Erhard von Wedel (wing adjutant)

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Count Carl August Erhard von Wedel (born May 28, 1828 in Osnabrück , † June 4, 1885 in Hanover ) was a Hanoverian major and adjutant of King George V.

origin

His father was Count Carl von Wedel (also: Wedel-Jarlsberg , born June 6, 1790 in Magdeburg ; † November 18, 1853 in Hanover), an administrative lawyer, director of the Osnabrück justice office since 1826, 1837–1846 Osnabrücker Landdrost , 1847 Minister of Education in Hannover. His mother was Freiin Caroline von dem Bussche-Hünnefeld (born May 10, 1805 in Haus Steinhausen near Halle (Westphalia) ; † June 30, 1828 in Osnabrück), daughter of Clamor Graf von dem Bussche-Hünnefeld (1767-1822), Chamberlain of the Electorate of Hanover, Royal Westphalian envoy in St. Petersburg, Royal Westphalian count ⚭ June 3, 1803 with Mauritia von Dalwigk (1775–1805).

He was the only child of his mother who died as a result of childbirth. From his father's second marriage to her twin sister, Erhard had half-brothers Alfred Graf von Wedel (1833–1890) , Hanoverian castle captain, Oskar Graf von Wedel (1835–1908) , Saxon-Weimarscher Oberhofmarschall and Ernst Graf von Wedel (1838–1913) , Head stable master at the court of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Life

Wedel first grew up in Osnabrück, where his father Landdrost was. He entered the Lüneburg Knight Academy at Easter 1844 and joined the Hanover Army at Easter 1845 . On May 23, 1855 Wedel became Premier Lieutenant in the Hanoverian Guard Cuirassier Regiment in Northeim . In 1862 he was named for the first time as one of three wing adjutants to King George V. On December 3, 1863 he was appointed Rittmeister of the Guard Cuirassiers. He took part in the battle of Langensalza in 1866 . Wedel then went to Hietzing near Vienna in the wake of Georg V , where the king and his court initially settled. There he met his half-brother Alfred, castle marshal, and his stepmother, who was the Queen's lady of state, again. In addition, his half-brother Ernst , who as a young prime lieutenant was entrusted with the office of stable master, was also there.

In February 1867 a momentous event occurred in Vienna. On February 17, Erhard Graf von Wedel wounded Prince Bernhard zu Solms-Braunfels (1839–1867) so badly in a duel that he died that day of his injuries. "The reason for the honorary trade were statements that his opponent had made about the behavior of two of the prince's brothers as Hanoverian officers in the battle of Langensalza." Prince zu Solms was a nephew of King George V. Wedel subsequently had to serve quit as a wing adjutant, which did not detract from his welfish patriotic disposition.

In July 1870, in the run-up to the Franco-German war , Otto von Bismarck had "Count Erhard Wedel and several other gentlemen arrested in Hanover in order to protect them from themselves." In fact, Wedel was arrested in Weimar on July 17, 1870. Bismarck fears that Wedel could use the situation to attempt an overthrow or make a pact with the French army. Already three years earlier, in November 1867, the Prussian court for the state crime had charged Erhard's half-brother Alfred with high treason . He was accused of "having entered into a conspiracy at home or abroad as a royal Prussian subject in 1867 with the aim of tearing the royal Prussian province of Hanover free from the Prussian state." With the arrest, Erhard von Wedel continued his military career not possible in Prussian service.

family

Erhard Graf von Wedel married on June 23, 1867 in Kassel Luise Ernestine Charlotte von Eschwege (* September 17, 1847 in Kassel; † November 17, 1941 in Berlin), daughter of Hermann Ludwig Karl Johann von Eschwege (* August 7, 1817 in Reichensachsen , Northern Hesse; † July 13, 1882 in Kassel), (eldest son of Ferdinand von Eschwege ), electoral Hessian head stable master and Louise Heathcote (born December 9, 1846 in Kassel). After Erhard's death, the widow married Count Günther von Gröben on June 19, 1887 in Kassel († February 28, 1900 in Berlin).

Children:

  • Georg (born April 17, 1868 in Braunschweig; † June 13, 1950), diplomat, envoy, most recently Ministerial Director in the Foreign Office ⚭ with Valerie Freiin von Magnus (1875–1963).
  • Luise (Ilsa) Anna Emilie (* January 18, 1874 in Hanover; † November 15, 1959 in the Philippsburg mansion in Leer ) ⚭ Botho Graf von Wedel (* December 23, 1862 at Evenburg Castle , East Frisia ; † February 1, 1943 in Philippsburg , today the Loga district of Leer), German diplomat.
  • Karl Hermann Wilhelm (* December 17, 1872 in Weimar; † March 7, 1873 in Hanover).

medal

Fonts

  • From Langensalza to Vienna: Notes from an adjutant to the King of Hanover [Erhard von Wedel] . Wedemark: Hummel [2006], 24 pp. ( Welfenschriften, Volume 8) .

Erhard von Wedel and Fontane's Hoppenrade

In July 1880 Theodor Fontane made a trip to East Frisia. He visited Count Edzard zu Innhausen and Knyphausen at Lütetsburg Castle in order to conduct research in his archive for the Hoppenrade chapter of his book 'Five Castles'. He also met Count Erhard Wedel. He wrote about it to his wife on July 22nd, 1880: “It is very beautiful and Baron Dornberg has not promised me too much: rich, distinguished, characterful and extremely benevolent hosts, plus 8 countesses aged 17 to 5 and a small count aged 6 , Lieutenant General v. Krosigk and daughter, Baroness Dörnberg […] and a Count v. Frond. Count Schulenburg-Beetzendorf is coming tomorrow. You see, I am properly grafted in. ”Although Fontane does not mention the death of Prince zu Solms, or even mention the first name of Count Wedel, Erhard von Wedel haunts more than half a dozen registers of books that edit and break down Fontane's work .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ oV : Wedel, Erhard Graf von in the database Niedersächsische people in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxon State Library , [first April 2008].
  2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , German count houses of the present . 2. Volume LZ. Leipzig 1853, p. 653
  3. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses . Justus Perthes, Gotha, 24th year (1894), p. 134.
  4. ^ Court and State Handbook for the Kingdom of Hanover , 1856, p. 194
  5. ↑ a b c Court and State Manual for the Kingdom of Hanover , 1862, p. 30.
  6. ↑ a b Court and State Manual for the Kingdom of Hanover , 1864, p. 235.
  7. ↑ His report on the Battle of Langensalza was published in 2006: see Writings and here
  8. ↑ The royal exile in Hietzing . In: »Die Gartenlaube« No. 28, 1867, pp. 437–438.
  9. ^ Bernhard von Poten: Solms-Braunfels, Bernhard Prinz zu . In: "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie" 34 (1892), [online version] p. 575.
  10. ^ D. Storch: Theodor Fontane - Hanover and Lower Saxony. In: Sources and presentations on the history of Lower Saxony , volumes 93–94, LAX: Hildesheim 1981. p. 75.
  11. ^ Wilhelm Oncken : The Age of Emperor Wilhelm . Second volume, 1890. p. 85.
  12. ↑ Georg Hirth: Diary of the Franco-German War 1870–1871. A collection of the more important sources . Berlin: Stilke & van Muyden 1871. p. 229 : “ July 17, 1870. Reported from Weimar: The main interest of the day focuses on the arrest of a former Hanoverian officer and wing adjutant of King Georg. The same has lived here for some time and is known for having shot Pinzen Solms in a duel in Vienna "
  13. ↑ "Königlich Preußischer Staats-Anzeiger", Supplement No. 282 (Nov. 28, 1867), pp. 4565–4566.
  14. ^ "Year book of the German nobility", Volume 1 (1896), p. 603.
  15. ↑ Photograph of the gravestone of Botho Graf von Wedel and his wife in the new cemetery in Loga.
  16. ↑ Lower Saxony Bibliography , undated, accessed on May 20, 2019.
  17. ^ Theodor Fontane's letters to his family , volume 1. DOGMA: Bremen 2012. pp. 300–301

Archival material

personal data
SURNAME Wedel, Erhard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wedel, Carl August Erhard von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman, royal Hanoverian chamberlain and castle captain
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1885
Place of death Hanover