Alexander von Baumbach

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Alexander Edmund Heinrich Ferdinand Gottlieb von Baumbach zu Ropperhausen (born January 11, 1814 in Kassel ; † June 30, 1894 there ) was Foreign Minister of Hesse in the Ludwig Hassenpflug government (1850–1855).

family

Alexander von Baumbach came from the noble family of the von Baumbach belonging to the Althessian knighthood . He was the son of Ludwig Georg Karl Wilhelm von Baumbach , director and first member of the state credit bank management, and his wife Maria Anna Steinbach, daughter of the secret cabinet secretary Heinrich Steinbach. Alexander von Baumbach studied from 1832 in Marburg , Berlin and Goettingen jurisprudence . He was a member of the Corps Hassia Göttingen and Hassia Marburg .

On November 15, 1847, at that time chargé d'affaires of the electoral embassy in Munich , he married Elisabeth Freiin von Gumppenberg (born March 27, 1821 in Munich; † January 10, 1891 in Kassel), daughter of the President of the Bavarian Higher Appeal Court, Karl Freiherr von Gumppenberg .

career

From 1837 Alexander von Baumbach was a trainee lawyer at the higher court in Kassel. In 1840 he moved to the Hessian Foreign Ministry, was from 1841 legation secretary at the electoral embassy in Vienna and from 1843 to 1849 chargé d'affaires at the electoral embassy in Munich, where he also met his wife. Because of his conservative views, he was recalled from Munich by the Hessian March Ministry . From 1849 he was a lecturer Counselor in secret cabinet of Kassel Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I in house, yard and private affairs.

On February 22nd, 1850, Alexander von Baumbach was appointed head of the Foreign Ministry in the second cabinet of the highly conservative Ludwig Hassenpflug. As the youngest member of the cabinet - he was 36 years old when he took office - he initially had difficulties in asserting himself against both Hassenpflug and then subsequently against the elector. The latter made foreign policy decisions bypassing his foreign minister and thus disavowed his position. Overall, Baumbach pursued an Austria-friendly policy. During this time he also managed the Ministry of Justice several times. He was related by marriage to the Minister of War Eduard von Haynau , who successively married his sisters Natalie and Thekla von Baumbach. Together with Hassenpflug, Alexander von Baumbach left the government on October 16, 1855.

After his time as minister he was envoy and plenipotentiary minister of the elector to the courts of Paris , The Hague , Brussels , Berlin , Dresden and Vienna . In 1861 he held the post of Foreign Minister for a short time again on behalf of the company.

After the annexation of the electoral state by Prussia after the Austro-Prussian War in 1866, Alexander von Baumbach was appointed Federal Commissioner for Electoral Hesse by the Federal Assembly after the Elector was imprisoned . From Hanau he announced on June 30, 1866 that he had taken over the management of government affairs in Kurhessen. In mid-July, he fled to Augsburg with the Bundestag . The Prussian Governor General for Electorate Hesse dismissed him from the Electorate of Hesse on July 23, 1866. In August of the same year he negotiated on behalf of the Elector with Prussia about the property of the sovereign who had been deposited. The result was the Treaty of Stettin , in which Friedrich Wilhelm, without definitely renouncing his sovereign rights, released his subjects from their duties towards him in return for financial compensation.

Until his death, Baumbach lived in Kassel and on his estate and castle Großropperhausen in Großropperhausen - a Fideikommiss since 1856 .

literature

  • Rüdiger Ham: Federal intervention and constitutional revision. The German Confederation and the Hessian constitutional question 1850/52 = sources and research on Hessian history. Darmstadt and Marburg 2004. Short biography on A. v. Baumbach in Appendix I.4.
  • Harald Höffner: Kurhessen's ministerial heads of the constitutional period 1831 - 1866 . Dissertation. Giessen 1981. p. 88ff.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1901, first year, p.63
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 64.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 910 No. 5414, p. 63 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Kösener Korps-Lists 1910, 73 , 26; 160 , 166
personal data
SURNAME Baumbach, Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baumbach-Roppershausen, Alexander Edmund Heinrich Ferdinand Gottlieb von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Foreign Minister of the State of Hesse
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1894
Place of death kassel