Friedrich of Limburg-Stirum

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Friedrich Count of Limburg-Stirum

Friedrich Wilhelm Graf zu Limburg-Stirum (born August 6, 1835 in The Hague , Netherlands ; † October 27, 1912 in Groß Peterwitz , Province of Silesia ) was a German diplomat, politician and State Secretary in the Foreign Office of the German Empire.

Life

Friedrich zu Limburg-Stirum was a son of Frederik Adrian zu Limburg-Stirum (1804–1874) and his second wife Johanna Franziska Viktorine Ebers (1808–1878).

He was first envoy in Weimar and the Thuringian courts and deputy state secretary in the Foreign Office when he succeeded Clovis zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst as acting State Secretary of the Foreign Office in September 1880 . He held this office until he was replaced by Clemens Busch on June 25, 1881. In February 1892 an affair broke out around him. At the instigation of the then Reich Chancellor Leo von Caprivi, he was dismissed from his civil service and lost all his pension entitlements because in December 1891 he had a critical article published on the Austrian trade treaty in which he denied its political necessity and accused the state of the German conservatives Treating party (DKP) unfairly for their previous loyalty.

From 1870 1905 he sat as a conservative member of the constituency of Breslau 5 (Breslau, Neumarkt) in the Prussian House of Representatives . From 1898 to 1907 he was a member of the Reichstag (MdR) as a representative of the DKP .

In 1904 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in law ( LL.D. ) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison .

From 1854 he was a member and later an honorary member of the Corps Borussia Bonn .

family

He married Paula von Meyerinck on September 21, 1865 (* October 10, 1844, † July 16, 1925). There were five children from this marriage:

  • Johanna Amalie Nanny (* August 16, 1866) ∞ 1887 Günther von Tschirschky and Bögendorff († April 30, 1914), Lord of Kobelau
  • Anna Elise Theodora Aurelia Frederike Albertine (born December 7, 1867) ∞ 1902 August von Pückler , District President
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Richard Paul (born November 16, 1871; † January 5, 1951) ∞ 1907 Lucie von Lieres and Wilkau (born January 13, 1885; † August 26, 1909)
  • Richard Heinrich Kurt (born March 28, 1874; † June 7, 1931) ∞ 1914 Freiin Edith von Bodenhausen (born November 5, 1888) (divorced from Wilhelm von Eckhardstein)
  • Menno Johannes Otto Hubert Viktor (born November 28, 1881) ∞ 1916 (divorced 1918) Hildegard Wertheim († 1919)

Publications

  • From the conservative politics of the years 1890/1905. Principles and political motives after the speeches of the chairman of the Conservative parliamentary group of the House of Representatives and member of the Reichstag Count of Limburg-Stirum (= contributions to conservative politics and ideology. H. 3, ZDB -ID 1005484-4 ). Kärner-Verlag, Berlin 1921.

literature

  • Bernhard Mann : Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867–1918 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Vol. 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 71.
  2. ↑ Recipients of Honorary Degrees Conferred by the UW-Madison ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19/340
  4. ^ Marcelli Janecki : Handbook of the Prussian nobility. Volume 1, p. 399 .
personal data
SURNAME Limburg-Stirum, Friedrich zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Limburg-Stirum, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, MdR, State Secretary of the German Reich
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH The Hague , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1912
Place of death Gross Peterwitz