Edwin von Bischoffshausen

Edwin Henry von Bischoffshausen (born October 6, 1810 in Bischhausen near Witzenhausen ; † July 12, 1884 in Kassel ) was a local politician from the Electorate of Hesse and royal Prussia . Bischoffshausen was a senior government councilor and state director of the Kassel administrative region as well as a member of the Hessian state assembly and the municipal council .

Life

origin

Edwin Henry von Bischoffshausen came from the von Bischoffshausen family , an old noble family from Lower Saxony . His father Mordian Carl Ernst August Ferdinand von Bischoffshausen (* December 21, 1779 in Berge ; † October 25, 1850 in Kassel), Lord of Bischhausen and Berge, became the Royal British Brigade Inspector. He married on March 13, 1805 in Southampton , first marriage to Elisabeth Bartlett (born July 27, 1789 in Stoborough , † May 23, 1828 in Berge). The couple had 14 children, five daughters and nine sons. Edwin Henry was the third child and second son. His younger brother Christian James von Bischoffshausen (* 1813, † 1880) became a royal Prussian major general and commandant of Stralsund . The father married Emilie Holzapfel (born December 27, 1827 in Kassel; † May 7, 1857 in Kassel) in May 1847; this marriage remained childless.

Professional background

Bischoffshausen was first senior judge in Hanau , but took his leave during the unrest that followed the March Revolution . On October 15, 1851, he and his brothers founded a family fideikommiss , which transformed the property into an allodial property that could be increased by purchasing the Neuenröder forest.

In 1852 he resigned as district administrator of the district Fritzlar and Regierungsrat in Kassel back in the Hessian government service. In the same year, until 1854, he became a member of the First Chamber of the Hessian Estates Assembly, the 14th Landtag, for the knighthood of the Werra River. Despite his membership in the knighthood, he was an important representative of the liberal opposition in the state parliament. In 1855 he was transferred to Fulda as a councilor . From 1862 to 1863 he was again a member of the Kurhessische Ständeversammlung (20th Landtag) for the highest taxed persons in the Fulda district and from 1863 to 1866 (21st Landtag) for the city of Fulda.

From 1863 Bischoffshausen was Vice President of the Estates Assembly. As such, he chaired the last session of the Diet on June 18, 1866, which he concluded with the words God protect this country . On June 15, 1866, he was one of the co-initiators of an application for neutrality when the German war broke out . For this he was received by his voters with cat music after his return from the state parliament . A few weeks later he signed the so-called gravedigger address.

After the lost German War and the annexation of the Electorate of Hesse by Prussia, Bischoffshausen was appointed to the Upper Government in 1868 and was a member of the Hessian Communal Parliament in Kassel from 1868 to 1874 . From 1871 to 1882 he was the state director of the Association of Local Authorities in the administrative district of Kassel.

He died on July 12, 1884, at the age of 73, in Kassel.

Marriages and offspring

Edwin Henry von Bischoffshausen married Auguste Karoline Henriette von Bischoffshausen in Kassel on January 8, 1838 (born January 24, 1813 in Neuenrode near Berge , † October 18, 1840 in Berge). They had two sons. The first-born, Arthur William Ernst, became royal Prussian Prime Lieutenant and last served in the Brandenburg Infantry Regiment No. 35. In 1872 he emigrated to Uruguay . His younger brother died just a few weeks after he was born.

After the early death of his wife, Edwin Henry von Bischoffshausen married Bertha Henriette Sophie Theodore Susette Buderus von Carlshausen (born January 22, 1822 in Hanau; † December 21, 1894 in Kassel), daughter of the Higher Regional Court Council, in Hanau on December 30, 1843 Theodor von Carlshausen. The couple had two sons and two daughters. The eldest son, Rudolph Theodor Erwin, became a district judge in Paderborn and later a senior judge in Hamm . His younger brother Alexander James became a Prussian civil servant, most recently President of the Central Administration for National Debt and the Reich Debt Administration .

literature

• Ewald Grothe (ed.): The members of the Electoral Hessian Estates Assemblies 1830–1866. Historical Commission for Hesse, Marburg 2016, number KSV-044, ISBN 978-3-942225-33-5 .
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen 1808-1996. Biographical index. Elwert, Marburg 1996, page 77, ISBN 978-3-86354-097-5 .
• Philipp Losch : The members of the Electoral Hessian Estates Assemblies from 1830 to 1866. Elwert, Marburg 1909, page 15.
• Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Volume 1, published by WT Bruer, Berlin 1896, page 239 ( digitized version )

Web links

• Edwin von Bischoffshausen in the German biography
• Bischoffshausen, Edwin Henry von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Entry on Edwin von Bischoffshausen in Kalliope
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