Egid Joseph Karl von Fahnenberg

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Egid Josef Karl Freiherr von Fahnenberg. Lithography by Joseph Lanzedelli the Elder Ä. , around 1820

Egid Joseph Karl Freiherr von Fahnenberg (born October 9, 1749 in Mons , Hainaut County , Austrian Netherlands ; † June 8, 1827 in Vienna ) was an Austrian author of legal and historical-political considerations, judge at the Imperial Court of Justice , envoy of the Austrian emperor and several Imperial princes in the Reichstag and Imperial Prince Council as well as feudal lord and landlord of Burkheim am Kaiserstuhl ( Breisgau ).

Life

Fahnenberg's coat of arms

Family and education

Fahnenberg was born as the only child of the married couple Franz Xavier von Fahnenberg and Ursula von Borié. The father, a grandson of Franz Ferdinand Mayer von Fahnenberg , who went down in history as the “savior of Freiburg” , was a captain of the Austrian Damnitz infantry regiment in the garrison of Mons. During the Seven Years' War , his father was wounded while storming the Silesian fortress Schweidnitz and died in Wroclaw in 1761 as a result of this wounding . The mother was a daughter of the Reich Chamber Court Assessor Egid Johann Franz von Borié, who, as a widow, probably returned to her family in Wetzlar , the seat of the Reich Chamber Court. There Fahnenberg went to the Jesuit grammar school . After high school, which planted a lifelong fondness for reading the Roman classics in Latin, he studied philosophy and law at the universities of Würzburg and Heidelberg .

In 1777 he married Karoline Sophie von Rueding, who gave birth to four sons and two daughters. A typical representative of the Enlightenment and Josefinism , he paid great attention to the upbringing of children . The sons he had studied in Göttingen had to endure not only a detailed planning of the lectures to be attended by their father, but also a meticulous accounting of their study costs. When it was discovered that the second eldest son Egid Karl had made gambling debts in Göttingen, Fahnenberg took him from the university and sent him on a career in forestry that later led his son to the Tuttlingen Forestry Office and to the rank of Chamberlain in Württemberg . After a straightforward career in government functions in the Grand Duchy of Baden, the eldest son Karl became Chief Postal Director and head of the country's debt repayment fund. The Grand Duke of Baden appointed him chamberlain. The third son, Anton Maria, fought as a captain in an Austrian regiment. As such he took part in the Wars of Liberation , for which Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia with the order Pour le Mérite . Friedrich, the fourth son, entered the imperial Russian service in 1799 and was promoted to clerk of the Russian envoy, 1809 in the embassy in Stuttgart, 1810 in the embassy in Kassel. In 1813 Friedrich moved to the service of the Baden Grand Duke Karl , in whose foreign service he became a legation councilor in 1815 and an envoy in Munich in 1817. In 1828 he was appointed to the Privy Council .

Professional and literary creation

After an internship at a higher court in 1772, Fahnenberg entered the archducal Austrian service in 1773 , where he was commissioned to conduct a repertory on the Münsterisch in Regensburg under the supervision of his uncle, the Austrian ambassador and Privy Councilor Egid Valentin Felix Freiherr von Borié -Drafting the Westphalian peace negotiation . In 1775 Fahnenberg became a member of the government council of the Upper Austrian government and chamber in Freiburg im Breisgau . 1776 a presentation was given to the Imperial Court, where, after a sample relation was declared in October 1777 on 13 November 1777 for "pro receptibili". On June 1, 1782, he took his oath of service as an assessor at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar. As a judge , he prepared constitutional drafts for the highest court of the Holy Roman Empire alongside the Reichshofrat . During the period from 1790 to 1796 he appeared there through the publication of six printed writings.

On August 27, 1795, like his uncle Egid Valentin Felix von Borié before him, he was appointed imperial-royal archducal-Austrian director of the Reichstag and the Imperial Council of Princes in Regensburg . Until 1806 he not only represented Franz II as emperor and imperial prince, but also lastly also the duke Prosper Ludwig von Arenberg-Meppen and the princes Johann I Josef von Liechtenstein and Konstantin zu Salm-Salm , one of the two sovereigns of the Principality of Salm . In these offices he was one of the top officials in the Regensburg parquet. Despite his profound knowledge of Reich journalism , history and constitutional law of the Old Reich, he was considered opinionated and incompatible. The main focus of his diplomatic work was on internal and international disputes during the coalition wars and around the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . Within Austrian diplomacy, he was regarded as a devoted representative of the views of the State Chancellery and Foreign Minister Johann Amadeus Franz von Thugut , with whose failure at the end of 1800 he also lost influence, and as an opponent of the Principal Commissioner Johann Aloys Josef von Hügel , who was succeeded by the Coordination of the Austrian ambassadors fell to. The Brandenburg ambassador Johann Eustach von Görtz also had an aversion to Fahnenberg. One of his important opponents was also the Comitial envoy Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig von Ompteda , who Fahnenberg described as the "spiritual leader of the anti-imperial party".

The imperial princes, who Fahnenberg represented, ensured that Fahnenberg's function as envoy in Regensburg became obsolete in the summer of 1806 by defying the Holy Roman Empire and joining the Rhine Confederation . Like other Regensburg ambassadors, he received the corresponding note from Napoleon , which the French charge d'affaires Théobald Bacher opened to them on August 1, 1806, with disbelief, dismay and abysmal horror. The declaration also contained the notification that France and the princes of the Rhine Confederation no longer wanted to recognize the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire. A few days later, these events led Franz II to lay down the imperial crown . Fahnenberg had to deliver Franz II's note of abdication to the Reichstag and the French charge d'affaires. The Old Reich and its institutions, which had existed for centuries, were therefore considered to have died out. Fahnenberg, who not only broke his view of the world, but was also deprived of his professional foundation, ultimately had no choice but to withdraw into private life. In a report dated September 1, 1806, he wrote: “It is painful for every German to see the venerable patriotic constitution abolished without a new state constitution, appropriate to the spirit of the nation and securing German freedom, being introduced to everyone's satisfaction His last work, which he was only able to publish anonymously at Metternich's request in 1824, appeared under the title The Merits of the Austrian Emperors for Germany and predicted that the German Confederation would disintegrate in a military conflict between Austria and Prussia.

Others

Fahnenberg suffered from financial difficulties throughout his life despite considerable income. In search of new sources of money, in 1781 and 1802 he unsuccessfully pursued the idea of Friedrich Eugen or Friedrich , the dukes of Württemberg, to buy the Sponeck Castle , which was directly under the empire , in order to then take in Jews in exchange for payment of protection money . In 1805 he had the residence and administration of his lordship in Burkheim , against whose tax residents he was in dispute in various proceedings about non-payments, relocated to Oberrotweil . In 1807, his manor was subordinated to the Baden Oberamt Breisach . The remaining manorial Fahnenberg office was merged with the neighboring Gurard office in Sasbach . His disappointment that after the French era his territory did not revert to Upper Austria as a result of the Congress of Vienna , but remained with the Grand Duchy of Baden, was superimposed with the mourning for his wife, who died in 1815. After Fahnenberg had entrusted the management of his manor to his eldest son Karl in 1813, after 1815 it became quiet around him. In addition to a disease of gout , there was a nervous disorder, which in 1826 meant that he could no longer leave the house. He died in Vienna in 1827 under the care of his daughter Therese.

Fonts

  • Repertory on the Münster-Westphalian Peace Negotiation , 1775
  • Draft of a history of the imperial and imperial chamber court under the high imperial vicarages , 1st volume: Lemgo 1790 ( Google Books ), dedicated to Egid Valentin Felix von Borié , the uncle and patron of the author; Volume 2: Wetzlar 1795
  • Literature of the Imperial Court of Justice , Wetzlar 1792
  • Fates of the Reich Chamber of Commerce especially during the war , 1793
  • Life story of the Archducal Austrian Reichstag envoy Egid Valentin Felix Reichsfreyherrn von Borie , Wetzlar 1795
  • About the complete exemption of the Archducal House of Austria from the jurisdiction of the Reich Chamber Court , Vienna 1796
  • Private thoughts about the award-worthy decision of the KR Kammergericht from 5th d. Monaths, notwithstanding the imminent threat of an enemy attack, to stand firm in his lofty post , Regensburg 1796
  • The services of the Austrian emperors to Germany , published anonymously in 1824

See also

literature

  • Ernst Galli: Egid Joseph Karl Freiherr von Fahnenberg, Lord of Burkheim am Kaiserstuhl (1749–1827) . In: Annual issue of the Breisgau history association Schauinsland , issue 114, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, p. 118 ff. ( Digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Burgdorf : A world view loses its world. The fall of the Old Kingdom and the 1806 generation . 2nd edition, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58747-0 , p. 80 ( Google Books )
  2. ^ Egid Joseph Karl von Fahnenberg: Literature of the Imperial Imperial Chamber Court . Wetzlar 1792, p. 201 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Burgdorf, p. 131, footnote 105
  4. ↑ Imperial and Royal Bavarian privileged general (formerly: Imperial and Kurpfalzbairische privileged general newspaper ), No. 218, 1806, p. 872 ( Google Books )
  5. ^ Karl Otmar von Aretin : Das Alte Reich 1648-1806 . Volume 3: The Reich and the Austro-Prussian dualism (1745–1806) . Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-608-91398-X , pp. 499, 528
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Burgdorf, pp. 73, 81
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Burgdorf, p. 132
  8. ↑ Peter Wolf: Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and the end of the Reichstag . In: Martin Dallmeier (Ed.): Reichsstadt and Perpetual Reichstag . Verlag Michael Laßleben, Kallmünz 2001, ISBN 978-3-78471-522-3 , p. 71
  9. ^ Karl Otmar von Aretin, p. 528
personal data
SURNAME Fahnenberg, Egid Joseph Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fahnenberg, Egid Joseph Karl Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian judge at the Reich Chamber of Commerce
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Mons , Hainaut County , Austrian Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1827
Place of death Vienna