Botho zu Eulenburg
Botho Wendt August Graf (July 31, 1831 * in Wicken at Bartenstein, † November 5, 1912 in Berlin) zu Eulenburg was a Prussian Prime Minister and Interior Minister.
Family
Botho Wendt ( or Wend ) zu Eulenburg was a son of Count Heinrich Botho zu Eulenburg ( 1804-1879 ) and his wife Therese née Countess von Dönhoff ( 1806-1885 ). His brother was the Prussian Minister of the Royal Household and Court Marshal August Graf zu Eulenburg. Prince Philipp zu Eulenburg was a cousin of 2nd degree. Botho zu Eulenburg Wendt married in 1875 Elizabeth of Alvensleben, widowed Countess of Keyserling -Neustadt. The son Botho (* 1879), died at two years.
Life
Eulenburg studied from 1849 to 1852 Law at the Albertus University of Königsberg and the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. In 1851 he became active in the Corps Borussia Bonn.
After graduation he was in 1857 Gerichtsassessor. In the same year, he moved from the administration of justice in the internal administration of Prussia. He was entrusted with the administration of the district office of Marie Werder. Since 1859 he was district administrator in German crown. In 1864 he was a laborer and 1867 lecture forming the Council in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. Otto von Bismarck valued him at that time as the only capable head among the younger councils of the Ministry.
He was from 1863 to 1870 and again from 1879 to 1881 a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and 1867 was also a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation. He was there at the Conservatives.
In 1869 he was appointed President of the Government in Wiesbaden. Since 1872 he was District President of Lorraine is based in Metz and since 1873 President of the Province of Hanover.
Eulenburg was from 1878 to 1881 succeeding his uncle Friedrich Graf zu Eulenburg Prussian Minister of the Interior, and dealt in particular with the Socialist Law. When he tried to push the already planned by his predecessor administrative reform, it came into conflict with Otto von Bismarck. The opposition erupted over the issue of local government in the country. While Bismarck argued for the retention of supervision by the district administrators, sat down to Eulenburg in accordance with the Prussian Chamber of Deputies for the supervision of the District Committee. Bismarck was in February 1881 in the Prussian House of Lords come to an open confrontation. Then was forced to resign zu Eulenburg.
From 1881 to 1892 he was President of the Province of Hesse -Nassau in Kassel.
From March 1892 to 1894 he was Prime Minister of Prussia as the successor of Leo von Caprivi. Contrary to the practice before and after usual there was a separation of the Office of the Prime Minister and the Chancellor. The same was true only during the premiership Albrecht von Roon ( January-November 1873). After the fall of the Prussian Interior Minister Ernst Ludwig Herrfurth following the adoption of the new Land Municipal Code ( Prussia) Eulenburg was a Prussian Minister of the Interior also in the summer of 1892.
Eulenburg agreed with Bismarck 's view that social democracy should be fought with repressive means. Social policy reforms of the New Course, as it represented the Prussian Minister of Commerce Hans Hermann von Berlepsch, he refused. In accordance with Wilhelm II continued to Eulenburg 1894 for the roll template. This new special law should be enforced if necessary with the help of a coup to eliminate the recalcitrant Reichstag. This was true Eulenburg on the resistance of Leo von Caprivi. This sat down, in particular through the southern states, by. Because Caprivi refused further cooperation with Eulenburg, both of Wilhelm II were released on 26 October 1894 and replaced by Prince Clovis Hohenlohe.
To Eulenburg was a member of the Prussian House of Lords since 1899. In 1909 he became a member of Immediatkommission for administrative reform. From 1909 to 1912 he was chairman of the so-called Old Group in the mansion.
Eulenburg's grave is in the cemetery of Trinity Church I in Berlin- Kreuzberg.