Presentation right to the Prussian manor house

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The right to present the Prussian mansion was a constitutional regulation in the Prussian state law, which, with the amendment of the so-called imposed constitution from 1853, created the possibility of appointing certain groups of people as members of this chamber for the newly created Prussian mansion .

regulation

The type and form of the appointment of the members of the manor house was developed by a royal decree of October 12, 1854. This stipulated, among other things, that the king could grant the right to noble families who had long been close to the royal house and who were particularly well-deserved by the state to propose to him, the King, one member of each family for appointment as a member of the manor. Another prerequisite for the granting of this right of presentation was extensive property owned by the family (not the candidate proposed after this right was granted).

Families gifted with the right to present

King Friedrich Wilhelm IV first made use of his right on October 24, 1854 to award a family the right to present to the Prussian manor house. In the initial phase of the manor house in 1854/5, the king only granted this privilege to ten families, namely the following families:

All these families were from the old Prussian provinces, two from the Province of Saxony belonging Altmark (Alvensleben, Schulenburg), three from Brandenburg (Arnim, Bredow, Königsmarck), four from Pomerania (Borcke, vd East, Schwerin, Wedel) and one from East Prussia (vd Groeben).

Real estate

All of these families were well endowed with property. In 1855 the Magdeburg Chief President reported on the property of the Alvensleben and Schulenburg families from the Altmark. According to this, the Alvensleben had 18 manors in the Altmark in 1855 with 11 100 hectares, the Schulenburg 24 manors with 19 300 hectares and an additional 21 400 hectares in Brandenburg. The von der Osten owned 37 750 hectares in 1855, the Arnim over 30,000 hectares , Schwerin 1876 over 55,500 ha, Wedel 1886 over 32,000 ha.

Further appeals and rejected applications for the right to present

By 1857 the number of gifted families had only increased by one, since the von Kleist family had been granted the right to present on July 2, 1857 . But the reputation that the distinguished families had gained with the granting of the right of presentation prompted many other old Prussian families to apply for a corresponding act of grace from the crown. This prompted the crown to initially reject further applications at the immediate lectures of the interior minister. From 1859 to 1866, the requests from the families Behr , Winterfeldt and Klitzing were rejected, as were later requests from the Saurma (1906-08), Prittwitz (1910), Dewitz (1912) and Flemming (1912) families . Nevertheless, a certain turning point in decision-making practice had been initiated by Kaiser Wilhelm II since 1895 . Between 1895 and 1908, seven more sexes were granted the right of presentation, often against the advice of the ministry, by Wilhelm II. They were the Puttkamer (1895), Below , Bonin , Bülow , Veltheim and Zitzewitz (1900) families . The last family to be honored was the von Hanstein family in 1908 , so that in 1918, when the revolution broke out, a total of 18 families had the right to present to the Prussian mansion. All families had regularly used this right, so that by the outbreak of the revolution a total of 55 members of the Prussian mansion had been members due to the presentation of one of the entitled families in the mansion.

literature

  • Hartwin Spenkuch: The Prussian mansion. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hartwin Spenkuch : The Prussian manor house. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998, page 174.
  2. ^ Report OP Magdeburg from March 9, 1855: State Main Archives Magdeburg , C 20 IB, No. 142
  3. ↑ Bundesarchiv Potsdam RK No. 1065, sheets 45 ff, and rep. 89 No. 296
  4. ↑ source. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon, Volume VI, p. 270, Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1987
  5. ↑ Hartwin Spenkuch: The Prussian mansion. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998, page 178