Friedrich von Vittinghoff

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Friedrich Freiherr von Vittinghoff , called Schell zu Schellenberg (born April 17, 1874 in Schellenberg , † 1959 ) was a German politician of the Center Party .

Life

Vittinghoff was Fideikommissherr on Schellenberg , Wittringen , Kalbeck (near Goch ) and Niesen and Erb drost of the Principality of Essen .

From 1908 to 1918 he was a member of the Prussian manor house . In the First World War he was Rittmeister .

Before the NSDAP came to power in 1933, he was the first state chairman of the Center Party in the Rhineland. 1921 he was by Benedict XV. appointed papal secret chamberlain . He was an Honorary and Devotion Grand Cross Bailli of the Sovereign Order of Malta .