Otto Theodor von Manteuffel
Otto Theodor Freiherr von Manteuffel ( born February 3, 1805 in Lubben (Spreewald), † November 26, 1882 on Good Krusty district Luckau, Lower Lusatia ) was a conservative Prussian politician.
Life
Manteuffel was the son of Otto Friedrich Gottlob Freiherr von Manteuffel (* April 6, 1777; † January 20, 1812 in Lubben ) born and his wife Auguste of Thermo ( born December 4, 1782 Zieckau, Circle Luckau, † March 2 born 1810 in Lubben ). The father was a senior official Government President and Konsistorialdirekor of Markgraftums Lower Lusatia. Otto Theodor was the older brother of the later Prussian Minister of Agriculture Karl Otto von Manteuffel. He visited the country since 1819 Pforta and studied from 1824 to 1827 legal and Kameralwissenschaft at the University of Halle. There he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Hall.
In 1830 he took up a teaching post. In 1833 he was in Prussia and was appointed Vice President of the Government in Szczecin for District Administrator of Luckau, 1841 Senior Government in Königsberg in 1843. 1844 called him the Prince of Prussia, then chairman of the Department of State, as carried forward end advice to himself. Soon after, Manteuffel was also appointed a member of the Prussian State Council. He worked in finance until he Director at the Ministry of the Interior in 1845.
Since 1833, he was a knightly MP for the county Luckau to the county council of the province of Brandenburg, whose chairman he was later. The United Diet of 1847 gave him an opportunity to prove his parliamentary skill, after Manteuffel proved to be energetic champion of bureaucratic polity and opponents of constitutional liberalism.
On 8 November 1848 he resigned as Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Brandenburg. At the Prussian constitution of 5 December 1848, Manteuffel had substantial proportion; he it was also who, having brought the message of 7 January, 1850, which repealed key provisions of that Constitution back and defended before the Chambers. After the death of Count Brandenburg with the interim management of foreign affairs entrusted, he took in November, 1850 in the conference to Olomouc -fed anew the Bundestag of the Austrian restoration of the German Confederation after. " The strong man takes a step back ," with these words he sought the discontented with these measures chambers to calm down. On December 19, 1850 was his final appointment as President of the State Ministry and Minister of Foreign Affairs, in which capacity he also in 1856 at the Paris Congress participated. He stayed in his position, though more and more to the reactionary party leaning, pending the establishment of the regency ( October 1858 ).
On 6 November, he received his dismissal with the entire ministry. Because of his many years of service to Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm IV wanted to raise him to the rank of count and reward with a hereditary primogeniture. Manteuffel wrote it:
"When I took over the office of a minister a decade ago, it was done out of love for my King and the fatherland, of ancestral loyalty, without any prospect of external recognition and reward. My personal wishes, I can always mention where it was the interest of the king and the country. Now, when I return to private life, I take it as a legal claim for myself, my own feelings again be taken into account in matters that affect only my person and their circumstances. I can not wish to rise in rank and Majoratsstiftung. I want to contract out in the present circumstances without external signs of recognition. Ew. I ask Your Royal Highness, therefore, earnestly to take me by the added distance covered Awards. "
Manteuffel retired to his estates in Lusatia. For Görlitz elected to the Prussian House of Representatives, he participated not particularly in the debates. Since 1864 Member of the mansion, he represented repeated conservative principles.
Honors
On February 6, 1850 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Berlin, also the Manteuffelstraße in Kreuzberg was named after him. In the southern city of Wilhelmshaven a Manteuffelstraße was inaugurated on 17 June 1869 in the presence of King William I, also. On the road, the place was Manteuffel ( parade ground ). He was also an honorary citizen of Gdansk, Brandenburg an der Havel, Stettin and all the cities of Lower Lusatia.
In the city Lubben the great son of the city, a monument designed by the Cologne sculptor Peter Bürger were built, which was unveiled in 1908 in Lübbener grove. Because of the much-needed non-ferrous metal, the monument was, however, dismantled and melted down during World War II. The empty socket was preserved and found in the restoration of the monument Lübbener hunters in 1938 to a new use.