Johann Nicolas Michael Louis von Dallwitz, born September 29, 1855 in Breslau, in Lower Silesia, died August 02, 1919 in Bosse) was a politician

Politician

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, who served in Anhalt

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 and Prussia

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Biography

Having frequented the Gymnasium of Dresden

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, he studied law. From 1886 to 1899 he served on the administrative council of the district of Lüben

Lubin

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, and then the council of Posen

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. In 1902 he became Minister of State for Anhalt

Anhalt

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 and in 1901, Superior President of the province of Silesia

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. From 1903 to 1909 he was Minister-President of Anhalt, and from 1910 to 1914, Interior Minister of Prussia. After a conflict with his conservative colleagues, he resigned from the post (see Saverne Affair

Saverne Affair

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In 1914 Dallwitz, was chosen by Kaiser Wilhelm II as successor to Count Karl von Wedel as reichsstatthalter of Alsace-Lorraine

Alsace-Lorraine

The Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine was a territory created by the German Empire in 1871 after it annexed most of Alsace and the Moselle region of Lorraine following its victory in the Franco-Prussian War. The Alsatian part lay in the Rhine Valley on the west bank of the Rhine River and east...

. During this time, he attempted to join the Reichsland to Prussia. However, the outbreak of the First World War and the subsequent conflict between the populations of Alsace-Lorraine and Prussia led to the resignation of Dallwitz on 14 October 1918.

Source

• Paul Wentzcke, Dallwitz, Hans von in Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB), Vol. 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1957, p. 493