Richard von Könneritz

Count Richard Leo von Koneritz

Count Richard Leo von Könneritz (born July 29, 1828 in Erdmannsdorf , † July 4, 1910 in Wurzen ) was a German manor owner , diplomat and politician. He was a member and president of the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament .

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Manor Lossa around 1859

The son of the Saxon diplomat Hans Heinrich Graf von Könneritz (1790–1863) and his wife Luise Clara born. von Werthern-Beichlingen (* 1798) was born on the Erdmannsdorf manor , which his father had acquired in 1822. Since his father worked as the Royal Saxon Ambassador in Madrid , Paris , Brussels , Berlin and Hanover , Könneritz received his schooling in different locations in Saxony and France. He obtained his Abitur in 1846 at the grammar school in Freiberg and then devoted himself to studying law at the University of Leipzig . In 1848 he became a member of the Corps Misnia Leipzig .

After completing his studies in 1850 with a doctorate as Dr. iur. After graduating, he worked briefly as an assessor at the Bautzen Regional Court , but soon after switched to the diplomatic service. In 1853 he was chargé d'affaires in Hanover. In 1862 he was sent to Brussels as ambassador, to St. Petersburg in 1864 and to Munich in 1867 . At the age of 46 he retired from the diplomatic service. Already in 1856 he had acquired his manor Lossa from his father , while his younger brother Léonce von Könneritz (1835–1890), who held the office of Saxon Finance Minister between 1876 and 1890 , took over the manor Erdmannsdorf. Konneritz remained a bachelor all his life.

In 1875, King Albert made him a member of Chamber I of the Saxon State Parliament for life . In October 1877 he was already elected to the board of directors of the chamber, where he acted as secretary. In 1884 Richard von Könneritz was honored with the honorary citizenship of Wurzen.

At the beginning of the Landtag in 1891/92 he succeeded the elderly Chamber President Ludwig von Zehmen . He was then called to the Protestant regional synod, which he also chaired in 1891, 1896 and 1901. Furthermore, Könneritz was involved in agricultural associations. For several years, he was Vice President of the German Agriculture Council . Könneritz also took over functions in the Meißner Hochstift : in 1894 he became canon , in 1897 cathedral dean and in 1907 cathedral provost . After the 1903/04 state parliament he resigned his office as President of the Chamber and resigned entirely from his mandate in the Saxon state parliament after the following state parliament in 1905/06.

In 1911 a memorial stone was erected in front of Lossa Castle in memory of Richard Graf von Könneritz.

literature

• Josef Matzerath : Aspects of the history of the Saxon state parliament - presidents and members of parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 25f
• Josef Matzerath: Könneritz, Richard Leo Graf von . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
• Municipal administration Erdmannsdorf (Ed.): 1196–1996, 800 years Erdmannsdorf . Erdmannsdorf, 1996, pp. 22-26

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 90 , 83
2. ↑ Wurzen # honorary citizen

predecessor	Office	successor
Albin Leo von Seebach	Saxon envoy to Belgium 1862–1863	Oswald von Fabrice
Hans von Könneritz	Saxon envoy to Russia 1864–1867	-
Hans von Könneritz	Saxon envoy to Bavaria 1867–1874	Oswald von Fabrice