Otto von Kühlmann

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Otto von Kühlmann

Otto Karl Friedrich Johann Kühlmann , from 1889 Knight von Kühlmann , (born November 28, 1834 in Landsberg am Lech , † September 18, 1915 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and politician in the Kingdom of Bavaria and General Director of the Anatolian Railway .

family

Kühlmann came from a Franconian family and was the son of the royal Bavarian councilor and rentier Johann Leonhard Kühlmann.

He married the daughter of the poet Oskar von Redwitz , Anna Freiin von Redwitz auf Schmölz and Theisenort , on August 11, 1870 in Munich (* July 7, 1852 in Vienna , † October 24, 1924 in Munich). His son was Richard von Kühlmann (1873–1948), Foreign Minister of the German Empire and married (1906) to Margarete von Stumm (1884–1917, from 1913 Mrs. von Kühlmann, Baroness von Stumm-Ramholz). His grandson, son from the aforementioned marriage, was the German FDP politician Knut Freiherr von Kühlmann-Stumm (1916–1977).

Life

Kühlmann studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University . In 1853 he was reciprocated in the Corps Suevia Munich . From 1872 he worked in the Orient for 25 years , first as director of the Chemins de fer Orientaux in European Turkey , the route of the later Orient Express , which was started by Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831-1896) , then as general director of the German side Anatolian Railway , built in Asia Minor , and finally as the top manager of both railway systems. His residence became Constantinople and both the scope of his activity and the amount of his income made him an equal and influential member of the international circle of diplomats and the military who worked there. At the beginning of school his wife moved to Munich with their two sons and a daughter, so that the father was only reunited with the family during the holidays. Since she wanted to introduce her children to society, she had a house built on Gabelsbergerstrasse with Franz von Lenbach as a consultant. The wealth of the Kühlmann family, the economic and political standing of Kühlmann in Constantinople and the nobility of the wife made the transition to the new social class easier.

politics

For the Bavarian Progressive Party , Kühlmann sat in the Chamber of Deputies (Bavaria) from 1869 to January 30, 1872 . In Parliament he was a member of the II Committee on Finance. There he followed the Reich German and liberal policies of the new Prime Minister, Prince Clovis zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst , who later became Chancellor, which was to lead to a friendship that would become meaningful for the son Kühlmann at a crucial moment in his career.

tomb

Grave of Otto Ritter Kühlmann on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

Otto von Kühlmann's grave is located in the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich (Neu Arkaden Platz 97 near Gräberfeld 41). Location .. In the shared family crypt is the poet Oskar Freiherr von Redwitz , whose daughter Otto Kühlmann married.

Honors

With the award of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown on February 8, 1889 by Luitpold of Bavaria, Kühlmann was raised to the Bavarian personal knighthood . The elevation to the hereditary nobility with reservation of the personal knighthood took place on June 1, 1892 in Munich with enrollment in the Bavarian aristocratic class on June 15, 1892. In 1889 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Landsberg am Lech.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 115/580.
  2. ^ A b c Walter Goetz: The memories of the State Secretary Richard von Kühlmann. Munich 1952, pp. 5-6.
personal data
SURNAME Kühlmann, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kühlmann, Otto Karl Friedrich Johann (full name); Kühlmann, Otto Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer and politician in the Kingdom of Bavaria, General Director of the Anatolian Railway
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg am Lech
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1915
Place of death Munich