Julius von Mirbach-Sorquitten

Count Julius von Mirbach-Sorquitten in his study (1905)

Julius Ulrich Gottlob Emmerich Count von Mirbach-Sorquitten ( baron since 1870 and count since 1888 ) (born June 27, 1839 at Gut Sorquitten ; † June 26, 1921 ibid) was a German ruler and conservative politician. He was also a leading exponent of bimetallism in Germany.

Life

Julius von Mirbach-Sorquitten came from the noble family von Mirbach . After graduating from high school, he studied law in Königsberg , Bonn and Berlin . In 1879 he became a member and later an honorary member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . After taking the auscultator exam in 1862, he did not enter the Prussian state or judicial service, but was an officer in the 1st Guards Dragoon Regiment for four years. He then devoted himself to the cultivation of his inherited rule Sorquitten. He also acquired the Heinrichshöfen estate. In addition, he was head of office and district deputy.

From 1874 he belonged to the Prussian manor house for life . As a member of the German Conservative Party , he was a member of the German Reichstag several times . He was a member of parliament for the first time between 1878 and 1881 and for the second time between 1886 and 1898, each time as a member of the Reichstag constituency of Gumbinnen 7 .

Mirbach was also a member of the board of the German Conservative Party between 1878 and 1881 and again from 1892 to 1918. As a politician in and outside parliament, he was particularly active as a representative of the interests of agriculture. Mirbach was also a member of the farmers' association . He was opposed to an agricultural opening towards Russia and was therefore one of the domestic political opponents of Chancellor Leo von Caprivi .

Furthermore, he was from 1879 to 1918 co-chair of the bimetallic association of tax and economic reformers . He has published several publications on economics.

He was made a baron in 1870 and a count in 1888. Between 1850 and 1856 he had Sorquitten Castle rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style.

literature

Franz Neubert (editor): German contemporary lexicon. Schulze, Leipzig 1905
Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 13. Leipzig 1908, pp. 890–891 ( digitized version)
Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? 4th edition, Degener, Leipzig 1909
Hermann Christern (Ed.): German Biographical Yearbook. Volume 3, 1921, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt Stuttgart, Berlin [among others]
Wilhelm Kosch , continued by Eugen Kuri: Biographisches Staats Handbuch. Francke, Bern [et al.] 1963.
Natzmer: from Mirbach-Sorquitten, Julius Ulrich Gottlob Emmerich Graf. In: Old Prussian biography . Volume 2, 1967
Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 7, Saur, Munich [et al.] 1998, page 151

Web links

References to ostpreußen.net
Count von Freiherr von Mirbach, Julius Ulrich Gottlob Emmerich in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Julius Freiherr Graf-Comte Mirbach . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 378
^ 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. 12.

personal data
SURNAME	Mirbach-Sorquitten, Julius von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mirbach-Sorquitten, Julius Freiherr von; Mirbach-Sorquitten, Julius Ulrich Gottlob Emmerich Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landowner and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	June 27, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH	Good Sorquitten
DATE OF DEATH	June 26, 1921
Place of death	Good Sorquitten

[1] Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 378

[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. 12.