Leopold of Caprivi

Julius Leopold Eduard von Caprivi (born September 10, 1797 in Berlin ; † December 25, 1865 there ) was a lawyer , Prussian high tribunal councilor and crown syndic .

family

He came from a family, presumably from the Austrian county of Gorizia , first mentioned in a document in the 16th century in the Gottscheer village Nesseltal (Koprivnik) in the Hornwald ( Lower Carniola ), who called themselves "Copriva von Reichsperg und Nesselthal" until the beginning of the 18th century ( Slovenian kopriva , "nettle"). His grandfather was the historian and poet Julius Leopold von Caprivi (1695–1768).

Caprivi married Emilie Köpke (1803–1871) in Berlin on May 19, 1830. From the marriage, the Prussian infantry general and Bismarck's successor to the Prussian count status, Chancellor Leo von Caprivi (1831–1899) and the Prussian lieutenant general Raimund von Caprivi (1840–1913) emerged.

Life

Caprivi was a Prussian chief tribunal councilor, member of the disciplinary court for non-judicial officials, crown syndic and from 1863 until his death (1865) a member of the Prussian manor house .

He studied in Berlin Law and was an active fraternity members as a member of the Old Berlin fraternity , the fraternity Arminia and 1818, the fraternity Hermine .

literature

• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. The nobility born in Germany (primeval nobility). Part B: Noble houses of the German hereditary nobility, proven from the beginning of the 15th century to modern times. Vol. 33, 1941, ZDB -ID 134445-6 , p. 77.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume 1: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 163.
• Acta Borussica Volume 5 (1858–1866) ( Memento from January 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).