Wilhelm von Schlieffen

Wilhelm Martin Ernst Ludwig Graf von Schlieffen (born September 18, 1829 in Berlin , † December 8, 1902 in Potsdam ) was a major councilor, explorer and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

He came from the old Pomeranian aristocratic family von Schlieffen , who was raised to the Prussian count in 1812 and was the son of Count Heinrich Wilhelm von Schlieffen, who died in 1836 (born August 19, 1790 in Czierwienz; † August 7, 1836 in Altwasser), Prussian major, and his wife Sophia, born von Jagow (* April 24, 1803, † November 29, 1871).

Schlieffen attended the Blochmann Institute in Dresden and the Royal University of Berlin . In 1853 he took over the Fideikommissbesitz the family in Schlieffenberg . He spent nine years traveling in southern Europe, Syria , Egypt and Eastern Sudan as well as Algeria . During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he was a delegate for voluntary nursing.

Schlieffen was a permanent member of the Mecklenburg Landtag from 1856 to 1893 and a member of the Landtag directorate since 1880. From 1884 to 1898 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 6 ( Güstrow , Ribnitz ) and the German Conservative Party , their faction however, he only joined as an intern.

family

He married Countess Amelie von der Groeben on May 15, 1858 (* August 4, 1839, † May 23, 1898). The couple had several children:

Martin-Ernst Julius Karl (* July 17, 1859) ⚭ 1895 Alma Martha Albertine Johanna Hedwig Eugenie von Flotow (* December 15, 1870)
Axel Siegfried (* October 25, 1864; † June 13, 1907) ⚭ Countess Catharina Frederike Johanna Augusta Eleonora Steenbock (* June 23, 1863)
Friedrich-Franz Alexander (born August 4, 1866 - † August 4, 1914)

⚭ 1896 (divorce) Ella von Sprenger (born May 2, 1875)

⚭ 1908 Helene von Bevervoorden dead Oldemeule (born June 9, 1862) widowed von Alvensleben

Martha Elisabeth (born June 8, 1870)
Alexandrine (born May 21, 1873)
Heinrich (born October 29, 1876) ⚭ 1907 Mary Georgi (born March 25, 1879)
Irmgard (born September 27, 1878)

Works

Ursula Drovs, Dagmar Drovs (edit.): From Mecklenburg to the Orient: a travel diary from the years 1850/51. Warnkenhagen / OT Tellow: MFP-Verlag-Tellow [2019] ISBN 978-3-946273-05-9

Web links

Graf von Schlieffen, Wilhelm in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Wilhelm Graf-Comte Schlieffen . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Entry on Wilhelm Schlieffen in Kalliope
Literature about Wilhelm von Schlieffen in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

^ 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. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, pp. 271-272.

personal data
SURNAME	Schlieffen, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schlieffen, Wilhelm Martin Ernst Ludwig Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Majoratsherr, explorer and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	September 18, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	December 8, 1902
Place of death	Potsdam

[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. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, pp. 271-272.