Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld on Köfering and Schönberg

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Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld auf Köfering and Schönberg (born August 21, 1871 in Köfering , Upper Palatinate , † April 13, 1944 in Munich ), also Count von Lerchenfeld-Köfering , was a Bavarian politician ( BVP ) and a German diplomat . From 1921 to 1922 he was Bavarian Prime Minister , Foreign Minister and Minister of Justice and from 1924 to 1926 a member of the Reichstag . In 1926 he became German envoy in Austria, then from 1931 to 1933 in Belgium.

Life

After attending school (Abitur in 1889 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ), he studied law and was appointed assessor in the district office in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in 1900. In 1904 he then moved to the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior before he became District Administrator of Berchtesgaden between 1909 and 1914 .

In 1914 he was appointed government councilor in the Bavarian State Ministry of Culture , which he left again in 1915 because he moved to civil administration for the areas of Russian Poland occupied by Germany . After the end of the First World War , he was appointed Secret Legation Councilor in the Foreign Office in 1919 and, as such, was an authorized representative of the Foreign Office and the Reich Government at the People's State of Hesse in Darmstadt from 1920 to 1921 .

Later he was Bavarian Prime Minister , Foreign Minister and Justice Minister from September 21, 1921 to November 2, 1922 .

He belonged to the Bavarian People's Party (BVP), a conservative party during the Weimar Republic , and was a staunch opponent of the National Socialist movement. The state of emergency in Bavaria was lifted under his government.

In the Reichstag elections in May 1924 , he was elected to the German Reichstag , to which he belonged until his resignation on October 31, 1926. In parliament he represented constituency 26 (Francs).

He then succeeded Maximilian Pfeiffer as envoy in Austria from 1926 to 1931 . As part of a reshuffle in the foreign missions , he was in 1931, succeeding Alfred Horstmann then ambassador in Belgium , while Kurt Rieth him as ambassador in Vienna followed.

After the seizure of power by the Nazi NSDAP , he was in 1933 in the interim , and then in 1934 in the final retirement added. His successor as envoy in Brussels was Count Raban Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden .

In addition to his political and diplomatic work, Hugo Graf von Lerchenfeld was committed to voluntary welfare . He had been president of the German League of Independent Welfare Care since it was founded in 1925, until he had to give up this office under pressure from the National Socialists. He was also a member of the central board of the German Caritas Association (DCV). Lerchenfeld was a member of the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

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  1. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1888/99
  2. ^ Heinz Hürten: Lerchenfeld cabinet, 1921/22. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . March 24, 2011, accessed June 2, 2013 .
  3. Otto von Holbeck: Basic features of the organization of free welfare in Germany . Publisher Hans Robert Engelmann. Berlin 1925, pp. 19-20.
  4. Christoph Sachße: From war welfare to the republican welfare state . In: Ursula Röper, Carola Jüllig (ed.): The power of charity. One hundred and fifty years of Inner Mission and Diakonia 1848–1998 . Deutsches Historisches Museum , Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-86102-104-8 , pp. 194–215, here p. 202.
  5. Christoph Sachße, Florian Tennstedt : The welfare state in National Socialism . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1992. (= history of poor relief in Germany , volume 3). ISBN 3-17-010369-5 , p. 135.
  6. Valmar Cramer: The Order of Knights from the Holy Grave , Bachem 1952, p. 87
predecessor Office successor
Maximilian Pfeiffer German ambassador to Austria
1926–1931
Kurth Rieth