Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen

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Prince Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen

Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Karl Hugo Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Duke of Ujest (born May 27, 1816 in Stuttgart , † August 23, 1897 at Slawentzitz Castle ) was a German officer with the rank of general , politician and mining industrialist .

Life

He was the son of Prince August von Hohenlohe-Oehringen (1784-1853) from the House of Hohenlohe-Öhringen and Luise von Württemberg (1789-1851), daughter of Duke Eugen Friedrich Heinrich von Württemberg , the founder of the Carlsruhe line, Upper Silesia. He himself married Princess Pauline zu Fürstenberg (1829–1900) in 1847 .

Hohenlohe-Oehringen studied in Berlin and at the Tharandt Forest Academy . On February 16, 1835, he joined the Guard on Horseback of the Württemberg Army as a second lieutenant . As Rittmeister he was on June 28, 1841 serving adjutant of King Wilhelm I of Württemberg and rose in this position to Colonel until August 1849 . On October 16, 1851, Hohenlohe-Öhringen was released from military service at his request. In memory of a trip to Alexisbad in the Harz Mountains in 1845, he donated the engagement urn that is still preserved today .

Prince Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen, 1878

In 1849 he took over the family estates in Öhringen and Neuenstein as well as the Silesian possessions. His grandfather Friedrich Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen , came into the possession of the Slawentzitz rule in Upper Silesia through marriage in 1782 . In 1804 he had also acquired Landsberg and Koschentin . The Silesian property united the Fideikommisse Slawentzitz, Ujest and Bitschin with an area of ​​175 km². Hugo achieved their appointment to free class rule and was awarded the title of Duke of Ujest at the coronation ceremony of Wilhelm I in 1861 .

He acquired several zinc mines in the 1840s . With the entry into calamine mining and zinc smelting in Upper Silesia , the prince expanded the family-owned industrial companies and in particular the zinc industry . In 1871 he had the zinc hut built in Bittkow (Hohenlohe hut). He also founded the associated Hohenlohehütte settlement. A zinc rolling mill was built there in 1888. As a result, Hohenlohe-Oehringen acquired additional zinc smelters. He also acquired various coal mines in the 1890s. At the end of his life Hohenlohe-Oehringen was one of the largest zinc producers in the world.

In 1867 he became the first president of the Union Club , the counterpart of today's directorate for thoroughbred breeding and racing . Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen was the owner of racehorses, including the derby winner Pirat from 1877 and artist from 1879.

The prince was a hereditary member of the Prussian manor house as well as the chamber of noblemen in Württemberg . In addition, Hohenlohe-Oehringen belonged to the Prussian House of Representatives from 1852 . He was also a Prussian general of the infantry à la suite of the army and Württemberg general of the cavalry . From 1870 he was senior of the Princely House of Hohenlohe-Öhringen.

In the German War of 1866 Hohenlohe-Öhringen took part in the battle of Königgrätz as a lieutenant general in the headquarters . He then acted from July 20 to September 7, 1866 as Governor General of Moravia . He was a co-founder of the German Reich Party and was a member of the North German Reichstag from 1867 to 1871 . From 1871 to 1875 he was a member of the German Reichstag and was its vice-president.

He had to resign his Reichstag mandate for the electoral period 1874–1877 after it had been declared invalid on January 21, 1875 by the Reichstag's electoral review commission. In the re-election on September 24, 1875 he ran and lost to Carl Gratza (German Center Party). After Gratza's death, he ran in the replacement election on September 18, 1876 and was defeated by Dr. Adolph Franz (German Center Party).

Prince Hugo was ultimately a political entrepreneur who was able to combine economic commitment with political ambition.

progeny

Awards

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literature

  • Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum , Volume 7, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , p. 75, no. 2153.
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 387 .
  • Gustav von Glasenapp : Military Biographies of the Officer Corps of the Prussian Army , Berlin 1868, p. 146.
  • Volker Stalmann: Christian Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen (1848–1926). "Live like Lukull" . In: Alma Hannig, Martina Winkelhofer-Thyri (eds.): The Hohenlohe family. A European dynasty in the 19th and 20th centuries . Verlag Böhlau, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-41222201-7 , pp. 357–358.
  • Konrad Fuchs: From Dirigism to Liberalism. The development of Upper Silesia as a Prussian mining and smelting area , Wiesbaden 1970, pp. 255–256.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walther F. Kleffel: 100 years of Union Club: A closed society of gentlemen . In: »Die Zeit«, August 25, 1967.
  2. ↑ Pirate . In: "Turf Times".
  3. ↑ artist . In: "Turf Times".
  4. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook . Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties , volume 2), photo p. 171, short biography p. 418.
  5. ^ Toni Pierenkemper : Entrepreneur aristocrats in Silesia . In: Elisabeth Fehrenbach , Elisabeth Müller-Luckner (ed.): Nobility and bourgeoisie in Germany 1770-1848 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1994. ISBN 3-486-56027-1 . 129-157, p. 148.
  6. ^ 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. 86.
  7. ↑ a b Bernd Haunfelder: Reichstag member of the German Center Party 1871–1933: Biographical handbook and historical photographs . Droste Verlag: Düsseldorf, 1999, p. 165.
  8. ↑ Volker Stalmann: Christian Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen (1848-1926). "Live like Lukull" . In: Alma Hannig, Martina Winkelhofer-Thyri (eds.): The Hohenlohe family. A European dynasty in the 19th and 20th centuries . Verlag Böhlau, Cologne 2013, p. 358.
  9. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1866 , p. 55.
  10. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1866 , p. 33.

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personal data
SURNAME Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Hugo zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Karl Hugo Fürst too; Ujest, Hugo Herzog von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1897
Place of death Slawentzitz Castle