Carl rival of Meysenbug

Ludwig Carl Georg Philipp Rivalier (* 2. October 1779 in Kassel , † thirtieth December 1847 in Frankfurt am Main ), from 1825 of Meysenbug , even de Meysenbug , 1834 , Baron was a Kurhessischer foreign minister.

Life

Carl Rivalier came from a Huguenot family with roots near Nîmes . During the Kingdom of Westphalia , which existed from 1807 to 1813 , he worked as a lawyer in Kassel. After the restoration of the Electorate of Hesse , he became secretary in the secret war chancellery in 1814, secret cabinet councilor from 1823, and in 1831 Minister of State, Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Rivalier was considered a man with a strong conservative disposition and belonged to the inner circle around Emilie Ortlöpp , the influential mistress of Elector Wilhelm II. He advised the Elector in the constitutional crisis of 1830 and in deliberating on the Hessian constitution of 1831 . After 1831 he went into exile with the Elector in Frankfurt am Main.

The elector raised Rivalier to the nobility in 1825, with the settlement of the name of the old Thessian knightly family Meysenbug, who died out in 1810 with Heinrich von Meysenbug . In 1828 he received the manor of the Zerssen family in Lauenau as a fief. In 1834 he was awarded by Emperor Francis I of Austria by awarding the Commander's Cross of the Order of Leopold to Baron title as of Meysenbug.

Rivalier von Meysenbug was the father of the writer and women's rights activist Malwida von Meysenbug , the Baden politician Wilhelm Rivalier von Meysenbug and his brother Otto von Meysenbug, who became the Austrian Undersecretary of State.

Freemasonry

Carl Rivalier was an active member of the Freemason Lodge Wilhelm zur Sthaftigkeit in Kassel until the prohibition of Freemasonry in Kurhessen in 1824 , until 1813 called Königlich Hieronymus Napoléon zu Treue , into which he was accepted in 1808 during the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia under Jérôme Bonaparte . He was an honorary member and representative of the Marburg lodge Marc Aurel zum Flammenden Stern at the Great Mother Lodge of Kurhessen, which existed between 1817 and 1824 .

literature

• Ewald Grothe : Constitution and Constitutional Conflict. The Electorate of Hesse in the first era Hassenpflug 1830–1837 , Berlin 1996 (= writings on constitutional history , 48), ISBN 3-428-08509-4 .
• Harald Höffner: Kurhessens Ministerialvorstand the constitutional period 1831-1866 , masch.-schr., Phil. Diss., Giessen 1981.
• Helmut Keiler: Marburg Freemason Documentation , Gießen 1980 [University Library of Marburg].
• Hermann vom Meysenbug: Carl Rivalier von Meysenbug, Minister of State of Hesse. In: Hessenland Vol. 14 (1900), No. 9–15 [special print].
• Rivalier de Meysenbug, Ludwig Carl Georg Philipp Freiherr. Hessian biography. (As of March 9, 2011). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS) ..
• Hellmut Seier (Ed.): Files and letters from the beginnings of the Hessian constitutional period 1830-1837 , Marburg 1992 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , 48.4; Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse , 8), ISBN 3-7708 -0993-9 .