Richard at Dohna-Schlobitten

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Richard zu Dohna-Schlobitten, 1903
Kaiser Wilhelm II in maneuvers in East Prussia . Far right Prince Dohna-Schlobitten. Around 1900

Prince Richard Wilhelm Ludwig zu Dohna-Schlobitten (born August 17, 1843 in Turin , † August 21, 1916 in Wilna ) was a Prussian politician and confidante of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

origin

Richard Burgrave and Count zu Dohna from the noble family Dohna was the son of Richard Friedrich Burgrave and Count zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1807-1894) and Countess Mathilde Friederike von Truchsess zu Waldburg (1813-1858).

Life

In 1861 he joined the Prussian Army one, fought in the German and German-Prussian War and took 1883 as a Major à la suite of the Army his farewell . He then became court hunter master and had been in close contact with Prince Wilhelm, who later became Kaiser Wilhelm II, from the mid-1980s. He belonged to the closer " Liebenberger Kreis " around Philipp zu Eulenburg .

Dohna belonged to the Prussian House of Representatives from 1890 to 1894 , to the Reichstag from 1890 to 1893, 1903 to 1906 and 1907 to 1911 ( German conservative ). He was first elected in the Reichstag constituency of Danzig 1 and then in the Reichstag constituency of Königsberg 4 (Fischhausen-Königsberg-Land) . Since 1894 he was a hereditary member of the Prussian mansion , since 1909 chairman of the Silesian provincial parliament . On January 1, 1900, the emperor made him hereditary prince.

Dohna-Schlobitten was commander of the Order of St. John for the province of East and West Prussia . During the First World War he served as a colonel in the 10th Army's stage inspection .

family

On July 20, 1868, he married Amélie Burggräfin and Countess zu Dohna-Schlodien (1837-1906), a daughter of the Prussian Lieutenant General Emil zu Dohna-Schlodien (1805-1877). The couple had four sons:

  • Richard Emil (1872-1918)
  • Eberhard Bolko (1874–1886)
  • Achatius Manfred (1875–1898)
  • Hubertus Wilhelm (1876-1896)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 110. (Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: Vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 128-131.
  2. ^ 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. 4.
  3. ↑ German Officer Association (Ed.): Honor ranking list of the former German Army. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1926, p. 22.
personal data
SURNAME Dohna-Schlobitten, Richard too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dohna-Schlobitten, Richard Wilhelm Ludwig Fürst zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1916
Place of death Vilna