Carl to Erbach-Erbach
Franz Carl Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Graf zu Erbach-Erbach, Lord of Breuberg and Wildenstein, counted as Carl II. , (Also written Karl ), since 1806 by adoption at the same time Count von Wartenberg-Roth, Lord of Curl and Ostermannshofen, (* 11. June 1782 in Erbach (Odenwald) ; † April 14, 1832 ibid), was a member of the old noble house of Erbach , a German nobleman and as such a member of the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse as well as the Chamber of Landlords of the Württemberg Land Estates .
family
Carl zu Erbach-Erbach was the fifth child and the first of two sons of Count Franz I zu Erbach-Erbach (1754-1824) from his first marriage to Luise Charlotte Polyxene zu Leiningen-Dagsburg (1755-1785). In 1818 he married Anna Sophie zu Erbach-Fürstenau (1796–1845). Their children were the later ruling Count Eberhard XV. zu Erbach-Erbach (1818-1884) and the daughter Louise Emilie Sophie (1819-1894).
In 1804, Carl and his younger brother Friedrich (1785-1854) were taken over by Count Ludwig Kolb von Wartenberg (1752-1818), the brother of Count Franz I's second wife and widow of Count Friedrich August zu Erbach-Fürstenau (1755 –1844), Charlotte Louise Polyxene b. Kolb von Wartenberg (1755–1785), adopted, which gave them the title and coat of arms of the Counts of Wartenberg-Roth with imperial approval from January 1806, but without continuing the old tribal name Kolb of their adoptive father.
Life
After private tuition by private tutors, Carl aspired to a career in the military. Already in 1800 he took as part of the Second Coalition war as a volunteer in the fighting at Hanau and mountains part, and then the end of 1800 as a lieutenant in the Bavarian Army in the regiment of Chevaulegers enter "Elector" (later "king"), afterwards he was captain in Chevaulegers Regiment "Hereditary Prince of Leiningen". With this regiment as part of the combined Bavarian and French troops, he took part in the 1805 campaign against Austria . In 1807, Carl was captured by the Prussian militant Ferdinand von Schill , but was freed a short time later by a Bavarian patrol corps, so that he remained actively involved in military operations, most recently as a major, until the Peace of Tilsit in July 1807.
At the beginning of 1809, Carl resigned from military service in the rank of lieutenant colonel à la suite in order to take over from his older adoptive father Ludwig Kolb von Wartenberg-Roth the management of his property, which was secularized as the "Reichsgrafschaft Wartenberg-Roth" Reichsabbey Rot an der Rot , as Take over co-owners. Ludwig Kolb had received this in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 as compensation for his possessions on the left bank of the Rhine that had been lost to France. Ludwig initially exercised full sovereignty over the county, but in 1806 it was mediated into the Kingdom of Württemberg . From then on, Carl lived primarily in red and red and from then on , summarizing the Erbacher and Wartenberg titles, called himself Graf zu Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth, Herr zu Breuberg, Wildenstein, Curl and Ostermannshofen , just like his adopted younger brother Friedrich.
When the fortunes of war had turned away from Napoleon after the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 , Carl and his brother Friedrich, who was still in military service, hurried again to the Bavarian troops under the command of General Carl Philipp von Wrede , under whom he had previously served but to fight against former ally France.
Carl zu Erbach-Erbach returned to Erbach in 1817, married at the beginning of 1818 and after the death of his adoptive father Ludwig in March 1818 took over as the ruling count of Wartenberg-Roth in the Kingdom of Württemberg; he was the first actual Count von Wartenberg from the house of Erbach. After the death of his biological father Franz in March 1823, he also became the ruling count of the Erbach-Erbach estate in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . As a registrar, Carl was a member of the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse as Count zu Erbach-Erbach (1820–1821 on behalf of his father Franz and 1823–1830 as a born member) and as Count von Wartenberg-Roth a member of the Chamber of Jurors of the Württembergische Estates (1819–1831).
In 1829 he was accepted as Count of Erbach-Wartenberg-Roth in the count class of the Bavarian aristocratic registers due to his possessions in the Kingdom of Bavaria ( Wildenstein office from the Erbacher heritage and Steinbach office from the Wartenberg-Roth heritage) . He was adjutant wing of the King of Bavaria, received the Grand Cross of the Guelph Order and was a knight of the Royal Prussian Order of St. John .
Carl zu Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth died after a long suffering, not yet 50 years old, in his ancestral palace in Erbach. Successor as the ruling count in both counties was his eldest son Eberhard, who, like his sister Louise, was under the tutelage of his mother and her brother Albrecht zu Erbach-Fürstenau (1787-1851) until he came of age .
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , pp. 275-276.
- Gustav Simon: The history of the dynasts and counts of Erbach and their country. Brönner, Frankfurt a. M. 1858. pp. 466-468.
- Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 182 .
Web links
- Erbach-Erbach, Franz Carl Graf too. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information according to the Erbach parish death protocol for the year 1832 , fol. 46.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Erbach-Erbach, Carl zu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Count of Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth, Franz Carl Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Class gentleman, member of the First Chamber of the Estates (Hesse), member of the Württemberg Chamber of Estates |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1782 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erbach (Odenwald) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1832 |
| Place of death | Erbach (Odenwald) |