Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
Adolf Karl Friedrich Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe- Ingelfingen ( born July 29, 1797 in Breslau, † April 24, 1873 in Koschentin ) was a Prussian cavalry general, politician and briefly Prime Minister of Prussia.
Life
Family
Adolf was the son of Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe- Ingelfingen and his wife Maria Amalie Christiane Charlotte Countess of Hoym ( born October 6, 1763 in Mainz, † April 20, 1840 in Marienhof ).
Hohenlohe- Ingelfingen married on April 19, 1819 Princess Luise zu Hohenlohe -Langenburg (* August 22, 1799; † January 17, 1881 ). The marriage produced five children:
- Charles ( born November 19, 1820)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Alexander ( born January 9, 1826 in Koschentin, † October 24, 1895 ), Prussian General of the Infantry
- Force Karl August of Hohenlohe- Ingelfingen ( born January 2, 1827 in Koschentin; † January 16, 1892 in Dresden), Prussian general of artillery
- Adelheid ( born May 13, 1830)
- Luise ( born March 25, 1835 in Breslau, † July 15, 1913 at his hunting lodge Krähberg ) ∞ Alfred zu Erbach - Fuerstenau
Career
Hohenlohe- Ingelfingen was hired on April 27, 1815, second lieutenant in the Prussian army and ordered to service at General Kleist of Nollendorf. Here he took part in the siege of Sedan, Mezières and Montmédy during the campaign in 1815 against France. In March 1817 he came to the Guard Uhlan Regiment, but resigned in the following year from active military service and was district in Silesia. In the militia he rose from September 1830 and was on September 12, 1841 Chief of the 23 Landwehr Regiment.
He was a member of the 1847 United Landtag. Even the Erfurt Union Parliament, he belonged to. He was also a member of the first chamber of the Prussian Landtag. In the years 1852-1854 he was also a member of the second chamber. After redesigning the first chamber into the Prussian mansion in 1856 he became president of the house.
Hohenlohe- Ingelfingen represented a feudal- conservative direction. He rejected both the conservative bureaucracy by Otto Theodor von Manteuffel as well as the liberal- conservative tendencies of the new era.
After the fall of Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern -Sigmaringen in connection with the military conflict, he became Prime Minister of Prussia. He has estimated his lack of foreign policy experience as a burden. But he hoped the Army conflict a compromise with the liberal majority of the Prussian House of Representatives to find. The actual control the cabinet anyway exerted August von der Heydt.
After another victory of the Progressive Party in the elections of May 6, 1862 resigned Hohenlohe- Ingelfingen. His resignation William I, however, has not been adopted. Instead, he laid out the alleged health reasons, the presidency of the Prussian State Ministry down. Following the appointment of Otto von Bismarck as Prime Minister, he retired from political life.
Honors
Hohenlohe- Ingelfingen been since October 26, 1858 Knight of the Black Eagle. He was also owner of the Red Eagle Order, First Class with Oak Leaves, of the Order of St. Anne, First Class with diamonds and the Grand Cross of Saxe- Ernestine House Order.