Karl von Lichnowsky

Prince Karl von Lichnowsky, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1855

Age portrait by Max Koner (1896)

Prince Karl Maria Faustus Timoleon von Lichnowsky (born December 19, 1819 in Grätz ; † October 18, 1901 there ) was the fifth Prince von Lichnowsky and a Prussian and German politician.

Life

Karl came from the Bohemian-Silesian noble family Lichnowsky and was the son of Prince Eduard von Lichnowsky . After his brother Felix was murdered in Frankfurt in 1848, he succeeded him as the fifth Prince von Lichnowsky and head of the family. He was also Count zu Werdenberg, Noble Herr zu Woschütz and owner of the Majorate Kuchelna . In May 1859 he married Princess Marie von Croy , who was a daughter of Prince Philip of Croy . He had three children with her. Among them was Karl Max von Lichnowsky . In 1861 he was allowed to bear the title of Highness . He was also lieutenant general à la suite of the Prussian army from 1884 and was promoted to general of the cavalry à la suite in 1893 .

politics

Lichnowsky was a member of the First and Second United Landtag from 1847/48 because of his property . Between 1852 and 1854 he was a member of the second chamber of the Prussian state parliament . From 1854 he was a hereditary member of the Prussian manor house . He was a member of the German Reich Party and belonged to the Reichstag of the North German Confederation since 1867 and to the German Reichstag for the first two electoral periods . He was also a member of the Silesian Provincial Parliament .

literature

Minutes of the Prussian State Ministry. Volume 5, p. 370 ( PDF ( Memento from January 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), 2.3 MB)

Web links

Commons : Karl von Lichnowsky - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Prince von Lichnowsky, Carl Maria Faustus Timoleon in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Carl Maria Fürst Lichnowsky . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Prince Carl Lichnowsky on thepeerage.com , accessed August 21, 2015.

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 211, short biography p. 432.
^ 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. 89.

personal data
SURNAME	Lichnowsky, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lichnowsky, Karl Maria Faustus Timoleon Fürst von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	December 19, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grätz
DATE OF DEATH	October 18, 1901
Place of death	Grätz

[1] 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. 211, short biography p. 432.

[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. 89.