Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld auf Köfering und Schönberg

Hugo Max Graf von Lerch and field Koefering and Schönberg ( born August 21, 1871 in Koefering, Upper Palatinate, † April 13, 1944 in Munich), also Count of short Lerch field Koefering, was a Bavarian politician and German diplomat.

Life

After attending school (Abitur 1889 at Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich), he studied law and was appointed Assessor in the county in Neustadt am Kulm 1900. In 1904 he then moved to the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, before he was 1909-1914 District Officer of the district office Berchtesgaden.

1914 he was appointed Councillor in the Bavarian State Ministry of Education, but he left again in 1915, because he became a Councillor in the civil administration of Russian Poland. After the end of World War I, he was appointed a Privy Councillor of Legation at the Foreign Office in 1919 and served as such from 1920 to 1921 and authorized representative of the Foreign Office and the Reich government in the People's State of Hesse in Darmstadt.

Later he was from 21 September 1921 to November 2, 1922 to the Bavarian Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Minister of Justice.

He belonged to the Bavarian People's Party ( BVP ) that a conservative party in the Weimar Republic, and was a staunch opponent of the Nazi movement. Under his rule, the state of emergency was lifted in Bavaria.

At the general election in May 1924, he was elected to the German Reichstag, where he served until his resignation on 31 October 1926. In Parliament, he represented the constituency of 26 ( francs).

Subsequently, he was the successor of Maximilian Pfeiffer 1926-1931 ambassador in Austria. As part of a reshuffle at the missions abroad, he was then in 1931, while Kurt Rieth followed as a successor of Alfred Horstmann ambassador in Belgium him as ambassador to Vienna.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialist Nazi Party in 1933, he placed in the interim and then in 1934 in the final retirement. Successor as ambassador in Brussels was Raban Graf Adelmann of Adelmannsfelden.

In addition to his political and diplomatic activity engaged Hugo Graf von Lerch field for the free welfare. He was since its inception in 1925 President of the German League of welfare work, until he had to give up this office under pressure from the Nazis. He also belonged to the Central Committee of the German Caritas Association ( DCV ).