Friedrich Karl Anton Freiherr von Anthau-Kirstenberg

Friedrich Karl Anton, Freiherr von Anthau-Kirstenberg (Baron von Anthau-Kirstenberg), more commonly known as Friedrich von Anthau-Kirstenberg, was a Prussian nobleman born October 18, 1857, in his hometown of Köslin, Pomerania Province, Prussia, German Empire. He was a notable conservative politician and bureaucrat, having joined the Deutschkonservative Partei (DkP) in 1886, and became a member of the Reichstag for the district of Köslin in the 1890 German Elections. The Freiherr would stay on for some years as his party reformed into the DNVP, although he would leave the party in 1901 after a significant corruption scandal. From then on, Friedrich would join the ranks of the Christliche Soziale Partei (CSP).

Political Career (1886-)
Upon his joining the DkP, Anthau-Kirstenberg became involved in national politics, winning a Reichstag seat for said party in his home constituency of Köslin in the 1890 Elections. In the Reichstag, von Anthau-Kirstenberg would generally toe the DkP party line, voting down reforms proposed by the NLP and SPD, as well as supporting various bills authored by DkP members.

Friedrich occasionally participated in parliamentary debates over bills, and even authored some, including the Assembly Line Research Bill and the shelved, later-forgotten, East African Colonial Consolidation Act, which pointed to at least a passing interest in colonial affairs.

Meanwhile, von Anthau-Kirstenberg was increasingly shuffled about for high-ranking bureaucratic positions, a consequence of his rising prominence within his party, as well as Kaiser Friedrich III's tendency during the 1890's to appoint exclusively-conservative cabinets in spite of the current government's ideology.

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 * Friedrich's birthdate is exactly 280 days after January 12, 1857, meaning that he was conceived on the day of German unification