Cajetan from Bissingen-Nippenburg

Cajetan von Bissingen-Nippenburg, lithograph by August Prinzhofer , 1852

Cajetan Alexander Graf von Bissingen and Nippenburg , also Cajetan Graf von Bissingen and Nippenburg d. Ä. (* March 18, 1806 in Venice ; † May 10, 1890 in Schramberg ; full name Cajetan Maria Alexander Ferdinand Johann Anton Joseph Leonhard Anselm, Count of Bissingen-Nippenburg ) was the Austrian governor in Tyrol and Venice as well as Württemberg and German politicians.

family

Cajetan came from the noble family of Count von Bissingen and Nippenburg . He was the seventh of eight children from the marriage of Governor Ferdinand Graf von Bissingen and Nippenburg with Maria Theresia, Countess von Thurn-Valsassina and Taxis ; His father's first marriage to Maria Anna Amalia von Stotzingen has three children.

He married Ludovika Marie Freiin von Warsberg; there are six children from the marriage.

Life

He studied at the University of Innsbruck Law and graduated with a doctorate to Dr. jur. from. He made numerous trips to Austria, Hungary, the German states, Italy, Switzerland, France and Belgium, among others.

In 1828 von Bissingen and Nippenburg entered the Austrian civil service. He initially worked as an ausculator for ten years at the city and regional court in Innsbruck. After his father's death in 1831, he took over his property. In 1834 he exchanged the Hungarian goods by family contract for the rule of Schramberg and various goods in the Kingdom of Württemberg . After marrying Ludovica Maria von Warsberg, he resigned from the civil service in 1838 and devoted himself entirely to his property. Between 1841 and 1843 he had a new building for Schramberg Castle built in the late Classicist style with a park. He was a fiefdom and entails owner in Schramberg.

March and revolution of 1848

From 1845 von Bissingen and Nippenburg was a member of the Second Chamber of the Württemberg estates . After the beginning of the revolution of 1848 he was one of the few Austrian members of the fifties committee of the pre-parliament . There he was a member of the constitutional committee. When voting on Paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Constitution, he left parliament with the other members of the parliament elected for Austria.

Governor

After Franz Joseph I ascended the throne, Bissingen and Nippenburg returned to the Austrian civil service. From 1848 he was governor for Tyrol and Vorarlberg. During this time he made a name for himself through various reforms. The establishment of the regional and higher regional court in Innsbruck and the connection to the telegraph network in Tyrol go back to him. When the landscape committee for Tyrol was dissolved in 1852, he was also governor. In 1855 he became governor in Venice. In 1860 he resigned from the civil service and returned to his possessions in Württemberg.

MP

Between 1862 and 1868 he was again a member of the Second Chamber in Württemberg. From 1872 to 1884 von Bissingen and Nippenburg was a member of the Center Party and a member of the German Reichstag . He won his Reichstag mandate in the constituency of Württemberg 16 ( Biberach , Leutkirch , Waldsee , Wangen ). During the Kulturkampf he was one of the most important representatives of political Catholicism from Württemberg, although his country itself was hardly affected by the conflict domestically.

Others

He was an honorary member of the Catholic student association AV Guestfalia Tübingen in the CV .

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Bissingen-Nippenburg, Cajetan Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 28th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, p. 327 ( digitized version ).
Fritz Steinegger: Bissingen-Nippenburg, Cajetan from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 279 f. ( Digitized version ).
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. 77 .

swell

Archive of the Counts of Bissingen and Nippenburg Hohenstein , Kohlhammer-Verlag 2005

Web links

Graf Bissingen-Nippenburg, Cajetan in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Count Cajetan-Comte Bissingen-Nippenburg . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 247.

personal data
SURNAME	Bissingen-Nippenburg, Cajetan from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bissingen and Nippenburg, Cajetan Maria Alexander Ferdinand Johann Anton Joseph Leonhard Anselm, Count of (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian governor and Württemberg and German politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH	Venice
DATE OF DEATH	May 10, 1890
Place of death	Schramberg

[1] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 247.