Friedrich Stavenhagen

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Friedrich Stavenhagen

Friedrich Karl Leopold Stavenhagen (born March 8, 1796 in Halle an der Saale , † March 30, 1869 in Berlin ) was a Prussian major general and politician .

Life

family

He was the son of Senator Johann Friedrich Stavenhagen and his wife Luise Amalie, nee Dreßler.

Military career

Stavenhagen attended high school in Szczecin . In February 1813 he joined the 1st Pomeranian Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army as a volunteer and took part in the Wars of Liberation . For his work in the Battle of Ligny he was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class. In the further course of his military career, Stavenhagen was a teacher at various division schools and, as a colonel , was appointed chief of the war theater in the General Staff in February 1846 . On June 26, 1849, he was put up for disposal as major general with a pension .

Political career

In 1848/49 Stavenhagen was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly . From 1859 until his death he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives , whose Vice-President he was from 1866 to 1867 and whose age-old President he was in 1867. From 1867 until his death, he was also a member of the constituency of Merseburg 4 ( Halle , Saalkreis ) in the Reichstag of the North German Confederation . As a result, he was a member of the Customs Parliament from 1868 until his death . He belonged to the National Liberal Party .

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Individual evidence

  1. Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the collaboration of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne: Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 373.