Wilhelm von Bismarck

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Count Bismarck as a Bonn Prussian

Wilhelm v. Bismarck ( Christian Wilhelm Allers , 1892)

Count Wilhelm von Bismarck, 1899, painted by Max Koner

Wilhelm "Bill" Otto Albrecht von Bismarck-Schönhausen , from 1865 Count von Bismarck-Schönhausen (born August 1, 1852 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 30, 1901 in Varzin , Pomerania ) was a German politician and administrative lawyer . He was a member of the Reichstag , the Prussian House of Representatives , then District Administrator of Hanau , District President of Hanover and lastly Upper President of the Province of East Prussia . He was a son of Otto von Bismarck .

Origin and family

Wilhelm von Bismarck came from the noble family of the Bismarcks and was the younger of the two sons of the future Prussian Prime Minister and Chancellor Otto Fürst von Bismarck and his wife Johanna , née. by Puttkamer . Wilhelm was born in Frankfurt because his father was the Prussian ambassador to the Bundestag of the German Confederation there at the time.

Wilhelm von Bismarck married on July 6, 1885 at Schloss Kröchlendorff , Uckermark , his cousin Sibylle von Arnim (1864–1945), daughter of Oskar von Arnim-Kröchlendorff and Malwine nee. von Bismarck-Schönhausen , the sister who was closely associated with the Chancellor. The marriage resulted in a son and two daughters.

education

Bismarck attended grammar school in Berlin and initially studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . With his brother Herbert von Bismarck he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn in 1870 . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . He passed the first and in 1878 the second state examination in law.

From October 1, 1869 to August 16, 1873 he did military service. As an officer, he participated in the Franco-German War . He retired from the military as Premier Lieutenant a la suite.

Career

First he became a government assessor in the political department of the Foreign Office and with the imperial governor in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . In 1881 he moved to the Reich Chancellery . In 1882 he became a government councilor and in 1884 lecturer in the Prussian State Ministry .

In 1885 the Prussian Minister of the Interior, Robert Viktor von Puttkamer , a relative of his mother, proposed him to the king for appointment as district administrator of the Hanau district . He was provisionally appointed to the position on September 22, and was finally transferred on October 16, 1885. During his tenure in 1886, the city of Hanau became an independent city and spun off from the Hanau district. Since there was also a “City District Hanau”, the previous “District Hanau” was renamed “District Hanau”.

On March 1, 1889, Bismarck was the district president of Hanover , and from 1895 to 1901 he was the chief president of East Prussia.

From 1878 to 1881 he was a member of the German Reich Party , a parliamentary group of the Free Conservative Party , the Reichstag . He was then a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1882 to 1885 . He was primarily committed to the interests of agriculture. On May 30, 1901, he died of peritonitis .

Honors (selection)

• In 1884 he received the title of Privy Councilor
• Mount Wilhelm in the Bismarck Mountains, the highest mountain in Papua New Guinea
• Order of the Red Eagle , II class with star and oak leaves
• Iron Cross , II class

literature

• Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1827-1902. Düsseldorf 1902. p. 177. ( digital )
• Georg-Wilhelm Hanna (edit.): The district of Hanau and its district administrators . Ed .: Kreissparkasse Hanau . Hanau 1989, p. 22.
• Heinrich Heffter:  Bismarck, Wilhelm Otto Albrecht Count of. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 277 ( digitized version ).
• Horst Kohl: Letters Otto von Bismarck to sister and brother-in-law, Malwine v. Arnim born von Bismarck-Schönhausen and Oskar von Arnim-Kröchlendorff (i. A. the Sibylle v. Bismarck born v. Arnim, Leipzig 1915).
• Johannes Penzler: Count Wilhelm Bismarck: a life picture after the presented by the family and other material . Berlin 1902.
• Werner Richter: Bismarck . Frankfurt 1962.
• Hans-Ulrich Wehler : German history of society. Third volume 1849–1914 . CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-32263-8 , p. 920 f.
• Wolfgang Windelband: Bismarck's letters to his son Wilhelm (on behalf of Countess Wilhelm von Bismarck, née von Arnim), Berlin 1922.
• Meyer's Encyclopedic Lexicon . Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1972, Volume 4, p. 275.
• Thomas Klein: Senior officials in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau and in Waldeck 1867–1945. (= Sources and research on Hessian history, 70; Ed. Hessische Historische Kommission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse), Darmstadt / Marburg 1988, ISBN 3-88443-159-5 , pp. 98–99.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm von Bismarck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bismarck, Wilhelm in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Wilhelm Graf-Comte Bismarck-Schoenhausen . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
• Bismarck-Schönhausen, Bill Graf von. Hessian biography. (As of November 18, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Heffter:  Bismarck, Wilhelm Otto Albrecht Graf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 277 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Hanna: Hanau district .
3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 11 , 559
4. ↑ Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the assistance of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne : Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 68.