Ferdinand zu Solms-Braunfels

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Johannes Deiker : Prince Ferdinand of Solms-Braunfels

Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand zu Solms-Braunfels (born December 14, 1797 in Braunfels ; † February 3, 1873 ibid) was a German civil lord .

Life

family

Prince Ferdinand zu Solms-Braunfels was born in 1797 as the eldest son of Prince Wilhelm zu Solms-Braunfels (1759–1837) and his wife Auguste, born Wild and Rhine Countess zu Salm-Grumbach, at Braunfels Castle . His siblings from this marriage were Wilhelmine (1793–1865), Sophie Auguste (1796–1855) and Karl Wilhelm Bernhard (1800–1868). The half-siblings Heinrich Wilhelmi (1805–1864), Louise Wilhelmina Wilhelmi (1806–1808) and Karl Wilhelmi (* 1809) come from his father's relationship with Elisabetha Becker.

Ferdinand zu Solms-Braunfels married Countess Ottilie zu Solms-Laubach (1807-1884) in 1828. She was the daughter of Count Friedrich zu Solms-Laubach . The marriage remained childless. Ferdinand's nephew Ernst became heir . The couple's grave is in Altenberg Monastery .

Political office

From 1819 to 1831, from 1833 to 1848 and from 1851 until his death in 1873 he was a member of the Württemberg estates . Prince Ludwig zu Bentheim-Steinfurt took his seat in 1875 . In addition, Prince Ferdinand was a member of the Prussian manor house from 1854 , but did not take this seat. He was also a member of the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse from 1838 to 1849 and again from 1856 to 1873 . Here, too, he always apologized.

His Princely Solms-Braunfels government had extensive rights in the offices of Braunfels and Greifenstein until 1848 .

private interests

Ferdinand zu Solms-Braunfels was considered an avid hunter. He promoted the expansion of forestry and forestry and expanded hunting grounds. His half-brother Karl Wilhelmi was the Braunfels chief forester . On the Kesselberg near Braunfels, Prince Ferdinand had the Dianaburg hunting lodge built in 1842/43, modeled on the towers of Charles Bridge in Prague, in the Romantic style. He also collected hunting literature, which is now kept in the Braunfels Castle library. He had this castle redesigned in the neo-Gothic style.

Painting was another of the prince's interests. He himself showed talent in animal painting and in 1845 hired Johannes Deiker as court painter. He made portraits of the prince and painted landscapes in the area around Braunfels before Prince Ferdinand commissioned him mainly with animal and hunting motifs. Deiker, who advised the prince in his painting studies, stayed at Braunfels Castle until 1868.

As an Hereditary Prince, like his younger brother Karl Wilhelm Bernhard, he became a member of the Freemason Lodge Marc Aurel to the flaming star in Marburg; even his father was a Freemason . During his studies in 1819 he became a member of the old Bonn fraternity / general public .

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 453-454.
  • Hartmut Schmidt: Johannes (1822–1895) and Carl Friedrich (1836–1892) Deiker . Exhibition catalog Wetzlar Municipal Collections - Wetzlar Museum Writings, City Administration - Cultural Office, Wetzlar 1986.
  • Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch , 1873, p. 206 f.
  • Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the administrative district of Wiesbaden. 1868–1933 (= Nassau parliamentarians. Vol. 2 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. Vol. 17 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. Vol. 71). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , pp. 829-830.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association for computer genealogy , Greifenstein local family book, Wilhelm Christian Karl family report on SOLMS-BRAUNFELS (accessed on August 3, 2015)
  2. ↑ Solms-Braunfels, Ottilie Fürstin zu. Hessian biography. (As of January 4, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ^ Hermann Krüger (Ed.): Chronicle of the Prussian manor house. A commemorative book to commemorate the manor's 30th anniversary. Berlin, 1885, page 44.
  4. ^ Family Wagner - Dillkreis, Anna Elisabeth Becker ( Memento from October 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 2, 2015); see. also Verein für Computergenealogie , Ortsfamilienbuch Greifenstein, family report Wilhelm Christian Karl zu SOLMS-BRAUNFELS (accessed on August 3, 2015)
  5. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 453.
personal data
SURNAME Solms-Braunfels, Ferdinand zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solms-Braunfels, Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Prince too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunfels
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1873
Place of death Braunfels