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

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– 28 June 1925, in

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) was the representative of the

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from 1880 to 1918. Due to the dual nature of the

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also being the

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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

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in 1868. He briefly held a post at the foreign ministry in Munich before serving abroad again, from 1871 in

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. From 1875 he was posted in

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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 honorary member of the

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.Die Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften: Mitglieder
google book review (in German) In 1911, he became a Knight of the ''Hubertusorden''. He died on 28 June 1925 in Köfering, near

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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

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