Florens von Bockum-Dolffs

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Florens von Bockum-Dolffs

Florens Heinrich Gottfried von Bockum-Dolffs (aka von Bockum gen. Dolffs ) (born February 19, 1802 in Soest ; † February 8, 1899 in Völlinghausen , today Möhnesee ) was a Prussian civil servant and liberal parliamentarian.

origin

Bockum-Dolffs came from an old Sassendorf family of salt berries. The family owned the Völlinghausen and Ahse estates. The family first appears in Soest in 1317; three mayors of the city with a total of 28 years in office came from her. The father was Florens Wilhelm Konrad von Bockum-Dolffs. The mother was Dorothea (born von Berswordt ).

job

He studied law and mathematics . There are different details about his study locations. Called Heidelberg , Leipzig , Göttingen and Berlin . Bockum-Dolffs was an active fraternity member ; In 1822 he joined the old Heidelberg fraternity . During this time he came into contact with the ideas of political liberalism . After completing his military service as a one-year volunteer , he became an ausculator at the Supreme Court in Berlin. He then completed the usual training in court and government service. In 1837 he was appointed to the government council in Merseburg .

Between 1837 and 1852 he was the district administrator of the Soest district . He was then put into temporary retirement for political reasons. In 1859 he was then appointed senior councilor at the district government in Koblenz . In 1862 he was transferred to Gumbinnen . In 1865 Bockum-Dolffs was dismissed from civil service. Then he managed his estates.

His resting place is in the cemetery of the von Bockum-Dolffs family in Völlinghausen.

family

On June 6, 1837, Bockum-Dolffs married Aurelie Melusine Sophie Luise von Flemming (born March 28, 1819 in Koblenz; † August 23, 1902 in Völlinghausen). This was a daughter of the District President Karl von Flemming . His son of the same name, Florens von Bockum called Dolffs, followed him in 1879 as district administrator of the Soest district.

The daughter Anna Dorothea Wilhelmine (born March 3, 1840) was married to the consistorial councilor Count Ludwig Heinrich Friedrich Moritz Johann Wilhelm von Unruh (born November 19, 1833).

Political life

In 1833 (as a representative of the Duke of Croy) and from 1841 to 1853 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Westphalia and in 1836 of the Saxon Provincial Parliament . In 1847 he was a member of the first United State Parliament and in 1848 the second United State Parliament . Because he had already been warned by his superiors about his views, he held back politically during the revolution of 1848 . Between 1849 and 1851 he was a member of the first chamber of the Prussian state parliament . Between 1852 and 1885 Bockum-Dolffs was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . There he first joined the old liberals around Georg von Vincke . According to a later statement by Vincke, Bockum-Dolff was one of the parliamentary leaders responsible for the sudden end of the New Era in Prussia, which was largely supported by the old liberals . Because in January 1862 he broke with Vincke and founded his own faction . This liberal group, also known as the Left Center , recruited its supporters primarily from the Rhine Province, which was industrially very well developed at the time . The faction around Bockum-Dolffs joined the Prussian constitutional conflict closely with the German Progressive Party and led a violent parliamentary struggle against the government of Otto von Bismarck . After the German War of 1866 , it quickly lost its importance. Later Bockum-Dolffs was a member of the Progress Party and finally the National Liberal Party .

Bockum-Dolffs was temporarily chairman of the budget commission. From 1862 to 1865 he was Vice President and in 1879 and 1882 age presidents. He was also a member of the German National Association. From 1867 to 1884 he was a member of the Reichstag . In the end he was no longer a member of any parliamentary group.

literature

  • Horst Conrad, Bernd Haunfelder (arr.): Prussian parliamentarians. A photo album 1859-1867. With a foreword by Lothar Gall . Droste, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-5134-3 , p. 46.
  • Horst Conrad: Hats off. Everyday life of a Prussian parliamentarian. Documents from the estate of Florens Heinrich von Bockum-Dolff. Exhibition catalog. Edited by the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe. Münster 1986, 28 pages
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 1: AE. Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 108.
  • Friedrich von Klocke :  Florens Bockum-Dolffs. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 346 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Bernhard Mann (arr.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. With the collaboration of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 181 f.
  • Genealogical paperback of the knights and Aristocratic families, 1877. Second year, p.92f
  • Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 192.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hubertus Schwartz : The street names of the city of Soest, as of April 1, 1966. Soest 1966, p. 18
  2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 1: AE. Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 108.
  3. ^ Dietrich Wegmann: The leading state administrative officials of the province of Westphalia 1815-1918. (= Publications of the Historical Commission of Westphalia XXII a; Historical works on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. Volume 1) Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1969, p. 245 No. 15.
  4. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses for the year 1875, p.945
  5. ↑ Gerd Fesser : Fraktion Bockum-Dolffs (FBD) 1862-1870. In: Dieter Fricke u. a. (Ed.): Lexicon on the history of parties. Vol. 1. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1983, DNB 850223156 , pp. 612-614.
personal data
SURNAME Bockum-Dolffs, Florens from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bockum-Dolffs, Florens Heinrich Gottfried von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian civil servant and liberal parliamentarian
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Soest
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1899
Place of death Völlinghausen , today Möhnesee