Rudolf von Buol-Berenberg

Rudolf von Buol-Berenberg
President of the Reichstag
In office
March 1895 – December 1898
Preceded byAlbert von Levetzow
Succeeded byFranz von Ballestrem
Personal details
Born(1842-05-24)24 May 1842
Zizenhausen, Grand Duchy of Baden
Died4 July 1902(1902-07-04) (aged 60)
Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden
Spouse
Elisabeth von Savigny
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(m. 1883; died 1902)​
Children1
Parent(s)Bertha Baader
Rudolf Johann von Buol-Berenberg

Rudolf, Freiherr von Buol-Berenberg (24 May 1842 – 4 July 1902) was a German lawyer and politician of the Centre Party who served as President of the Reichstag from 1895 to 1898.[1]

Early life

Buol-Berenberg was born on 24 May 1842 in Zizenhausen near Stockach. He was the fourth of six children born to Bertha Baader and Baron Rudolf Johann von Buol-Berenberg (1809–1895), Lord of the Mühlingen estate and owner of Zizenhausen Castle.[2]

Rudolf attended high school in Konstanz before studying law in Munich at the Universities of Freiburg and Heidelberg. In the same year he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Freiburg and Franconia Munich.[3]

Career

In 1864 Buol-Berenberg became a legal intern at the Konstanz district court and, in 1866, a trainee assessor at the Konstanz District Court. In 1870 he became a district judge in Mannheim. In 1879 he was appointed regional judge in Mannheim before becoming a higher regional judge in Karlsruhe in 1898.[3]

Baron von Buol-Berenberg was a member of the 2nd Baden Chamber from 1881 to 1897, and from 1891 to 1894 as well as its 1st Vice President. He was a member of the Reichstag from 1884 to 1898 and President of the Reichstag between 1895 and 1898. As president, he invited Wilhelm Röntgen to present his experiments which produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range (known as X-rays or Röntgen rays) to the Reichstag and Bundestag in Berlin.[4]

In 1890, he served as president of the 37th German Catholic Convention in Koblenz.[5]

Personal life

On 27 June 1883 Buol married Elisabeth von Savigny (1856–1902), a daughter of Karl Friedrich von Savigny, a Prussian diplomat who was a co-founder of the Centre Party, and Countess Marie von Arnim-Boitzenburg (a daughter of Count Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg, the 1st Minister President of Prussia).[6][7][8] They were the parents of a daughter, Mariefreda, who was born in 1886, who became a Novice in the Order of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Vienna.[9]

Baron von Buol-Berenberg's wife died five months before his death on 4 July 1902 in Baden-Baden. His funeral service was held in Baden-Baden before he was buried in the von Buol family burial ground at the parish church of St. Martin in Mühlingen.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Buol von Berenberg, Rudolf Freiherr". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  2. ^ Gothaisches genealogisches taschenbuch der freiherrlichen Häuserbooks. 1907. p. 95. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  3. ^ a b Evans, Richard J. (3 June 2015). Society and Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (Routledge Revivals). Routledge. p. 271. ISBN 978-1-317-55301-4. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  4. ^ Busch, Uwe (9 October 2021). Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen: A Shining Life for Science. Springer Nature. p. 83. ISBN 978-3-030-72243-2. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  5. ^ Bredohl, Thomas Matthias (2000). Class and Religious Identity: The Rhenish Center Party in Wilhelmine Germany. Marquette University Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-87462-642-1. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  6. ^ Wiese, René; Jandausch, Kathleen (9 August 2021). Schwestern im Geiste: Briefwechsel zwischen Großherzogin Alexandrine von Mecklenburg-Schwerin und Königin Elisabeth von Preußen. Teil 1: 1824-1850 (in German). Böhlau Köln. p. 65. ISBN 978-3-412-52225-4. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  7. ^ Raasch, Markus (15 October 2014). Adeligkeit, Katholizismus, Mythos: Neue Perspektiven auf die Adelsgeschichte der Moderne (in German). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 113. ISBN 978-3-11-036391-3. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  8. ^ Titz-Matuszak, Ingeborg (12 December 2016). Bernhard August von Lindenau (1779-1854): Teil 2: Reden, Schriften, Briefe. Eine Auswahl (in German). Springer-Verlag. pp. 314, 373. ISBN 978-3-476-03402-1. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  9. ^ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der freiherrlichen Häuser: zugleich Adelsmatrikel der im Ehrenschutzbunde des Deutschen Adels vereinigten Verbande (in German). Julius Perthes. 1919. p. 117. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  10. ^ Blos, Wilhelm (1914). Denkwürdigkeiten eines Sozialdemokraten (in German). Birk. p. 47. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
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