Hans von Schwerin-Löwitz

Hans von Schwerin-Löwitz

Hans Graf von Schwerin-Löwitz (born May 19, 1847 in Schwerinsburg , † November 4, 1918 in Berlin ) was a large German landowner and officer in the Prussian Army . In the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire , he was one of the leading politicians .

Life

He came from the aristocratic family Schwerin-Löwitz and attended the French grammar school in Berlin , which he left before graduating from high school (“with primary school leaving certificate”). In 1865 he joined the Magdeburg Cuirassier Regiment No. 7 , which Otto von Bismarck also belonged to. He took part in the German War in 1866 and in the war against France in 1870/71 . After the establishment of the German Empire , he was adjutant to Ernst II from 1872 to 1877 (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) .

Farewell as Rittmeister in Halberstadt , from 1881 he ran the Löwitz family fideikommiss in the province of Pomerania . He got into politics through local honorary posts and was elected to the district council. 1901 President of the Landesökonomiekollegium and the German Agriculture Council . In 1896 he became chairman of the Pomeranian Chamber of Agriculture and District Railway Council. For the German Conservative Party , he has represented the constituency of Stettin 1 in the Prussian House of Representatives since the same year . Since the Reichstag election in 1893, he was a member of the Reichstag (German Empire) and from March 1910 to February 1912 President of the Reichstag . From 1912 until his death on November 4, 1918, Schwerin-Löwitz was President of the Prussian House of Representatives. Schwerin-Löwitz sat on the committee of the German Bimetalist Association . During the First World War he represented the Federation of Farmers in the Board of Trustees of the Reich Grain Office.

He died at the age of 71 in the November Revolution .

See also : "President" in the article Prussian House of Representatives

Honors

• Royal Crown Order (Prussia) 2nd class (1905)
• Right Knight of the Order of St. John (1908)
• Order of the Red Eagle II class (1909)
• Dr. phil. hc from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin (1910)
• Really Go Council (1911)
• Dr. theol. hc from the Royal University of Greifswald (1917)
• Order of Merit of St. Michael II Class
• Griffin Order II class
• Oldenburg House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig II class
• Albrechts-Order II. Class

Works (selection)

• The new customs tariff and the fight for future trade agreements. 1903.
• Löwitz manor. in: H. Dade (ed.): The German agriculture under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Vol. 1, 1913, pp. 85-90.
• German agriculture , in: Philipp Zorn , Herbert von Berger : Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Ed. by Siegfried Körte , Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell , Hans von Schwerin-Löwitz and others, 3 volumes. R. Hobbing, Berlin 1914.

literature

• Hartwin Spenkuch:  Schwerin (-Löwitz), Hans Axel Tammo Graf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 76 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans von Schwerin-Löwitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Hans von Schwerin-Löwitz in the state bibliography MV
• Hans von Schwerin-Löwitz in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Listening quote from the Prussian House of Representatives on March 8, 1918 ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Bernhard Mann : Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918 (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 .