Emil of Hessen-Darmstadt
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Emil (actually Aemilianus) Maximilian Leopold of Hesse and the Rhine (born September 3, 1790 in Darmstadt , † April 30, 1856 in Baden-Baden ) was Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt .
family
Emil von Hessen-Darmstadt was the fourth son of Grand Duke Ludwig I of Hessen-Darmstadt and his wife Luise Henriette Karoline von Hessen-Darmstadt . His brother Ludwig II was Grand Duke of Darmstadt .
His daughter Helene Luise (1817–1853) was the grandmother of the poet Walter von Molo through her daughter Bertha (1850–1928) .
Military career
Unlike his brothers, Emil was not looking for a foreign command, but made a career within the small Hessian army. In the course of the Napoleonic Wars and the Wars of Liberation , he held various positions from 1809, where he is said to have won the respect of Napoleon. He made it to the commander of the Hessian troops. In the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig he commanded the 3rd (Hessian) Brigade in Maréchal MacDonald's corps . The Hessian veterans of the revolutionary wars and the subsequent clashes therefore made their association subject to its protectorate. Visible evidence of the activity of the “Prinz Emil Veteranen Verein” is the war memorial from 1852, which is now in the Herrngarten and is colloquially called “ Riwwelmatthes ”.
politics
Due to the constitution of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Prince Emil was a member of the first chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse from 1820 to 1849 and was President there from 1832 to 1849. He initially represented a policy oriented towards Austria and rejected the customs union with Prussia. He was considered one of the most important representatives of the highly conservative in southern Germany. In the Grand Duchy of Hesse, this was the time that is today associated with Georg Büchner and the Hessian Landbote . In the March Revolution he rejected liberal reforms.
Afterlife
Emil inherited the palace and the Moser garden in 1830, named after a previous resident, Minister Friedrich Karl von Moser . The people of Darmstadt name the facilities in the Bessungen district after the once popular military "Prinz-Emil-Schlösschen" and "Prinz-Emil-Garten" .
Emil von Hessen-Darmstadt is buried in the old mausoleum in Rosenhöhe Park .
ancestors
| Ludwig VIII Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1691–1768) | |||||||||||||
| Louis IX Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1719–1790) | |||||||||||||
| Charlotte von Hanau-Lichtenberg (1700–1726) | |||||||||||||
| Ludwig I Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine (1753–1830) | |||||||||||||
| Christian III of Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1674–1735) | |||||||||||||
| Caroline of Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1721–1774) | |||||||||||||
| Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1704–1774) | |||||||||||||
| Emil of Hessen-Darmstadt | |||||||||||||
| Ludwig VIII Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1691–1768) | |||||||||||||
| Georg Wilhelm of Hessen-Darmstadt (1722–1782) | |||||||||||||
| Charlotte von Hanau-Lichtenberg (1700–1726) | |||||||||||||
| Luise Henriette Karoline of Hessen-Darmstadt (1761–1829) | |||||||||||||
| Christian Karl Reinhard von Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1695–1766) | |||||||||||||
| Maria Luise Albertine zu Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1729-1818) | |||||||||||||
| Katharina Polyxena von Solms-Rödelheim (1702–1765) | |||||||||||||
Note: Due to inter-family marriages, Landgrave Ludwig VIII and his wife Charlotte are two-time great-grandparents of Emil.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Hessen and by Rhine, Emil Maximilian Leopold August Karl Prinz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 8th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1862, pp. 431–434 ( digitized version ).
- Philipp Walther: Emil, Prince of Hesse and by the Rhine . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 80 f.
- Dieter Schäfer: Emil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 478 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Dieter Schäfer: Prince Emil of Hessen-Darmstadt in the German Revolution . Self-published by the Hessian Historical Commission, 1954
- Manfred Knodt: The regents of Hessen-Darmstadt . Schlapp, Darmstadt 1989, ISBN 3-87704-004-7 , pp. 80-82.
- Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 181.
- Adolf von Deitenhofen: Foreign princes in the Habsburg army 1848–1898 , Im Selbstverlage, 1898, pp. 89–90.
Web links
- Emil Prince of Hesse and by the Rhine. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Friedrich zu Solms-Laubach | Albrecht zu Erbach-Fürstenau | Ernst Casimin zu Ysenburg-Büdingen | Otto zu Solms-Laubach | Emil of Hesse and by the Rhine | Friedrich Schenck | Otto zu Solms-Laubach | Ludwig zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich | Alfred zu Erbach-Fürstenau | Carl von Schlitz called von Görtz | Alexander of Hesse and by the Rhine | Bruno zu Ysenburg and Büdingen | Emil von Schlitz called von Görtz | Karl zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
Individual evidence
- ^ Gustav Christian Rassy (* 1896): Walter von Molo. A poet of the German man. Bohn, Leipzig 1936. P. 20 and pedigree in the appendix.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hessen-Darmstadt, Emil von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hessen and near the Rhine, Emil Maximilian Leopold von; Hesse and by Rhine, Aemilianus Maximilian Leopold von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1790 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1856 |
| Place of death | Baden-Baden |