Carl Wilderich von Walderdorff

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Carl Wilderich von Walderdorff

Count Carl Wilderich von Walderdorff (born September 1, 1799 in Eltville ; † December 27, 1862 ) was a German politician and between 1834 and 1842 Minister of State of the Duchy of Nassau .

origin

He was the son of Count Franz Philipp von Walderdorff and his wife Mauritia (born von Freiberg-Hopferen), his uncle Philipp Franz Wilderich Nepomuk von Walderdorf was the last Prince-Bishop of Speyer .

The father stood together with Baron von Stein as a defender of aristocratic interests at times in opposition to the Nassau government under Minister of State Ernst Franz Ludwig Marschall von Bieberstein . After Stein was ousted in 1818, Walderdorff also withdrew from political life.

Life

Walderdorff entered the French military school in La Flèche in 1810 and attended it until the end of Napoleonic rule. He then studied from 1815 to 1819 in Göttingen and Heidelberg . Between 1819 and 1821 he made extensive trips to southern Germany and Italy. In 1823 his father gave him the management of the family property, the largest property in the Duchy of Nassau. In the same year Walderdorff married Countess Mauritia Beissel von Gymnich . This marriage resulted in 7 children, 2 daughters and 5 sons, whereby the two oldest siblings, a daughter and a son, did not reach adulthood. From 1828 the family lived at Molsberg Castle . In 1829, after the death of his father, he took over his seat on the Herrenbank of the Landtag of the Duchy of Nassau , of which he was a member until 1848, from 1832 to 1834 and 1843 to 1845 as President. After the victory of the reaction and the restoration of the old electoral law, he was again a member of the first chamber from 1852 to 1862 and there President from 1853 to 1854.

Only gradually did he turn more to political life and, like his father, oppose Minister of State Marschall von Bieberstein. In 1831, Walderdorff, together with the majority of the Herrenbank, spoke out in favor of joining Prussia and the Zollverein . In the domain dispute that moved the duchy, he spoke out in favor of a compromise. Duke Wilhelm I was also forced to give in. He appointed Walderdorff as President of the Herrenbank in 1832.

After the death of the Minister of State, Marschall von Bieberstein, Waldersdorff was appointed his successor in June 1834. He also remained in office under Duke Adolf I (from 1839). Shortly after the start of his government, Walderdorff began negotiations to join the Zollverein. This step took place in 1835. A new customs regulation followed and in 1837 a coinage treaty with Bavaria , Württemberg , Baden , the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Frankfurt . Walderdorff promoted the expansion of the Taunus Railway and steam navigation on the Rhine. In 1840, the state credit fund and a tithe replacement commission were set up. For the Catholic subjects, the faculty of Catholic theology in Giessen was declared a state faculty . Further reform laws fell during his reign.

In July 1842 he resigned surprisingly and largely withdrew from public life. In March 1848 he tried in vain to calm an angry crowd in front of the ducal palace. At the beginning of the 1860s he was on the side of the Greater German-minded German Reform Association .

family

Walderdorff married the Mauritia Countess Beissel von Gymnich (1801-1851) on September 15, 1853 . The marriage had two sons:

After the death of his first wife, Count Walderdorff married Mauritia von Dannenberg (1828–1912) in their second marriage in 1853 . From this marriage 3 daughters were born, with only the two younger ones reaching adulthood, including:

In 1862, one year after the birth of the third daughter, Count Carl Wilderich died. He found his final resting place in the family crypt in Molsberg.

literature

  • Lupold von Lehsten, Emanuel Graf von Walderdorff: The women of the Walderdorff in the main trunk. Their families and their ancestors. , Molsberg 1999, ISBN 3-00-005502-9 , pp. 91-102.
  • 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. 398.
  • 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. 267.
  • W. Sauer:  Walderdorff, Carl Wilderich Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 693-696.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Xaver Remling : History of the Bishops of Speyer , Volume 2, P. 807, Verlag Kirchheim, Mainz, 1854; (Digital scan)
  2. ↑ Mauritia von Dannenberg . In: Marcelli Janecki , Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . First volume. WT Bruer's Verlag, Berlin 1896, p. 450 ( dlib.rsl.ru ).
personal data
SURNAME Walderdorff, Carl Wilderich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, Minister of State of the Duchy of Nassau
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Eltville
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1862