August to Hohenlohe-Öhringen

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Prince August zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen

Prince Friedrich August Karl zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen (born November 27, 1784 in Breslau ; † February 15, 1853 at Slawentzitz Castle ) was a German officer, most recently in the rank of general and rank gentleman from the family of Hohenlohe .

Life

August was the son of Prince Friedrich Ludwig zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (* 1746; † 1818) and Amalie Luise, née Countess von Hoym (* 1763; † 1840). He had seven siblings. In August 1806 he took over the principality of his father, which was mediated by the Rhine Federation Act , who did not want to go under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Württemberg . The name of the principality had been Hohenlohe-Öhringen since 1805. From 1815 to 1819, Prince August took part in the Württemberg state assemblies as a virile voter, whose first presidency he assumed from 1815 to 1816. After the constitutional charter of the Kingdom of Württemberg was ratified by the Assembly of Estates on September 25, 1819, Prince August 1820 joined the Württemberg Chamber of Classes and was its President from 1820 to 1835. Prince August belonged to this institution, also known as the First Chamber , until 1849. From 1838 to 1842 he was represented in the Chamber by his son Friedrich, then by his son Hugo , who succeeded him in 1849 as a registrar. Since the death of his father in 1818, Prince August was also majorate ruler of Slawentzitz and Lassowitz in Upper Silesia and in Oppurg, Thuringia . In the Württemberg army , the prince rose to the rank of lieutenant general.

In 1818 August zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown .

family

Prince August was Protestant. He married Princess Luise of Württemberg on September 28, 1811 in Ludwigsburg (born June 4, 1789 in Oels (Silesia); † June 16, 1851 in Slawentzitz), the youngest sister of the Russian general Prince Eugene of Württemberg . The marriage had four children:

  • Friedrich Ludwig Eugen Carl Adalbert Emil August (born August 12, 1812 in Öhringen, † December 10, 1892 in Slawentzitz). In 1842 he renounced his rights as a firstborn son; ⚭ 1844 Mathilde (* 1821 † 1896), born Freiin von Breuning, who was given the name Freifrau von Brauneck from 1843 by the King of Württemberg
  • Friederike Mathilde (born July 3, 1814 in Öhringen; † June 3, 1888 at Mirabel Palace near Salzburg); ⚭ In 1835 Prince Günther Friedrich Karl II. Von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Karl Hugo , Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Duke of Ujest (born May 27, 1816 in Stuttgart, † August 23, 1897 in Slawentzitz); ⚭ April 15, 1847 in Donaueschingen Princess Pauline zu Fürstenberg (born June 11, 1829 in Donaueschingen; † August 23, 1900 in Slawentzitz)
  • Felix Eugen Wilhelm Ludwig Albrecht Karl (born March 1, 1818 in Öhringen, † September 8, 1900 in Asnières); ⚭ June 12, 1851 in Kassel Princess Alexandrine Friederike Wilhelmine von Hanau , Countess von Schaumburg (* December 22, 1830 in Fulda; † December 20, 1871 in Aeschach)

Music at the court

Around 1816, Prince August founded a court orchestra, which initially consisted of eight and later twelve musicians. Kapellmeister was initially Georg Schmitt from Amorbach, who also emerged as an arranger for harmony music. His successor was Wilhelm Kirchhoff. In 1837, Prince August moved the chapel to Schlawentzitz. The court orchestra, which was last expanded to include sixteen musicians, is said to have been the only chapel in Silesia in the 19th century. The composer Wilhelm Eduard Scholz (around 1807/1808 - 1866) from Breslau was appointed Kapellmeister to the Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen at the court in Schlawentzitz in Upper Silesia in 1838. As can be seen from the individual dates appended to the compositions, the composer's creative period was in the first half of the 19th century. The scores of the completely preserved instrumental concerts (trombone, oboe and clarinet concerto) by WE Scholz were created in 2016 by Stefan Antweiler from the individual parts and published as first editions. They were published by Are Musikverlag Mainz. The chapel in Schlawentzitz existed until around 1850.

literature

  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 386 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Manual 1847, p. 32.
  2. ^ A b Jon A. Gillaspie, Marshall Stoneham, David Lindsey Clark: The Wind Ensemble Sourcebook and Biographical Guide. Greenwood Press, Westport CT 1997, ISBN 0-313-29858-0 , p. 74.
  3. ^ Works by and about Georg Schmitt in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Jon A. Gillaspie, Marshall Stoneham, David Lindsey Clark: The Wind Ensemble Sourcebook and Biographical Guide. Greenwood Press, Westport CT 1997, ISBN 0-313-29858-0 , p. 285.
  5. ↑ Jon A. Gillaspie, Marshall Stoneham, David Lindsey Clark: The Wind Ensemble Sourcebook and Biographical Guide. Greenwood Press, Westport CT 1997, ISBN 0-313-29858-0 , p. 208.
  6. ^ Neue Berliner Musikzeitung, first volume No. 36 (September 8, 1847), p. 303 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  7. ^ Stefan Antweiler: A forgotten composer. The Schumann contemporary WE Scholz. Bibliographical-thematic directory . Are Musik Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-924522-77-3 .
  8. ↑ Scholz, Wilhelm Eduard. Accessed June 28, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Hohenlohe-Öhringen, closed in August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Friedrich August Karl zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1853
Place of death at Slawentzitz Castle