Otto von Helldorff

Otto von Helldorff
Members of the Reichstag parliamentary group of the German Conservative Party (from left to right): Rudolph Wichmann, Otto von Seydewitz, Helmuth von Moltke, Count Konrad von Kleist-Schmenzin, Otto von Helldorff, Karl Gustav Ackermann.
Member of the Reichstag
In office 1890–1893
In office 1877–1887
In office 1871–1873
Personal details
Born	(1833-04-16)April 16, 1833 Castle Bedra, Prussia, German Confederation
Died	March 10, 1908(1908-03-10) (aged 74) Castle Bedra, Prussia, German Empire
Political party	German Conservative Party

Otto von Helldorff (16 April 1833 in Bedra, Saxony – 10 March 1908 in Bedra, Saxony) was a German politician for German Conservative Party.

His father was landowner and politician Heinrich von Helldorff [de] (1799–1873) and Julie Charlotte Gräfin von der Schulenburg (1806–1844). He owned castle Bedra in Saxony and land in Leiha, Schalkendorf and Petzkendorf. He studied German law. From 1871 to 1874, from 1877 to 1887 and from 1890 to 1893 Helldorf was member of German Reichstag.^[1] From 1879 to 1881 and 1884 to 1892 he was president of fraction German Conservative Party in Reichstag and until 1892 president of party German Conservative Party. From 1890, Helldorff was a member of the Prussian House of Lords.^[2] On 7 July 1867 he married in Hamburg Clara Stammann (1846-1918).^[3]

• Adelige Häuser. Reihe A. Band I (= Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels. Band 5). Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1953, ISSN 0435-2408, p. 134.
• Friedrich Freiherr Hiller von Gaertringen: Helldorff, Otto von. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3, p. 474 f.
• James N. Retallack: Ein glückloser Parteiführer in Bismarcks Diensten – Otto von Helldorff-Bedra (1833–1908). In: Hans-Christof Kraus (Hrsg.): Konservative Politiker in Deutschland. Eine Auswahl biographischer Porträts aus zwei Jahrhunderten. Duncker & Humblot Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-428-08193-5, p. 185–203.
• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (ed.): Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte der deutschen Sozialpolitik 1871 bis 1945. Band 1: Sozialpolitiker im Deutschen Kaiserreich 1871 bis 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6, p. 68.

• Information about Otto von Helldorff in the Reichstag database
• Otto von Helldorff biography in Heinrich Best, Datenbank der Abgeordneten der Reichstage des Kaiserreichs 1867/71 bis 1918 (Biorab – Kaiserreich)

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