Reinhold von Sydow

Reinhold von Sydow (born January 14, 1851 in Berlin ; † January 16, 1943 there ) was a German politician .

Life

Sydow was the son of the Kgl. Prussian Real Secret Council Friedrich Hermann Sydow (1824-1900), last president of the Kgl. Prussian main administration of the national debt.

Sydow had been in the civil service since 1875. In 1883 he came to the Reich Post Office and in 1884 became a secret councilor and lecturer. In 1891 he was appointed Undersecretary of State there and in 1897 Director of Department II. In October 1906, as undersecretary of state, he headed the second session of the radio conference in Berlin, which was attended by 27 nations. The world radio contract was signed there. On February 20, 1908, he followed Hermann von Stengel to the head of the Reich Treasury . At the same time he became Prussian Minister of State. Sydow worked on many bills in this position. In particular on civil lawhe also published his own legal comments. He caused great excitement on February 19, 1909 when he announced in Berlin that the introduction of a property tax would be considered. This had been resolutely rejected by Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow . After his commitment to the Reich Treasury had come to an end on July 14, 1909, he took over the office of the Prussian Minister of Commerce until October 5, 1918.

Sydow also made a name for himself outside of law and politics: between 1912 and 1928 he was chairman of the German and Austrian Alpine Club . Then he was appointed honorary chairman. He was knighted in 1918 . Reinhold von Sydow became a member of the Allemannia fraternity in Heidelberg in 1868 .

Sydow had been married to Juliane Leonhardt, daughter of the Prussian Justice Minister Adolph Leonhardt, since 1877 . The marriage produced four children.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft , Vol. I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 572-573.
• 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. 161 f. ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhold von Sydow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Newspaper article about Reinhold von Sydow in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Kosch: Biographisches Staats Handbuch . Volume 1, 1963.
2. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 519.