Maximilian von Schwerin-Putzar

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Count Maximilian von Schwerin-Putzar

Count Maximilian von Schwerin-Putzar , actually Count Maximilian Heinrich Karl Anton Kurt von Schwerin (born December 30, 1804 in Boldekow , Western Pomerania , † May 2, 1872 in Potsdam ) was a Prussian manor owner and a liberal parliamentarian.

family

He was the son of Count Heinrich Ludwig Wilhelm Carl von Schwerin-Putzar (landowner, district administrator, landscape director) and his wife Charlotte Friederike Louise born. from mountain. Maximilian married Hildegard Maria Schleiermacher in 1834, a daughter of the theologian and educator Friedrich Schleiermacher . The couple had four children. Her son Heinrich Friedrich (1836–1888) married Charlotte von Mühler, a daughter of the Prussian Minister of Education, Heinrich von Mühler . The daughter Luise married the Prussian Lieutenant General Count Rudolf von Kanitz . One of Maximilian's brothers was Viktor von Schwerin .

Career

From 1818 Count Schwerin attended the grammar school in Friedland (Mecklenburg) . After high school he studied from 1824 to 1826 jurisprudence at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg . In 1825 he became active with Klemens von Waldkirch in the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg . He then worked as an auscultator and from 1828 as a court trainee at the Higher Regional Court of Stettin .

He switched from the administration of justice to the internal administration of Prussia and came to the government in Stettin as a government assessor . From 1833 to 1848 he was district administrator in the Anklam district . Initially living in Anklam, he moved to his Schwerinsburg estate (Ducherow) in 1836 and finally to his main estate Putzar in 1839. He was also the owner of a large number of other estates such as Wussecken, Löwitz, Sarnow, Wendfeld, Boldekow and Bornmühl. In 1847 he became a member of the honorary council of the Deutsche Zeitung and gave it access to the liberal circles of Prussia. At the time of the German Revolution of 1848/49 he was from March 19 to June 25, 1848 Minister of Culture in the March government of Ludolf Camphausen and David Hansemann . Schwerin tried to use this position to implement his idea of ​​a liberal Protestant church constitution. He tried to enforce a tolerant attitude towards the various theological directions in dealing with one another. His attempt to break the supremacy of Lutheran Orthodoxy failed, as did the project to create a presbyterial-synodal constitution. After the fall of the Camphausen government , his successor Adalbert von Ladenberg directed church policy back in a conservative direction.

He was Minister of the Interior from July 3, 1859 to March 17, 1862 during the New Era . In 1868 he was a paid city ​​councilor in Berlin.

Parliamentary mandates

Prussian MPs, including v. Schwerin

Since 1839 Schwerin was a member of the provincial parliament of the province of Pomerania . In 1847 he sat in the United State Parliament . From July 10, 1848 to May 3, 1849 he was a member of the German National Assembly for the 3rd Pomeranian constituency in Schlawe . He joined the casino (faction) and the Café Milani . In 1850 he was a member of the Erfurt Parliament (Volkshaus). Between 1849 and 1872 he was temporarily a leading member in the second chamber of the Prussian state parliament and a member of the Prussian House of Representatives (fraction Auerswald-Schwerin, later Centrum Linke, Old Liberal , National Liberal Party ). Especially in the years 1856 to 1859 he was considered the leader of the liberals. After Otto von Bismarck took over the government , he was one of the prime minister's most important opponents in parliament and coined the motto “law comes before power” in a debate.

From 1849 to 1855 he was President of the Second Chamber or (after the renaming) of the House of Representatives. From 1859 to 1862 he was a member of the Prussian State Council . For the National Liberal Party he represented Stettin in the Reichstag (North German Confederation) from February 1867 until the Reichstag election in 1871 .

Honorary positions

Schwerin was also active in the Protestant church and fought especially at the general synod of 1846 in accordance with his liberal views for a free church constitution. Schwerin was one of the founders of the Gustav-Adolf-Verein in 1841 and sat on its central board from 1847.

Honors

Incomplete list

Fonts

  • To the voters for the Reichstag of the North German Confederation in the Anclam-Demmin constituency. Berlin 1867.

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 120 , 64
  2. ^ A liberal faction, not to be confused with the later Catholic party Zentrum
  3. ^ Quote from Martin Friedrich:  Schwerin, Maximilian Graf. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 1240-1241.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
personal data
SURNAME Schwerin-Putzar, Maximilian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwerin-Putzar, Maximilian Heinrich Karl Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pomeranian manor owner; Liberal parliamentarian and minister in Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Boldekow , Western Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1872
Place of death Potsdam