biography
pronunciation:
[vinthaw(r)st]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1812–91)
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| biography:
| German politician and lawyer, born in Gut Caldenhof, Landkreis Osnabrück, C Germany. Justice minister of Hanover (1851–3, 1862–5), after the annexation of Hanover by Prussia (1866) he led the compensation negotiations on behalf of the deposed King George V of Hanover. He was a member of the Prussian house of parliament and a member of the Reichsrat in the Norddeutscher Bund (German Reich since 1871). After the Catholic Zentrum was established he became its undisputed leader and Bismarck's main parliamentary opponent. |
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