Ernst von Heydebrand and the Lasa

Ernst von Heydebrand and the Lasa with his wife. Photo by Waldemar Titzenthaler , 1911.

Klein Tschunkawe Castle

Ernst von Heydebrand and the Lasa (born February 20, 1851 in Golkowe , Militsch district , † February 15, 1924 in Klein Tschunkawe , Militsch district) was a German politician and leader of the German Conservative Party .

Life

Ernst von Heydebrand was the son of the Prussian Privy Councilor Oskar von Heydebrand and Lasa and his wife Agathe, née. from Salisch. He interrupted his law studies , which he had begun in 1870 , to take part as a volunteer in the Franco-German War of 1870/71. In 1874 he received his doctorate and completed his legal training in 1878 with the assessor examination in Jena. In 1879 he entered the Prussian civil service and in 1882 became district administrator in Silesia. In 1888 Heydebrand was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives for the German Conservative Party . In 1896 he left the civil service and concentrated entirely on his political activities and the administration of his inherited manor .

In 1903 he was elected to the Reichstag and from 1906 to 1918 was chairman of the German-conservative parliamentary group in the Prussian House of Representatives. In 1909 he contributed to the overthrow of Reich Chancellor Prince von Bülow with his resistance to the imperial financial reform . In 1911 he was elected party leader of the German Conservatives. In the period that followed, his party entered into close ties with the radical nationalist Pan-German Association . During the First World War he turned against domestic reforms such as B. the abolition of three-tier voting rights .

family

In 1892 he married Marie von Dallwitz (1855–1923) on Gut Limbsee in West Prussia , the daughter of the heir to Limbsee Wilhelm von Dallwitz (1825–1898) and his wife Auguste von Dallwitz. Her nephew Ernst von Heydebrand and the Lasa (1884–1963) became an imperial judge.

literature

• Hans Booms: The German Conservative Party. Prussian character, conception of the empire, concept of nationality . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1954 (contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties, vol. 3)
• Friedrich Freiherr Hiller von Gaertringen :  Heydebrand and the Lase Ernst von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 66 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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 Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 66.
2. ↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 179 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 312-314.

Web links

• Gabriel Eikenberg: Ernst von Heydebrand and the Lasa. Tabular curriculum vitae in the LeMO ( DHM and HdG )
• Ernst von Heydebrand and the Lasa in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Ernst von Heydebrand and the Lasa . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
• Newspaper article about Ernst von Heydebrand and the Lasa in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .