Paul von Rheinbaben (politician)

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Paul Karl Ferdinand von Rheinbaben (born December 2, 1844 in Breslau , † December 1, 1921 in Berlin ) was a German government official, politician and member of the German Reichstag .

Paul von Rheinbaben

Life

Rheinbaben attended high school in Liegnitz and studied law and political science at the universities of Breslau, Göttingen and Berlin from 1862 to 1866. In 1866 he joined the Breslau district court as an auscultator and in 1868 he became a trainee lawyer at the same court. In 1872 he was appointed assessor. From July 1874 to April 1875 he was a district judge in Osterwieck and then a government assessor in Posen . Between 1878 and 1886 he was district administrator in Fraustadt . From 1885 he was an unskilled worker in the Reich Chancellery and from 1887 to 1890 police chief in Wiesbaden . The negotiations with Queen Natalie of Serbia regarding the extradition of her then twelve-year-old son Alexander , who later became King, to his father King Milan , who in turn had sent the Serbian War Minister to Wiesbaden as plenipotentiary , formed an interesting episode of his activities in Wiesbaden (see also: Wiesbaden Prinzenraub ).

In 1890 he became a secret councilor in the State Ministry and also curator of the Reichs- und Staatsanzeiger. In 1895 he was appointed to the Secret Upper Government Council and Lecturing Council and in 1918 he retired. For his services he was u. a. Awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with oak leaves.

From 1884 to 1890 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Posen 6 Fraustadt , Lissa and the German Reich Party .

Web links

literature

  • Hans Wätjen: History of the Rheinbaben family 1272-1976 , 1976

Individual evidence

  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. 58.