Eberhard zu Erbach-Erbach

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Franz Eberhard Georg Albert Karl Arthur Adalbert Ludwig Graf zu Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth (born November 10, 1886 in Erbach (Odenwald) ; † February 11, 1917 near Apácz (today in Hungarian Apáca , Romanian Apața , German Geist ) in Transylvania ) was a member of the old noble house of Erbach and was a representative of the Erbach-Erbach rulership in the first chamber of the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

family

Eberhard zu Erbach-Erbach was the second son of Count Arthur zu Erbach-Erbach (1849-1908) and Marie Friederike, née Princess zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg (1857-1939). He had an older brother Konrad (1881–1940) and a younger Alexander (1891–1952), was unmarried and had no descendants.

Life

After private tuition and attending secondary school in Michelstadt and high schools in Frankfurt am Main and from 1902 to 1905 in Darmstadt , Eberhard studied law at the universities of Geneva , Munich and Berlin and completed a legal clerkship at the Hamm Higher Regional Court in Westphalia in 1909 .

In 1910 he joined the 1st Badische Leibdragoner Regiment No. 20 in Karlsruhe , which belonged to the Prussian Army , and passed the officer's examination in 1911. In 1913 he went to the cavalry telegraph school in Berlin and then served in the communications department of the 6th Cavalry Division from 1914 , and on the Romanian front from October 1916 . Here he was killed in a railway accident in Transylvania near Kronstadt . He was brought back to the Odenwald and buried in the family crypt in Michelstadt . In memory of the sculptor Wilhelm Wandschneider, the family had an epitaph made of red sandstone for him, which is located in the Michelstadt church.

Only a few months before his death, he had the mandate of the Erbach-Erbach rulership in the First Chamber of the Land estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse through the power of attorney, Prince Alexander zu Erbach-Schönberg , representing his incapacitated cousin Count Erasmus zu Erbach-Erbach (1883-1920) accepted. He was sworn in as a member of parliament on March 30, 1916; his brother Alexander succeeded him.

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. 277-278.
  • Christian Müller: History of the Count's House of Erbach-Erbach from 1818 to the present. Neustadt an der Aich 1955 (Library of Family History Works 17), pp. 124–132.

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personal data
SURNAME Erbach-Erbach, Eberhard too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Count of Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth, Franz Eberhard Georg Albert Karl Arthur Adalbert Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Member of the First Chamber of the Land estates (Hesse)
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Erbach (Odenwald)
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1917
Place of death Apácz near Kronstadt (Transylvania)