Carl von Hagen

Carl Albert Columbus Werner von Hagen (born March 24, 1780 in Nienburg (Saale) , Principality of Halberstadt , † December 8, 1837 in Treffurt ) was a Prussian major and local politician and from 1816 until his death the first district administrator in the Mühlhausen district .

Life

The monument in the Treffurter Stadtpark

Carl was the son of the Prussian District Administrator of the Principality of Halberstadt Karl von Hagen (1749-1810) and his second wife Luise, née Countess von Schlitz called von Görtz and von Wrisberg . Up to the age of fourteen he was trained in the educational center in Halle (Saale) . In 1793 he joined the cuirassier regiment of the Duke of Saxony-Weimar as a standard junker . In 1794 he was promoted to cornet and in 1795 to lieutenant . In 1804 Hagen entered the service of the elector and later King of Prussia, Friedrich , who appointed him chamberlain and hired him as a lieutenant. In 1807 he took part in campaigns of the Prussian-French War from Memel , at that time the seat of government of the Prussian king for a short time . After the Principality of Halberstadt was assigned to the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1809 , he retired from the Prussian Army as Rittmeister .

Hagen married the eldest daughter Luise von Soden, whom he had met in Nuremberg . After leaving the army, he bought a small estate in Gerblingerode near Duderstadt in Eichsfeld . An appeal by Friedrich Wilhelm III. subsequently, von Hagen decided in 1813 to set up the "Eichsfeld Reiterverein", which he financed as far as possible, with the residents of Eichsfeld, in order to contribute to the liberation from the Napoleonic occupation. The Prussian king elevated the association to a volunteer hunter detachment and used it in the campaign against the French . After the campaign took from Hagen in 1815 as Major his departure from the army.

In the course of the reorganization of the Prussian administration after the Vienna Congress of 1815, the district of Mühlhausen i. Th. From the former imperial city of Mühlhausen , the estate district of Sollstedt , the Vogtei Dorla , the Ganerbschaft Treffurt and part of the former Electoral Mainz Eichsfeld (Obereichsfeld). The district included the cities of Mühlhausen and Treffurt as well as 42 rural communities and several manors. Hagen applied to be a district administrator in Mühlhausen in 1816 and is said to have taken his oath of service on October 22, 1816.

Carl von Hagen's official and residence as district administrator was initially in Mühlhausen, and from 1817 to 1821 in the syndicate house on Neue Straße. In 1821 he moved the district administrator's seat to Treffurt, where he acquired the Mainzer Hof for this purpose and had a park laid out. At this time he held two official days a week in Mühlhausen.

As a district administrator, he organized the district's communal accounting system, influenced fire-fighting systems, hired trained midwives and the security police. Parsonage and churches were built in the district under his direction, new school buildings were built in 26 parishes and twelve more were expanded. Von Hagen felt deeply rooted in the district, so he turned down the offer to become Lord Mayor of Erfurt . In 1817 von Hagen founded the first Mühlhausen gymnastics club. In 1826 he was awarded the Order of St. John.

Carl von Hagen cultivated a friendship with the poet Friedrich de la Motte-Fouqué and the Freiherr von Berlepsch in Seebach . In 1837 he fell ill and died on December 8, 1837.

family

Hagen married Luise Freiin von Soden (1792-1860). The couple had several children:

• Albertine (1808–1874), from 1858 to 1874 abbess of the Jena Fräuleinstift in Halle
• Thekla ⚭ NN from Ledebur
• Sigismund
• Wolfgang (1819–1898), Prussian major general ⚭ Amalie Silberschlag (1820–1911)
• Gotthard (1822–1903), Prussian lieutenant colonel zD

⚭ Anna von Schulz (1830–1882)

∞ Ida Schmidt (1841), widowed Leonhard

• Auguste (* 1825) ∞ NN Groß, Prussian lieutenant colonel a. D.
• Amaly (* 1832) ∞ NN Modest, master builder

Honors

The district of Mühlhausen and the city of Treffurt had a memorial stone set for him in Treffurt in 1937 on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Carl von Hagen's death.

literature

• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses. The nobility born in Germany (primeval nobility). 1915. Sixteenth year, Justus Pertehs, Gotha 1914, p. 344.

Web link

• Biography of Hagens