wernigerode

Count Constantin zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (born October 8, 1843 in Jannowitz , district of Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains , province of Silesia ; † May 27, 1905 ibid) was a German politician. He was President of the Prussian Province of Hanover and Fideikommissherr on Jannowitz in Lower Silesia .

Life

Constantin was the eldest son of Count Wilhelm zu Stolberg-Wernigerode . In 1862 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . In 1894 he became president of the Merseburg district of the Prussian province of Saxony . He held this office until 1897. In 1898, after the death of his father, he took over his Silesian possessions. He was married twice. On July 12, 1870, he married Countess Antonie zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1850–1878) in Dönhofstädt , with whom he had five children, including his successor, Count Eberhard zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1873–1929). After his wife in Wernigerode in 1878Had died, Constantin married on June 4, 1885 Countess Elisabeth zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1866-1928), the eldest daughter of Count Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , with whom he had two more children. After the death of her husband, she left Silesia and moved to Ilsenburg , where she died in 1928.

In the zoo in Wernigerode, the Constantinstein still reminds of the Count who stands opposite the foundations of the Elisabethhaus, which was destroyed in 1945. His son Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode became a history professor.

His daughter Dorothea later married the lawyer and SS leader Harry von Craushaar . Daughter Magdalene (1875–1955) remained unmarried and was the last abbess of the Drübeck monastery . His youngest daughter Anna Elisabeth (1887–1952) married Georg-Heinrich Graf von Werthern (1874–1947) in 1911 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 47 , 216
2. ^ GeneAll.net: GeneAll.net Dorothea, Countess zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , accessed on December 22, 2010