Max von Balan

Max Hermann Heinrich Wilhelm Balan , from 1859 von Balan , (born March 9, 1849 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 4, 1905 in Potsdam ) was a Prussian government president and politician.

Life

Max von Balan came from a Huguenot family originally based in Montauban ( France ) , whose ancestor Joseph Balan came to Prussia as a refugee in 1685 after the Edict of Nantes was repealed by Louis XIV . He was the son of the Prussian diplomat Hermann Balan (1812–1874), who was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility in Berlin on April 7, 1859 and was one of Bismarck's closest collaborators . His mother was Emilie Auguste Cäcilie Therese von Sybel (* 1825).

In 1870 he was a prime lieutenant in the 2nd Guard Uhlan Regiment . Balan studied law in Bonn and became a member of the Corps Palatia there in 1869 . In 1873 he became a chamber trainee and in 1880 a court assessor at the public prosecutor's office in Berlin . The following year he was a government assessor at the Landdrostei Stade and in 1883 in Magdeburg . In the same year he was given the management of the district office of the Schlawe district in Pomerania . In 1884 he became district administrator there . During this time he was elected to the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Pomerania and the Prussian House of Representatives (1885-1892). As a member of parliament, he represented the constituency of Köslin 2 (Rummelsburg - Schlawe), Otto von Bismarck's home constituency . Max von Balan belonged to the Free Conservative Party .

In 1892 Balan became police chief in Potsdam . From 1901 he was the district president of the administrative district of Cologne . During this time he was also a board member of the Cologne department of the German Colonial Society .

literature

• Hartwin Spenkuch (arr.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Vol. 8 / II. In: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): Acta Borussica . New episode. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 3-487-11827-0 , p. 487 ( Online ; PDF 2.19 MB).

Footnotes

1. ^ ^{A b} Genealogical Handbook of Adels , Adelslexikon Volume I, page 192, Volume 53 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1972
2. ↑ Kurt Schreinert, Charlotte Jolles (ed.): Letters to Karl and Emilie Zöllner and other friends. In: Theodor Fontane : letters . Vol. 4, Propylaen, 1971, p. 195 ( online excerpt )
3. ↑ Genealogy ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 25 , 362.
5. ↑ Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives. W. Moeser, Berlin 1886, pp. 181-182.
6. ^ Theodor Wengler: The Pomeranian Provincial Association. Directory of the members of the provincial assembly. Publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania, Series V, Volume 44. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20109-8 , pp. 82f.
7. ↑ Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the collaboration of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne: Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 53.
8. ↑ on the election results and the structure of the constituency see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 255-257.
9. ↑ German Colonial Society. Cologne department. List of members December 1903 ( PDF )