Friedrich Carl Willibald von Groschlag zu Dieburg

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Painting by Georg Melchior Kraus with today's title: Trigonometric Disput , painted around 1774. It shows Friedrich Carl Willibald von Groschlag and his wife, Sophie Countess von Stadion
Various coats of arms depictions of the Groschlag from ancestral samples in the 18th century. Above left that of Friedrich Carl

Friedrich Carl Willibald Freiherr von Groschlag zu Dieburg (born November 15 or 18, 1729 in Mainz ; † May 25, 1799 in Vienna ) was a diplomat in the service of the Electorate of Mainz .

family

Friedrich Carl Willibald came from the noble family of those von Groschlag . In 1774 he married Sophie Countess von Stadion (June 25, 1753-1828). A painting by the baroque painter Georg Melchior Kraus (1737–1806), which is kept in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg with the title Trigonometric Disput (The Trigonometric Dispute) , depicts the couple and was probably made around 1774.

With the death of Friedrich Carl Willibald Freiherr von Groschlag zu Dieburg , the male line died out in 1799.

Career

Friedrich Carl Willibald von Groschlag studied law at the Universities of Marburg and Göttingen . He began a career in the service of the Electors and Archbishops of Mainz and then served under the Electors and Arch Chancellors Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein (1690–1763) and Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim (1707–1774).

First he was bailiff of the Dieburg and von Gernsheim offices . 1758–63 he was ambassador to France. Groschlag was considered one of the most talented diplomats of his time. He was awarded the title of Imperial and Churmainzer Privy Councilor, First Conference Minister, Gros-Hofmeister and Ober-Amtmann, and in 1765 Maria Theresa awarded him the Commander's Cross of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen .

Elector Archbishop Friedrich Karl Joseph Freiherr von und zu Erthal (1719–1802) dismissed Friedrich Carl Willibald von Groschlag from all offices immediately after taking office in 1774 for political reasons.

Cultural engagement

Friedrich Carl Willibald von Groschlag was connected to the ideas of the Enlightenment . He expanded the park of the Groschlag Castle , which is still in ruins today . He had contact with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , who visited him at the castle, as well as with Sophie von La Roche and Christoph Martin Wieland , who were repeatedly guests of the Groschlags and with whom Carl Friedrich had a long-term pen friendship. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge Zu den drey Löwen in Marburg, founded in 1743 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseum 2007 (PDF; 566 kB) Brief contents p. 10
  2. ↑ Main-Echo online service : Painting proves family quarrel in the Groschlag home - Heimatverein: Hans Dörr presents an unknown image. dated October 12, 2011
  3. ↑ see also Heribert Raab:  Groschlag zu Dieburg, Friedrich Carl Willibald Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 137 ( digitized version ). and commemorative event for the 200th anniversary of the death of the poet Martin Wieland on March 1, 2013 of the Dieburg Heimatverein in Schloss Fechenbach
  4. ↑ Stefan Redies: Freemasons, Templars and Rosicrucians. On the history of the secret societies in Marburg in the 18th century. Tectum, Marburg 1989, p. 79.

literature

  • Peter Murmann: Groschlag and Hanau: a source of the 18th century on the Hanau fiefs of the Groschlag v. Dieburg , archaeolog. u. Folklore Working group, 1992.
  • Karin-Jutta Krüger: Karl Friedrich Willibald von Groschlag (1729–1799): A contribution to the politics of Electoral Mainz and to the Enlightenment in the Rhine-Main area ; Munich, 1970.
  • Gerhard Fridrich Albrecht: Genealogical Handbook : Frankfurt a. M., 1776, Genealogical Handbook: Groschlag p. 71 ff.
  • Johann Gottfried Biedermann (Hochfürstlich Brandenburg Sulmbachischer Pfarrer zu Untersteinach ): Gender = register of the Reichs Frey immediate knight creates land to Francken praiseworthy place Ottenwald ... , Kulmbach / Untersteinach, February 16, 1751, approx. 460 pages, Groschlag pp 342-348
  • Register of documents of the Groschlag family in the Hessen Online Register of Archives Information System (156 items) of the Groschlag family (B17)
  • Johann Wilhelm Christian Steiner: Antiquities and history of the Bachgau in the old Maingau , Darmstadt 1829; 3 volumes; here especially the III. Volume : History of the city of Dieburg and topography of the former centers and offices Umstadt , Babenhausen and Dieburg
  • Archive for Middle Rhine Church History , Volume 41, Society for Middle Rhine Church History , Jaeger Druck GmbH, 1989, p. 214 ff.
  • Diel, Karl: A park model from the time of Goethe. The pleasure garden of the barons of Groschlag zu Dieburg. Darmstadt 1941, LC Wittich Verlag. 163 pages (including family tree)
  • Emanuel readers:  Groschlag von Diepurg, Carl Friedrich Willibald Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 741 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Groschlag zu Dieburg, Friedrich Carl Willibald von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groschlag, Friedrich Carl von; Baron von Groschlag, Carl Friedrich Willibald (ADB)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1729 or November 18, 1729
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1799
Place of death Vienna