Herbert von Bismarck (1884–1955)

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Herbert von Bismarck, portrait photo from the Reichstag Handbook 1930

Herbert von Bismarck (born August 29, 1884 in Stettin , † March 30, 1955 in Wiesbaden ; full name Herbert Otto Rudolf von Bismarck ) was a German administrative lawyer and politician. From 1918 to 1931 he was district administrator of the Regenwalde district , from September 1930 to March 1933 a member of the Reichstag for the German National People's Party (DNVP) and, in 1933, briefly state secretary in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. After the Second World War, he worked from 1948 to 1952 as the spokesman for the Pomeranian Landsmannschaft .

Life

Herbert von Bismarck came from the Schönhausen line of the Bismarck family . His grandfather Bernhard von Bismarck was the older brother of Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck . Herbert von Bismarck's parents were Philipp von Bismarck (1844-1894), landlord at Kniephof ( Naugard district ) and Lasbeck ( Regenwalde district ), as well as Rittmeister of the Landwehr, and his second wife Hedwig von Harnier (1858-1945). After the early death of his father, Herbert von Bismarck and his brother Gottfried grew up temporarily in Stettin as a foster son in the family of Ruth von Kleist-Retzow , the widow of District Administrator Jürgen von Kleist-Retzow .

After graduating from the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Stettin in 1903, Bismarck studied law at the universities of Munich , Lausanne , Berlin and Greifswald . He passed the first state examination in law and then went through the legal traineeship, since 1906 as a court trainee, since 1908 as a government trainee. After passing the second state examination in law, he entered the Prussian civil service in 1912 as a government assessor for the District Administrator in Frankenstein . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier , most recently as a first lieutenant in the reserve. From May to November 1918 he was an unskilled worker for the representative of the Reich Chancellor in the main headquarters , first in Spa , then in Wilhelmshöhe .

Bismarck worked from 1918 to 1931 as district administrator for the Regenwalde district in the province of Pomerania . In 1931 the Prussian government carried out impeachment proceedings against Bismarck; he had actively participated in the campaign for the referendum to dissolve the Prussian state parliament .

In the fifth, sixth and seventh electoral periods ( Reichstag elections autumn 1930 to March 1933 ) he was DNVP member of the Reichstag and in 1933 in the Prussian state parliament . In December 1931, Bismarck was elected chairman of the Bismarck League (whose leader Hermann Otto Sieveking had suddenly died) and was then appointed Reich Youth Leader of the DNVP by DNVP chairman Alfred Hugenberg .

On February 1, 1933, he was appointed State Secretary in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior by the Schleicher cabinet . Constant differences between the conservative Bismarck, who insisted on strictly constitutional behavior, and his new superior, Hermann Göring, led to his dismissal into temporary retirement on April 10, 1933.

His wish to be installed as senior president or district president in his home province of Pomerania was not fulfilled. He then retired to his Lasbeck estate . From 1939 to 1944 he did military service, most recently as a major in the Wehrmacht .

After the Second World War, he got involved with displaced Germans. From 1948 to 1952 he was the first spokesman for the Pomeranian Landsmannschaft , for which he co-signed the Charter of German Expellees in 1950 .

Marriage and offspring

Bismarck married his foster sister Maria von Kleist-Retzow (* 1893 in Belgard , † 1979 in Wiesbaden) in Stettin in 1912 . The couple had five sons and three daughters. Maria von Bismarck introduced the Labes nativity play in Labes in 1921 .

literature

  • Genealogical handbook of the nobility , noble houses A volume XVI, page 38, volume 76 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1981
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
  • Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag , edition for the 5th electoral period, Berlin 1933, p. 308/309.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reichstag manual: Election period ... / 1930 = 5th election period p. 306 , on daten.digitale-sammlungen.de, accessed on June 17, 2018
  2. ↑ Richard Spreemann: The District Administrator of the rain forest . In: Pommernbrief . No. 2/1950. Reprinted in: Die Pommersche Zeitung . No. 29/2011, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang R. Krabbe : The failed future of the First Republic. Youth organizations of bourgeois parties in the Weimar state. Westdeutscher Verlag 1995, page 193
  4. ^ Database of German members of parliament
  5. ^ Bismarck, Herbert Otto Rudolf von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ↑ Wolfgang R. Krabbe: The failed future of the First Republic. [...] . 1995, p.192f.
personal data
SURNAME Bismarck, Herbert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bismarck, Herbert Otto Rudolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and politician (DNVP), MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1955
Place of death Wiesbaden