Leopold von Hoverbeck

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Leopold von Hoverbeck, graphic by Hermann Scherenberg , 1862

Leopold Freiherr von Hoverbeck (born July 25, 1822 in Nickelsdorf near Allenstein , † August 12, 1875 in Gersau ) was a German landowner and politician in East Prussia .

His parents were the cavalry master and manor owner Ernst von Hoverbeck (1787–1868) and his wife Wilhelmine Thiel (1794–1866).

Life

Hoverbeck attended the Collegium Fridericianum from 1832 to 1840 . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Albertus University in Königsberg. In 1840 he became a member and senior of the Corps Littuania . As an inactive , he temporarily moved to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . From 1845 he managed manors in East Prussia. When Littuania split into a country team and a corps at the height of the progress in 1848 , he became part of the liberal country team. After further training and working in agriculture, he took over his father's estate in 1857. In autumn 1858 he was elected to the Standing Committee of the National Economic Society for East and West Prussia . From 1862 to 1875 he was landscape director of the province of East Prussia . Throughout his life he was a close friend of the philologist and politician Carl Witt .

In the liberal tradition of his family, Hoverbeck was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives for the Liberal Party in 1859 , to which he belonged until 1870. There he founded the Junglitauer faction in 1861 . From it later emerged the German Progressive Party , in which Hoverbeck was one of the most influential members. From 1867 to 1870 he sat as a member of the constituency of Berlin 2 in the Reichstag of the North German Confederation .

In the Reichstag election in 1871 and the Reichstag election in 1874 , he came to the Reichstag (German Empire) for the Reichstag constituency, Gumbinnen 7th district . He led the progress group.

family

In 1853 he married Leopoldine Käswurm (* 1831), she was the daughter of the manor owner Gottlieb Käswurm and his wife Karoline Wilwodinger , both from Salzburg emigrant families . The couple had no children of their own, but had an adopted daughter.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corps Lists 1910, 140 , 183
  2. ^ Gerhard Eisfeld: The emergence of the liberal parties in Germany , Verlag für Literatur und Zeitgeschehen, Hanover 1969, page 23
  3. Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-770-05146-7 , p. 191.
  4. 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, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-770-05151-3 , p. 176 (photo), p. 420 (short biography).
  5. ^ 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 Heymanns Verlag , Berlin 1904, p. 12