Leopold von Spee

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Leopold Clemens August Hubert Reichsgraf von Spee (born January 28, 1818 in Düsseldorf , † November 23, 1882 at Heltorf Castle ) was a Catholic clergyman and member of the Reichstag.

Life

As the son of Count Franz von Spee , Leopold attended high school in Düsseldorf. From 1837 he studied law and administration at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and became active in the Corps Borussia Bonn . As an inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Académie de Genève . After graduating he was an auscultator at the Düsseldorf Regional Court (1841) and trainee lawyer with the government in Düsseldorf (1842). Then he studied Catholic theology from 1844 to 1847 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Bonn. In 1847 he was vicar in Giesenkirchen . In 1851 he entered the Academia ecclesiastica in Rome . In 1855 he was vicar in Rath , 1856–1863 pastor in Bensberg and religion teacher at the local cadet institute. In 1864 he was chaplain in the German-Danish War , in 1870 first pastor in the Catholic Marien-Hospital in Düsseldorf, then commissioner of the Order of St. John of Malta for Aachen .

From 1871 to 1874 he represented the constituency of Aachen 3 (City of Aachen) in the Reichstag (German Empire) for the German Center Party .

Honors

Incomplete list

  • Honorary member of the Corps Borussia Bonn

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener corps lists 1960, 9 , 220
  2. ↑ Biographical information according to: Georg Hirth (Hrsg.): German Parliament Almanach . 9th edition of May 9, 1871. Berlin: Verlag Franz Duncker, 1871, p. 264
  3. ^ 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. 182; 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 . Berlin: Verlag Louis Gerschel, 1883, p. 113
personal data
SURNAME Spee, Leopold von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spee, Leopold Clemens August Hubert Reichsgraf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1882
Place of death Heltorf