Ernst Casimir II of Ysenburg and Büdingen

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Prince Ernst Casimir II of Ysenburg and Büdingen (born December 14, 1806 in Büdingen ; † February 16, 1861 ibid) was the second Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen , the special line Ysenburg-Büdingen-Büdingen .

Life

Ernst Casimir II. Was the son of Count and later Prince Ernst Casimir I of Ysenburg and Büdingen and Countess Ferdinande of Erbach-Schönberg .

At the age of twelve he was sent to the royal Prussian pedagogy in Halle . After graduating from high school, he studied history and archeology from 1826, first at the University of Gießen and later at the Berlin University. To learn the French language, he stayed temporarily in Basel and Geneva. During his studies in Gießen in 1826 he became a member of the Corps Vandalia I.

After several years in Austrian military service, Ernst Casimir married Countess Thekla zu Erbach-Fürstenau on September 8, 1836 . With her he had three sons and two daughters.

On November 1, 1848, his father ceded the business of the state to him. He automatically became a member of the first chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . He had already listened to this for his father from 1841. With the March Revolution , the representation of the class lords in parliament ended and he left the first chamber in 1849. After the victory of the reaction , the status privileges were restored and Ernst Casimir was again a member of the first chamber from 1856 until his death in 1861.

When he died in 1861 after a long and painful illness, Hereditary Prince Bruno of Ysenburg and Büdingen succeeded him as prince.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , p. 400.
  • Herman Haupt (Ed.): Hessian biographies. Volume I, delivery 1st Grand Ducal Hessian State Publishing House, Darmstadt 1912.
  • 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. 421.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 59 , 17.
  2. ↑ Art. 2 of the edict on the rural constitution of the Grand Duchy , Großherzoglich-Hessisches Regierungsblatt 1820 (No. 13), pp. 101–111.
personal data
SURNAME Ysenburg and Büdingen, Ernst Casimir II. To
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ysenburg and Büdingen, Ernst Casimir II. Prince too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Second prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Büdingen
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1861
Place of death Büdingen