Members of the Reichstag parliamentary group of the German Conservative Party (from left to right): Rudolph Wichmann, Otto von Seydewitz, Helmuth von Moltke, Count Konrad von Kleist-Schmenzin, Otto von Helldorff, Karl Gustav Ackermann.
His father was landowner and politician Heinrich von Helldorff [de] (1799–1873) and Julie Charlotte Gräfin von der Schulenburg (1806–1844). He owned castle Bedra in Saxony and land in Leiha, Schalkendorf and Petzkendorf. He studied German law. From 1871 to 1874, from 1877 to 1887 and from 1890 to 1893 Helldorf was member of German Reichstag.[1] From 1879 to 1881 and 1884 to 1892 he was president of fraction German Conservative Party in Reichstag and until 1892 president of party German Conservative Party. From 1890, Helldorff was a member of the Prussian House of Lords.[2]
On 7 July 1867 he married in Hamburg Clara Stammann (1846-1918).[3]
Further reading
Adelige Häuser. Reihe A. Band I (= Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels. Band 5). Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1953, ISSN 0435-2408, p. 134.
Friedrich Freiherr Hiller von Gaertringen: Helldorff, Otto von. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3, p. 474 f.
James N. Retallack: Ein glückloser Parteiführer in Bismarcks Diensten – Otto von Helldorff-Bedra (1833–1908). In: Hans-Christof Kraus (Hrsg.): Konservative Politiker in Deutschland. Eine Auswahl biographischer Porträts aus zwei Jahrhunderten. Duncker & Humblot Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-428-08193-5, p. 185–203.
Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (ed.): Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte der deutschen Sozialpolitik 1871 bis 1945. Band 1: Sozialpolitiker im Deutschen Kaiserreich 1871 bis 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6, p. 68.
