Count Edwin Hugo Lazarus Henckel von Donnersmarck (23 January 1865 – 23 March 1929) was a German statesman, industrialist, and landowner.
[1] At his estate in Beauthen O.S., he operated a coal and ore mining and zinc smelting businesses.
[1] He ran in the 1912 German federal election for the Centre Party's constituency of Breslau in the Reichstag.
[1] Prior to 1918, Henckel von Donnersmarck was the chairman of the Silesian Automobile Club, a regional section of the German Motor Sport Federation.
[4] In 1919, he sold part of the family's estate in Radzionkau to fund the construction of houses for his employees.