Otto II (Solms-Laubach)

Otto II. Count zu Solms-Laubach (born October 1, 1799 in Laubach ; † November 22, 1872 ibid) was a Hessian nobleman and politician . He was a member and president of the first chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

Otto Graf zu Solms-Laubach

family

Otto came from the noble family Solms-Laubach . He was the son of the President of the Province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg Friedrich zu Solms-Laubach (1769-1822) and his wife Henriette, born von Degenfeld-Schomberg (1776-1847). His brother Reinhard (1801-1870) became a Prussian major general .

Life

He attended the Friedrich-Werdersches Gymnasium in Berlin and the universities in Bonn and Berlin . Otto zu Solms-Laubach succeeded the rulership in 1822. From 1826 to the March Revolution of 1849 and from 1851 to his death in 1872, he was a member of the first chamber of the estates as a registrar. In 1829/30 and 1851/56 he was president of the first chamber, after having been vice-president in 1844/49 (and again in 1856/66).

In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament . As a result of the March Revolution, a new electoral law had been passed that abolished the prerogatives of the class and provided for free election of the first chamber. Otto zu Solms-Laubach was therefore not a member of the state parliament from 1849 to 1851, but represented the Grand Duchy in 1850 in the state house of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

In 1867/69 he was a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation , where he joined the parliamentary group of the Old Liberal Center . In November 1869 he resigned from the Reichstag.

During his studies in 1819 he became a member of the old Bonn fraternity / general public .

Marriage and offspring

Otto zu Solms-Laubach was married to Luitgarde zu Wied (1813-1870) since September 11, 1832 . She was the eldest daughter of Prince Johann August Karl zu Wied . The couple had the following children:

Friedrich Wilhelm August Christian (1833–1900) ∞ Marianne Countess zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (born September 6, 1836, † August 13, 1910), daughter of General Wilhelm zu Stolberg-Wernigerode
Thekla (born June 4, 1835 - † January 17, 1892) ∞ Maximilian zu Solms-Rödelheim (1826–1892)
Ernst (April 24, 1837 - August 12, 1908) ∞ Countess Auguste von Schimmelmann (* April 24, 1837 - August 12, 1908)
Klara (January 30, 1839 - November 1, 1896)
Hermann (1842–1915)
Reinhard (February 23, 1844 - April 2, 1848)

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 454-455.
Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 362.
Jochen Lengemann: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Darmstadt 2008, No. 842.
Claudia Döbert: The music collection of the Counts of Solms-Laubach. Music publisher Burkhard Muth, Fernwald 1998.

Web links

Commons : Otto zu Solms-Laubach - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Otto II in the database of the members of the Reichstag
Solms-Laubach, Otto Graf zu in the Hessian biography

Individual evidence

↑ Solms-Laubach, Otto Graf zu. Hessian biography. (As of July 29, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 313, short biography p. 471–472.
^ 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, Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 261.
^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 454.

personal data
SURNAME	Otto II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Solms-Laubach, Otto zu; Solms-Laubach, Otto Graf too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician, President of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
DATE OF BIRTH	October 1, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH	Laubach
DATE OF DEATH	November 22, 1872
Place of death	Laubach

[1] Solms-Laubach, Otto Graf zu. Hessian biography. (As of July 29, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[2] Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)

[3] Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 313, short biography p. 471–472.

[4] 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, Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 261.

[5] Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 454.