Karl von Bodelschwingh-Velmede, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Prussian politician
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Place of Birth: Hamm, Free State of Prussia, Germany
About Karl von Bodelschwingh-Velmede
- Karl von Bodelschwingh-Velmede (10 December 1800 – 12 May 1873) was a Prussian politician. Von Bodelschwingh-Velmede was born in Velmede, near Hamm in the County of Mark.
- After serving as a one-year volunteer in the Guards Rifles Battalion he studied law, and then entered public life, serving in a string of posts from 1837–45: as Landtag in Hamm, Oberregierungsrat in Minden, vice-president of the Regierungsbezirk of Münster, and president of the Regierungsbezirk of Arnsberg. In 1849 he entered politics at the Prussian level, entering the Abgeordnetenhaus (the Prussian lower house) as a conservative delegate.
- He served as Finance Minister from 1851–58 under Otto Theodor von Manteuffel and again from 1862–66 under Otto von Bismarck.
- He resigned in 1866 from an unwillingness to take on the responsibility of procuring funds for the Austro-Prussian War. His brother, Ernst von Bodelschwingh-Velmede, was also active in Prussian politics.
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