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Ernst von Bodelschwingh-Velmede Ernst Albert Karl Wilhelm Ludwig von Bodelschwingh auf Velmede (26 November 179418 May 1854) was a Prussian politician. Von Bodelschwingh-Velmede was born in Velmede, near Hamm in the County of Mark as the son of Franz Christoph Gisbert Friedrich ...

(1794–1854), Prussian statesman and Minister of the Interior *

Karl von Bodelschwingh-Velmede Ludwig Carl Christian Gisbert Friedrich von Bodelschwingh auf 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 as the son of Franz Christoph G ...

(1800–1873), Prussian politician (brother of Ernst) *

Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Senior Friedrich Christian Carl von Bodelschwingh (* 6 March 1831 in Tecklenburg; † 2 April 1910 in Bielefeld-Bethel), better known as Friedrich von Bodelschwingh the Elder, was a German theologian and politician. He is remembered as the founder of th ...

(1831–1910), German theologian and founder of charitable public-health institutions (son of Ernst) * Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Junior (1877–1946), German theologian and public-health advocate (son of Friedrich, Senior)

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