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Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld auf Köfering und Schönberg

Hugo Max Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld auf Köfering und Schönberg , known as Graf von Lerchenfeld-Köfering for short, was a conservative politician and the Prime Minister of Bavaria from 1921 to 1922...

Hugo Phillip Graf von Lerchenfeld auf Köfering und Schönberg (13 October 1843 in Berlin

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 - 28 June 1925 in Köfering

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) was the representative of the Kingdom of Bavaria

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 in Berlin

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 from 1880 to 1918.

Due to the dual nature of the King of Prussia

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 also being the German Emperor

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 in those years, in practice he functioned as the Bavarian representative to the national German government. He also served in this time as one of the six Bavarian delegates to the Bundesrat, the second chamber of the national parliament.

Life

Hugo Phillip Graf von Lerchenfeld was born on 13 October 1843 in Berlin, his parents being Max Graf von Lerchenfeld and Isabella Gräfin Waldbott von Bassenheim. He studied law and joined the Bavarian foreign department in 1868.

Like his father he became a member of the Bavarian diplomatic corps, serving at first in Paris

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 in 1868. He briefly held a post at the foreign ministry in München before serving abroad again, from 1871 in St. Petersburg. From 1875 he was posted in Vienna

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 and after this he served for 41 years as the Bavarian representative in Berlin.

On 21 December 1899, he was made an honrary member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences

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. In 1911, he became a Knight of the Hubertusorden.

He died on 28 June 1925 in Köfering, near Regensburg

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Sources

• Die Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften: Mitglieder google book review (in German), by Werner Hartkopf, Akademischer Verlag
• Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg - Bosls bayrische Biographie - Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld (in German), author: Karl Bosl, publisher: Pustet, page 475

Further reading

• Erinnerungen und Denkwürdigkeiten 1843 - 1925 Kgl.Bayr. Staatsrat und Gesandter am Kgl. Preuß. Hof (in German), by Hugo Phillip Graf von Lerchenfeld, Verlag E.S.Mittler & Sohn, Berlin, 1935 (second edition)