Hans Hugo von Kleist-Retzow

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Hans Hugo von Kleist-Retzow

Hans Hugo von Kleist (born November 25, 1814 in Kieckow near Belgard ; † May 20, 1892 ibid) was a Prussian chief president and conservative politician.

Life

Hans-Hugo von Kleist-Retzow, 1862. Graphic by F. Weiß.

Hans Hugo von Kleist was used as the son of Hans Jürgen von Kleist (1771–1844) and Auguste von Borcke . Born from Glasenapp . At first he was tutored by a pastor. He then attended the National School Schulpforta , studied in Göttingen and Berlin Law , joined the government service and was from 1844 to 1851 District Administrator of the district Belgard . In 1848 he headed the strictly conservative Junker Party and was a co-founder of the Kreuzzeitung .

From 1849 to 1852 he belonged to the Conservative Party in the House of Representatives , was also a member of the House of States of the Erfurt Union Parliament in 1850 and, after the victory of the reaction, was appointed Upper President of the Rhine Province in 1851 , where he acted so violently against liberalism that he opposed the court of the Prince of Prussia in Koblenz . After Wilhelm was installed in the reign he was released in 1858, retired to his manor in Kieckow and, although he was appointed to the manor house as a representative of the von Kleist family , he did not take part in the public events of the new era . He was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Pomerania . Only in the time of the conflict did he emerge again and after the turnaround in Bismarck's internal policy after 1866 he took the lead of the old conservative party.

Castle / Gutshof Kiechow now Kikowo

In particular , he vigorously opposed the government's cultural warfare policy since 1871 and was one of the leaders of the strictly denominational Lutherans in the general synod in 1879. After the reorganization of the Conservative Party in 1876, he headed the extreme right wing of the German Conservatives in the Reichstag, to which he had belonged since 1877 as a member of the Christian Conservative Party of Minden-Ravensberg for the Herford-Halle constituency. He always differed from the positions of the center , which he partially supported, through his never-denied Prussian patriotism.

Kleist-Retzow was involved in the Protestant Church of Prussia all his life . From the beginning he was a member of the Provincial Synod of the Church Province of Pomerania and the General Synod, of which he was elected President in 1891. In consultation with Wilhelm Joachim von Hammerstein , in 1886 he submitted an application for greater independence for the Evangelical Church in the manor house, but this failed.

family

He was married to Countess Charlotte zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1821-1885), she was the daughter of Minister Count Anton zu Stolberg-Wernigerode . The couple had three sons and one daughter:

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Hans Anton (born November 26, 1852)
  • Jürgen Christoph (* August 21, 1854; † December 14, 1897) ∞ Ruth von Zedlitz-Trützschler (1867–1945)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Martin (born November 27, 1856 - † January 27, 1880)
  • Charlotte Elisabeth (born September 15, 1863 - † January 20, 1925).

Works

  • The nobility and the church. Berlin 1866.

literature

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 Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 136; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Statistics of the elections for the constituent and North German Reichstag, for the customs parliament, as well as for the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag. Verlag Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1883, p. 86; Compare short biography in Georg Hirth (Ed.): German Parliament Almanach . 14th edition from November 1881. Verlag Georg Hirth, Leipzig / Munich 1881, p. 167f.
  2. ↑ Herman von Petersdorff: Kleist-Retzow, a picture of life. Cotta, Stuttgart et al. 1907, p. 243.
  3. ^ Gerhard Besier : Kleist-Hammerstein's requests for greater independence of the Protestant Church (1886/1887). In: Joachim Rogge , Gerhard Ruhbach (ed.): The history of the Evangelical Church of the Union. Ein Handbuch, Vol. 2: The independence of the church under the royal summers episcopate (1850-1918). Leipzig 1994, pp. 284-296.
personal data
SURNAME Kleist-Retzow, Hans Hugo von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleist, Hans Hugo von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Kieckow near Belgard
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1892
Place of death Kieckow near Belgard