Charles of Savigny

Karl Friedrich Maria Stephan Adolf von Savigny (born May 25, 1855 in Karlsruhe ; † November 6, 1928 on Gut Trages near Gelnhausen ) was a majorate in Hesse, a Prussian civil servant ( District Administrator von Büren ) and a German politician of the Center Party .

Life

He was the son of the leading center politician Karl Friedrich von Savigny and his wife Freda Sophie Karoline Marie (born von Arnim-Boitzenburg) . Savigny attended the Friedrich-Werder-Gymnasium in Berlin and studied law in Berlin and Bonn as well as economics in Leuven . In Bonn he became an active member of the Catholic student association K.St.V. Arminia in KV . In 1876 Savigny received his doctorate as Dr. jur. publ and then completed the usual preparatory service for the Prussian civil service. In 1881 Savigny did his military service as a one-year volunteer with the 1st Guard Dragoons Regiment in Berlin and left the army as a prime lieutenant.

Since the continuation of the preparatory service in the vicinity of his goods was not possible, he initially renounced his work in the civil service and initially took over the administration of the goods that had come to him at Hanau . He later returned to the public service. As a government assessor , he worked for various district governments. From 1894 he was initially charged with the administration of the district office in Büren . A year later he was definitely appointed district administrator there. In 1912 he resigned from the civil service for health reasons.

Savigny belonged to the Center Party . Between 1900 and 1918 he was a member of the Reichstag , into which he was elected as a member of the constituency Minden 4 (Paderborn - Büren) in a replacement election on December 5, 1900. He was also a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1899 to 1918 . He was also a member of the district assembly in Hanau and the Westphalian provincial assembly . From 1921 to 1925 he represented the Center Party in the Kassel municipal parliament and the provincial parliament of the Hesse-Nassau province .

Savigny married Maria Elisabeth Charlotte (née von Amelunxen ) in 1912 . She was the widow of his brother Leo von Savigny .

He was a member of the Westphalian antiquity association and director of the Büren agricultural district association.

During his tenure as district administrator, he made outstanding contributions to the Büren district by co-initiating the Almetalbahn and the Almetal central waterworks .

literature

A. Plate: Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives. Edition for the 20th legislative period . Berlin 1904, p. 353.
Wolfgang Löhr In: Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 7th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 9). Akadpress, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-939413-12-7 , p. 124.
Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 .

Web links

Literature by and about Karl von Savigny in the catalog of the German National Library
Karl von Savigny in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography on lwl.org
Savigny, Karl Friedrich Maria Stephan Adolph von. Hessian biography. (As of May 25, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

^ 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. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 138 .
^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 1, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 706-708.
↑ Bernhard Mann et al. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 335
^ Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 321.

personal data
SURNAME	Savigny, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Savigny, Karl Friedrich Maria Stephan Adolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German district administrator and politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH	Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH	November 6, 1928
Place of death	near Gelnhausen

[1] 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. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 138 .

[2] Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 1, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 706-708.

[3] Bernhard Mann et al. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 335

[4] Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 321.