Ludwig von Lerchenfeld-Köfering

Count Ludwig von Lerchenfeld-Köfering (born August 22, 1837 in St. Petersburg , † February 24, 1907 at Köfering Palace ) was a Bavarian landowner, hereditary Imperial Councilor of the Crown of Bavaria and President of the Chamber of Imperial Councils of the Bavarian State Parliament .

Life

Lerchenfeld came as the son of the Bavarian diplomat and Imperial Councilor Maximilian von Lerchenfeld-Köfering and his wife Isabella, née. Countess Waldbott-Bassenheim in St. Petersburg, where the father worked as the Bavarian envoy. He was the older brother of the long-time Bavarian ambassador in Berlin, Hugo von Lerchenfeld-Köfering . The old Bavarian aristocratic family was raised to the rank of count at the end of the 17th century and was fortunate with the Fideikommiss Köfering -Gebelkofen. Lerchenfeld grew up at Köfering Palace, the family seat, and at the father's place of work (in addition to St. Petersburg, Berlin , Rome and Vienna ).

Lerchenfeld studied law and philosophy at the universities of Munich and Freiburg and, after his father's death in 1859, took over the estate management and family chairmanship. In 1861 he was accepted as a hereditary Reichsrat in the Chamber of Reichsräte, the first chamber of the Bavarian state parliament. Lerchenfeld was the second secretary from 1866 to 1883 and the first secretary from 1883 to 1893. In 1893 he was appointed President of the Chamber by Prince Regent Luitpold . In addition, Lerchenfeld was a knight of the Order of St. George (since 1893 deputy chancellor of the order), knight of the Order of Hubert and royal chamberlain.

Lerchenfeld saw the office of president primarily as an organizational task, worked in the background to work towards an amicable cooperation with the Chamber of Deputies , hardly appeared in public as an active politician, although he was well networked in the Bavarian upper class: the central politician Conrad von Preysing was a childhood friend who his own brother Hugo envoy in Berlin and his father-in-law Otto von Bray-Steinburg , the former chairman of the Council of Ministers. Lerchenfeld's real interest was in agriculture and the management of his estates. He was involved in the Agricultural Association , of which he was president from 1882 to 1893. In this function he campaigned for protective tariffs in the field of agriculture, in particular against the trade agreement policy of Imperial Chancellor Caprivi .

In 1904, Lerchenfeld was dismissed from the office of President of the Chamber for reasons of age, and three years later he died at Köfering Castle.

literature

• Bernhard Löffler: The Bavarian Chamber of Reichsräte 1848 to 1918. Fundamentals, composition, politics (series of publications on Bavarian national history, volume 108), Munich: CH Beck 1996 (short biography of Lerchenfeld, pp. 152–155).