Robert Lucius von Ballhausen

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Robert Lucius

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

Robert Frherr von Lucius

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

Certificate of Nobility

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

Memorial stone on the Lucius height

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

Web links

Commons : The Lucius Family  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Literary walks through Erfurt, Erfurt 2011, p. 73.
  2. ↑ a b c d autobiography from 1921
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 73 , 211
  4. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Vol. 68 (1978), p. 216.
  5. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Vol. VIII, p. 79, Vol. 113, Starke Verlag, Limburg 1997, ISBN 3-7980-0813-2 .
personal data
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