Otto Theodor von Seydewitz

Members of the Reichstag parliamentary group of the German Conservative Party (from left to right): Rudolph Wichmann, Otto von Seydewitz, Helmuth von Moltke , Count Konrad von Kleist-Schmenzin , Otto von Helldorff , Karl Gustav Ackermann .

Otto Theodor von Seydewitz (born September 11, 1818 in Großbadegast ; † November 12, 1898 in Biesig near Reichenbach / OL ) was a German politician who was President of the Reichstag of the German Empire from 1879 to 1880 .

Life

Otto Theodor von Seydewitz comes from the Meissen nobility family von Seydewitz and is the second eldest son of Kurt von Seydewitz (1780-1853). He completed a law degree in Berlin and joined the civil service of the judiciary as an auscultator in 1840 . He went into administration in 1842 and worked for the district administration in Merseburg from 1844 to 1845 .

In 1855 he was elected to the state of the Prussian Upper Lusatia and in 1858 to the district administrator in Görlitz and in 1864 to the state governor and best of the Prussian Upper Lusatia. From 1845 he was a member of the Upper Lusatian and from 1851 a member and state marshal of the Silesian Provincial Parliament . In 1875 he was appointed chairman of the provincial committee. Otto Theodor von Seydewitz became a member of the Central Landscape Directorate and President of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences . From 1867 to 1871 he was a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation and from 1871 to 1884 of the German Reichstag and joined the Conservative Party . As a member of parliament, he represented the constituency of the Liegnitz district 10.

On May 21, 1879, after the resignation of Maximilian Franz August von Forckenbeck, he was elected President of the Reichstag by the Conservatives and the Center Party , and in August 1879, he was appointed President of Silesia in place of Robert von Puttkamer . In 1880 he refused to be re-elected. Seydewitz never appeared in the plenary, but he had great influence in the conservative group.

Honors

A monument by Otto von Seydewitz stood in Reichenbach / Oberlausitz on the corner of Bahnhofstrasse and Gartenstrasse, opposite the Bahnhofstrasse house. No. 13. The square there is still free and fenced in by hedges, but there is only a stone base, which is not the original monument base either - if you compare it with old postcards.

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 306, short biography p. 469.
^ 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. 83.

literature

Rainer Paetau (edit.): The Minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Vol. 5. In: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Acta Borussica . New episode. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-487-11002-4 , p. 391 ( Online ( Memento from January 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ); PDF 2.28 MB).

Web links

Otto Theodor von Seydewitz in the database of members of the Reichstag

personal data
SURNAME	Seydewitz, Otto Theodor von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	September 11, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grand bather
DATE OF DEATH	November 12, 1898
Place of death	Snappy

[1] 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. 306, short biography p. 469.

[2] 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. 83.