Friedrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt
Otto Friedrich Hermann Günther Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt (born October 14, 1855 in Dresden , † December 13, 1936 in Wölkau ) was a German politician. He was the last President of the First Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament and the last Majorate at Lichtenwalde Castle . In addition to the Lichtenwalde estate with Auerswalde, he was also the owner of the manor on Schönwölkau, Reibitz and Sausedlitz.
Live and act
The son of Albert Friedrich Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt († 1860) and his wife Amalie born. von Miltitz († 1876) spent his childhood in the castles in Lichtenwalde and Schönwölkau , both of which belonged to his father. After attending the Vitzthum Gymnasium in Dresden , he completed his one-year voluntary military service with the royal Saxon guard regiment in Pirna in 1875/76 , during which time he rose to the rank of lieutenant . He then devoted himself to studying law at the University of Leipzig . One year after successfully passing the state examination, he received further training as an aspirant for the diplomatic service of the German Reich in the New York Consulate General . During this time he traveled to the USA, Cuba and Mexico and then returned to the Foreign Office in Berlin. After taking the diplomatic exam in 1882, he was sent to Stuttgart as legation secretary , and later to Paris and London . After his promotion to the Legation Council , he represented the German Empire in St. Petersburg , Vienna and Bucharest . The doctorate Dr. jur. he was awarded honoris causa .
King Albert appointed him to a central position in the civil service at the Saxon court as Oberhofmarschall . On May 3, 1897, he married Hedwig Sibylle born in Hosterwitz near Dresden. von Tschirschky and Bögendorff (1862–1951), daughter of Otto Julius von Tschirschky and Bögendorff , with whom he fathered a son, Otto Siegfried (1904–1943). From the last Saxon King Friedrich August III. he was given the honorary post of Colonel Marshal in 1905. In November 1901 he succeeded in entering the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament as a representative of the knighthood of the Erzgebirge district . In October 1905 he was elected President of the Landtag Chamber after Richard von Könneritz had retired from this office for reasons of age. He kept this function until the dissolution of the Saxon parliamentary upper house as part of the November Revolution in 1918.
On the Walpurgis Night in 1905, his baroque Lichtenwalde castle burned down to the ground. By the court building officer Gustav Frölich , he had it changed in an eclectic style and rebuilt in a modernized manner until 1908 . Vitzthum died in Schönwölkau in 1936 and was buried in Lichtenwalde. After the Red Army confiscated the castle in July 1945, his widow was the last mistress of the castle to be expelled from the house and found a place to stay with friends in the village of Lichtenwalde until her death. The castle with furniture and a collection of porcelain and paintings was looted.
literature
- Josef Matzerath : Aspects of the history of the Saxon state parliament - presidents and members of parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 27f
- Josef Matzerath: Vitzthum von Eckstädt, Otto Friedrich Hermann Günther Graf . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
- Sonja Schöffler: A touch of the past - the last majorate from Lichtenwalde and Auerswalde and his family; the story of a Saxon noble family, freely told based on authentic events , Drei Birken, 2004 ISBN 3-936980-15-2
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser, German Uradel, 1920, 21st year, Gotha, Justus Perthes
- Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 125 f.
Individual evidence
Until the end of the Kingdom of Saxony :
Chamber I (1831–1918):
Ernst Gustav von Gersdorf |
Albert von Carlowitz |
Friedrich Freiherr von Friesen |
Friedrich Ernst von Schönfels |
Hermann Joseph |
Robert Georgi |
Friedrich Ernst von Schönfels |
Friedrich Freiherr von Friesen |
Ludwig Freiherr von Zehmen |
Richard Graf von Könneritz |
Friedrich Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt
Chamber II (1831–1918): Wilhelm Friedrich August von Leyßer | Carl Friedrich Reiche-Eisenstuck | Karl Heinrich Haase | Karl Braun | Franz Xaver Rewitzer | Adolf Ernst Hensel | Emil Cuno | Karl Heinrich Haase | Ludwig Haberkorn | Wilhelm Schaffrath | Ludwig Haberkorn | Karl Gustav Ackermann | Paul Mehnert | Paul Vogel
Between the World Wars:
Saxon People's Chamber (1918–1920):
Julius Fräßdorf
Saxon State Parliament (1920–1933): Julius Fräßdorf | Max Winkler | Albert Schwarz | Kurt Weckel | August Eckardt | Walter Doenicke
After the Second World War :
Consultative Assembly (1946) and Saxon State Parliament (1946–1952): Otto Buchwitz
Saxon State Parliament (since 1990): Erich Iltgen | Matthias Roessler
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vitzthum von Eckstädt, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vitzthum von Eckstädt, Otto Friedrich Hermann Günther Graf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician, last President of the First Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament, last Majorate at Lichtenwalde Castle |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 1936 |
| Place of death | Wölkau |