Robert Lucius von Ballhausen
Robert Freiherr Lucius Ballhausen , since 1888 Freiherr von Ballhausen (born December 20, 1835 in Erfurt , † September 10, 1914 at Gut Klein Ballhausen ) was a German doctor and politician in the Kingdom of Prussia .
Life
Lucius came from an old and respected bourgeois family in Thuringia . His father was the Erfurt wool manufacturer Sebastian Lucius .
He attended the Königliche Gymnasium Erfurt (1847-1853) and the Gymnasium Paulinum in Münster. He also took private lessons. After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1854 . In 1855 he was reciprocated in the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg . With two fellow students , he was in 1856 relegated . The three were adopted with the last Comitat in Heidelberg university history. Lucius moved to the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD .
Ship's doctor and soldier
After a trip to Europe he registered in Düsseldorf in 1859 for the 1st Leib-Hussar Regiment No. 1 , which Prussia had mobilized as the guarantor of the German Confederation for the Sardinian War . When the Peace of Zurich was concluded, Lucius no longer needed to be dressed . Instead, he reported in Edinburgh as a ship's doctor for the Prussian East Asia Expedition . Under Friedrich zu Eulenburg she took him to Ceylon , China , Japan , Korea , Hong Kong and Siam . He returned to his mother in Erfurt in August 1862, but joined the Prussian Army again in October of the same year . As a lieutenant in the Berlin Guard Cuirassier Regiment (1863) he took part in all three Wars of Unification - the German-Danish War , the German War and the Franco-German War . He became a lieutenant colonel .
Parliamentarians and ministers
As a member of the Free Conservative Party , Lucius ran unsuccessfully for the Prussian House of Representatives in the 1860s . He was a member of parliament from 1870 to 1879 and from 1882 to 1893. In 1870 he was elected to the Reichstag of the North German Confederation in a replacement election in the constituency of Erfurt 4 ( Erfurt , Schleusingen , Ziegenrück ) , which also made him a member of the Customs Parliament .
From 1871 to 1881 he sat for the same constituency in the Reichstag . In 1879 he was Vice President of the Reichstag. Lucius was a close friend of Otto von Bismarck and was considered the mouthpiece of the Reich Chancellor . The diaries arose from the almost daily visits . They were published as "Bismarck Memories" by Robert's son Hellmuth Lucius von Stoedten and are an important source of Bismarck research.
From 1874 to 1878 he was also a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Saxony .
From 1879 to 1890 Lucius was Prussian Minister of Agriculture . Wilhelm I. was amused that he appeared in a lieutenant's uniform on the inaugural visit .
In 1895 he was appointed a member of the Prussian manor house .
Others
With Bismarck's approval Robert Lucius was on May 5, 1888 by the terminally ill Friedrich III. under the name Lucius of Stoedten and Baron Lucius Ballhausen ennobled .
He was also an honorary citizen of Erfurt since 1889 and the "Lucius-Höhe" in Mittelschmalkalden (re-inauguration in October 2009) was named after him.
From his estates Klein-Ballhausen, Groß-Ballhausen and Stödten (removed after 1945) two entails were formed.
Lucius was a brother of Eugen Lucius , a co-founder of Hoechst AG . Robert Lucius married Juliet Maria Souchay de la Duboissière (1835–1921) in 1864 from the Manchester- based branch of the wealthy merchant family of German Huguenots . The marriage took place at Withington, the Souchay country estate near Manchester. Her sons were Otto Lucius von Ballhausen and Hellmuth Lucius von Stoedten . Robert von Lucius is a great-grandson.
The pear variety Minister Doktor Lucius , which originated in Gruhna near Leipzig and was marketed by the Berlin tree nursery Späth in 1884, was named in his honor.
literature
- Hellmuth Frhr. Lucius v. Stoedten (ed.): Bismarck memories of the Minister of State Baron Lucius von Ballhausen. Cotta, Stuttgart and Berlin 1920.
- Karl Erich Born: Lucius von Ballhausen, Robert Freiherr. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 278 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Siegfried Huebschmann: Robert Lucius Freiherr von Ballhausen. Central German Life Pictures, 2nd Vol .: Life Pictures of the 19th Century. Magdeburg 1927, pp. 407-424.
- The members of Vandalia zu Heidelberg as of September 29, 1935. [Berlin 1936]
- Robert von Lucius : The Erfurt family Lucius. Erfurt Heimatbrief, No. 37, 1978, pp. 28-37.
- Robert von Lucius , Ulf Morgenstern (ed.): Doctor and adventurer, minister and memoir writer: Autobiographical notes of Bismarck's confidante Robert Lucius von Ballhausen . Friedrichsruher contributions 48 (Otto von Bismarck Foundation), 2017. ISBN 978-3-933418-59-3 .
Web links
- Lucius, Robert in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Biography of Robert Freiherr Lucius-Ballhausen . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
- Literature by and about Robert Lucius von Ballhausen in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Literary walks through Erfurt, Erfurt 2011, p. 73.
- ↑ a b c d autobiography from 1921
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 73 , 211
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Vol. 68 (1978), p. 216.
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Vol. VIII, p. 79, Vol. 113, Starke Verlag, Limburg 1997, ISBN 3-7980-0813-2 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lucius von Ballhausen, Robert |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lucius-Ballhausen, Robert Sigismund Josef Maria Freiherr von (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician, MdR |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1835 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |
DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 1914 |
Place of death | Klein Ballhausen |