Eugen von Wrede

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Eugen Franz Prince von Wrede (born March 4, 1806 in Heidelberg , † May 1, 1845 in Bamberg ) was a German administrative lawyer in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

biography

He was born the son of the Palatinate-Bavarian officer and later Field Marshal Carl Philipp von Wrede , as well as his wife Sophie Aloysia Agathe Countess von Wiser-Siegelsbach (1771-1837), daughter of Count Friedrich Joseph von Wiser-Siegelsbach (1714-1775).

Eugen von Wrede attended the Hollandeum educational institute in Munich, run by Father Benedict von Holland , and graduated from the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1823 . He then studied law at the Julius Maximilians University . In 1825 he became a member of the Corps Bavaria Würzburg . In 1831 he joined the Bavarian judicial service as an assessor at the court of appeal in Ansbach . After holding positions at various courts, he worked at the Munich Higher Appeal Court ; In addition, he held the dignity of a Bavarian chamberlain .

When his older brother, the district president of the Palatinate, Karl Theodor von Wrede , retired on April 16, 1841 at his own request, King Ludwig I appointed him his successor. Here, in the Rhine Palatinate on the left bank of the Rhine , which fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria only 25 years earlier , he made great contributions to the development of the infrastructure. The area had lost its former industrial center Mannheim , on the right bank of the Rhine, to Baden . Wrede therefore pursued the idea of ​​building an industrial settlement opposite the city, on the site of the former Mannheimer Rheinschanze , on Bavarian territory. He won King Ludwig I for it and bought it on March 14, 1843, for the state, the port and the trading post of the tobacco dealer Heinrich Wilhelm Lichtenberger (1811–1872). The Ludwigshafen settlement was named in honor of the king . In order to promote their development, Wrede also initiated the establishment of the Bavarian-Palatinate Steam-Towing-Shipping Company there . District President Eugen von Wrede and Heinrich Wilhelm Lichtenberger were the actual initiators and founding fathers of the later industrial metropolis. Lichtenberger also became the city's first mayor in 1853 after the official church was founded.

Since Wrede feared unrest and dissatisfaction in the predominantly Protestant population due to the re-establishment of the abolished Oggersheim monastery , he advised the king emphatically against this wish on the occasion of his visit to the Palatinate in 1843, thwarted the matter and also fell out with the Minister of Education, Karl von Abel . The even Catholic, but largely anti-clerical district president acted less for religious reasons than for political concerns about a further, positive development of the Wittelsbach rule in the liberal-Protestant dominated Palatinate. However, he failed on this matter and fell out of favor with the monarch. When the realization of the re-establishment in Oggersheim became apparent in 1844, Wrede asked the king to be reassigned to the judicial service, although he hoped to remain in charge of the Munich Higher Appeal Court. However, on March 1, 1845, the day the first Franciscan Minorites were to move into the Oggersheim monastery, he was appointed head of the subordinate appellate court in Bamberg, and thus downgraded. Soon afterwards, on May 1st, 1845, Prince Eugen von Wrede died in Bamberg. In the newspaper reports of that time, there was talk of a "brief illness" . The contemporary journalist Karl Weil writes about this in his constitutional yearbooks :

“ This sudden and deep fall had a devastating effect on the man who was not free from pride. No sooner had he been at his new post in Bamberg for two months - a corpse! "

- Karl Weil: Konstitutionelle Jahrücher, Volume 2, 1846, Adolph Krabbe Verlag, Stuttgart, page 162

In Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Wredestrasse has been a reminder of him since 1885 .

Family relationships

Eugen von Wrede had been married to Freiin Mathilde Therese von Schaumberg zu Strößendorf (1811–1887) since April 4, 1835 .

The marriage resulted in 2 sons and a daughter. The son Eugen Adolph von Wrede (1839–1909) was an Austro-Hungarian naval officer , most recently in the rank of corvette captain . He had participated as a lieutenant in the Novara expedition from 1857-1859 and distinguished himself in the defense of Lissa (1866).

literature

  • Willi Breunig: Local politics and economic development in Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1843-1871 , Volume 20 of publications of the Ludwigshafen City Archives , 1995.
  • Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities , Hennig Verlag Edenkoben, 2004, ISBN 3-9804668-5-X , p. 967.
  • Kourier an der Donau - newspaper for Lower Bavaria , No. 113, from May 6, 1845 (death report with curriculum vitae); Scan from the source .
  • City administration Ludwigshafen: Ludwigshafen am Rhein, city of chemistry , Kuwe Verlag, Hanau 1959, p. 14 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical website on Sophie Aloysia Agathe von Wiser .
  2. ↑ Genealogical website of the parents, with family .
  3. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 262.
  4. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 138 , 81.
  5. ↑ Kourier an der Donau - newspaper for Lower Bavaria , No. 118, from April 30, 1841; Scan from the source .
  6. ↑ Palatinate-Rhenish Family Studies , Volume 3, 1960, p. 226; Excerpt from the source .
  7. ^ Johann Georg August Wirth : The history of the German states: from the dissolution of the empire up to our days , Karlsruhe, 1850, volume 3, p. 831; Scan from the source .
  8. ^ Biographical page on Karl Weil .
  9. ↑ Scan from the source .
  10. ^ Genealogical website about the couple .
  11. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Wrede, Eugen Fürst . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 58th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1889, p. 196 ( digitized version ).
  12. ↑ Scan from the source for participation in the Novara expedition, Pfälzer Zeitung Speyer, No. 239, from October 12, 1859 .
personal data
SURNAME Wrede, Eugen von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wrede, Eugen Franz Prince of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian judicial officer and district president
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1845
Place of death Bamberg