Wilhelm von Brauchitsch

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Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Brauchitsch (born February 21, 1820 in Potsdam , † January 6, 1884 in Klein Katz , Neustadt district in West Prussia ) was a German manor owner and politician . Before and after the founding of the German Empire , he was a member of the Reichstag .

Life

origin

Wilhelm was a son of the Prussian general of the cavalry Karl von Brauchitsch (1780-1858) and his wife Christiane, née von Calbo (1790-1823). The MP Carl Otto Sigismund von Karstedt was his stepbrother.

Career

Until 1837 he attended the Knight Academy in Brandenburg Cathedral and then studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn until 1840 . In 1839 he became active in the Corps Borussia Bonn .

He initially embarked on a legal career and became an auscultator at the Chamber of Justice in Schwedt / Oder and then trainee lawyer at the Potsdam Chamber of Justice. In 1847 he moved from the administration of justice to the internal administration of the Kingdom of Prussia . As a government assessor he was in Potsdam and then in Gdansk until 1857 . From 1854 to 1865 he worked as district administrator for the Danzig district . Then he broke off his career for health reasons and retired to Klein Katz as the owner of the manor . From there he devoted himself to politics and club work. Later he was also a co-founder of the Westpreußische Zeitung .

Brauchitsch was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the constituency of Danzig  1 ( Elbing - Marienburg ) from 1866 to 1870 . In 1867 he was elected to the Reichstag of the North German Confederation and from 1871 to 1877 to the Reichstag . He was sent there as a member of the Reichstag constituency, Danzig 1 district . In the Reichstag he belonged to the faction of the Conservative Party (Prussia) .

family

Brauchitsch married Marie von Wilamowitz-Möllendorf (1831–1909) on October 29, 1850. The marriage resulted in their son Karl (1851-1893), who married Franziska von Tiedemann-Brandis (* 1864) in 1884.

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  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19, 171
  2. Thomas Kühne : Handbook of the elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 128-131.
  3. ^ 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. 12; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Statistics of the elections for the constituent and North German Reichstag, for the customs parliament, as well as for the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag. Louis Gerschel publishing house, Berlin 1883, p. 8.