Willibald von Dirksen

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Willibald von Dirksen, 1903. Photograph by Julius Cornelius Schaarwächter

Karl Ernst Eduard Willibald Dirksen , von Dirksen since 1887 (born December 23, 1852 in Berlin ; † June 3, 1928 at Gut Gröditzberg ( Goldberg district , Lower Silesia )) was a landowner , lawyer , imperial German envoy , politician ( Free Conservative Party ) and art collector .

family

Gröditzberg Castle , 1842

He came from a West Prussian family that started the line of tribe with Claes Dirksen (* 1605) in Danzig (1681).

Dirksen's first marriage was on August 12, 1880 in Rolandseck am Rhein near Oberwinter ( Ahrweiler district ), Maria Helene Elisabeth, called Ella Schnitzler (born October 27, 1860 in Cologne ; † January 14, 1916 in Berlin), the banker's daughter and royal Prussian secret commercial councilor Eduard Schnitzler , co-owner of the Cologne bank JH Stein , and Maria vom Rath.

His second marriage was on June 1, 1918, in Berlin Viktoria von Laffert, the daughter of the landowner August von Laffert. Her first marriage was to the squire Olof von Paleske.

On April 25, 1887 Dirksen was raised to the Prussian nobility , so that from then on he was allowed to use the title of Dirksen.

His eldest son was the German ambassador Herbert von Dirksen (1882–1955).

Life

Dirksen was the royal Prussian captain of the Landwehr - cavalry and landlord on the Jessen estates ( Spremberg district ) and Gröditzberg.

He studied at the University of Bonn law . In 1873 he became a member of the Corps Palatia Bonn . In 1875 he became a trainee lawyer , in 1880 an assessor and was a member of the disciplinary chamber in Potsdam from 1880 to 1896 . In 1881 he entered the diplomatic service, worked at the Consulate General in London in 1882/83 and from 1884 in the Foreign Office . In 1886 he became Legation Councilor , in 1888 Real Legation Councilor and Lecturing Council and in 1892 Imperial German Secret Legation Councilor. In 1894 he was a German delegate to the deliberations on private international law in The Hague . In 1902 he was given leave of absence and in 1903 he was made available as envoy. In 1911 he became a royal Prussian real privy councilor . From 1911 to 1921 Dirksen was a member of the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society .

In retirement he was a member of the German Reichstag from 1903 to 1912 , from 1904 to 1913 a member of the Prussian House of Representatives (Second Chamber) for the Reich and Free Conservative Party (RFKP) and from 1914 to 1918 a member of the Prussian Manor House (First Chamber).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 25 , 383
  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. 108 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and the political parties: vol. 3; for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, electoral alliances and candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6) Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 231-234.

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SURNAME Dirksen, Willibald von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dirksen, Willibald; Dirksen, Karl Ernst Eduard Willibald (full name until 1887); Dirksen, Karl Ernst Eduard Willibald von (full name from 1887)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowner and politician, Member of the Parliament and envoy
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1928
Place of death Gut Gröditzberg, Goldberg district , Lower Silesia