Karl von Lehndorff (diplomat)

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Count Lehndorff

Karl Meinhard Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort (born October 20, 1826 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † October 28, 1883 in Riola (Vergato) , Province of Bologna ) was a large German landowner in East Prussia.

Life

Lehndorff's parents were Karl Ludwig Graf von Lehndorff , lieutenant general and country steward in the Kingdom of Prussia, and Pauline nee Countess von Schlippenbach .

Karl Meinhard attended the Kneiphöfsche Gymnasium . After graduating from high school, he studied law from 1844 to 1848 at the Albertus University in Königsberg , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . At Easter 1844 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn , which reciprocated him in the summer of 1845 and inactivated Michaelis in 1846 . In the winter semester of 1844/45 he was active in the Corps Masovia Königsberg . After an administration training as an auscultator in Insterburg and Königsberg, he joined the diplomatic service of the Crown of Prussia in 1850 . Initially he was an attaché at the embassy in the Austrian Empire in Vienna, later he was a legation counselor at the embassy in the Kingdom of Saxony in Dresden. In 1854 he resigned from the service to take over the Steinort family affide as heir .

In 1866 he took part in the German War as a major . During the Franco-Prussian War he was prefect of the military administration in Amiens . He was chairman of the board of directors of the East Prussian Southern Railway . In 1867 he was one of the founders of the Union Club in Hoppegarten .

Count Lehndorff was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1859 to 1861 and a member of the Prussian mansion from 1866 until his death in 1883 . He sat in the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation . In the Reichstag (German Empire) he represented the Reichstag constituency of Gumbinnen 5 as a member of the Reichstag until 1874 . In parliament he joined the faction of the Conservative Party (Prussia) .

Lehndorff died shortly after his 57th birthday, leaving behind his wife Anna Luise nee. Countess v. Hahn , two daughters and a son.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives Corps Borussia Bonn
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 89/425; 11/342
  3. ^ List of all members of the Corps Masovia. Potsdam 2006.
  4. ↑ to the Union Club
  5. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann (edit.): 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 Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989, photo p. 206, short biography p. 430.
  6. ^ 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. 10; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Statistics of the elections for the constituent and North German Reichstag, for the customs parliament, as well as for the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag . Publishing house Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1883, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Lehndorff, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehndorff-Steinort, Karl Meinhard Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, landowner and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1883
Place of death Riola (Vergato), Province of Bologna