Emil von Durant (politician, 1799)

Emil Heinrich Erdmann Conrad Freiherr von Durant (Baron et Seigneur de Sénégas et Trevis) (born November 29, 1799 in Bobrek, district of Beuthen ; † January 6, 1873 in Baranowitz , district of Rybnik) was a German manor owner, district administrator and politician.

Life

Durant was the son of the heir and court lord on Bobrek Heinrich Freiherr von Durant and his wife Jeanette Luise Wilhelmine nee von Czarnetzka, heiress of Baranowitz. The Prussian recognition of the baron status dates from November 2, 1810. Durant, who was a Protestant denomination, married the Catholic Charlotte Friederike Luise von Kalinowska-Hussinetz (born December 29, 1814 in Hilbersdorf; † May 23, 1882 in Falkenberg on July 14, 1836 in Görlitz), the daughter of the gentlemen on Hilbersdorf, District Administrator Johann Nepomuk Carl Anton von Kalinowski-Hussinetz . The son Hans von Durant (1837–1907) became a member of the Prussian mansion, the son Emil von Durant (1839–1894) a manor and politician.

Durant studied law in Berlin from 1819 to 1822. He was the master of Baranowitz. On August 5, 1834, he was appointed District Administrator of the Rybnik District. From the second half of the 1850s the government in Opole was increasingly dissatisfied with his administration. In 1859 the ministry ordered a special business audit, which examined in particular the use of emergency funds from 1844 to 1848. On December 31, 1859 he was dismissed from civil service with a pension "because of his poor health".

politics

From 1848 to 1873 Durant was the state elder of the Ratibor district and president of the Agricultural Association of the Rybnik district. He was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Silesia . In 1847 he was a member of the United State Parliament . In 1850 he was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament . From 1850 to 1852 and 1861 he was a member of the Second Prussian Chamber and the Prussian House of Representatives.

He was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class.

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , p. 124.