Wilhelm of Minnigerode

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Wilhelm Freiherr von Minnigerode (born November 28, 1840 in Braunschweig , † November 10, 1913 in Gries ) was a German landowner, member of the Reichstag and leader of the Conservative Party.

origin

His parents were Ludwig Wilhelm Bodo Friedrich August Karl Hans von Minnigerode (* May 10, 1806, † February 19, 1853) and his wife Juliane Marie Cäcilie Antoniette Jenny von der Betten (* December 15, 1815; † September 29, 1884).

Life

Minnigerode attended grammar school in Braunschweig and then the knight academy in Dom Brandenburg . After passing the Abitur exams , he joined the Guard Cavalry in Berlin in 1860 , but left the army again in 1865 after having been an active officer for four years and took over the management of his estates in East Prussia . He took part in the wars of 1866 and 1870 as a reserve officer in the Regiment of the Garde du Corps . He was then elected as a Conservative member of the Reichstag in 1871 , to which he - with a short interruption - belonged until 1884. From 1871 to 1877 he represented the constituency of the Reichstag electoral district of Königsberg 7 and from 1878 to 1884 of the Reichstag constituency of Danzig 1 .

From 1877 to 1888 he was also a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . In 1884 he was appointed to the Prussian State Council and renounced a new election to the Reichstag. Baron von Minnigerode was an excellent member and one of the leaders of the strictly (German) conservative party and, above all, active in the agrarian sense. In 1888 he withdrew from parliamentary life, but accepted a seat for the House of Representatives again at a replacement election at the end of 1892, from which he left again in 1893.

Wilhelm von Minnigerode married Amelie Friederike Caroline Freiin von Schrötter on October 2, 1865 (born November 29, 1846 in Königsberg; † July 20, 1902 in Berlin). She was the daughter of the Prussian lawyer and district administrator Wilhelm von Schrötter and the owner of the Anguts estate with Warnikam and Golbitten in East Prussia . The marriage remained childless.

literature

  • Meyers Konversationslexikon. 4th edition. Publishing house of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, Volume 11, p. 665 ( retrobibliothek.de )
  • Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon. 14th edition, 1908
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses, 1890, fortieth year, p.540

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 5 and p. 12
  2. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 272 ​​(handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); 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. 99-101.
personal data
SURNAME Minnigerode, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Minnigerode, Wilhelm Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowner, leader of the Conservative Party and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1913
Place of death Semolina