Karl Rudolf Friedenthal

Karl Rudolf Friedenthal ( born September 15, 1827 in Breslau, † March 7, 1890 in Giesmannsdorf at Neisse ) was a Prussian politician, lawyer and businessman.

Biography

Peace valley parents were Naphtali St. Mark Friedenthal, businessman, banker and city council in Wroclaw, and Amalie born Landsberger. As members of the second largest Jewish community in Germany to Berlin in 1832, father and son were baptized Protestant. He began law studies at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau to study and became active in the Corps Silesia Wroclaw. As Inactive he moved to the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg and the Friedrich -Wilhelms -Universität zu Berlin. He resigned after the first exam in the justice of the Kingdom of Prussia, but had to resign after the death of his father in 1854 to manage his father's large estate can.

In 1857 he was district administrator in the county Grottkau. In 1861 he married Fanny von Rosenberg ( 1829-1912 ). She gave him a son, who died young, and two daughters: Elsbeth married the Baron Ernst von Falkenhausen on Bielau, the other married the Baron Oskar von der Lancken - Wakenitzrestaurant who occupied a respected position in the German diplomatic service. A request from the son- Falkenhausen was accepted, must be allowed to call themselves Baron von Friedenthal - Falkenhausen inherited the estate built by the father Fideikommissherrschaft Friedenthal. The politically liberal -minded Karl Rudolf Friedenthal 1867 was co-founder of the Free Conservative Party, and then member of the North German Reichstag and the Customs Parliament ( 1867-1871 ). In the years 1871 to 1881 was followed by a parliamentary seat in the German Reichstag.

Friedenthal was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives (1870-1879) actively participated in the district reform of 1872. The based on the principle of self-management district regulations of 1872 for the five eastern provinces of Prussia (effective from 1874) was designed in outline of him. In May 1872, he acquired together with Graf Johannes Maria Renard ( case- Strehlitz in Silesia) District Administrator George Scharnweber the manor Hohenschonhausen for 265,000 thalers and let it be managed by an administrator.

From September 1874 he was Prussian State and Minister of Agriculture. In this capacity, he founded the Central Moor Commission. But he resigned after Bismarck's domestic policy change on July 12, 1879. After his retirement as Minister of State in 1879, he acquired the dominion German - Wartenberg in Lower Silesia. He lived then alternately in German - Wartenberg and on his father's property in Giesmannsdorf at Neisse. In 1881 he retired from active politics to devote himself again to the management of its agricultural and industrial estates.

After Friedenthal a street was named in Schmargendorf around 1908. When the Nazis renamed all the streets named after citizens of Jewish origin, these Friedenthal street was named Schellendorff street on May 16, 1938. In 1997, the park was named as Halensee Friedenthal Park and unveiled on 15 September 1997 there in honor peace valley a bronze plaque.

Honors

  • The 1879 is transferred him elevation to the peerage he refused.
  • Plaque: Halenseestraße, Charlottenburg -Wilmersdorf
  • Park: Karl- Friedenthal Park, Charlottenburg- Wilmersdorf
  • Street: Friedenthal road [ historically ], Wilmersdorf ( Charlottenburg- Wilmersdorf today )
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