Udo zu Stolberg-Wernigerode

Count Udo zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (born March 4, 1840 in Berlin ; † February 19, 1910 there ) was President of the Reichstag from 1907 to 1910.
Life
origin
Count Udo was born as the eldest son of Count Conrad zu Stolberg-Wernigerode and his wife Marianne Freiin vom Romberg. His grandfather was Count Anton zu Stolberg-Wernigerode .
Majorat
He graduated from high school in 1858 at the Evangelisch Stiftisches Gymnasium in Gütersloh .
Count Udo succeeded his uncle, Count Eberhard zu Stolberg-Wernigerode, on August 8, 1872, as majorate of the Silesian rule Kreppelhof . From his grandmother, Countess Amalie Dönhoff , he inherited the Fideikommissherrschaft Dönhoffstädt in East Prussia .
He became major à la suite in the Prussian Army .
politics
District Administrator of the Landeshut district and, in 1871, when the Reich was founded, a German-conservative member of the Reichstag. The following year, Count Udo became a member of the Prussian manor house . From 1892 to 1895 he was President of the Prussian Province of East Prussia, in 1901 he became 1st Vice-President and in 1907 President of the German Reichstag . He held this position until his death in 1910.
family
Count Udo married Elisabeth on July 26, 1871, the daughter of the Royal Prussian State Minister Adolf Heinrich Count von Arnim-Boitzenburg and the Caroline Countess von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg (1804–1886). The following children were born from this marriage:
- Conrad (1872–1890), died in a hunting accident on the Nordenburg lake
- Adolf (1872-1910)
- Marie-Eleonore (1876–1940)
- Armgard (1877–1912), married to Oskar Graf von Platen-Hallermund , court marshal of Kaiser Wilhelm II , vice admiral of the Imperial Navy
- Richard (1878-1894)
- Antonie (1880–1969), married to Friedrich Graf zu Eulenburg , member of the Prussian mansion, deputy chairman of Ostpreußenwerke AG (from 1923 part of VIAG ), chairman of the supervisory board of the Rastenburg sugar factory and member of the board of directors and board of trustees of the Bank of the East Prussian Landscape .
- Werner (1883-1884)
- Renata (1886–1946), superior of the deaconess mother house in Königsberg
- Albrecht (1886–1948), member of the Reichstag , member of the Prussian mansion, owner of the Kreppelhof, Dönhoffstädt and Udowald estates ⚭ 1914 Magna-Maria Countess zu Solms-Wildenfels
- Freda (1892–1977) ⚭ Dr. jur. Otto Weber
Web links
- Udo zu Stolberg-Wernigerode in the database of members of the Reichstag
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Stolberg-Wernigerode, Udo zu |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician, MdR |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1840 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1910 |
Place of death | Berlin |