Otto von Helldorff

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

Bedra Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Petzkendorf manor around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Otto Heinrich von Helldorff (born April 16, 1833 in Bedra , Province of Saxony , † March 10, 1908 ibid) was a Prussian landowner , conservative politician and Prussian chamberlain .

family

He came from the old Meißnian noble family von Helldorff and was the son of the Prussian chamberlain and district administrator Heinrich von Helldorff (1799–1873), landowner on Bedra, Baumersroda and Petzkendorf, and his first wife Julie Charlotte Countess von der Schulenburg (1806–1844).

Helldorff married on July 17, 1867 in Hamburg Clara Stammann (born July 29, 1846 in Hamburg, † February 3, 1918 at Gut Bedra), the daughter of the architect Friedrich Stammann and Friedrike von Helldorff.

Life

After studying law , Helldorff worked in the Prussian civil service until 1874 and as a district administrator in Wetzlar from 1867 to 1874 . In 1874 he took over the management of the Bedra family estate and his other three estates, Leiha, Schalkendorf and Petzkendorf.

As a conservative, Helldorff was a member of the Prussian Council of State from 1871 to 1874 for the constituency Koblenz 1 ( Wetzlar - Altenkirchen ), 1877 to 1887 for the constituency Merseburg 2 ( Schweinitz - Wittenberg ) and 1890 to 1893 for the constituency Marienwerder 7 ( Schlochau - Flatow ) Member of the Reichstag . From 1879 to 1881 and 1884 to 1892 he was chairman of the faction of the German Conservative Party , which he had played a key role in founding in 1876 and which he led as chairman from then until 1892.

Helldorff promoted the reconciliation of the Prussian Conservatives with Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) and was significantly involved in the politics of the cartel parties . But he lost Bismarck's trust in the disputes before his fall (1890). Helldorff and his party voted against Bismarck's demand for an extension of the Socialist Law in 1890 . In the dispute over the trade agreements of Count Leo von Caprivi (1831-1899), he fell out with the agrarian-oriented circles of his own party and therefore lost in 1892 the parliamentary group and party chairmanship.

After that he did not appear in the Prussian mansion , to which he had belonged since 1890.

literature

Noble houses. Series A. Volume I (= Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility . Volume 5). Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1953, ISSN 0435-2408 , p. 134.
Friedrich Freiherr Hiller von Gaertringen : Helldorff, Otto von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 474 f. ( Digitized version ).
James N. Retallack: A hapless party leader in Bismarck's service - Otto von Helldorff-Bedra (1833-1908). In: Hans-Christof Kraus (Hrsg.): Conservative politicians in Germany. A selection of biographical portraits from two centuries. Duncker & Humblot Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-428-08193-5 , pp. 185-203.
Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 68 ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).

Web links

von Helldorff, Otto Heinrich in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Otto von Helldorff . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

^ 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. 158; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): 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. Verlag Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1883, p. 107f; see. also: Georg Hirth (Ed.): German Parliament Almanach . 9th edition of May 9, 1871. Verlag Franz Duncker, Berlin 1871, p. 198.
^ 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. 99; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): 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. Verlag Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1883, p. 64.
↑ Helldorff was elected on December 2, 1890 in a by-election for the resigned MP Scheffer. Compare: 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. 22.

personal data
SURNAME	Helldorff, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Helldorff, Otto Heinrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian landowner and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	April 16, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gut Bedra (now part of Braunsbedra ) near Merseburg , Kingdom of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH	March 10, 1908
Place of death	Gut Bedra (now part of Braunsbedra ) near Merseburg , Kingdom of Saxony

[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. 158; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): 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. Verlag Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1883, p. 107f; see. also: Georg Hirth (Ed.): German Parliament Almanach . 9th edition of May 9, 1871. Verlag Franz Duncker, Berlin 1871, p. 198.

[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. 99; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): 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. Verlag Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1883, p. 64.

[3] Helldorff was elected on December 2, 1890 in a by-election for the resigned MP Scheffer. Compare: 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. 22.