Lazarus Henckel von Donnersmarck

Count Lazarus IV Henckel von Donnersmarck (23 May 1835 – 18 December 1914) was a German politician and landowner. He was a founding member of the Centre Party and sat in the Prussian House of Representatives from 1870 to 1876 and in the Reichstag from 1884 to 1887.

Biography Count Lazarus IV Henckel von Donnersmarck was born on 23 May 1835 in Siemianowitz-Laurahütte to Count Hugo Henckel von Donnersmarck and Countess Laurą von Hardenberg. He was a member of the House of Henckel von Donnersmarck, a Silesian noble family.

On 4 August 1858, he married Countess Maria von Schweinitz und Krain, Baroness zu Kauder. They had several children: Countess Alice Marie Laura Flora Countess Maria Theresa Josefina Wanda Count Edwin Hugo Lazarus

Henckel von Donnersmarck managed his 677-acre estate in Romolkwitz and owned shares in the Fideikommiss Beuthen as well as several coal mines. He lived in a palace in Nakło and, in 1892, he funded the construction of the parish church there. and was made a Knight of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

He was one of the founders of the Centre Party. From 1870 to 1876, he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives as a member of the Beuthen constituency and, from 1884 to 1887, he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Beuthen and Tarnowitz.

He died on 18 December 1914 in Breslau.