Franz August von Gordon
Franz August von Gordon (born August 8, 1837 on Gut Laskowitz, Rosenberg district in West Prussia , † November 17, 1896 in Berlin ) was a German landowner and politician in Prussia.
Life
He came from an old Scottish noble family with an ancestral home of the same name in the county of Berwickshire , which has been documented since the end of the 12th century and whose direct lineage began in 1305. John Gordon came to Poland in 1716 . His son Joseph von Gordon received confirmation of the Prussian nobility in 1760. Gordon married on January 7, 1865 at Gut Wolletz (today part of Angermünde , Brandenburg) Hildegard von Rohr (born April 12, 1844 at Gut Wolletz; † June 12, 1922 in Berlin-Schlachtensee ), the daughter of the landowner and royal Prussian Knighthood Council Theobald von Rohr, landlord of Ganzer, Wolletz and Künkendorf, and Alberta von Wedel-Parlow. This marriage came from the son Franz Adolf von Gordon (1865–1942), Fideikommissherr at Gut Laskowitz.
Gordon was Fideikommissherr on Laskowitz with Lipno, Piskarken and Butziger Wald (district of Rosenberg) as well as landlord on Jaszcz and Polish Konopath (district of Schwetz). He was a royal Prussian chamberlain and legal knight of the Order of St. John . Politically, Gordon was active as chairman of the provincial parliament of the province of West Prussia and from 1876 as a member of the Prussian mansion for the landowners in southern Pomerellen . In the Reichstag (German Empire) he represented the constituency of Marienwerder 5 (Schwetz) from 1877 to 1881 . He was a member of the Corps Hansea Bonn . One son was Franz Adolf von Gordon , who also sat in the Prussian mansion from 1898 to 1918.
See also
- List of members of the Reichstag of the German Empire (3rd electoral term)
- List of members of the Reichstag of the German Empire (4th electoral term)
- List of corps students in the Reichstag of the German Empire
- List of corps students in the Prussian mansion
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses B volume XVIII, p. 152, volume 95 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989, ISSN 0435-2408
Web links
- von Gordon-Coldwells, Franz in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Biography of Franz von Gordon-Coldwells . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Kaiserreich 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich) , wrongly under Cordon -Coldwells
- Franz von Gordon at Stammreihen.de
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 20.
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 11/89
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gordon, Franz August von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gordon, Franz von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian landowner and politician, MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gut Laskowitz, Rosenberg district in West Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1896 |
| Place of death | Berlin |