Carl von Eschwege

Baron Carl Ludwig Ernst von Eschwege (born May 22, 1798 in Allendorf an der Werra ; † September 15, 1857 in Reichensachsen ) was a German chamberlain and politician.

family

Carl von Eschwege was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Johann Friedrich Ludwig von Eschwege from Hessen-Kassel and his wife Charlotte Antoinette Friederike Wilhelmine von Bardeleben . His younger brother was the Elector General Lieutenant and MP Ferdinand von Eschwege .

He married on 29 January 1817 the church of the former monastery Haina Henriette Auguste Charlotte Wilhelmine born of Boyneburgk (born September 13 1789 Rosenthal , † 5 January 1846 in Reichensachsen), daughter of Hessian majors and top chief of the High Hospitals to Haina , Johann Jost Friedrich von Boyneburgk. The son Karl von Eschwege emerged from the marriage. The brother-in-law Friedrich August von Boyneburgk was also a member of the Electorate of Hesse.

Life

Eschwege studied in Marburg from April 8, 1806 . In 1809 he was a participant in the Dörnberg revolt against French rule in the Napoleonic kingdom of Westphalia . Eschwege was the owner of the manor and lord of Reichensachsen, Aue and Oberhone . In addition, he was head of the knighthood of Kaufungen and Wetter and chamberlain for the Electorate of Hesse.

politics

Eschwege was one of the five knightly participants in the state parliament of 1815/16 in Hessen-Kassel. From 1830 to 1848 and from 1852 to 1857 he was a member of the Kurhessische estates assembly . From 1830 to 1836 he was elected to the constituency of the knighthood of the Werrastrom, and from 1836 to 1848 he was a member of the state parliament as one of the head of the Kaufungen and Wetter monasteries. From 1852 to 1857 he was again a member of the first chamber as headmaster. In 1850 he was a member of the state house of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , p. 134.