Friedrich Carl Hector Wilhelm von Günderrode

Tomb in the Frankfurt main cemetery

Friedrich Carl Hector Wilhelm Freiherr von Günderrode called von Kellner (born April 25, 1786 in Karlsruhe , † March 21, 1862 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer and politician .

life and work

Günderrode was the youngest child of Hector Wilhelm von Günderrode called von Kellner and his wife Luise Sophie Victorie Auguste Henriette Friedrike von Günderrode . The family Günderrode belonged to the influential since the 16th century patrician families of ganerbschaft Old Limpurg in Frankfurt . His oldest sister was the poet Caroline von Günderrode , four other older sisters died in childhood.

He studied law in Heidelberg and was Badischer Chamberlain and forester in Mosbach am Neckar . In 1823 he became a senator and lay judge in Frankfurt am Main . In 1841, 1847, 1851 and 1861 the Senate elected him Senior Mayor of the Free City of Frankfurt . In addition, he was a member of the Legislative Assembly and the Senate Commission for negotiating with authorities of the German Confederation .

family

He married Freiin Charlotte Henriette von Closen-Haidenburg on March 28, 1812 (born September 14, 1788). The couple had several children:

• Clotilde Luise Maximiliana (* March 1, 1815; † 1891) ⚭ Gustav Adolf Theodor von Wasmer (* 1808; † February 25, 1855), Fürstlich Reussischer Forstmeister
• Ida Caroline Luise (born January 5, 1817) ⚭ 1853 Robert von Patow
• Maria Augusta Emilie (born August 14, 1821; † 1910), founded the “v. Günderrode-Closensche Damenstift ”in Frankfurt am Main
• Maximilian Ferdinand Ludwig (born April 28, 1824, † 1867), Grand Duke of Baden captain, royal Bavarian treasurer
• Charlotte Friederica Luise (* January 21, 1827; † 1895) ⚭ 1847 Baron Georg von Panhuys (1796–1871), Dutch lieutenant general
• Karl Wilhelm Hector (* March 23, 1830; † 1906), Doctor of Philosophy ⚭ Caroline Elisabeth Sophie von Schmerfeld (* March 10, 1822; † 1905)

See also

• Günderrode
• List of city leaders of Frankfurt am Main

literature

• Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .
• Hans Körner, Frankfurt patrician - Historisch Genealogisches Handbuch Alten-Limpurg , Vögel-Verlag, Munich 1971
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1858. Eighth year, p.227

Web links

• Günderrode called von Kellner, Friedrich Carl Hector Wilhelm Freiherr von. Hessian biography. (As of April 25, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).