Joseph of Sigmund

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Joseph Hugo Sigmund , later von Sigmund , (* August 28, 1820 , † 1901 ) was a Bavarian diplomat and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Sigmund attended until 1838, the Wilhelm Gymnasium München and studied at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg law . From 1846 to 1849 he taught law, in particular public law, as a lecturer at the University of Würzburg . In 1850 he joined the Royal Ministry of State of the Royal House and Foreign Affairs and in the same year was assigned to the Royal Embassy in Frankfurt and then to the Royal Plenipotentiary at the Dresden Conferences in 1850/1851 . Then he was back at the embassy in Frankfurt, where he was the legation secretary until the end of 1858, then until 1867 as an advisor in the Royal Ministry of State of the Royal House and Foreign Affairs as Legation Councilor and Ministerial Councilor. Later he was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See from 1867 to 1869 and then to the Netherlands until the end of 1870.

From 1881 to 1883 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the Schwaben 3 constituency ( Dillingen , Günzburg , Zusmarshausen ), he belonged to the faction of the center. On August 22, 1883, von Sigmund resigned from the Reichstag.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vols., Munich 1970-1976 .; Vol. 4, p. 14.
  2. ^ 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. 215.

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SURNAME Sigmund, Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sigmund, Joseph Hugo von (full name); Sigmund, Joseph Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1820
DATE OF DEATH 1901