Max von Landsberg-Velen

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Max von Landsberg-Velen (1847–1902). Photograph by Leopold Haase & Comp., Berlin around 1874

Max Graf von Landsberg-Velen (born January 17, 1847 in Münster , † December 31, 1902 in Velen near Borken ) was a Westphalian nobleman and Prussian agricultural politician.

Life

Landsberg-Velen was the son of the landlord Friedrich von Landsberg-Velen and his wife M. Sophie. He himself married Maria von Vietinghoff, known as Schell, in 1874.

Landsberg-Velen studied law in Bonn and Heidelberg . In 1869 received his doctorate he became Dr. jur. In connection with the revival of the Order of Malta by his father in Germany, he participated as a delegate of the order in the Franco-German War of 1870/1871. He worked in various hospitals, including in Amiens .

Between 1874 and 1878 he represented the constituency of Borken-Recklinghausen in the Reichstag for the Center Party . He was also a member of the Westphalian provincial parliament , the provincial committee and the provincial council. He was also a member of the Prussian manor house .

Under the influence of his uncle Burghard von Schorlemer-Alst , Landsberg-Velen turned to the representation of agricultural interests in the Westphalian Farmers' Association, among others. He was also deputy chairman of the main agricultural association for the Münster administrative region . This was primarily committed to improving agricultural technology and practice. As the successor to Schorlemer-Alst, Landsberg-Velen became chairman of the Westphalian Farmers' Association , which was less political under his leadership. As chairman of the Central Moor Commission, he played a key role in the cultivation of bog and heather soils for agriculture. Landsberg-Velen campaigned for the establishment of the Westphalia Chamber of Agriculture in 1889 . In this the agricultural provincial association, which had emerged from the central associations, went on.

Landsberg also earned merit in founding the Catholic workers' colony Maria Veen in Reken. This made it its task to reintegrate alcohol addicts and "work-shy" into society. He was also a member of the State Railway Council, the State Economics Council and was a member of the German Agriculture Council.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 134; see. also: A. Phillips (Hrsg.): 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. 85

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SURNAME Landsberg-Velen, Max von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landsberg-Velen, Max Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman and politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1902
Place of death Velen