Hugo Zorn from Bulach

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Hugo Freiherr Zorn von Bulach

Hugo Anton Marie Ernst Anna Freiherr Zorn von Bulach (born February 8, 1851 in Strasbourg , † April 20, 1921 in Osthouse , Bas-Rhin department ) was an Alsatian politician and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Zorn von Bulach, who belonged to the old nobility , was the son of Baron Franz Zorn von Bulach (1828–1890), Chamberlain of Napoleon III. and deputy in the Unterelsaß district , as well as his wife Antoinette geb. Freiin von Reinbach-Hirtzbach .

Hugo Zorn von Bulach, who was a Catholic denomination, was educated in a Jesuit institution , attended the Episcopal Lyceum in Strasbourg and studied at the University of Strasbourg and the Agricultural Academy in Hohenheim , was a lieutenant in the during the Franco-Prussian War (1870/71) French mobile guard and came to the district assembly of Lower Alsace in 1878 , to the state committee in 1879 , was a member of the German Reichstag and the Alsace-Lorraine parliamentary group from 1881 to 1887 , but from 1890 to 1898 a trainee of the conservatives, successfully devoted himself to agriculture on his Osthausen estate in the district Erstein, in 1888 became chairman of the Agriculture Council for Alsace-Lorraine , in 1895 Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains, in 1903 Real Privy Council and in 1908 Castle Captain of the restored Hohkönigsburg .

In 1908 Zorn von Bulach took over the post of State Secretary in the Reich Office for Alsace-Lorraine . Three years later he was also appointed to the Federal Council . As one of the most influential politicians in the Reich, he played a key role in the Alsace-Lorraine constitution, which was passed in the same year. As a result of the Zabern affair , however, he had to resign in 1914. Siegfried Graf von Roedern took over his office . After his resignation, the Emperor appointed him a member of the First Chamber of the Landtag of the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine

Zorn von Bulach died at the age of 70 in the family castle in Osthouse.

His brother Franz Freiherr Zorn von Bulach was auxiliary bishop in Strasbourg from 1901 to 1919 and, from 1903, at the same time vicar general .

literature

  • Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. 4th edition, Volume 17, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig and Vienna 1890, p. 837 ( digitized version )
  • Hermann Hiery: "Reichstag elections in the Reichsland", 1985, ISBN 3-7700-5132-7 , pages 470-471
  • Government and Parliament of Alsace-Lorraine 1911–1916. Biographical-statistical manual. Mühlhausen 1911, p. 112.

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. 300.
personal data
SURNAME Wrath of Bulach, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zorn von Bulach, Hugo Anton Marie Ernst Anna Freiherr (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1921
Place of death Osthouse , Bas-Rhin department