Carl Friedrich Buderus von Carlshausen

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Carl Friedrich Buderus , from 1806 Buderus von Carlshausen , (born February 22, 1759 in Büdingen , † August 5, 1819 in Hanau ) was the tax clerk of Landgrave Wilhelm IX. von Hessen-Kassel , later Elector Wilhelm I of Hessen-Kassel.

Life

Buderus came from a small family. His father, a cousin of Johann Wilhelm Buderus II , Friedrich Ludwig Buderus, was a writing and music teacher for the children of Landgrave Wilhelm and his concubine Rosa Dorothea Ritter , who later became Baroness von Lindenthal. This drew the Landgrave's attention to his son Carl Friedrich, who initially employed the 17-year-old as a writing and music teacher for his children. Buderus earned a little extra income by writing notes. The prince soon appointed Buderus to be the financial accountant at his court in Hanau . His sense of economy and thrift helped Carl Friedrich Buderus to pursue a rapid career.

After he had already become the chief collector of the Landkasse in Hanau, he was transferred to Kassel in 1792 as war paymaster . In 1795 Carl Friedrich Buderus was promoted to the Secret War Council and then in 1802 to War Pay Office Director. When Kassel was occupied by French troops in 1806 and Wilhelm, who had in the meantime risen to electoral prince, had to flee into exile, Buderus managed, with great difficulty, to save 27 million guilders of the elector's financial assets of around 47 million guilders from French access. This was made possible by secret agreements with General Lagrange, who was responsible for the expropriation . With this Buderus had finally become the elector's most important financial advisor. The award of the nobility title "von Carlshausen" in 1806 underlined this new position. This addition to the name referred to the Carlshausen manor in the municipality of Altenhaßlau, which Buderus acquired in 1804 (today part of the municipality of Linsengericht ).

The newly elected Carl Friedrich Buderus von Carlshausen used his position of trust to gradually push the previous bankers of the Elector, the Bethmann brothers and Rüppel & Harnier , out of business in favor of the Rothschild banking house . Buderus had already established close contact with the owner, Mayer Amschel Rothschild , during his time in Hanau and had him manage his own, increasingly large assets. Rothschild and Buderus were united by their ascent from modest social backgrounds. From 1807, under Buderus' influence, the elector handled his extensive financial transactions exclusively through the Rothschild banking house. As a thank you for his efforts, Buderus became a silent partner in the Rothschild banking house in 1809 with a contribution of 20,000 guilders . Up until the expulsion of the French Army from the Electorate in 1813, Buderus used the services of the Rothschild banking house on behalf of the Elector in order to be able to carry out further financial transactions discreetly throughout Europe.

From 1810 to 1813, Carl Friedrich Buderus was a member of the assembly of estates of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt for Hanau. After the final defeat of France in 1815, Buderus represented the elector at the Congress of Vienna as the prince-elector's claims for compensation for the war damage suffered. He then served Wilhelm as envoy from 1816 to 1817 in the Federal Assembly of the German Confederation . Carl Friedrich Buderus von Carlshausen died of a heart attack while working at his desk in 1819. However, this did not end the close business relationship established by Buderus between the Elector Wilhelm I and the House of Rothschild.

Buderus von Carlshausen was the holder of the Grand Cross of the House Order of the Golden Lion and the Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Merit .

family

The oldest known ancestor was an Andreas Buderus zu Soldin in the Neumark . Expelled by the Great Elector, he moved to Dornholzhausen . His grandson Johann Wilhelm , who was born in Nassau like his brother Johann Philipp, was initially the director of the hut and then the leaseholder of the Friedrich hut near Laubach . He was the progenitor of the Buderus family of hut owners . His brother Philipp was the administrator of the hammer in Hessenbrück, then known as the "lower hammer" . Friedrich Ludwig Buderus, Carl Friedrich's father, was born there in 1733. Ludwig married Catharina Elisabeth Reichert on April 6, 1758 in Büdingen, daughter of the shoemaker Caspar Reichert (1707–1776), who lived in Büdingen's old town, and Amoena Elisabeth, née Mertz (* probably 1711).

Carl Friedrich Buterus [sic!] Was born on February 22nd, 1759 in Büdingen. He received his first lessons from his father, who had relocated to Hanau in order to initially take on another clerk position there, but then to work as an “Evangelical Lutheran Preceptor”.

In 1808 Buderus daughter Luise married the Elector General Carl von Haynau (1779-1856) from the Electorate of Hesse. He was a natural son of Elector Wilhelm I and his second maitress, Rosa Dorothea Ritter. This marriage had two children:

The direct descendants and namesake of Carl Friedrich Buderus von Carlshausen have lived in Australia for over a century .

literature

  • Lothar Buderus von Carlshausen: The life of an Kurhessischen official in difficult times. In: Hessenland. Monthly for regional and folklore. Art Literatus Hessens, 42nd year 1931, issue 2–4.
  • Amos Elon : The First Rothschild. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-499-60889-8 .
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1907. First year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1906, p. 78 ff.
  • Georg Heuberger (ed.): The Rothschilds. A European family. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-1201-2 .
  • Georg Heuberger (ed.): The Rothschilds. Contributions to the history of a European family. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-1202-0 .
  • Frederic Morton: The Rothschilds . Deuticke Verlag, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-216-07896-5 .
  • John Eric Buderus von Carlshausen: From Horse & Cart to Rolls Royce. Temple House, Hartwell ( Victoria ) 2006, ISBN 1-921206-15-2 .
  • Jochen Lengemann : Biographical Handbook of the Imperial Estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia and the Estates Assembly of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt. Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-458-16185-6 , pp. 128-129.
  • 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. 92.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Buderus, Johann Wilhelm I. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed in December 2019 .
  2. ↑ John T. Flynn: Men of Wealth; the Story of Twelve Significant Fortunes from the Renaissance to the Present Day (1941)
  3. ^ Niall Ferguson: The House of Rothschild (Vol. 1) (1999)
  4. ^ Ralf Schumacher: The political integration of the Principality of Hanau into the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt. In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 eV: Hanau in the Napoleonic era. (= Hanau history sheets. 47). Hanau approx. 2015, ISBN 978-3-935395-21-3 , p. 154.
  5. ↑ According to the entry in the church book: Baptism February 25, 1759, Father Friedrich Ludwig Buterus, Laquay of Herr Capitaine von Winther there, and Elisabetha, married couple. Godfather: Mr. Carle.
personal data
SURNAME Buderus von Carlshausen, Carl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buderus, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tax officer of Wilhelm IX., Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, the later Elector Wilhelm I.
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Büdingen
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1819
Place of death Hanau