Georg Ernst von Bernstorff

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Dr. Georg Ernst von Bernstorff

Georg Ernst Graf von Bernstorff (born October 5, 1870 in Gartow , † November 10, 1939 in Ludwigslust ) was a German landowner and politician ( DHP ).

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Bernstorff was born as the son of the manor owner Berthold von Bernstorff from the family of von Bernstorff and his first wife Charlotte Freiin von Wangenheim a. d. H. Burg-Wake (1851–1879) born. He attended high school in Lübeck . He later studied forest sciences at the Eberswalde Forest Academy and law in Strasbourg , Berlin and Göttingen . Then he was a member of Uhlan Regiment No. 15 for a year . He later became Rittmeister of the Reserve in the 1st Mecklenburg Dragoon Regiment No. 17 . In 1896 he received his doctorate in Göttingen to Dr. iur.

From 1894 to 1905 von Bernstorff worked as a forest and hunting officer in Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Jägermeister). In 1899 he married the Cologne entrepreneur daughter Marie Emma Adele Wilhelmine Rautenstrauch. In 1905 he took over his parents' estate. In 1908 von Bernstorff became a member of the district council and the district committee in the Bleckede and Dannenberg districts. He was also dyke deputy in the Neuhauser and Danneberger Deichverband and chairman of agricultural and horse breeding associations as well as the herdbook society for the Lüneburg administrative region .

In April 1917 Bernstorff became a member of the Reichstag of the German Empire , to which he belonged until November 1918 as a representative of the German-Hanoverian Party (DHP) of the Hanover 15 constituency (Uelzen Dannenberg). After the end of the First World War he became chairman of the DHP. In the first parliamentary elections of the Weimar Republic in June 1920, he was the candidate of the DHP for the constituency 17 (East Hanover) in the Reichstag voted, where he remained until May 1924th In addition, he was at times district deputy in the Bleckede district . From 1925 to 1929 and 1933 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Hanover .

After the National Socialist " seizure of power " he was dismissed from all municipal offices.

Fonts

  • Lüneburg dike law. 1896 (dissertation).

literature

  • Axel Beste: Count Georg Ernst von Bernstorff. 1870-1939. in: Lower Saxony images of life. Vol. 6 (= publication of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony, Vol. 22), Hildesheim 1969, pp. 108–116.
  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 41–42.

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personal data
SURNAME Bernstorff, Georg Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernstorff, Georg Ernst Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowners and politicians (DHP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Gartow
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1939
Place of death Ludwigslust