Otto von Keyserlingk zu Rautenburg

Otto von Keyserlingk zu Rautenberg

Otto Reichsgraf von Keyserlingk zu Rautenburg (born July 26, 1802 in Kabillen near Goldingen , Kurland ; † May 19, 1885 at Rautenburg Castle, Niederung district ) was a German-Baltic lawyer and large landowner. Before and after the founding of the German Empire, he was a member of the Reichstag.

origin

His parents were Heinrich Graf von Keyserlingk (1775–1850), 2nd Count von Rautenburg and his wife Annette, nee Freiin von Nolde (1780–1851) from the House of Kalleten. The geologist Alexander von Keyserling (1815-1891) was his brother.

Life

Keyserlingk studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and became a member of Curonia Goettingensis VII in 1823. After his exams, he entered the administration of justice in the Kingdom of Prussia and worked at the Königsberg Court of Appeal ; but he left the legal service to manage his property . He was majorate on Rautenburg in the elk lowlands . He sat in the United State Parliament (1847), in the Frankfurt National Assembly (1848) and in the Erfurt Union Parliament . As the owner of the County of Rautenburg, he was also a hereditary member of the Prussian manor house from 1854 . He became a member of the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation in February 1867 and remained in the Ordinary Reichstag. As a member of the Conservative Party , he was elected to the Reichstag (German Empire) for the Reichstag constituency in Gumbinnen 1 in the Reichstag election in 1871 .

family

Rautenburg Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Keyserlingk married Emma Baronin von Behr (1811-1851) from Stricken on January 20, 1830 . The couple had several children including:

Heinrich (1831–1874), German diplomat ⚭ Maria Countess von Anrep-Elmpt (1843–1925)
Cäcilie (1835–1897) ⚭ Otto Julius Hugo von Keyserlingk (1833–1903)
Hugo (1839–1904), Prussian Chamberlain ⚭ Cäcilie Countess von Anrep-Elmpt (1847–1928)
Amalie (1838–1896) ⚭ Otto Karl von Hüllessem-Meerscheidt (1831–1902)
Fanny (1841–1919) ⚭ Otto Tortilowicz von Batocki-Friebe (1835–1890), Prussian chamberlain

literature

Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Gräfliche Häuser. 1905. Seventy-eighth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1904, pp. 414–415.
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 (with picture).
Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 8). Droste, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-7700-5193-9 .
Egbert Weiß : Corps students in the Paulskirche. Once and Now , special issue 1990, Munich 1990, p. 26.
Egbert Weiß: Corps students in the Reichstag of the North German Confederation. Einst und Jetzt 42 (1997), pp. 9-42.
Oskar Stavenhagen : Genealogical manual of the Courland knighthood. Volume 1, p. 140.

Web links

Historical-Political Yearbook from 1880
Reichsgraf von Keyserling-Rautenburg, Otto in the database of members of the Reichstag
Otto Albrecht Keyserling . In: Heinrich Best : The members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/1849 (BIORAB-FRANKFURT)
Biography of Otto Graf-Comte Keyserling-Rautenburg . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Rautenburg

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 65/67
↑ 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. 194, short biography p. 425.
↑ Georg Hirth (Ed.): Hirth's Parliament Almanach . Third edition of April 3, 1867. Berlin: Verlag Franz Duncker, 1867, p. 68
^ 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. 8.
↑ 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 . Berlin: Verlag Louis Gerschel, 1883, p. 5

personal data
SURNAME	Keyserlingk zu Rautenburg, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Keyserlingk-Rautenburg, Imperial Count Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Baltic landowner and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	July 26, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kabillen, Courland
DATE OF DEATH	May 19, 1885
Place of death	Rautenburg Castle, Niederung district

[1] Kösener corps lists 1910, 65/67

[2] 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. 194, short biography p. 425.

[3] Georg Hirth (Ed.): Hirth's Parliament Almanach . Third edition of April 3, 1867. Berlin: Verlag Franz Duncker, 1867, p. 68

[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. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 8.

[5] 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 . Berlin: Verlag Louis Gerschel, 1883, p. 5