Carl Sigmund Felix von Reitzenstein

Carl Freiherr von Reitzenstein in the uniform of a royal Württemberg chamberlain and chief court master on a posthumous portrait from 1897. The painting executed by Rudolf Huthsteiner is in the entrance area of the Villa Reitzenstein in Stuttgart

Baron Carl Friedrich Sigmund Felix von Reitzenstein (born September 6, 1848 in Ulm , † March 28, 1897 in Baden-Baden ) was a Württemberg officer and chamberlain.

Life

Carl von Reitzenstein was the son of General Karl Bernhard von Reitzenstein . He came from the Zoppaten line of the Franconian noble family von Reitzenstein . Like his father, Carl von Reitzenstein entered the service of the Württemberg army and went through the officer ranks up to lieutenant colonel . In contrast to his father, he retired from active military service at an early age and was instead a court official , which means that his officer ranks with the addition z. D. (according to the military language "available") .

On October 3, 1876, he married his younger daughter Helene Hallberger at the country estate of his future father-in-law Eduard Hallberger in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg . At his wedding Reitzenstein was Rittmeister . Almost four years after the wedding, the father-in-law Eduard Hallberger died in the summer of 1880. Now Helene von Reitzenstein inherited half of her father's fortune with her sister Gabriele Eichborn (1850–1915). For Helene von Reitzenstein it amounted to about 5 million marks with an annual income of about 250,000 marks. In 1889 she was able to reacquire the ancestral seat of the barons of Reitzenstein, Reitzenstein Castle in Issigau near Naila in Upper Franconia , for her husband and his noble family.

Under King Karl von Württemberg Reitzenstein finally held the rank of major zD and rose to the rank of stable master . Under King Wilhelm II , he became a wing adjutant , lieutenant colonel and chief steward of Queen Charlotte of Württemberg .

The marriage led by Carl and Helene von Reitzenstein was in the limelight of the society of the royal residence in Stuttgart. However, Carl von Reitzenstein died early and without descendants, so that the Reitzenstein-Zoppaten line was extinguished. His grave is in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart .

Villa Reitzenstein

Helene von Reitzenstein created a permanent memorial for her deceased husband by building the Villa Reitzenstein in Stuttgart between 1910 and 1913 , whose namesake is Carl von Reitzenstein. From 1925, the villa initially served as the seat of the Württemberg state president and, from 1933, the district leadership of the NSDAP . In the post-war period, the villa was temporarily the seat of the state council of the American zone of occupation and has been used as the official seat of the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg since 1952 .

literature

Kurt Gayer, Heinz Krämer , Georg F. Kempter: The Villa Reitzenstein and its masters. The history of the Baden-Württemberg seat of government. DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-87181-257-9 .
Willi A. Boelcke : Millionaires in Württemberg. DVA , Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-421-05110-0 , pp. 80-82, 121-122, 194-195, 248.
Gerhard Konzelmann : Villa Reitzenstein: History of the seat of government of Baden-Württemberg. Hohenheim Verlag, Stuttgart u. Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-89850-104-3 .

Jörg Kurz: The Gänsheide. History and culture. Verlag im Ziegelhaus, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-925440-16-8 , including the section Die Villa Reitzenstein. Pp. 84-94.

References and comments

↑ The life data of Carl von Reitzenstein can be found e.g. B. with Willi A. Boelcke: Millionaires in Württemberg. P. 194. In a leaflet published by the State Ministry, Faces with History. The portrait collection of Villa Reitzenstein ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.9 MB) is given as the year of birth 1846! It is therefore uncertain whether 1846 or 1848 is the correct year of birth.@1@ 2

^ Gerhard Konzelmann: Villa Reitzenstein: History of the seat of government of Baden-Württemberg , p. 49

^ Gerhard Konzelmann: Villa Reitzenstein: History of the seat of government of Baden-Württemberg. P. 66 ff.
Wilhelm Murr , the head of the Gaus Württemberg of the NSDAP, moved into the villa after he had been elected President of Württemberg on March 15, 1933. After the abolition of this office on May 5, 1933, Murr was, in addition to his party function as Gauleiter, Reich Governor until 1945 .

^ Gerhard Konzelmann: Villa Reitzenstein: History of the seat of government of Baden-Württemberg , p. 85 ff.

↑ Gerhard Konzelmann: Villa Reitzenstein: History of the seat of government of Baden-Württemberg , p. 89 ff.
Reinhold Maier has been using the Villa Reitzenstein since September 1948 as his official seat in his function as Prime Minister of Württemberg-Baden , but only since April 25, 1952 Maier was Prime Minister of the newly formed state of Baden-Württemberg .

personal data
SURNAME	Reitzenstein, Carl Sigmund Felix von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Reitzenstein, Carl Friedrich Sigmund Felix von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Wuerttemberg officer and chamberlain
DATE OF BIRTH	September 6, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ulm
DATE OF DEATH	March 28, 1897
Place of death	Baden-Baden

[1] The life data of Carl von Reitzenstein can be found e.g. B. with Willi A. Boelcke: Millionaires in Württemberg. P. 194. In a leaflet published by the State Ministry, Faces with History. The portrait collection of Villa Reitzenstein ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.9 MB) is given as the year of birth 1846! It is therefore uncertain whether 1846 or 1848 is the correct year of birth.@1@ 2

[2] Gerhard Konzelmann: Villa Reitzenstein: History of the seat of government of Baden-Württemberg , p. 49

[3] Gerhard Konzelmann: Villa Reitzenstein: History of the seat of government of Baden-Württemberg. P. 66 ff.
Wilhelm Murr , the head of the Gaus Württemberg of the NSDAP, moved into the villa after he had been elected President of Württemberg on March 15, 1933. After the abolition of this office on May 5, 1933, Murr was, in addition to his party function as Gauleiter, Reich Governor until 1945 .

[4] Gerhard Konzelmann: Villa Reitzenstein: History of the seat of government of Baden-Württemberg , p. 85 ff.

[5] Gerhard Konzelmann: Villa Reitzenstein: History of the seat of government of Baden-Württemberg , p. 89 ff.
Reinhold Maier has been using the Villa Reitzenstein since September 1948 as his official seat in his function as Prime Minister of Württemberg-Baden , but only since April 25, 1952 Maier was Prime Minister of the newly formed state of Baden-Württemberg .