Friedrich Mathias von Galen

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Friedrich Mathias Count von Galen

Friedrich Mathias Graf von Galen (born May 20, 1865 in Münster ; † November 10, 1918 in Dinklage ) was a landowner and a member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Galen was the eldest son of Ferdinand Heribert von Galen and attended the Stella Matutina Jesuit grammar school in Feldkirch and the Antonianum grammar school in Vechta . From 1885 on he studied theology at the Universities of Lille , Bonn , Rome and Munster . At first he renounced his birthright , but after a lengthy illness he broke off his studies and took over the administration of his father's property. Since 1894 he was married to Paula geb. Freiin von Wendt (1873–1959), daughter of the Reichstag member Carl Hubert von Wendt (1832–1903). The couple in turn had a daughter who became a religious sister, which is why the inheritance later fell to the nephew Christoph Bernhard Graf von Galen . Friedrich Mathias von Galen was Knight of Honor of the Order of Malta and President of the Catholic Congress in Mainz in 1911 .

Galen was a member of the Westphalian provincial parliament since 1899, the district council and district committee of the Beckum district . From 1907 to 1918 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Oldenburg 3 ( Vechta , Delmenhorst , Cloppenburg ) and the German Center Party . From 1912 he was also a member of the Prussian manor house . He died of the Spanish flu on November 10, 1918 .

literature

  • Michael Hirschfeld: Faith and the nobility as motivation for political engagement - on the biography of the Reichstag deputies Ferdinand Heribert (1831-1906) and Friedrich Mathias von Galen (1865-1918) . In: Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 2012 (Ed .: “Heimatbund für das Oldenburger Münsterland”). Vechta 2011. pp. 49-72

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Mathias von Galen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical page on Paula von Wendt. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  2. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1907. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd edition supplemented by an appendix. Addendum. The Reichstag election of 1907 (12th legislative period). Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1908, p. 85; see also Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1409-1412.
  3. ↑ Andreas Kathe: The "Spanish flu" and Corona at a glance . In: Oldenburgische Volkszeitung . March 18, 2020, p. 18 .
personal data
SURNAME Galen, Friedrich Mathias von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galen, Friedrich Mathias Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowners and politicians (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1918
Place of death Dinklage