William of Douglas

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Wilhelm Ludwig Karl Graf von Douglas (born February 8, 1849 in Geneva , † April 22, 1908 in Gondelsheim ) was a German-Swedish landowner and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Wilhelm von Douglas was the eldest son of the Swedish nobleman Carl Israel Douglas and his wife Louise Katharina Countess von Langenstein and Gondelsheim , an illegitimate daughter of the Grand Duke Ludwig of Baden . His younger brother was the later Swedish Reichsmarschall and Foreign Minister Ludvig Douglas .

He first attended schools in Switzerland ( Hofwyhl ), then in Cannstatt , Stuttgart and from 1867 the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe . At the end of 1869 he joined the 20th Dragoon Regiment and took part in the 1870/71 war as a lieutenant and became a Knight of the Iron Cross . In 1872 he was transferred to the regiment of the Gardes du Corps and in 1880 joined the regiment's reserve officers. Then he devoted himself to the administration of his estates Gondelsheim and Langenstein near Stockach . He was a member of the district assemblies of the Konstanz and Karlsruhe districts, as well as a committee member of the German Agricultural Society since 1886.

From January 1888 to 1898 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Baden 13 ( Bretten , Sinsheim ) and the German Conservative Party .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baden Historical Commission: Badische Biographien , Volume 6, 1935, p. 249
  2. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 258.

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SURNAME Douglas, Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowner and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1908
Place of death Gondola home