Hans Barthold von Bassewitz

Hans Barthold von Bassewitz (born August 11, 1867 in Gotha ; † October 25, 1949 there ) was an administrative officer and politician ( DNVP ) in the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha .

family

Hans Barthold von Bassewitz came originally Mecklenburg family Bassewitz and was the first son of Albert Charles of Bassewitz (Feb. 1, 1822 - September 2, 1870) and his wife Silvie born Baroness von Wangenheim (11 July 1839 - 12 Dec 1895) . He married Freiin von der Goltz, born in Coburg, on April 20, 1897 (born October 22, 1874 in Oldenburg; † January 11, 1941 in Gotha). They had four sons and three daughters.

Life

Hans Barthold von Bassewitz attended high school in Gotha and from 1887 studied law in Rostock , Leipzig, Berlin and Marburg. From 1891 he worked as a trainee lawyer in the Prussian judicial service and did his military service in Erfurt with the field artillery regt. 19, where he became first lieutenant. In 1893 he switched to the judicial service of Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha, from 1898 he worked in the central administration service in Coburg and from 1905 in the administration service in Gotha.

From 1919 to 1922 he was head of the state fire insurance institute in Gotha. From 1922 to 1932 he was a member of the Deutsche Bank Committee for Fire Insurance. 1931–1934 he was a board member of Gothaer Feuerversicherung and lived in the Villa Glenck . At the beginning of the Second World War until the death of his wife in 1941, he worked for the price authority in Gotha.

politics

Hans Barthold von Bassewitz was a member of the government council in 1901 and chamberlain to the duke in 1905. 1905–1911 he was district administrator in Ohrdruf . From 1911 to 1914 he was State Councilor and Head of Department A (Coburg) in the State Ministry of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha. From May 5, 1914 to May 1, 1919 he was the Real Privy Councilor and Minister of State, i.e. head of cabinet in Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. In 1915 he was sent to Bulgaria by the imperial government to win Tsar Ferdinand I , the Coburg ruler on the Bulgarian throne, for the Central Powers. From 1915 to the end of the First World War , he was authorized representative for seven Thuringian states in the Berlin Federal Council.

After the November Revolution of 1918, the duchy split up into the Free States of Saxe-Gotha and Coburg . Saxony-Gotha became part of the newly formed state of Thuringia in 1919 . Hans Barthold von Bassewitz resigned as Minister of State on February 7, 1919 for political reasons. He joined the (opposition) DNVP and was a member of the State Council and a full-time alderman for the city of Gotha from 1922 to 1925 . From 1927 to 1932 he was a member of the Thuringian state parliament for his party .

literature

• Friedrich Facius : The directing ministers of the Thuringian states 1815-1918 . In: Klaus Schwabe (Ed.): The governments of the German medium and small states. 1815–1933 (= German leadership classes in modern times. Volume 14 = Büdinger research on social history. Volume 18). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1983, ISBN 3-7646-1830-2 , p. 260.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ matrikel.uni-rostock.de