Karl Rudolf Friedenthal

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Memorial plaque in Friedenthal-Park, in Berlin-Grunewald

Karl Rudolf Friedenthal (born September 15, 1827 in Breslau ; † March 7, 1890 in Giesmannsdorf near Neisse ) was a German lawyer , entrepreneur and parliamentarian in the Kingdom of Prussia .

biography

Friedenthal's parents were Naphtali Markus Friedenthal , merchant, banker and city councilor in Breslau, and Amalie geb. Landsberger . As members of the second largest Jewish community in Germany after Berlin, father and son were baptized Protestants in 1832 . He began to study law at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University and was active in the Corps Silesia Breslau . When he was inactive , he moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . After taking his exams, he initially entered the administration of justice in the Kingdom of Prussia , but had to resign after his father's death in 1854 in order to be able to manage his father's large estate.

In 1857 he became district administrator in the Grottkau district . In 1861 he married Fanny von Rosenberg (1829–1912). The couple had a son, who died young, and two daughters: Elsbeth married Freiherr Ernst von Falkenhausen on Bielau, the other married Freiherr Oskar von der Lancken-Wakenitz , who held a respected position in the German diplomatic service. The application of the son-in-law Falkenhausen was granted to be allowed to call himself Baron von Friedenthal-Falkenhausen , inherited from the property of the Fideikommissherrschaft Friedenthal established by his father-in-law . The politically liberal-minded Karl Rudolf Friedenthal was a co-founder of the Free Conservative Party in 1867 and then a member of the North German Reichstag and the Customs Parliament (1867–1871). In the years 1871 to 1881 a member of the German Reichstag followed .

Friedenthal was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives (1870–1879) actively involved in the district reform of 1872. The district order of 1872 for the five eastern provinces of Prussia (in force from 1874), based on the principle of self-administration, was drafted in its main features by him. In May 1872, together with Count Johannes Maria von Renard (on Groß-Strehlitz in Silesia), he acquired the Hohenschönhausen manor from District Administrator Georg Scharnweber for 265,000 Reichstaler and had it administered by an administrator.

From September 1874 he was Prussian Minister of State and Agriculture . In this capacity he founded the Central Moor Commission . He resigned on July 12, 1879 after Bismarck's turn in domestic politics. After his resignation as Minister of State, he acquired the rule of Deutsch-Wartenberg in Lower Silesia in 1879 . He then lived alternately in Deutsch-Wartenberg and on his father's property in Giesmannsdorf near Neisse. In 1881 he withdrew from active politics in order to devote himself again to the administration of his agricultural and industrial estates.

A street in Schmargendorf was named after Friedenthal around 1908. When the National Socialists renamed all streets named after citizens of Jewish origin, this Friedenthalstrasse was given the name Schellendorffstrasse (after Paul Bronsart von Schellendorff ) on May 16, 1938 . In 1997 the park at Halensee was named Friedenthal Park and on September 15, 1997 a bronze plaque was unveiled there in honor of Friedenthal.

Honors

  • He rejected the promotion to the nobility proposed to him in 1879.
  • Memorial plaque: Halenseestrasse, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
  • Park: Karl-Friedenthal-Park, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
  • Street: Friedenthalstraße [historical], Wilmersdorf (today Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 35, 212
  2. ^ Ernest Hamburger: Jews in public life in Germany . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1968, ISBN 3-16-829292-3 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 128, short biography p. 403.
  4. ^ 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. 91.
  5. ↑ Thomas Kühne: Handbook of the elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , p. 842.
  6. ^ Gustav Friedrich von Schoenberg: Handbook of political economy, in conjunction with Ministerialrat A. Buchenberger, Gustav Schönberg. Volume 2, Issue 3, H. Laupp, 1891, p. 84.
  7. ^ Karl Rudolf Friedenthal . In: Karl Erich Born; Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Historical Commission (Ed.): New German Biography . tape 5 . Duncker & Humblot, 1961, ISBN 3-428-00181-8 , pp. 447 ( deutsche-biographie.de ).
  8. ^ Ernest Hamburger: Jews in public life in Germany . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1968, ISBN 3-16-829292-3 , p. 78 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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personal data
SURNAME Friedenthal, Karl Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, MdR, lawyer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1890
Place of death Giesmannsdorf near Neisse