Georg von der Decken (politician)
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- 19 August 1898 in Salzgitter-Ringelheim
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) owner of Ringelheim and member of the German Reichstag
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Life
Von der Decken was the son of Adolphus Count von der Decken and Louise von Wallmoden. He married in 1866 in Schlobitten Marie zu Dohna-Schlodien. She grew up in Małomice in SilesiaSilesia
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. The couple had five children.
Before 1890 count von der Decken was Attache at the Hanoverian Embassy in Paris. Here he had the opportunity to deepen his technic in painting.
He was party leader of the German-Hanoverian Party since 1890 and distinguished as a political opponent of Otto von Bismarck
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and the Prussian
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supremacy in the German Reich
From 1890 until his death he was a member of the German Parliament
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for the Province of Hanover
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He was highly musical, painted large-scale oil paintings and created wooden sculptures. His motives were in accordance with the prevailing taste, romantic landscapes and figures from Greek heroic legend. In the church of Ringelheim there are still his oil paintings: the altar piece and the twelve disciples of Christ in life-size.