Friedrich Karl (Wied-Neuwied)

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Friedrich Karl zu Wied-Neuwied

Prince Friedrich Karl zu Wied-Neuwied (* December 25, 1741 Hachenburg Castle ; † March 1, 1809 in Heidelberg ) was the 2nd Prince of Wied and Count of Isenburg .

He was the son of Johann Friedrich Alexander zu Wied-Neuwied (1706–1791) and his wife Karoline von Kirchberg (1720–1795).

Life

Friedrich Karl had studied in Erlangen and Göttingen, but suffered from " melancholy ". After his marriage in 1766 he led a dissolute life, had a mistress, edited several publications, set up manufactories and economies whose profits he wanted to distribute to the poor, but which failed, and went into debt. The father therefore wanted to exclude him from the line of succession, but changed his mind in May 1788 and so after the death of his father in 1791, Friedrich Karl succeeded him as the second Prince of Wied.

In 1791 he lifted serfdom in Wied-Neuwied. But not entirely voluntarily, because he had lost a legal battle over illegal taxes against his farmers and was supposed to repay several 100,000 Reichstaler. Since he did not have it, he wanted to abolish serfdom . In return, Carl von Wied-Runkel and Christian von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (appointed by Johann Friedrich as guarantors for his behavior) wanted him to be incapacitated by the Imperial Court, which the court refused on February 16, 1792.

When French revolutionary troops appeared on the country's borders in 1793, he fled to Saxony and later to Frankfurt, but returned in 1797. He later refused to join the Rhine Confederation and in 1802 handed the principality over to his son Johann August Karl zu Wied . At that time, his wife, too, was tired of his moods and divorced him. The former prince traveled through France and ultimately died in Heidelberg in 1809.

Works

  • Friedrich Carl zu Wied – Neuwied: Proposals to set up orphanages for the happiness of many people, also at low cost. Fleischer, Frankfurt 1787.
  • Prince Friedrich Carl Wied: Reprint of a pro memoria, which the ruling Prince zu Wied-Neuwied himself drafted and which the procurator Wickh had handed over to the KR Kammergericht with 24 vidimirten additional documents in June 1792; Concerning his comparisons with his subjects and some false statements. 1792 ( Google Books ).

family

Since 1766 he was married to Maria Luise Wilhelmine, Countess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (born May 13, 1747, † November 15, 1823). The couple had the following children.

  • Clemens Carl Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm (December 21, 1769 - April 2, 1800)
  • Maria Karoline Christiane (March 1, 1771 - February 14, 1803)
  • Luise Philippine Charlotte (born March 11, 1773, † April 18, 1864) and Carl provided drawings for Maximilian's publications
  • Christian Friedrich, (born March 8, 1775 - † July 27, 1800) died near Niederaltaich
  • Antoinette Charlotte Victoria (October 11, 1776 - October 26, 1777)
  • Johann August Karl (born May 26, 1779 - April 21, 1836), Prussian lieutenant general
∞ Auguste von Solms-Braunfels (* February 24, 1796; † January 23, 1855)
∞ Henriette von Dorbenck (* May 24, 1781; † August 16, 1846)
  • Ludwig Georg Karl (born December 31, 1780 - † November 14, 1781)
  • Maximilian Alexander Philipp (born September 23, 1782 - † February 3, 1867); Prussian major general and researcher
  • Heinrich Victor (6 November 1783 - 28 January 1812), Austrian officer from 1801 to 1811, killed in Spain in 1812
  • Carl Emil Friedrich Heinrich (* August 20, 1785, † October 4, 1864), provided drawings with Luise for Maximilian's publications

Web links

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  1. ↑ History of the German courts since the Reformation, p. 245 ff. Digitized
  2. ^ Renate Schlemper-Rheinsberg: Friedrich Carl Prince zu Wied (1741–1809). In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreis Neuwied 1980 , pp. 64–67.
  3. ^ Heinz Mohnhaupt, Dieter Simon: Lectures on justice research: history and theory. Volume 2, p. 266.
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wied-Neuwied, Friedrich Karl Prince too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of Wied, Count of Isenburg
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Hachenburg Castle
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1809
Place of death Heidelberg