Robert von Keyserlingk-Cammerau

Robert Graf von Keyserlingk-Cammerau (born March 10, 1866 in Munich ; † October 15, 1959 ) was a German constitutional lawyer , ministerial director and co-founder of the German National People's Party .

Life

origin

His parents were Eugen von Keyserling (1832–1889) and his wife Rudolfine Margarete Adelheid von Dönniges (1846–1930).

Career

Robert von Keyserlingk-Cammerau was district administrator of the Fischhausen district from 1898 to 1906 .

In 1910 he became president of the Königsberg administrative district .

During the First World War he was ministerial director in the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture from 1915 to 1917. In 1917 he became an advisor to the Quartermaster General at the Grand Headquarters . In 1917/18 he was Reich Commissioner for Lithuania and the United Baltic Duchy .

In the Weimar Republic from 1921 to 1933 he was a board member of the agricultural employers' associations and a member of the Prussian State Council . In 1927 he was a member of the German delegation to the Geneva World Economic Conference .

In November 1932 he was one of the co-signers of a petition from industrialists, bankers and landowners to Paul von Hindenburg , which demanded Hitler's chancellorship .

family

He was married to Ernestine Katharina Margarete Hirt . The couple had a daughter:

• Doris Katharina Margarete Magdalene (* March 22, 1901; † December 20, 1945) ∞ Baron Lothar von Richthofen (* September 27, 1894; † July 4, 1922)

Works

• One way to discharge the German economy: lecture . Leipzig 1931
• War and agriculture . 1918

Web links

• Short biography at the Federal Archives
• Acta Borussica (PDF file; 1.92 MB)
• Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods , part 3.1: Kurland, vol: 1, Görlitz, 1937, p. 145
• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Robert von Keyserlingk-Cammerau. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital