Alexander von Bethmann

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Alexander von Bethmann

Alexander Freiherr von Bethmann (born August 25, 1814 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 20, 1883 in Homburg before the height ) was a German landowner and politician in Bohemia .

Life

Bethmann was the third child of Simon Moritz von Bethmann and his wife Louise Catharine nee. Boode in Frankfurt / M. on the world. He was baptized in Soden am Taunus . Godfather was Tsar Alexander I of Russia, who actually wanted to take part himself, but was then represented by his cavalry general Ferdinand von Wintzingerode . Alexander lost his father at the age of 12 in 1826. He attended the high school and a grammar school in Berlin, where he was housed with Carl Ritter (1779-1859). He enrolled on January 18, 1834 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität für Kameralwissenschaft and renonciert with the Corps Rhenania Bonn . His cousin Moritz August von Bethmann-Hollweg was a law professor at the time and later also a curator at Bonn University. In the summer semester of 1834, Alexander no longer appears in the university register.

Krinetz Castle

In 1809 Moritz von Bethmann acquired the Bohemian domain Křinec with a castle and extensive properties. This included 18 villages with a total area of ​​12,528 yoke (corresponding to 72.66 km 2 ). Alexander von Bethmann inherited the property from Moritz. He rebuilt the baroque castle over the years and gave it a classicist look. It remained in the possession of his descendants until 1945, when - according to the provisions of the Beneš decrees - it was expropriated by the Czechoslovak state. In Křinic, Alexander founded a stud for English thoroughbreds in 1841 , which won prizes in many races. He ran a second stud from 1858 in Hosztovitza . He spent his time partly in Křinec and partly in Frankfurt am Main.

politics

As a large Bohemian landowner, Alexander v. Bethmann was raised to the status of Austrian baron on October 12, 1855 by Emperor Franz Joseph I. 1861–1866 he sat in the Bohemian state parliament and in 1864/65 (in the first legislative period) in the House of Representatives . As a Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John , he repeatedly made generous donations for the war activities of the Order during the Franco-German War.

family

On March 31, 1840, he married Johanna Friedrike von Heyder (1816-1894), daughter of the ennobled Frankfurt banker Georg Friedrich Peter Heyder (1788-1860) and his wife Catharina Auguste von Meyer (1811-1860). He had four children with her: Simon Moritz (1840–1914), Alexander Georg Mathias (1843–1866), Louise Friederike Henriette, married. Freifrau v. Maltzahn (1844–1870) and Olga Augusta Maria married. v. Grunelius (1849-1925). Alexander Junior fell at the age of 23 in the Battle of Königgrätz . Auguste Bußmann , Clemens Brentano's wife , and Marie d'Agoult , Franz Liszt's partner , were his cousins, Cosima Wagner was his niece.

Bethmännchen

Remarks

  1. ↑ The property originally belonged to the Waldsteins (Wallensteins) . After the murder of Albrecht Wenzel von Wallenstein (1583–1634) in the Thirty Years' War, his Bohemian possessions were confiscated and distributed by Emperor Ferdinand II to nobles and military men loyal to the emperor. Křinec came into the possession of the Count Morzin, who built a baroque palace there. Wenceslaus von Morzin made Křinec a music center. The music enthusiast Graf had an outstanding orchestra. He owed the dedication of his op. 8, a compilation of 12 violin concertos, including the famous Four Seasons , to his friendship with Antonio Vivaldi . In 1796 the Morzins sold the castle and properties to Baron Jacob v. Wimmer, who thought it was Simon Moritz v. Bethmann resold in 1809.
  2. ↑ In state ownership, the castle was used as a school, farm and depot for the State Archives and was left to decay. It was only acquired in 2006 by a private individual who began to lovingly restore it.
  3. ↑ He was initially buried in the cemetery of the evangelical church in Bošín (Křinec) , but a month later he was transferred to the Bethmann family grave in Frankfurt. A memorial plaque on the cemetery wall in Bošin reminds of his short stay in Bohemian soil.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Krüger: Official directory of the staff and students on the Königl. Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn for the winter half-year 1833/34 . Bonn 1834.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corplisten 1960, 12/177 (wrongly referred to here as Alexander v. Bethmann-Hollweg)
  3. ↑ a b c Hans-Reinhard Koch : Alexander von Bethmnn , in: Nachrichten der Bonner Rhenania, 124 (April 2020), pp. 83–96.
  4. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer: Allodial-Herrschaft Krinetz and Gut Neu-Ronow , in: Böhmen, statistically-topographically represented . JG Calve: Prag (1834), Vol. 2, pp. 32-38 digitized
  5. ↑ Carl Bräuer : The studs at home and abroad . Schönfeld, Dresden 1901, pp. 149, 166, 181, 265.
  6. ^ Fourth Bohemian Race on October 8, 1842 . In: Bohemia Unterhaltungsblatt, No. 122 (11.10.1842), pp. 3–4
  7. ↑ Bethmann . In: Gothaisches Geneal. Pocket b. d. Baron. Houses, Vol. 7 (1857), pp. 34-37; 8: 28-29 (1858); Vol. 37 (1887), pp. 58-59.
  8. ^ Franz Adlgasser: The members of the Austrian central parliaments 1848-1918. Constituent Reichstag 1848–1849. Reichsrat 1861–1918. A biographical lexicon . Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2014, vol. 1, p. 78.
  9. ↑ [Donations]. In: Weekly newspaper of the Johanniter-Ordens-Balley Brandenburg. Vol. 11 (1870), pp. 187, 226, 286.
personal data
SURNAME Bethmann, Alexander von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowners and politicians in Bohemia
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1883
Place of death Bad Homburg vor der Höhe