Emil zu Erbach-Schönberg

Emil Christian Graf zu Erbach-Schönberg (born December 2, 1789 in Zwingenberg , † May 26, 1828 in Schönberg near Bensheim ) was a German officer and civil registrar from the house of Erbach .

family

Emil Graf zu Erbach-Schönberg was the son of Gustav Ernst zu Erbach-Schönberg (1739-1812) and his wife Henriette nee Countess zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1753-1816), the daughter of Christoph Ludwig II. Count von Stolberg-Stolberg . Emil married Countess Marie zu Erbach-Schönberg (* 1787 - August 19, 1825) on December 19, 1824, the daughter of Karl Graf zu Erbach-Schönberg (Emil's uncle) and Maria Johanna Nepomucena Josepha Viktoria Anna Zadubsky von Schönthal.

After the death of his first wife, he married Johanna (Jenny) Princess zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg on March 31, 1828 (* November 8, 1800; † July 12, 1877).

Life

Emil Graf zu Erbach-Schönberg initially received home tuition and was from 1805-1808 for further training in Gedern and Wernigerode with his Stolberg relatives. He then embarked on a military career and in 1809 became a lieutenant with his uncle, Karl Graf zu Erbach-Schönberg, Reichs-Generalfeldmarschall-Lieutenant and kk General Feldzeugmeister in Eger.

In 1812 he returned to his parents' house after the death of his father. In the same year he became Imperial Austrian Chamberlain. In 1813 he served as a captain-lieutenant in the regiment Hessen-Homburg. He fought in October 1813 in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig . In this battle, his brother Gustav died from a cannonball and Emil was shot in the chest on October 18th.

In 1814 he was in Paris, in 1815 with the regiment in Italy. He took part in the campaign against Naples and lived in garrisons in Milan, Mantua, Como and, in 1819, in Ragusa. Already seriously ill due to the wound and the climate, he retired from the army in 1823 as an Imperial and Royal Major.

After the death of his brother Maximilian Graf zu Erbach-Schönberg in 1823 he inherited the highly indebted class rule. As a civil servant he had a number of privileges. Among other things, he was responsible for case law in the first and second instance. As part of a contract, he dissolved the Princely Löwenstein and Counts Erbach General Justice Chancellery and had the court ruling in the second instance carried out by the Darmstadt Court of Justice . A mandate in the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse was associated with the state rule . Accordingly, he belonged to the Chamber in 1826. He took his deputy oath on September 6, 1826.

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 , p. 290.
• New German necrology for the year 1829 , part 1, p. 453 ff.

Web links

• Erbach-Schönberg, Emil Christian Graf in the Hessian biography