Eduard Georg von Bethusy-Huc

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Eduard Georg von Bethusy-Huc
Eduard Georg von Bethusy-Huc

Eduard Georg Graf von Bethusy-Huc (born September 3, 1829 on Gut Bankau near Kreuzburg , Upper Silesia , † November 19, 1893 there ) was a large German landowner and parliamentarian in the Kingdom of Prussia .

origin

The Bethusy-Huc came from Languedoc and settled in Silesia and Poland . Friedrich II. (Prussia) raised the noble family to the rank of count in 1773 . His parents were the Prussian Rittmeister Heinrich von Bethusy-Huc (* 1789; † June 4, 1833) and his first wife Charlotte von Bosse (1799-1830), a daughter of District Administrator Georg von Bosse (1767-1822) and Countess Amelie von Dyhrn (1771-1832).

The writer Valeska Countess Bethusy-Huc was a sister-in-law.

Life

Eduard Georg began to study law at the University of Bonn and became active in the Corps Borussia Bonn in 1848 . When he was inactive, he moved to the other two Friedrich Wilhelms Universities, the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . After long trips to the Orient , Italy and France , he took over the administration of his extensive estates, the dominions of Bankau and Albrechtsdorf in Upper Silesia and of the Stany estate in the Kingdom of Poland .

In 1856 he was elected to the district council , in 1861 to the Silesian provincial parliament and in 1862 to the Prussian House of Representatives, to which he belonged continuously until 1879. From 1867 he sat in the Reichstag (North German Confederation) and from 1871 in the Reichstag (German Empire) . In order to work for the army reform (Prussia) , he joined the small conservative faction , but soon found himself forced to leave because his liberal views on domestic politics did not agree with those of the faction.

His attempts to set up a middle party that corresponded to his political views only met with success in August 1866 (shortly after the battle of Königgrätz ). With others he founded the Free Conservative Party , which in 1871 was named "German Reich Party" in the Reichstag. As one of the leaders of this party, Count Bethusy exerted an outstanding influence in the north German Reichstag through his efforts to mediate between the liberal parties and the Prussian government; in the House of Representatives he promoted the administrative reform. From 1873 to 1879 he was also Second Vice President of the House of Representatives; but in 1879, when he was appointed district administrator in the Kreuzburg OS district , he withdrew completely from public life. He therefore resigned his seat in the Reichstag on January 3, 1880.

Because of his commitment in Kreuzburg (Upper Silesia) he was made an honorary citizen of the city in January 1878 . He had made a special contribution to the establishment of the grammar school there. The certificate was awarded to him by the mayor , the head of the city ​​council and three representatives of the city council in Berlin . After his death, an oak tree was planted in his honor on June 26, 1903 by the Silesian Forest Association in the Kreuzburger Stadtwald. Two more trees were dedicated to the Kreuzburg-born writer Gustav Freytag and the royal chancellery Franz Welczek . The latter was also an honorary citizen of the city.

family

He married Emmy von Ohlen and Adlerscron in 1855 (* June 27, 1837, † November 13, 1895). The couple had six children.

Works

  • The class rights with regard to the police and district. Publisher R. Wagner, Berlin 1860.
  • To the bills concerning the rural police and district order. Berlin 1862.

Individual evidence

  1. A son of Lieutenant General Friedrich Leopold von Bosse Cf. Georg von Bosse at geneanet.org
  2. Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 263
  3. Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 65 (Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: Vol. 3)
  4. ^ 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 Heymanns Verlag , Berlin 1904, p. 84
  5. ^ H. Menz: Kreuzburg's honorary citizen. Ed .: Working group for home care. Volume 1. Kreuzburger Nachrichten G. mb H., Kreuzburg 1925

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