Carl von Wedel (State Councilor)
Count Carl Anton Wilhelm von Wedel (born June 6, 1790 in Magdeburg ; † November 18, 1853 in Hanover ), studied law, was director of the law firm in Osnabrück in 1826 , in 1837 in Osnabrück Landdrost , in 1847 in Hanover as minister of culture.
origin
His father was Count Erhard Gustav von Wedel (also: von Wedel -Jarlsberg , born March 22, 1756 in Evenburg near Leer ; † February 8, 1813 in Dresden ), royal Prussian , then Dutch major general and finally imperial French général de brigade and brigade commander the Grande Armée , commander of Toruń Fortress and governor of Łomża . His mother was Johanna Christine Wilhelmine von Goetz (* August 25, 1772, † September 2, 1840), a daughter of Colonel Johann Friedrich von Goetz and Katharina Wilhelmine Luise von Stilcke.
Life
After attending the garrison school in Magdeburg and the pedagogy in Halle , Wedel studied law in Göttingen from 1809, and in 1809 he moved to the University of Utrecht. In 1811 he was appointed Auditeur au Conseil d'état in Amsterdam by King Louis of the Netherlands . After the dissolution of this Council of State, Wedel was assigned by Napoleon as a special envoy to the 31st horse regiment set up in Hamburg , which moved to Russia with the Grande Armée at the end of February 1812 and took part in the great battles of the main army with the Wedel under Joachim Murat's command. After the fire in Moscow, while retreating in November 1812, he was taken prisoner by Orscha , from which he did not return to East Frisia until June 1814. In May 1815 he reported to the hussar regiment "Prince von Blücher von Wahlstatt, (Pommersches) No. 5" and, this time fighting on the Prussian side, took part in the battles of Ligny , Waterloo and Namur.
In 1816 Wedel took up legal studies again in Göttingen, until he finally entered the royal Hanoverian civil service as an official assessor in Emden. On December 4, 1819, he was employed as a judicial advisor at the Aurich judicial office, and on June 23, 1824, he joined the royal domain chamber of Hanover as a domain councilor. On July 30, 1826, he was promoted to director of the law firm in Osnabrück and on December 9, 1837, he was finally appointed as the successor of Herbord Sigismund Ludwig von Bar to Landdrosten der Landdrostei Osnabrück . In 1846 Wedel left Osnabrück and was appointed director of the Hanover Justice Office. Finally Wedel was appointed on June 5, 1847 to the executive committee of the ministry of spiritual and educational matters as well as the feudal matters. In 1848 he was appointed curator of the University of Göttingen. Wedel was a member of the Secret Council from 1831 to 1837, an extraordinary member of the Hanover State Council from 1839 to 1845 , and a full member of the State Council from 1846 to 1848. After the ministry was dismissed on March 22, 1848 as a result of the March Revolution, Wedel resigned from civil service.
family
Count Carl von Wedel was the first to marry
- ⚭ July 15, 1827 in Osnabrück Freiin Caroline von dem Bussche-Hünnefeld (born May 10, 1805 in the Steinhausen house near Halle (Westphalia) ; † June 30, 1828 in Osnabrück), daughter of Clamor Graf von dem Bussche-Hünnefeld (1767 –1822), Kurhannoverscher Kammherr, Royal Westphalian envoy in St. Petersburg, Royal Westphalian Count ⚭ June 3, 1803 with Mauritia von Dalwigk (1775–1805).
Child: Carl August Erhard (born May 28, 1828 in Osnabrück. † June 4, 1885 in Hanover), Hanoverian major and adjutant to the king: ⚭ 1867 with Luise v. Eschwege, (* 1847).
After her death, he married her twin sister
- ⚭ July 30, 1830 in Frankfurt am Main Freiin Wilhelmine von dem Bussche-Hünnefeld (born May 10, 1805 in Haus Steinhausen; † June 21, 1892 in Weimar), State Lady of the Queen of Hanover
Children:
- Friedrich Wilhelm August Alfred (born May 8, 1833 in Osnabrück, † June 23, 1890 in Heidelberg), captain of the castle in Hanover.
- Ludwig Georg Ernst Oscar , (born October 29, 1835 in Osnabrück, † January 15, 1908 in Weimar), from 1860 chamberlain , later chief of the castle , lastly chief marshal to the Grand Duke of Saxony-Weimar .
- Ernst August , (born June 5, 1838 in Osnabrück; † November 25, 1913 in Weimar), head stable master at the Grand Duke of Saxony-Weimar , 1891–1905 head stable master of Kaiser Wilhelm II at the court in Berlin, 1905 appointed head steward .
medal
- 1840 Commander's Cross of the Guelph Order
Fonts
- Count Ernst von Wedel [his son] (ed.), Story of an officer in the war against Russia in 1812, in Russian captivity from 1813 to 1814, in the campaign against Napoleon in 1815, memoirs of Carl Anton Wilhelm, Count of Wedel. A. Asher: Berlin 1897. Google Books
- KAW von Wedel, history of the counts of Wedel zu Gödens and Evensburg in East Frisia. Hanover 1850. (printed as a manuscript).
literature
- Rainer Hehemann: Biographical handbook on the history of the Osnabrück region . Osnabrück 1990. pp. 307-308.
- Michael Wrage: The Council of State in the Kingdom of Hanover 1839–1866 . Hamburg 2001 p. 17
- Justus Perthes: Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses . Gotha 1859. pp. 931-933
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , German count houses of the present . 2. Volume L-Z. Leipzig 1853, p. 653.
- ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses. Justus Perthes, Gotha 24th year (1894), p. 134.
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , New General German Adels Lexicon. Ninth volume. Leipzig 1870. , pp. 500–501.
- ^ Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué, Ludolf von Alvensleben (ed.), Newspaper for the German nobility 1840, p. 196.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wedel, Carl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wedel, Carl Anton Wilhelm von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German judicial clerk and minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1790 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1853 |
| Place of death | Hanover |