Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen | |
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| 2ndMinister President of Prussia | |
| In office 29 March 1848 – 20 June 1848 | |
| Monarch | Frederick William IV |
| Preceded by | Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg |
| Succeeded by | Rudolf von Auerswald |
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| Born | 10 January 1803 |
| Died | 3 December 1890(1890-12-03) (aged 87) |
Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen (10 January 1803 – 3 December 1890) was aRhenish banker and politician who served as aPrime Minister of Prussia.
During theRevolutions of 1848 in Germany, Ludolf Camphausen stepped suddenly from his banker's desk atCologne to the presidential chair of the Ministry of State at Berlin, being called by KingFrederick William IV of Prussia to succeedCount Arnim-Boitzenburg as prime minister, on 29 March. Ludolf availed himself largely of his younger brother's (Otto) proven business talents, and the two might have succeeded had they not to encounter the insincerity of the monarch on the one side, and the distrust of the Radical and Progressist majority of the Assembly on the other side.[1]
Both Ludolf and Otto Camphausen were moderate Liberals – too Liberal to suit the views of the king and of the reactionary feudalist clique around him, and too Conservative for the impatience of the menof progress. Less than three months sufficed to convince Ludolf Camphausen of this fact, and already on 20 June he tendered his resignation to the king.[1]
One month later Camphausen was sent as Prussian representative to theFrankfurt Parliament. Here he remained until April 1849, when he finally resigned, and went back to his banking business at Cologne, thoroughly disenchanted of the alluring illusions of power and office.[1]
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