Alexander von Dusch (politician, 1789)

Alexander von Dusch Foreign Minister of the Grand Duchy of Baden Graphic by Carl August Reinhardt 1845

Alexander von Dusch (born January 27, 1789 in Neustadt an der Haardt ; † October 27, 1876 in Heidelberg ) was a Baden lawyer and diplomat .

Origin and family

The von Dusch family played a very important role in Baden's history. Alexander's father Carl Franz Hyazinth (ennobled since 1790: von) Dusch was a court advisor to the Electorate of the Palatinate and a member of the chamber council, and later a privy councilor for Baden. His mother was Maria Josephine (née Collini). He himself married Maria Anna Freiin von Weiler in 1817. Their son Ferdinand von Dusch (1819–1889) was a Baden diplomat and the father of the later Baden head of government, Alexander Freiherr von Dusch (1851–1923). The younger sons also gained influence: son Gottfried von Dusch (1821–1891) was Baden's Minister of Commerce in the government of Julius Jolly and son Theodor von Dusch (1824–1890) was known as a doctor for pediatrics.

Live and act

Family grave Alexander von Dusch and his wife Anna, b. Freiin von Weiler Heidelberger Bergfriedhof in Department E

Since 1805 Alexander von Dusch worked in Paris in the house of his uncle Cosimo Alessandro Collini , who was the Baden chargé d'affaires , with mathematics , physics and modern languages . From 1807 to 1810 he studied law at the University of Heidelberg . Here he joined the Corps Hannovera Heidelberg , but also the Harmonic Association around the composer Carl Maria von Weber , for whom he published under the pseudonym "Unknown Man". In 1810 he began a career as a legal intern in Mannheim , since 1813 in Mosbach , before he was appointed district assessor in Villingen a year later . In 1815 he became secretary in the Baden Ministry of Finance.

In 1819 he moved to the Foreign Ministry as legation counselor and in 1825 was involved in drawing up a customs and trade treaty with Switzerland . In the same year he became the Baden chargé d'affaires and ministerial resident in Bern . In 1834 he was a participant in the Vienna Ministerial Conference (within the framework of the German Confederation ). A year later, while retaining the post in Switzerland, he became the Baden ambassador in Munich . From 1838–1842 von Dusch was Minister of the Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main and, in 1840, he was also Ambassador Extraordinary to Baden at the court of the Belgian King Leopold I.

Shower took over the Foreign Ministry in 1843 and in this position showed himself to be a representative of liberal and national principles. The May uprisings of 1849 prompted him and his colleagues to resign, but at the beginning of 1850 he was elected by the city of Heidelberg to the second chamber of the state assembly of the Grand Duchy of Baden and from there to the state house of the Erfurt Union Parliament. In 1851, Dusch gave up almost all of his offices for health reasons and retired. He settled in Heidelberg and devoted himself only to his literary and artistic inclinations. Among other things, Dusch worked with Josua Eiselein on the “Historical Atlas” by Joseph de Las Cases . However, he remained connected to the liberal-national movement and was a member of the German National Association in the 1860s .

Alexander von Dusch died on October 27, 1876 in Heidelberg at the age of 87. His family grave is in the Heidelberg mountain cemetery. In the gable of the tomb there is a seven-pointed star. The carved inscription says that he and his wife Anna were one of the happiest people until the anniversary of their death in 1858.

Honors

• In 1836 Alexander von Dusch received the commentary cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown .
• In 1840 von Dusch received the Grand Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion .
• In 1846 Alexander von Dusch was elected an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich .

Works (selection)

• On the pathology of the revolutions (1852)
• The Kingdom of God and State and Church (1854)

literature

• Günther Haselier:  Dusch, Alexander Anton von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 204 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Jochen Lengemann: The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups . Munich, 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , pp. 124f.
• Friedrich von Weech :  Dusch, Alexander v. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 492-494.

Web links

Commons : Alexander von Dusch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Shower, 2) Alexander von . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 5, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 251.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 1: 1809–1899 Göttingen 2002, p. 266 No. 06
2. ↑ Alexander von Dusch in the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition ; Joachim Veit (editor), Oliver Huck: Weber studies 4: The writings of the Harmonious Association. Part 1: 1810-1812. Schott 1998.
3. ↑ L.Ruuskanen: The Heidelberg Bergfriedhof through the ages. (Publishing house regional culture, 2008)

predecessor	Office	successor
vacant	grand ducal Ambassador of Baden in Bern 1826–1838	Ludwig Rüdt of Collenberg-Bödigheim
vacant	grand ducal Baden envoy in Munich 1835–1838	Franz Xaver von Andlaw-Birseck
Franz Albert von Friedrich	grand ducal Baden envoy in Frankfurt am Main 1838–1843	Friedrich von Blittersdorf