On several occasions (1874, 1877 and 1878) he sat in the Reichstag as a member of the progressive party.
In the elections of June 1920 he secured a seat in the Reichstag as a member of the Deutsche Volkspartei, the new electioneering name of the former National Liberal party.
The province sends 35 members to the German Reichstag and 62 to the Prussian house of representatives.
The province sends thirty-five members to the Reichstag and sixty-five to the Prussian chamber of deputies.
In 1880 he entered the Reichstag as representative of a Berlin constituency, but was ousted in 1893 by a Social Democrat.
