Hermann von Hatzfeldt

Prince Hermann von Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg

Hermann Friedrich Anton, 3rd Prince of Hatzfeldt zu Trachenberg , from 1900 1st Duke of Trachenberg (born February 4, 1848 in Trachenberg ; †  January 14, 1933 there ) was a Prussian politician , civil servant and officer from Silesia .

Life

Hermann II. Hatzfeldt was born as the son of the Catholic second prince of Hatzfeldt , Hermann Anton (1808–1874), and his second, like the first Protestant wife, wife Marie, née Marie. Countess von Nimptsch (1820–1897) was born in the Trachenberg family castle in Silesia and raised a Catholic. After graduating from high school at home, he became active in the Corps Saxonia Göttingen in 1868 and studied law at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Breslau and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . Then he entered the Prussian judicial service. 1870–1871 he served as a major in the cavalry in the Franco-German War .

In 1874 he succeeded his late father, who was excommunicated in 1847, as head of the Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg line. In 1878 he was made a hereditary member of the Prussian manor house . He was chairman of the "new faction" of the large landowners . In the years 1878-1893 and 1907-1912 he was also a member of the Reichstag for the Free Conservative Party . He voted against the Prussian expropriation laws , which were directed against Poland in the province of Posen , both in the Reichstag and in the manor house .

On January 1, 1900, he was given the hereditary title “Duke of Trachenberg” in Primogenitur . From 1894 to 1903 he was President of the Province of Silesia .

During the First World War , Hatzfeldt was a promising candidate for the office of Governor General in occupied Congress Poland ; however, it was decided in favor of Hans von Beseler . In opposition to Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff , he campaigned for a mutual agreement with the Entente powers . From 1919 to 1921 he was the representative of the Reich government for the vote in Upper Silesia . He devoted the last years of his life to charitable work in the Order of Malta .

From 1892 to 1919 he was the third president of the German Fisheries Association . Prince Hatzfeld was particularly interested in the development of the Silesian pond economy . His property around Trachenberg was distinguished by exemplary fish farming. The Militscher ponds are among the largest pond systems in the world.

Kaiser Wilhelm II awarded him the Order of the Black Eagle on the 200th anniversary of his foundation, on January 18, 1901. Hatzfeld's numerous awards included the highest Saxon orders . He was Grand Cross Bailli of the Order of Malta . The University of Wroclaw awarded him an honorary doctorate in medicine and law. In 1884 he became an honorary citizen of Bojanowo (near Trachenberg), in 1903 of Breslau and Königshütte .

family

Marriage and offspring

In 1872 he married Natalie Countess von Benckendorff (1854–1931). The couple had two children:

• Prince Hermann von Hatzfeldt, Duke of Trachenberg (1874–1959)
• Alexander Graf von Hatzfeldt and Trachenberg (1877–1953).

relative

Hermann von Hatzfeldt's sister was

• Hermine Countess von Hatzfeldt (1852–1906).

His half-siblings from his father's first marriage to Countess Mathilde von Reichenbach-Goschütz, former Countess Götzen (1799–1858), were:

• Stanislaus von Hatzfeldt (1831–1870), ∞ Gisela Countess Dyhrn; fallen at Amiens .
• Franziska von Hatzfeldt (1833–1922), ∞ (1) Paul von Nimptsch; (2) Walter von Loë
• Elisabeth von Hatzfeldt (1839–1914), ∞ Karl Ludwig Fürst zu Carolath-Beuthen .

His half-sister from his mother's first marriage to Ludwig August von Buch (1801-1845) was

• Marie Countess von Schleinitz (1842–1912), ∞ (1) Alexander von Schleinitz ; (2) Anton von Wolkenstein-Trostburg .

literature

• Hatzfeld, Hermann, Prince v., Duke of Trachenberg. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 673.
• Entry by Hermann Hatzfeldt in the German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 4, p. 434.
• Bogdan Graf von Hutten-Czapski : Sixty Years of Politics and Society. 1st – 2nd, Berlin 1936.
• Michael Behnen : Prince Hermann von Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg. In: Gerhard Taddey (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German history . Events, institutions, people. From the beginning to the surrender in 1945. 3rd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-81303-3 , p. 516.
• Almanach de Gotha , Gotha 1931

Web links

Commons : Hermann von Hatzfeldt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Prince von and Herzog zu Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Hermann Fürst Hatzfeld-Trachenberg . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Sachs: 'Prince Bishop and Vagabond'. The story of a friendship between the Prince-Bishop of Breslau Heinrich Förster (1799–1881) and the writer and actor Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). Edited textually based on the original Holteis manuscript. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 35, 2016 (2018), pp. 223–291, here: p. 228.
2. ↑ Wolfgang von der Groeben : Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen 1844 to 2006 . Düsseldorf 2006
3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 47 , 264
4. ↑ Militscher Teiche ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.