Wilhelm von Hohenthal

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Group photo in the Federal Council, 1900, Wilhelm von Hohenthal seated, second from the right (person no. 11)
Wilhelm von Hohenthal with his wife, 1899. Photo by E. Höffert.

Karl Adolf Philip Wilhelm Graf von Hohenthal and Bergen (born February 4, 1853 in Berlin , † September 29, 1909 in Dresden ) was a German politician. From 1906 to 1909 he was Saxon interior and foreign minister.

Life

Wilhelm Graf von Hohenthal came from the Saxon noble family Hohenthal . His father was the Saxon diplomat Karl Adolph Graf von Hohenthal auf Knauthain and his grandfather the Saxon governor Carl Ludwig August von Hohenthal . Hohenthal studied in Bonn and Leipzig law and became a doctor doctorate . In 1872 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . In 1881 he traveled through North and Central America and in the same year joined the Saxon Ministry of Foreign Affairs as legation secretary. In 1882 he worked several times as chargé d'affaires of the Saxon legation in Berlin and was appointed royal Saxon chamberlain . Count Hohenthal was a member of the First Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament from 1883/84 , as a representative of the manor owners appointed by the king. He owned the manor in Knauthain. On May 1, 1885, Hohenthal was appointed Saxon envoy in Berlin. In 1895 he received the title of Real Secret Council and was appointed as the voting representative of Saxony in the Federal Council.

Ministerial office

On May 1, 1906, Hohenthal was appointed Saxon Minister of the Interior and Foreign Affairs. He represented a more liberal policy than his predecessor Georg von Metzsch-Reichenbach . Chairman of the total ministry was indeed Konrad Wilhelm von Rüger , but Hohenthal was the head of the government, trying to depose the government's policy of the ultra-conservative majority in Parliament. He made a special contribution to the electoral law reform of 1909, which placed the right to vote on a broader basis. He resigned from his offices on June 1, 1909 due to illness. He died in Dresden at the end of September 1909 and was buried in Altranstädt .

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? Contemporaries lexicon containing biographies and bibliographies . 4th edition, completely reworked. and essential exp. Degener, Leipzig 1909.
  • Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Born 6.1901-18.1913. Reimer, Berlin 1904–1913.
  • Wilhelm Kosch : Biographisches Staats Handbuch: Lexicon of politics, press and journalism, continued by Eugen Kuri . Francke, Bern, et al. 1963.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 11/563
  2. ↑ death survey . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 4, 1909, p. 68.
personal data
SURNAME Hohenthal, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenthal and Bergen, Karl Adolf Philip Wilhelm Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1909
Place of death Dresden