Wilhelm von Kardorff

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Wilhelm von Kardorff, 1903.

Wilhelm Carl Friedrich August Hellmuth Ludwig von Kardorff (born January 8, 1828 in Neustrelitz ; † July 21, 1907 at Gut Nieder-Wabnitz, Oels district , Lower Silesia ) was a Prussian politician and entrepreneur .

Life

Wilhelm von Kardorff came from the old Mecklenburg noble family von Kardorff . His parents were in Danish related services chamberlain and bailiff William of Kardorff (1792-1827), who passed away shortly before William's birth, and his wife Mathilde, born of Dalwigk (1803-1883). After law school from 1846 to 1849 in Berlin , Halle (Saale) and Heidelberg he was in 1851 as a trainee transferred to the Prussian civil service, but took as a government assessor in Stralsund in 1855 his resignation, bought and managed as a landowner Good Wabnitz (now Wabienice , Poland) in the Oels district in Silesia. There he took over the office of the royal Prussian district administrator from 1884 to 1895 .

In 1866 Kardorff was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives, to which he belonged until 1876 and from 1888 to 1907. As a conservative supporter of Bismarck's politics, he was one of the founders of the Free Conservative Party . From 1867 he was a member of the free conservative faction of the North German , then the German Reichstag . At the Reich level, this party was called the German Reich Party. Kardorff maintained close relationships with Gerson Bleichröder and was chairman of the supervisory board of Vereinigte Königs- und Laurahütte AG and a member of the board of directors of other companies during the founding period .

After the severe economic crisis from 1873 ( Gründerkrach ) he became one of the spokesmen who called for the free trade course to be abandoned. He wrote and published his arguments in 1875 in a brochure entitled Gegen den Strom . In 1876 he founded the Central Association of German Industrialists , one of the most influential employers' associations of the time. The association also advocated the introduction of protective tariffs .

In the Kartellreichstag of 1887 , thanks to the close cooperation with Bismarck, he was in fact part of the leadership of the parliamentary government bloc. After Bismarck was deposed, he withdrew support from his successor, Leo von Caprivi . A cooperation with the government only came back under the Reich Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow . The creation of the customs tariff of December 1902 - a further increase in protective tariffs was decided - was essentially his initiative.

Kardorff married on July 16, 1856 at Gut Möllenbeck Sophie von Borck (born November 11, 1836 at Gut Möllenbeck, † May 21, 1914 in Oels ), the daughter of the grand ducal mecklenburg-Strelitz chamberlain Karl August von Borck, lord of the Möllenbeck and monastery captain von Malchow , and Karoline von Behr-Negendanck (Torgelow house). Son Siegfried (1873-1945) also became district administrator and later Vice President of the German Reichstag, son Konrad (1877-1945) became a painter and professor of the arts, grandson Jürgen (1918-1943) fell as a lieutenant in a reconnaissance department near Slavyansk in eastern Ukraine.

Wilhelm von Kardorff was an honorary knight of the Order of St. John and a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia (1847) and Marchia Halle (1848).

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  1. ↑ 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. 207; for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of 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. 314-318.
  2. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 190, short biography p. 424.
  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, pp. 66-67.
  4. ↑ Ursula von Kardorff : Berlin records 1942 to 1945 . Reissued and commented by Peter Hartl using the original diaries . Munich: CH Beck 1992, p. 67
  5. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 99 , 178; 120 , 343
personal data
SURNAME Kardorff, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kardorff, Wilhelm Carl Friedrich August Hellmuth Ludwig von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian-German politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1907
Place of death Nieder-Wabnitz , Silesia