Edzard zu Innhausen and Knyphausen

Edzard zu Innhausen and Knyphausen (1904)

Prince Edzard Friedrich Ludwig zu Innhausen and Knyphausen (born December 14, 1827 in Hanover ; † January 16, 1908 at Lütetsburg Castle ) was a large German landowner and politician from East Frisia.

Life

origin

He was the son of Carl Wilhelm Georg von Innhausen and Knyphausen (1784–1860) and Luise Sophie Charlotte Friederike von Kielmansegg (1798–1874). Edzard Moritz zu Innhausen and Knyphausen was his grandfather.

Career

After attending the Knight Academy in Lüneburg , Edzard studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1848 he became active in the Corps Borussia Bonn . In Bonn he passed the first state examination in law in 1851. After the death of his father in 1860, he became the largest landowner in East Frisia . In the same year Georg V of Hanover appointed him chamberlain . In 1862 Edzard bought back Kniphausen Castle from the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, which had been lost in 1624 . He also bought Innhausen Castle in 1876 .

After Hanover was annexed by Prussia in 1866, he represented East Frisian interests before the Prussian government. In 1867 he was given a seat in the Prussian mansion , which he only took up after the Welf Fund was abolished in 1892. He was also a member of the Hanover Provincial Parliament . From 1885 to 1908 he was President of the General Synod of the Evangelical Reformed Church in the Province of Hanover . After he had already failed in the election to the 1st German Reichstag in 1871, he ran again for his party, the German-Hanoverian Party , in 1893 and was elected to the Reichstag , to which he belonged until his death. Although he had lost the election in 1898 in the runoff election against the national liberal candidate, he was able to win back the constituency in a replacement election on June 8, 1899 after the elected candidate's death. From 1899 he no longer joined the German Conservatives faction , but merely sat there.

He was involved in founding the East Frisian Coast Railway and the East Frisian Sparkasse (1871). In 1902/03 he was President of the German Agricultural Society , and in 1904 President of the Prussian Mansion . On January 1, 1900, he was reigned by Wilhelm II because he had brought about the reconciliation of Welfs and Prussia in the province of Hanover like no other .

He died at the age of 80 and was buried in Lütetsburger Park.

family

He was married to Freiin Luise von Krassow (born October 31, 1843, † February 7, 1930), the daughter of Carl Reinhold von Krassow . The couple had the following children:

1. Hedda Auguste Elma Karoline (born May 26, 1865 - † November 16, 1952) ∞ Walther von Jagow (* August 19, 1867 - † March 27, 1928)
2. Theda Georgine Jeannette Pauline Julie Marie (June 2, 1866 - May 17, 1943) ∞ Carl von dem Bussche-Streithorst (March 22, 1856 - July 14, 1934)
3. Elma Marie Luise (* October 14, 1869 - October 15, 1955) ∞ William von Oheimb (* May 11, 1868 - April 30, 1953), son of Julius von Oheimb
4. Adda Hyma Marie Hilma (* September 18, 1871; † March 25, 1949) ∞ Friedrich Karl von Reden (* February 8, 1864; † December 22, 1925)
5. Dodo Karl Tido Albert Edzard (* October 27, 1876; † May 12, 1931) ∞ Theda Elma Pauline Johanna Karoline Elisabeth von Bismarck-Bohlen (* December 7, 1885; † January 20, 1969)
6. Elsa Klementine Hyma Selma (* September 22, 1878; † December 1, 1945) ∞ Dodo Ernst Eduard von Innhausen and Knyphausen (* July 6, 1877: † September 7, 1967)
7. Ebba Helene Marie Elisabeth (* October 26, 1882; † June 26, 1947) ∞ Maximilian von Asseburg-Neindorf (* July 2, 1874; † September 12, 1945)
8. Geva Karoline Adelheid Franziska Henriette (* February 16, 1888; † January 21, 1979) ∞ Friedrich von Wallenberg-Pachaly (* August 18, 1878; † September 25, 1965)

Works

• Diary of a trip in India

literature

• Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography Volume 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 , Sponholtz, Hannover 1912, pp. 187–190
• Günther Möhlmann: Prince Edzard zu Innhausen and Knyphausen 1827–1908 . In: Otto Heinrich May (Ed.): Niedersächsische Lebensbilder, Vol. 3, Hildesheim: Lax 1957, pp. 105–125
• Udo von Alvensleben-Wittenmoor : The Lütetsburger Chronicle. History of a Frisian Chief Family (1955), 2nd edition. Wallstein, Göttingen 1988. ISBN 978-3892440055 .
• Klaus Mlynek in: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 183.
• Möhlmann, Günther:  Knyphausen, Edzard Fürst von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 235 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Walter Deeters : Innhausen and Knyphausen, Edzard Graf and (since 1900) Fürst zu. In: Biographical Lexicon for East Frisia . (PDF).

Web links

• family tree
• Prince of Innhausen and Knyphausen, Edzard in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Edzard Graf-Comte zu Innhausen and Knyphausen . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19/268.
2. ^ 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. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, pp. 115–116.
3. ↑ Gravestones