Karl Hugo

Freiherr (; male, abbreviated as ), (; his wife, abbreviated as , literally "free lord" or "free lady") and (, his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire ...

von Weizsäcker (25 February 1853 – 2 February 1926) was a German politician who served as Prime Minister of the

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, and a member of the prominent Weizsäcker family. He was born ''Karl Hugo Weizsäcker'' in

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, the son of the theologian Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker and his wife, the former Auguste Sophie Christiane Dahm. While serving as a politician at the court of the Kingdom of

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, his family was raised to nobility as von Weizsäcker. Weizsäcker studied at the

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. While serving in the administration of King William II of Württemberg, he was raised to personal nobility on 24 February 1897. From 1900 onwards, he served as Minister of Culture — until 4 December 1906 when he was made

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. He served in this office until 6 November 1918, shortly before the monarchy was abolished in the

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. In 1916, he and his family were raised to the hereditary noble title of

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(Freiherr). Weizsäcker was the father of Ernst von Weizsäcker and thus grandfather of the physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and of

Richard von Weizsäcker Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker (; 15 April 1920 – 31 January 2015) was a German politician ( CDU), who served as President of Germany from 1984 to 1994. Born into the aristocratic Weizsäcker family, who were part of the German nobilit ...

, who was

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1984-94. He died in Stuttgart in 1926.

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Karl Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austria ...

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