Friedrich Stephan von Brühl

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Friedrich Stephan Graf von Brühl (born December 26, 1819 in Pförten ; † April 5, 1893 there ) was a freelance gentleman and member of the Prussian manor house .

family

Brühl came from an old Saxon-Thuringian noble family with ancestral home at Gangloffsommern in Thuringia, which had come to power and influence especially in Saxony. As a result of the Seven Years' War, the family-owned Pförten estate came into Prussian territory, but remained in the family's possession and established the right to a hereditary seat in the manor house.

Brühl was the son of the landlord and manor house member Friedrich August Graf von Brühl and his wife Augusta Frantiska, Countess von Sternberg-Manderscheid . He was married to Paula Countess von Spee (* 1826, † 1889), with whom he had five daughters and seven sons:

Life

In 1856 Brühl inherited the rulership of Pförten and other goods in Forst , Kohlo , Oegeln , Kümmelitz, Mehlen and Gangloffsümmern .

From 1851 he was a member and from 1879 chairman of the local state parliament of Niederlausitz and from 1851–1876 member of the old and then the new state parliament of the province of Brandenburg , chairman of the estates of Niederlausitz. In 1856 he took the family's hereditary seat in the Prussian mansion and was temporarily its chairman.

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