Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg

Emmerich von Dalberg (around 1815),
Diepenbroick portrait archive in the LWL Museum for Art and Culture

Emmerich Joseph Herzog von Dalberg (born May 30, 1773 in Mainz , † April 27, 1833 at Herrnsheim Palace ) was an initially Baden and later a French diplomat and politician.

origin

Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg was a son of Baron Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg and his wife, Elisabeth Auguste Ulner von Dieburg (1751-1816), granddaughter of the Palatinate diplomat Franz Pleickard Ulner von Dieburg . Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg was thus also a nephew of Grand Duke Karl Theodor von Dalberg , last Elector of Mainz , last Imperial Chancellor of the old German Empire and prince of the Rhine Confederation . Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg was baptized on May 31, 1773, Pentecost Sunday , in St. Emmeran in Mainz. Godfather was the Archbishop of Mainz, Elector Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim .

family

Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg married Marie Pelline Thérèse Cathérine (* 1787 - 15 December 1825 at Schloss Herrnsheim ) in Paris on February 27, 1807 , daughter of Antonio Giulio Marqis de Brignole-Sale and his wife, Anna, née Pieri.

The only child from the marriage of Emmerich Joseph and Marie Pelline was Marie Louise Pelline (born January 6, 1813 in Paris , † March 14, 1860 in Brighton ). She married twice: on July 9, 1832 in Paris to Ferdinand Richard Edward Acton, 7th Baronet Acton, the son of John Acton , 6th Baronet Acton, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Naples , and after his death on July 25, 1840 in London Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (born May 11, 1815 in London, † March 31, 1891 in London). Her first husband, Richard Edward Acton, took the name Dalberg-Acton after the death of his father-in-law, Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg, who died as the last male descendant of his line. After Johannes Evangelist von Dalberg, the last male bearer of this name, died in 1940 , today the descendants of Marie Louise von Dalberg are the only ones who still bear the name.

Career

to bathe

As a child, Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg held a canon position in Mainz, which he renounced in 1787.

In 1803 he entered the Baden state service. As the Baden envoy in Paris, he met Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord , the French foreign minister. From June 1808 to March 1809 Dalberg temporarily and provisionally headed the Ministry of Finance in Karlsruhe and was cabinet director of the Baden government. After a vacation he returned to his legation post in Paris in August 1809. At the beginning of 1810 he was involved in the preparations for the marriage of Napoleon I and Marie-Louise von Habsburg in March 1810. Shortly afterwards, in March 1810, he resigned as Baden ambassador in Paris and from the Baden civil service.

France

Coat of arms of Duke Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg

Delegates of the Congress of Vienna in a contemporary copper engraving by Jean Godefroy after the painting by Jean-Baptiste Isabey
1  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , 2  Joaquim Lobo da Silveira , 3  António de Saldanha da Gama , 4  Carl Axel Löwenhielm , 5  Paul- François de Noailles , 6  Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich , 7  Frédéric-Séraphin de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet , 8  Karl Robert von Nesselrode , 9  Pedro de Sousa Holstein , 10  Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry , 11  Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg , 12  Johann von Wessenberg , 13  Andrei Kirillowitsch Rasumowski , 14  Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry , 15  Pedro Gómez Labrador , 16  Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty , 17  Nikolaus von Wacken, 18  Friedrich von Gentz , 19  Wilhelm von Humboldt , 20  William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart , 21  Karl August von Hardenberg , 22  Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord , 23  Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg

The main estates of Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg were mainly located on the left bank of the Rhine and therefore in France ( Département du Mont-Tonnerre ) since 1798 . They were "temporarily" seized (sequestered). He took French citizenship in order not to be classified as an "enemy alien", but to regain his property as a French national.

In addition, he was able to achieve an increase in rank - probably through his close relationships with Talleyrand - that jumped several levels in the hierarchy and made the baron a duke . On April 14, 1810, Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg was appointed Duke and Councilor of State, received a grant of 4 million francs and an annual pension of 200,000 francs. The duke's title was: Duc de Dalberg .

When Talleyrand fell out of favor, Dalberg also withdrew, but was named one of the five government officials who brought about the Restoration of the Bourbons in April 1814, when Talleyrand took over the provisional government . As Minister Plenipotentiary of France, together with Talleyrand, he safeguarded French interests at the Congress of Vienna . In return, Napoleon I put him on the list of the twelve exiles whose goods were confiscated.

Dalberg got everything back after the second restoration of the Bourbons, became Minister of State and was peer of France . In 1816 he was appointed envoy of the French king to the king of Sardinia and Piedmont in Turin . He then lived in Paris and in the last years of his life at his castle in Herrnsheim (today: Worms ).

Act

Herrnsheim Castle

From 1808 Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg had the Herrnsheim Palace restored and fundamentally rebuilt by Johann Philipp Mattlener according to plans by Jakob Friedrich Dyckerhoff .

death

Emmerich Joseph Herzog von Dalberg died on April 27, 1833 at Herrnsheim Palace and was buried in the Dalberg chapel of the local church of St. Peter . He left behind a large number of papers, most of which have not yet been scientifically evaluated. These include an autobiography that has been started but never finished, diary entries and correspondence.The only monograph that has appeared on him covers only the first period of his work up to his entry into French service in 1810.

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

• Friedrich Battenberg : Dalberg documents. Regesta on the documents of the treasurers of Worms called von Dalberg and the barons of Dalberg 1165–1843 Volume 14/3: Corrigenda, indices and family tables (by Dalberg and Ulner von Dieburg) = Repertories of the Hessian State Archives Darmstadt 14/3. Darmstadt 1987. ISBN 3-88443-238-9
• Johannes Bollinger: 100 families of the chamberlain from Worms and the lords of Dalberg . Bollinger, Worms-Herrnsheim 1989. Without ISBN.
• Arnulf Jürgens: Emmerich von Dalberg between Germany and France. Its political shape and effectiveness 1803–1810 = publications by the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, B. Research series, vol. 83. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976.
• Arnold Kurzyński (ed.): Catalog of the valuable and extensive library of Herrnsheim Castle near Worms a. Rh. Collected by WH Freiherr von Dalberg, the well-known artistic director of the Mannheim stage and benefactor of Schiller and his son Emmerich Joseph Herzogs zu Dalberg which Monday, October 15, 1883 a. ff. DD. by Fidelis Butsch Sohn (Arnold Kurzyński) in Augsburg [...] it will be publicly auctioned against payment in cash . Augsburg 1883.
• L.-G. Michaud: Dalberg (Emmerich - Joseph - [...] ) . In: L.-G. Michaud: biography universal, ancienne et modern . Supplementary volume 62. Michaud, Paris 1837, pp. 29-44.
• Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables. Family tables on the history of the European states . New series, vol. 9: Families from the Middle and Upper Rhine and from Burgundy . Marburg 1986. Without ISBN, plate 60.

Web links

Commons : Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

1. ↑ Bollinger, p. 76: * May 23, 1773.
2. ↑ Battenberg: Repertorien 14/3, Plate X: February 27, 1808.
3. ↑ Battenberg: Repertories 14/3, plate X: * 1812.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bollinger, p. 76.
2. ↑ Schwennicke.
3. ↑ Schwennicke, plate 60; Battenberg: Repertories 14/3, Plate X.
4. ↑ Schwennicke.
5. ^ Joseph François Michaud : Biography universelle ancienne et modern , Volume 62 (supplément).
6. ^ Grand Ducal Baden Government Gazette, No. XXI. from July 8, 1808, pp. 190-191 Google digitized version
7. ↑ Jürgens, pp. 183f, 197.
8. ↑ Jürgens: Emmerich von Dalberg , p. 198.
9. ↑ Jürgens: Dalberg , p. 209.
10. ↑ Schwennicke.
11. ↑ Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Jullien de Courcelles : Histoire généalogique et héraldique des pairs de France: des grands dignitaires de la couronne, des principales familles nobles du royaume et des maisons princières de l'Europe, précédée de la généalogie de la maison de France , Volume 6, Paris 1826.
12. ↑ Clemens Jöckle : Prussian Influences on Classicist Architecture in the Palatinate . In: Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science (ed.): Pfälzer Heimat , 29th year (1978), p. 140, note 12.
13. ↑ Stadtarchiv Worms , inventory 159, no. 0335/2.
14. ↑ Stadtarchiv Worms, inventory 159, no. 0335/1: Diary of Emerich Joseph von Dalberg as Minister of Baden in Paris: Journal terme depuis 1803/6 Juin jusqu'en 1810 à Paris pendant ma mission de Ministre plénipotentaire de Bade pres le gouvernement Francais .
15. ↑ Stadtarchiv Worms, inventory 159, numerous archive numbers.
16. ↑ Juergens.

predecessor	Office	successor
?	Ambassador of Baden in Paris 1803–1809	Johann Baptist von Pfirdt
-	French envoy in Turin 1815-1820	Frédéric-Séraphin de La Tour du Pin

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