Karl Heinrich von Boetticher

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Karl Heinrich von Boetticher, 1880

Karl Heinrich Boetticher , from 1864 von Boetticher (born January 6, 1833 in Stettin , † March 6, 1907 in Naumburg an der Saale ) was a Prussian civil servant, German vice chancellor and politician .

Life

Karl-Heinrich von Boetticher was born as the third son of the Higher Regional Court President Carl Wilhelm von Boetticher (1791–1868) and his wife Henriette Wilhelmine. from Bodenhausen born. Due to his father's changing administrative activities, he attended schools in Stettin, Königsberg and Danzig before taking his Abitur in Potsdam . From 1852 to 1855 he studied law at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin . In Würzburg he became a member of the Corps Nassovia . After graduating, he served as a one-year volunteer in the Prussian Army . In 1860 he became a court assessor and in 1863 a government assessor . In 1864 he came to the Ministry of Commerce. In 1865 he was city council of Stralsund and 1869, the year of his marriage to Sophie Berg, Councilor in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior .

1872 to go. Appointed government councilor, he was finally president of the district of Hanover and in 1876 of the district of Schleswig . In 1879 he was appointed senior president in the province of Schleswig-Holstein . From September 1880 to July 1897 Boetticher was State Secretary in the Reich Office of the Interior and at the same time Minister of State without portfolio. In June 1881 Boetticher became Deputy Chancellor . From August 1888 to July 1897 he was also Vice President of the State Ministry. As such, he was instrumental in the conception and parliamentary enforcement of Bismarck's social security laws. In the dispute between Bismarck and Wilhelm II about the labor protection laws that broke out in 1889, Boetticher decided, despite internal conflicts of conscience, to support the emperor's broader views and thus incurred the anger of Bismarck, who devoted an entire chapter to accounting in the third part of his memoirs . Boetticher's view of the events is extensively documented in Georg von Eppstein's Prince Bismarck's dismissal , which he published in Berlin in 1920 based on Boetticher's previously unpublished notes.

Even after Bismarck's fall in 1890, Boetticher remained in his offices and supported the New Course , especially in the field of trade policy. In this capacity he was with others in Lübeck on May 31, 1895 to lay the foundation stone for the Elbe-Trave Canal . After being hit with a silver hammer by the presiding mayor, Heinrich Theodor Behn , the royal Prussian envoy struck with the words “I too ask for God's blessing for this work as a new bond through ancient friendship, indissolubly united in the new German empire Lübeck and Prussia. ”, Followed by the Minister of State with the words“ For Emperor and Empire, for Lübeck's happiness and glory ”, the commanding general of the IX. Army corps in Altona , Alfred von Waldersee , with "Navigare necesse est, vivere non necesse est." The granite stone. On November 1, 1896, he opened the Geestemünder fishing port .

Boetticher's grave monument in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg

As a government representative in the Reichstag, Boetticher failed to reject an insult to the emperor by a left-liberal politician and to bring out the "Kaiserhoch" at the end of a meeting. Having fallen out of favor with Kaiser Wilhelm II, he was dismissed from the government in 1897 after 17 years and transferred to the post of Upper President of the Province of Saxony in 1898 , where he worked until 1906. He was canon of Naumburg Cathedral .

From 1866 to 1870 and 1882 to 1893 he was a member of the Conservative Party and a non-attached member of the Prussian House of Representatives . In 1878/79 he sat for the Free Conservative Party (RFKP) in the Reichstag (German Empire) . In 1901 he was appointed to the Prussian manor house .

Karl Heinrich von Boetticher died in 1907 at the age of 74 in Naumburg an der Saale. His grave is in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg . The tall black granite tombstone bears a bronze medallion in relief with the portrait of the dead.

family

Boetticher married Sophie Marie Louise Berg (born September 14, 1851) on October 27, 1869 in Stralsund , a daughter of the bank accountant Ernst Heinrich Christian Berg and Julie Albertine Johanna Schultz. The couple had several children:

  • Maria Johanna Mathilde (born May 7, 1873) ∞ 1904 Gustav Seydel, senior administrative judge
  • Sophie Marie Louise (* December 12, 1874) ∞ 1892 Leberecht Karl Robert Paul Hubert von Eberstein (* February 20, 1869; † 1955)
  • Hans Hugo Joachim (* October 8, 1878 - April 4, 1918), captain, killed at Courtoire
  • Marie Armgard Erika Johanna (born July 1, 1880)

Honors

Memorial plaque in Naumburg Cathedral , Domplatz, in Naumburg (Saale)

Karl-Heinrich von Boetticher was an honorary citizen of Bremerhaven (1885) , Stralsund (1890) and Magdeburg (1902) .

The Berlin sculptor Hans Weddo von Glümer created a bust of the State Minister von Bötticher , which was placed in the Reich Office of the Interior. In Naumburg Cathedral a plaque on the former canon Boetticher recalls.

For his services he was awarded the Order of the Black Eagle on March 10, 1890 , the highest distinction of the Kingdom of Prussia.

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 142/138.
  2. On von Boetticher's socio-political activities cf. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 . Section II: From the Imperial Social Message to the February decrees of Wilhelm II (1881–1890). Volume 1 to 7; ibid, III. Department: Development and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890–1904). Volume 1 to 7.
  3. ^ The laying of the foundation stone for the Elbe-Trave Canal. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 37, number 44, edition of June 2, 1895, pp. 297–301.
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 749.
  5. Hermann Hengst: The Knights of the Black Eagle Order . Verlag Alexander Duncker, Berlin 1901, p. 85.

literature

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