Friedrich Georg Riedesel zu Eisenbach

Friedrich Georg Riedesel Freiherr zu Eisenbach

Friedrich Georg Riedesel zu Eisenbach (* March 5, 1703 at Ludwigseck Castle ; † November 9, 1775 at Eisenbach Castle ) from the house of Barons Riedesel was Hereditary Marshal of the Landgraviate of Hesse during the reign of Landgrave Wilhelm VIII of Hesse-Kassel .

family

Friedrich Georg was the eldest son of Jost Volprecht Riedesel zu Eisenbach (1663–1733) and his first wife Anna Dorothea von Baumbach (1662–1703). In 1747 he married Anna Dorothea Juliana von Baumbach's first marriage. From this marriage the son Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann (1753–1803), the daughter Caroline Anna Sophie Hermine (1749–1781), who married Volprecht Hermann Friedrich Riedesel (1732–1785) in 1777, and five other daughters were born. In 1763 he married Sophie Luise von Trott zu Solz (* 1718; † January 26, 1805) for the second time . This marriage remained childless.

Life

Friedrich Georg studied at the University of Marburg from 1721 and at the University of Halle from 1722 . However, he decided against an academic career and became a soldier. He fought in Holland, Brabant and Bavaria.

In February 1727 he became Rittmeister in the service of Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel . He set up a company on horseback as part of the princely body regiment, which he led for two decades. In 1742 he was promoted to major . Among other things, he fought in the Battle of Dettingen on June 27, 1743.

In 1751 his uncle Hermann Riedesel zu Eisenbach (1682–1751) died without children of his own. The office and title of the Hessian hereditary marshal and the reign in the Riedselschen Junkerland would have passed to his Eisenbach cousin Johann Volprecht Riedesel zu Eisenbach according to the family law . However, he had a nervous disorder and a choleric temperament, which had led to conflicts between the two cousins, and Hermann had therefore made a will in favor of the two nephews of Hans Volpert, Hermann and Georg Ludwig, whereby Georg Ludwig prematurely became Hereditary Marshal. Between Hans Volpert and his nephews there was a legal dispute of several years before the Imperial Court of Justice over the inheritance and the imperial order obtained by the family to exclude the sick Hans Volpert from the succession as hereditary marshal. This ended after three years without a judgment, which means that Georg Ludwig's legacy and title have been preserved.

Landgrave Wilhelm VIII of Hessen-Kassel appointed him a privy councilor and awarded him the Hessian house order of the Golden Lion .

As Hereditary Marshal, he was in charge of the Hessian estates . Therefore he stayed in Kassel in 1757 , where the estates met. The main point of the deliberations was the situation of the Seven Years' War . After the lost battle at Hastenbeck , the French general Victor-François de Broglie occupied the city of Kassel. After the fortunes of war had turned, the French had to evacuate Kassel in March 1758. Friedrich Georg was arrested by them for allegedly backward contributions and taken as a hostage . The knight canton of Rhön-Werra protested against this kidnapping at the emperor in Vienna. This protest was ineffective: Friedrich Georg was held by the French in Strasbourg for a year and a half .

When the Hermannsburg branch of the Riedesel family died out, he inherited Eisenbach Castle , which he chose as his residence (previously he had his residence in Ludwigseck). In 1770 he was still the Hermannsburg in Stockhausen to lock Stockhausen expand, not experienced its first completion in 1777 but more.

literature

• Karl Siegmar von Galéra: The Riedesel zu Eisenbach. From the Empire to the Rhine Confederation 1713–1806. 1961, p. 171 (family tree) and p. 177-185

Web links

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• Riedesel zu Eisenbach, Friedrich Georg Freiherr. Hessian biography. (As of March 5, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).