Nobility chain

The aristocratic chain , or chain for short , was a secret aristocratic corporation that was constituted at the time of the Congress of Vienna and consisted of members of the higher nobility , especially the mediatized , gathered in Vienna .

history

According to the statutes of 10 January 1815, the chain should be a "general German scientific and moral education institution" exclusively for the nobility as the first and most educated state of his through which the virtues of chivalry revived and should be preserved. Degrees and a division according to the medieval provinces were proposed, noble festivals should be held.

The aim of the federal government was to reverse the changes in nobility law since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803. This project remained largely utopian and was not put into practice.

The association, to which around 50 people belonged, elected Baron Karl von Baden as chairman. Werner von Haxthausen and Joseph von Laßberg were ascribed a great influence in this circle.

swell

• Nobility chain . In: Universal Lexicon of the Present and Past . 4., reworked. and greatly increased edition, Volume 1:  A – Aufzwingen , self-published, Altenburg 1857, p.  126 .

literature

• Georg Simmel : On the sociology of the nobility. Fragment from a society's theory of forms. In: Frankfurter Zeitung and Handelsblatt (Neue Frankfurter Zeitung). 52nd vol. No. 358, 1. Morgenblatt dated December 27, 1907, features section, pp. 1-3 ( online ).
• Volker Schupp : Sinclair in Vienna . In: Christoph Jamme (Hrsg.): Homburg before the height in the German intellectual history: Studies on the circle of friends around Hegel and Hölderlin. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-12-913510-3 , pp. 231–244 ( online reprint on the Freiburg document server ; PDF; 998 kB).
• Rechtlieb Zeitgeist: Unmasking the so-called demagogic activities. A contribution to the history of the European reaction since 1815 . Literatur-Comptoir, Altenburg 1832, p. 281 ff. ( Digitized in the Google book search).
• Johann Ludwig Klüber (Ed.): Plan for a general aristocratic association through all of Germany, called the chain; dated Vienna, January 10, 1815 . In: Acts of the Vienna Congress in the years 1814 and 1815 . Volume 6, Issue 23. Palm and Enke, Erlangen 1836, pp. 452–462 ( digitized in the Google book search).

Web links

• Little ABC of German nobility, keyword: nobility chain

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfram Siemann (Ed.): Deutsche Tribüne 1831–1832. Vol. 2. Glossary. New edition. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-598-11693-4 , p. 186.
2. ↑ s. Schupp p. 236