Udo zu Stolberg-Wernigerode

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Count Udo zu Stolberg-Wernigerode
Gravestone / memorial stone in Dönhoffstädt

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:

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