Carl Friedrich Feuerlein

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The government councilor CF Feuerlein in the later 18th century on a painting by Hetsch

Carl Friedrich Feuerlein (born March 6, 1730 in Mömpelgard , † March 15, 1808 in Stuttgart ) was a German lawyer. In the Duchy of Württemberg he was an influential government official.

origin

Carl Friedrich Feuerlein came from the Franconian family of theologians and scholars Feuerlein . His father Willibald Feuerlein (* December 22, 1686; † August 19, 1777) was the ducal-Württemberg government councilor in Mömpelgard and Stuttgart and married to Rosine (Dorothea Eufrosina) Georgii (* October 25, 1701; † November 11, 1788), the Daughter of the Hofrat and Vogts Jacob Simon Georgii in Ansbach. From the marriage of Carl Friedrich Feuerlein's parents there was an older sister Eberhardine Friederica Magdalene Juliane (born November 25, 1726 in Mömpelgard) and a younger brother Johann Christian Leopold Feuerlein (born May 1, 1732 in Mömpelgard) as well as another sister Johanna Justine Christiana, whose birthday has not been recorded.

Career

The lawyer Carl Friedrich Feuerlein began his work in 1755 as a lawyer in Stuttgart and made a steep career as a government official in the service of Duke Carl Eugen von Württemberg . As a state servant in Württemberg, he first signed the formula of the Agreement on January 22, 1754 . During the Seven Years' War in 1759 he was appointed auditor in the Württemberg infantry regiment Prince Louis. 1763 called in Duke Carl Eugen from Paris to the secretariat of the French expeditions. He became secretary to the President of the Secret Council and Minister of State Friedrich Samuel von Montmartin . After Montmartin's dismissal, Feuerlein was a member of the secret direct secretariat from June 23, 1766 and, from July 1766, also a secret council registrar.

Württemberg secret cabinet secretary

As long-time secret cabinet secretary from October 5, 1766 to November 1, 1793, Carl Friedrich Feuerlein had great influence on government policy in Württemberg for three decades. The Secret Cabinet (also known as the Secret Cabinet Chancellery) was a comparatively young institution of the Duchy of Württemberg, which had been established in 1717 and was dissolved by decree of November 1, 1793 after the death of Duke Carl Eugen.

After the dismissal of State Minister Friedrich Samuel von Montmartin in 1766, the Duke ruled with the help of the now top secret Cabinet Chancellery. This consisted of five secretaries, whose position at that time practically corresponded to that of a current minister. In 1768, the Secret Cabinet Chancellery consisted of the following five secretaries: Carl Friedrich Feuerlein, his brother Johann Christian Leopold Feuerlein (who only belonged from 1764 to 1770), Philipp Friedrich Schmidlin, Rudolph Heinrich Stockmaier and Johann Gottfried Grimm.

Business trips

As the ducal-Württemberg secret cabinet secretary, Feuerlein took part in several large-scale trips to the court. During the trip to Italy from December 1766 to July 1967, around 231,000 guilders were spent. From July 29 to August 2, 1768, Feuerlein traveled with 425 people to Grafeneck Castle , the Duke's summer residence. 1200 horses were used on the trip to Bad Teinach from July 7th to August 2nd, 1770. In April 1784 Carl Friedrich Feuerlein traveled to Mömpelgard with Duke Carl Eugen on the occasion of his upcoming wedding to Franziska von Hohenheim . Carl Eugen was advised there by his brother Friedrich Eugen and his wife Friederike Dorothea . Carl Friedrich Feuerlein worked out the marriage contract during this time.

Government Council

With the appointment of Friedrich Emich Johann von Uexküll-Gyllenband as the new Württemberg State Minister in 1777 , the prominent importance of the Secret Cabinet Chancellery receded somewhat into the background.

With the death of Philipp Friedrich Schmidlin, Carl Friedrich Feuerlein became Schmidlin's successor by decree of Duke Carl Eugen (signed in Hohenheim on April 15, 1786) as senior of the Secret Cabinet Chancellery and registrar at the Ducal Grand Order.

On July 8, 1788, Feuerlein was appointed as a scholar to the Württemberg upper council , which had been associated with the title of government councilor since 1711.

After Duke Ludwig Eugen repealed the Secret Cabinet Chancellery in November 1793 , Carl Friedrich Feuerlein remained the government councilor in the Upper Council and the position of order registrar, largely while retaining his previous salaries.

Order registrar

As electoral Württemberg government councilor and registrar of the large order chancellery, Carl Friedrich Feuerlein wrote a list of the members of the Knight Order of the Hunt , founded in 1702 , the forerunner of the Order of the Württemberg Crown .

Family networking in Württemberg

Carl Friedrich Feuerlein married Auguste Fischer (* 1747; † 1823) on August 26, 1766 in Stuttgart-Berg, who was officially the daughter of the Duke of Württemberg's master chef Friedrich Johann Ernst Fischer. His wife was the Duke's lover Magdalene Barbara Fischer née. Castenbauer (* 1718; † 1786), daughter of the musician Sigmund Castenbauer (* 1677; † 1763) with the Württemberg court orchestra . Auguste Feuerlein’s brother Reinhard Fischer is considered the illegitimate son of Duke Carl Eugen. It stands to reason that this also applies to his sister Auguste. The Duke later showed his solidarity with the twelve children of the married couple Carl and Auguste Feuerlein by inviting these presumed grandchildren over and over to Hohenheim Palace . The eldest son Carl Feuerlein (* 1770; † 1808) was a businessman and founder of the company of the same name in Stuttgart, which traded in the blue dye indigo. After Carl's early death, his brother-in-law Leopold Conradi took over the business. The large number of children of the Feuerlein couple, especially eight daughters, led to a close network with many well-known families of the Württemberg respectability. In addition to the twin sons Gustav and Willibald Feuerlein , the sons-in-law Christian Gottfried Elben , Ferdinand von Pistorius and Leopold Conradi as well as Ludwig Uhland , the husband of granddaughter Emilie Vischer (* 1799; † 1881), were of importance for the history of Württemberg .

See also: The family of the government councilor Carl Friedrich Feuerlein

Renowned house on Friedrichstrasse in Stuttgart

The house of the government council in the Stuttgarter Seegasse (today Friedrichstrasse 46) was built by his brother-in-law, the ducal master builder Reinhard Fischer . It was a social center of the capital and residence city of Stuttgart and passed to the family of his son-in-law Ferdinand von Pistorius after the death of the government councilor in 1808 . In 1805, Feuerlein founded the local charity association with Pistorius in his house. It was a state-approved private company of voluntary poor friends. From 1805 until his death in 1808, Feuerlein was the first president of this charity. In 1806, the association distributed basic foods such as flour, bread, rice, barley and plums and also firewood to the poor and needy in Stuttgart for the first time. A dining establishment was opened on Leonhardsplatz and an employment establishment for children was founded in 1807. After Feuerlein’s death, Ferdinand von Pistorius continued to run the charity as president for many years and continued the tradition of his father-in-law's house at Friedrichstrasse 46. His second wife Eleonore Pistorius geb. Feuerlein made the house a foster home for art and education in Stuttgart.

Carl Friedrich Feuerlein was buried in the Hoppenlauf cemetery in 1808 .

Feuerleinstein in Bad Liebenzell

The Feuerleinstein in the spa gardens of Bad Liebenzell

The government councilor Carl Friedrich Feuerlein had a permanent monument erected in Bad Liebenzell . His eldest daughter Auguste (* 1768; † 1805) had married the local chief bailiff Ernst Heller (* 1758; † 1818) in 1785, who in 1796 saved Liebenzell from excessive pillage through courage and skill, as a larger contingent of French troops during the First Coalition War under General François Laroche went through to Stuttgart. Feuerlein liked to come back to Liebenzell and to the family of his daughter and his son-in-law Heller. In 1800, Feuerlein had a large sandstone block uncovered on the road in the direction of Hirsau, about 100 m from the entrance to Beinberger Strasse. He had the stone provided with an inscription dated March 6, 1800, which he wanted to be understood as a legacy of his impressions as a hiker through the beautiful forests of Liebenzell to his numerous children and grandchildren. In 1989, the stone, which was renovated by Albert Kübler in 1980, was repositioned in the Bad Liebenzeller Kurpark, easy to reach, after it had been moved high into the forest in 1974 on the Feuerleinweg on the Beinberger Steige that passed there.

Works

  • Chronological directory of the fellow members of the electoral Württemberg great knight order from its creation up to the year 1803 , Main State Archives Stuttgart, A 23, Bü 4
  • Directory of all knights of the great order of the golden eagle up to 1806 , Main State Archives Stuttgart, E 16a Bü 18a

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theodor Schimpf: Willibald Feuerlein, the elder. In: Familienverband Feuerlein Mitteilungen , 7th year, January 1941, issue 1, p. 11
  2. ^ Eberhard Emil von Georgii-Georgenau: Princely Württemberg servant book. Stuttgart 1877, p. 95
  3. ^ W. Pfeilsticker, New Württembergisches Dienerbuch , Volume 1, Cotta'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1957, § 1347
  4. ↑ a b c Ferdinand Goes: Review of the research on Carl Friedrich Feuerlein . In: Familienverband Feuerlein Mitteilungen , 4th year, May 1938, issue 3, p. 49 f.
  5. ^ W. Pfeilsticker, New Württembergisches Dienerbuch , Volume 1, Cotta'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1957, § 1166
  6. ^ W. Pfeilsticker, New Württembergisches Dienerbuch , Volume 1, Cotta'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1957, § 1176
  7. ^ W. Pfeilsticker, New Württembergisches Dienerbuch , Volume 1, Cotta'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1957, § 1164
  8. ^ Carl Eduard Vehse: History of the German Courts since the Reformation , Volume 25, Fourth Section, History of the Courts of the Houses of Baiern, Württemberg, Baden and Hesse , Third Part, Verlag Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1853, p. 238
  9. ^ Theodor Schimpf: Our ancestor as a travel companion of Duke Carl Eugen. In: Familienverband Feuerlein Mitteilungen , Volume 2, January 1936, Issue 2, pp. 27–30
  10. ↑ Otto Rothermundt: CF Feuerlein and the Duke's marriage contract. In: Familienverband Feuerlein Mitteilungen , 4th year, September 1937, issue 1, p. 15
  11. ^ Eberhard Emil von Georgii-Georgenau: Princely Württemberg servant book. Stuttgart 1877, p. 68
  12. ^ W. Pfeilsticker, New Württembergisches Dienerbuch , Volume 1, Cotta'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1957, § 1214
  13. ↑ Albert Raff: The ducal-Württemberg knight order of the hunt. In: Orders and Medals. The magazine for friends of phaleristics. Volume 11, No. 60 (April 2009), p. 62 ff.
  14. ↑ An ancestral list of the civil ancestors of Auguste Feuerlein, compiled by Gerhart Nebinger, can be found in the communications of the Feuerlein family association, 6th year, issue 2, May 1940, pp. 20-27
  15. ↑ U. a. also according to a statement in Susanne Dietrich's book Liebesgunst. Mätressen in Württemberg , DRW-Verlag 2001, p. 42, Fischer was an illegitimate son of Duke Carl Eugen
  16. ↑ Albert Seible: Duke or kitchen master? In: Andreas Abel: The descendants of the government councilor Carl F. Feuerlein , Todt-Druck, Villingen-Schwenningen 2007, p. 886 ff.
  17. ↑ Friedrichstrasse in Stuttgart was formerly called Seegasse, see z. B. the list of historical street names in Stuttgart
  18. ↑ The story of the sea lane queen. From the old days of Friedrichstrasse - The Pistorius house and the Feuerlein family . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung No. 178 of August 6, 1955, p. 36
  19. ↑ The Carl-Feuerlein-Stein in Bad Liebenzell. Monument from bygone times might have deserved a better place in the new part of the Kurpark! Newspaper article in the Kreisnachrichten Calw from August 19, 1972
  20. ↑ Memorial plaque for Albert Kübler in Bad Liebenzell-Neuhausen
  21. ↑ Feuerleinstein found a good place . In: Familienverband Feuerlein Mitteilungen , Volume 47, March 1990, p. 5
  22. ↑ The “written stone” has a new place. Now it will delight hikers in the Kollbachtal / Difficult transport. Newspaper article in the Kreisnachrichten Calw on September 10, 1974
personal data
SURNAME Little Fire, Carl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Little fire Karl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg government councilor
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Montbeliard
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1808
Place of death Stuttgart