Carl Friedrich Emil von Ibell

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Carl Friedrich Emil von Ibell

Carl Friedrich Justus Emil Ibell , from 1830 von Ibell , also Karl von Ibell (born October 29, 1780 in Wehen ( Taunusstein ); † October 6, 1834 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ), was bailiff, later government president of the Duchy of Nassau , afterwards District President of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Homburg .

Grave of Carl von Ibell in Frankfurt-Unterliederbach

Life

Carl Friedrich Emil von Ibell was born as the son of the bailiff Carl Ibell in Wehen Castle. He attended high school in Idstein . After studying law in Göttingen (state examination in 1801), he accompanied the District President Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Kruse von Nassau-Usingen as private secretary to the meeting of the Reich Deputation in Regensburg , at which the redistribution of the territories of the German states after Napoléon Bonaparte's annexation of all was concerned areas left of the Rhine went.

From 1815 Ibell was President of the District in the newly formed Duchy of Nassau in 1806 . Politically, he was an uncompromising representative of a free state administration. As such, he carried out numerous liberal reforms in the Duchy of Nassau, including the abolition of serfdom (1808), the abolition of noble privileges in tax collection (1809) and the Freedom of Movement Act (1810), according to which every Nassau citizen could freely choose his place of residence. In 1813/14, alongside Ernst Franz Ludwig Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein and Freiherr von Stein, he played a key role in the development of the Nassau constitution, the first independent on German soil. In this position he vigorously opposed August von Kruse's proposals for a military dictatorship in Nassau in 1815 , and in May 1819 Bieberstein's classification of the domains into the Duke's household was unsuccessful.

In 1817 Ibell was instrumental in the unification of the Lutheran and Reformed churches in Nassau .

In July 1819, an assassination attempt aimed at Ibell by the Idstein pharmacist Karl Löning , who was connected to the “ Giessen Blacks ”, a radical fraternity, failed . The attempted murder was a further link in a chain of events that finally led to the Carlsbad resolutions in the same year , which served to suppress national and liberal movements, certainly not entirely in the sense of Ibell. There were marked liberal and liberal of Ibells views - and he therefore did not meet the enemy of the entering for German unity student fraternities - known historian Wolfgang Behringer the anti-Semitism among many followers of the unifications of thought as one of the reasons for the attack, because of Ibell was a proponent of the emancipation of the Jews , the legal equality of the Jews .

In 1818 Ibell received from Wilhelm I , Duke of Nassau, an estate in Unterliederbach , today a district of Frankfurt am Main , as a gift . The house was the villa built by Kommerzienrat Stembler in 1755/56 (today Villa Graubner ).

In 1819 the dispute over the Nassau domains came to a head. While von Bieberstein viewed these as the Duke's personal property, Ibell saw them as part of the state finances that were to be controlled by the estates. In March 1820 Wilhelm I put Ibell on hold. After he had been elected as a Liberal MP in the constituency of Weilburg, he was finally dismissed in March 1821. Ibell did not accept the mandate.

In 1828 he entered the service of Landgrave Friedrich VI. and his successor Ludwig von Hessen-Homburg . Here he stabilized the finances of both the country and the sovereign. At this place of activity, too, Ibell proved to be a liberal who conformed to contemporary reform ideas. This was also evident in the reorganization of court proceedings and in the reorganization of the school system.

Because of his commitment to the German Customs Union , he was given the hereditary family nobility by the Prussian king in 1830 .

In 1831 Ibell set up a training school for young people who had left school in Unterliederbach, which he financed himself. Arithmetic, calligraphy , essays and field fairs were taught . Ibell fell ill in 1832 and gave up his office, but represented Hessen-Homburg again in 1834 at a ministerial conference in Vienna that Metternich had called to impose an absolutist constitution on the German federal states. Disappointed, Ibell withdrew to his country estate in Unterliederbach. He died that same year. The grave in the cemetery near the old village church in Unterliederbach is well preserved , where he is buried next to his son, the physician Rudolf von Ibell (1814–1864).

Honors

literature

  • Ernst Joachim:  Ibell, Karl von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 737-739.
  • 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. 197.
  • Nassau parliamentarians. Part 1: Cornelia Rösner: The Landtag of the Duchy of Nassau 1818–1866 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. Vol. 59 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. Vol. 16). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-930221-00-4 , No. 112.
  • Karl Schwartz: life news about the district president Karl von Ibell. In: Nassau Annals of the Association for Nassau Antiquity and Historical Research . Volume 14, 1875, pp. 1-107 ( digitized version ).
  • Wilfried Schüler : The Duchy of Nassau 1806–1866. German history in small format , Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 96-101.
  • Wolf-Heino Struck : The pursuit of civil liberty and national unity from the point of view of the Duchy of Nassau . In: Nassauische Annalen , Volume 77, 1966, pp. 142-216.

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