Jordan from Kröcher

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Tombstone of the Jordan by Kröcher
Jordan von Kröcher as a member of the Reichstag in 1912

Jordan von Kröcher (born May 23, 1846 at Gardelegen Castle (Isenschnibbe Castle), † January 10, 1918 at Gut Vinzelberg ) was a large German landowner in the province of Saxony and Brandenburg . As an MP he was a member of the Reichstag and President of the Prussian House of Representatives .

Life

Vinzelberg Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Jordan of Kröcher came from the vassal Gender Kröcher that Markgraf I. Ludwig, Brandenburg , 1337 with the place Dreetz invested was.

After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1865 . From Easter to June 1866 he was Renonce of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . After the outbreak of the German War in 1866, he joined the 6th Uhlan Regiment. Kröcher took part in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71, remained an officer until 1875 and ended his military career as Rittmeister in order to retire to the country. On April 26, 1890 he received the corps bow from Saxonia Göttingen.

Kröcher was the owner of the Vinzelberg estate with a size of 2500 hectares and the Fideikommiss Vogtsbrügge near Havelberg with a size of 1250 hectares. In 1895 he was director of chivalry Priegnitz and 1889 spa and Neumärkischer main knighthood director.

From 1879 to 1882 and from 1889 to his death in 1918 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives in the faction of the German Conservative Party . In the first four legislative periods of his membership in parliament he represented the constituency of Potsdam 1 (West and Ostprignitz) and from 1904 in the last three of the seven legislative periods the constituency of Magdeburg 1 (Salzwedel, Gardelegen). From 1898 to 1911 he was President of the House of Representatives. In 1912 he resigned from the presidency in protest against what he considered to be the too timid foreign policy of the Reich government. He spoke of "unbelievable blindness" and - without being required to serve at the age of 66 - of "that we are approaching the great Kladderadatsch with giant strides and can have no other desire than to die like decent men." then died in 1918 on his country estate.

From 1898 to 1913 Kröcher was a member of the Reichstag . Karl Radek described him in 1911 as the "cheeky Junker who [...] wanted the German working class [...] as an object of politics [...]".

Kröcher was a member of the committee of the Kreuzzeitung . He appeared against their editor-in-chief Wilhelm Joachim von Hammerstein , whose arrest in 1896 he justified in the state parliament and to his party.

Kröcher's sisters were Sophie Katharina von Kröcher (1849–1902) and Bertha von Kröcher (1857–1922), a member of the German Evangelical Women's Association and founder of the Conservative Women Association (VKF). He was married to Luise von Krosigk . His daughter Barbara von Kröcher (1885–1962) married Henning von Bismarck (1881–1945), a descendant of Herbord von Bismarck (1200–1280).

Awards

literature

  • Bernhard Mann : Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918 (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , pp. 232-233.
  • Hasso von Etzdorf , Wolfgang von der Groeben , Erik von Knorre: Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia zu Göttingen and the Landsmannschaft Saxonia (1840–1844) as of February 13, 1972 , p. 192.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wolfgang von der Groeben: Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen 1844 to 2006 . Düsseldorf 2006, p. 67.
  2. ^ Arno J. Mayer : Noble power and bourgeoisie - The crisis of European society 1848 to 1914 , p. 315
  3. ^ Karl Radek: German imperialism and the working class.
  4. ↑ Kröcher, Jordan von . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894-1896, supplement volume 1897, pp. 694-695.
  5. ↑ Manfred Berger:  Kröcher, Bertha Luise Ida von. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 24, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-247-9 , Sp. 974-983.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kröcher, Jordan from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, MdR and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Isenschnibbe
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1918
Place of death Vinzelberg