Carl Ludwig von Barckhaus called von Wiesenhütten

Carl Ludwig von Barckhaus called von Wiesenhütten

Carl Ludwig von Barckhaus called von Wiesenhütten (born May 18, 1761 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 15, 1823 at the Schönhof near Bockenheim ), baron since March 14, 1789, was a Hesse-Darmstadt State Minister for Foreign Affairs and a diplomat .

Life

Carl Ludwig was the son of the Frankfurt banker and Hesse-Darmstadt diplomat Heinrich Carl Reichsfreiherr von Barckhaus called von Wiesenhütten (1725–1793) and his wife, Helene Elisabeth Charlotte , née. von Veltheim, on Destedt near Braunschweig (1736–1804), a second cousin of Goethe's mother, Catharina Elisabeth Goethe , geb. Textor. Carl Ludwig's father was accepted into the Frankfurt patrician society Zum Frauenstein in 1780 and in 1786 (like his brother-in-law Eberhard Christoph Ritter and Edler von Oetinger before him on November 11, 1785) ; his parents and siblings were raised to the status of imperial barons on March 14, 1789.

Carl Ludwig had been a pupil of the Royal Pedagogy of the Francke Foundations in Halle an der Saale since 1774 and then studied law, initially from 1779 at the University of Göttingen , where he was accepted into the influential ZN student order in 1780 , and at the University of Tübingen from 1782 . Since 1780 one of his fellow students in Göttingen and since 1781 one of his most important ZN friars was the later diplomat Piter Poel . After completing his studies, Carl Ludwig worked for a short time at the court of Duke Karl I of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and then initially worked as a stable master in the service of Landgrave Ludwig IX. von Hessen-Darmstadt (1719–1790) and later his son Ludwig X. (1753–1830).

In November 1793 he represented the interests of the Darmstädter Hof in Kassel for the first time as envoy on the question of subsidies , ie the rental of the military . In 1798 he became Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in Hesse-Darmstadt. In October 1802 he represented the Landgraviate at the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in Regensburg and negotiated a high triple compensation for the territorial losses of Hessen-Darmstadt on the left bank of the Rhine, so that Landgrave Ludwig X gave him the Fideikommiss Carlshof near Darmstadt in recognition of his services . Carl Ludwig von Barkhaus represented a policy based on France. Bad health, his pro-French attitude displeased Landgravine Luise Henriette Karoline von Hessen-Darmstadt , who could not stand the upstart Napoleon . An intrigue initiated by her, in which her favorite Heinrich Johann Freiherrn van Oyen (1771-1850) was significantly involved, ended his political career. Carl Ludwig von Barkhaus resigned from the Hessian service.

His two wives and his illegitimate son, Heinrich Bernhard Barkhaus

Carl Ludwig von Barckhaus was twice married briefly and without children:

• His first marriage was in Frankfurt am Main on January 16, 1792 for financial reasons, Maria Charlotte Reichsfreiherrn von Günderrode , baptized in Frankfurt on May 25, 1762, died there on May 14, 1805. She was a sister of the Frankfurt Senator Friedrich Maximilian Reichsfreiherrn von Günderrode called von Kellner (1753–1824; 1807 Stadtschultheiß of Frankfurt am Main). The marriage of the woman who was considered silly and ugly, but wealthy, was divorced after a few months in 1792.
• His second marriage was in Frankfurt on November 24, 1811, with his cousin Henriette, widowed von Münchhausen (since 1810) , on the manor Hedwigsburg , née. von Veltheim auf Destedt , born in Destedt on August 22, 1765, died in Frankfurt am Main on April 15, 1812. The Göttingen law student was engaged to the then very young noblewoman as early as 1779/1780.

Carl Ludwig von Barckhaus had an illegitimate son, Heinrich Bernhard Barkhaus, with Christiane Heusel from Fischbach near Eisenach . Carl Ludwig fled there in 1796 together with the Hesse-Darmstadt court from the French troops. This son, together with his mother, made claims to the property of his deceased father in 1823.

His sisters Charlotte and Louise; Relationship to Goethe and Wetzlar

One of his siblings is Charlotte (Louise Ernestine) Edle von Oetinger, born von Barckhaus called von Wiesenhütten (1756–1823), who received her Lic. Iur. Eberhard Christoph Ritter and Edlen von Oetinger (1743–1805), since 1784 Reich Chamber Court assessor (judge) in Wetzlar , married a Freemason and Illuminati from Stuttgart . He was a nephew of the Pietist prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger . According to the testimony of the Frankfurt merchant Johann Isaak Gerning , who is known as Goethe in 1793, she was once a lover ("Amasia") of Goethe. According to the testimony of Goethe's friend Johann Jakob von Willemer , the Frankfurt banker, Freemason and Illuminati, to Goethe himself from 1824, which remained without contradiction of the poet , he wrote to Goethe himself in 1774 in the epistle novel The Sorrows of Young Werther in the form of the aristocratic 'second Lotte '"Fräulein von B ..", ie' von Barckhaus', set a literary monument. The young Goethe and his relative Charlotte von Barckhaus called von Wiesenhütten (third cousin) had met early on.

The painter Louise von Panhuys , b. von Barckhaus called von Wiesenhütten, was a younger sister of the judge's wife and the Minister of State, who was also known to Goethe.

Charlotte, Carl Ludwig and Louise's father's house "To the Three Kings" on the corner of Zeil and the corner of Große Eschenheimer Gasse, which once belonged to Matthäus Merian the Younger , the older half-brother of the artist Maria Sibylla Merian , married Graff, was only about 400 Meters from Goethe's father's house "To the three lyres" in the Großer Hirschgraben.

In the key novel The Sorrows of Young Werther , the bourgeois Charlotte ("Lotte") S. and the noble "Fräulein von B ..", who cannot be reached for professional reasons, face each other, in reality Charlotte B. and Charlotte von B ..: Charlotte Buff and Charlotte von Barckhaus-Wiesenhütten. The fact that the two families were basically acquainted with each other and with Goethe supports Willemer's statement: A brother of Charlotte Kestner, b. Buff, Wilhelm Buff (1758–1831), acted as procurator from 1800 to 1803, representing Carl Ludwig Baron von Barckhaus-Wiesenhütten before the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar. For the past few years, the former Minister of State lived with his sister Charlotte Edler von Oetinger, who had been widowed since 1805, on the Schönhof estate near Bockenheim , which he had acquired in 1819. Like the Carlshof, the Schönhof was inherited by the family of the knights and nobles von Oetinger.

literature

• Lupold von Lehsten: The Hessian Reichstag envoy in the 17th and 18th centuries . Vol. 1. 2. Darmstadt and Marburg 2003 (Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse: Sources and Research on Hessian History. 137, Vol. 1.2). - Vol. 1. Prosopographical investigation. P. 275 f. and more often to p. 514; Vol. 2. Appendix. Lists and biographical-genealogical sheets of the Hessian ambassadors for the Reichstag in the 17th and 18th centuries. Pp. 121, 127, 137 and especially pp. 438-444.
• Reinhard Breymayer : Prelate Oetinger's nephew Eberhard Christoph v. Oetinger, in Stuttgart Freemason and Superior of the Illuminati, in Wetzlar a judge at the Imperial Court of Justice - was his wife, Charlotte, nee, related to Goethe. v. Barckhaus, a role model for Werther's "Fräulein von B .."? 2nd, improved edition. Heck, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-924249-49-6 , especially pp. 38–40, 78–80; for more cf. the register p. 129.
• Reinhard Breymayer: Goethe, Oetinger and no end. Charlotte Edle von Oetinger, née von Barckhaus-Wiesenhütten, as Werther "Fräulein von B .." . Heck, Dußlingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-924249-54-0 , especially pp. 27-29.

Web links

• Barkhaus called Wiesenhütten, Carl Ludwig Freiherr von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Carl Ludwig von Barckhaus called von Wiesenhütten in the Stadtlexikon Darmstadt

Remarks

1. ↑ His older sister Magdalena Pauli , b. Poel, has been in the role of a lover from a wealthy merchant house since 1770/1771 , who had to be out of reach of Goethe's future friend Heinrich Julius von Lindau , predecessor of Carl Ludwig's older sister Charlotte, later married Edler von Oetinger, who in December 1775 / January 1776 was wooed by Julius von Lindau in vain.
2. ↑ From 1806 as Ludewig I Grand Duke of Hesse .
3. ^ Since 1803 "zu Fürstenstein", since 1819 Graf.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Born as Carl Andreas Wies guardians , ennobled on 18 January 1728 as Carl Andreas Wies guardians of meadow huts , after the testamentary adoption by his uncle Henry of Barckhaus (1691-1752) renamed since 3 April 1753 Heinrich Carl von Barckhaus called Meadow Cabins .
2. ↑ She is listed in the Thieme-Becker as a painter and etcher amateur, s. Volume 2, p. 504 (Schrey: Barkhaus-Wiesenhütten, Charlotte von )
3. ↑ See Walter Richter: Der Esperance- und ZN-Orden. In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research , Vol. 19 (1974), pp. 30–54, here p. 47, no. 113.
4. ^ Eckhart G. Franz , Peter Fleck, Fritz Kallenberg: Grand Duchy of Hesse (1800) 1806-1918 . In: Walter Heinemeyer , Helmut Berding , Peter Moraw , Hans Philippi (ed.): Handbook of Hessian History . Volume 4.2: Hesse in the German Confederation and in the New German Empire (1806) 1815–1945. The Hessian states until 1945 = publications of the historical commission for Hesse 63. Elwert. Marburg 2003. ISBN 3-7708-1238-7 , S 687f.
5. ↑ See also: Breymayer: Prälat Oetingers Neffe , 2nd edition, 2010, pp. 8, 11, 31, 41, 71 and 82–95.
6. ↑ See Breymayer: Prälat Oetingers Neffe , pp. 8–11, 31 f., 37 f., 52, 71, 73, 76, 82, 96, 115 and 216.
7. ↑ A joint midday meal by Goethe and the head stableman "Parkhausen", ie Barckhaus-Wiesenhütten, in Weimar is documented for October 12, 1796. See Goethe. Encounters and conversations . Founded by Ernst Grumach and Renate Grumach, vol. 4. 1793–1799, edited by Renate Grumach, Berlin / New York 1980, p. 252. See also Breymayer: Prälat Oetingers Neffe , p. 28.
8. ↑ See Breymayer: Prelate Oetinger's nephew. , P. 10 and p. 38 f. with note 56 f. on pp. 78–80. See also: Inventory of the files of the Reich Chamber Court 1495–1806. Frankfurt holdings , edited by Inge Kaltwasser, Frankfurt am Main 2000 ( publications by the Frankfurt Historical Commission. 21. Ed .: Dieter Rebentisch), p. 242 f.