Friedrich Karl von Vechelde

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Friedrich Karl Adolf von Vechelde (born July 26, 1801 in Braunschweig , † September 24, 1846 ibid) was a German lawyer , historian and publicist .

Life

Friedrich Karl von Vechelde came from a Braunschweig patrician family who was mentioned in Braunschweig in the first half of the 14th century. He was the son of the court judge Johann August Georg von Vechelde († April 27, 1808) and his wife Katharine Friederike († May 29, 1841), born von Strombeck , a sister of the judiciary Friedrich Karl von Strombeck (1771-1848). From 1812 Vechelde attended the Martineum grammar school , later the Katharineum in Braunschweig and the Pforta state school .

In 1821 he began to study law at the University of Göttingen , moved to Tübingen in the spring of 1823 and to Leipzig in the autumn of the same year .

In 1824 Vechelde returned to Braunschweig and in 1825 passed his legal exam at the regional court in Wolfenbüttel with a moderate result. His admission to the legal profession rejected the Regional Court on account of its lack of knowledge of the local laws. After working at the Braunschweig District Court, Vechelde resigned from civil service around 1833 in order to deal exclusively with literary work.

Act

The "Schill Monument" in Braunschweig.
The so-called "Invalidenhäuschen".

As early as 1829 Vechelde had published the first volume of a “New Chronicle of and for Braunschweig”. However, the authorities did not give him permission to publish the second volume.

From October 1830 he published the half-week publication “Annals of the Capital and Residence City of Braunschweig”, which dealt mainly with the history and conditions of the Duchy of Braunschweig , but excluding political issues. The magazine was banned in August 1831 after a passage from Christian Dietrich Grabbe's (1801-1836) drama " Napoleon or The Hundred Days " was printed in number 65 , in which the person of the Brunswick Duke Friedrich Wilhelm (1771-1815) appears .

In 1832 Vechelde published a chronicle of the city of Braunschweig, which was written in the first half of the 17th century by Braunschweig mayor Tobias Olfen (1597-1654).

In the following years he dealt mainly with patriotic-patriotic issues. On the initiative of Vechelde, Brunswick citizens and aristocrats came together in July 1836 to erect a memorial for the Prussian major and militant Ferdinand von Schill (1776-1809) in Brunswick. The memorial was supposed to serve as a burial place for the remains of fourteen Schillschen Jäger soldiers who were executed in Braunschweig in 1809 .

The monument was erected according to plans by Heinrich Friedrich Uhlmann (1807-1880) and inaugurated on March 19, 1837. It stands in Braunschweig at the point where the soldiers were shot, in today's Schillstrasse . On September 24, 1837, Schill's head was also buried in the memorial. In 1840 the so-called “Invalidenhäuschen” was built on the site. A veteran of Schill's campaign was quartered there to look after the monument and to report to visitors about Schill's deeds.

In 1843 Vechelde published the diary entries of the Brunswick Major General Friedrich Ludwig von Wachholtz from the fifth coalition war against Napoleonic France in 1809.

In the last years of his life, Vechelde made several trips on behalf of Duke Wilhelm to collect the material for his biography. The work, which he could no longer complete before his death on September 24, 1846, was later carried out by Ludwig Ferdinand Spehr (1811–1881).

Vechelde married Wilhelmine von Specht on July 26, 1843, daughter of a Brunswick officer and chamberlain. The marriage has a daughter.

Works (selection)

Title page from 1832, published by Carl Friedrich von Vechelde.
  • Tobias Olfen's, a Braunschweig councilor, history books of the city of Braunschweig. Braunschweig 1832. (Ed., Full text ).
  • Brunswick stories. Helmstedt 1835 ( full text ).
  • Ferdinand von Schill and his band. Braunschweig 1837 ( full text ).
  • The head of Ferdinand von Schill. ( Full text ; PDF file; 4.6 MB).
  • Braunschweig Memorial Book for the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Battles of Quatrebras and Waterloo. Braunschweig 1840 ( full text ; PDF file; 4.0 MB).
  • From the diary of General Fr. L. von Wachholtz. On the history of the earlier conditions of the Prussian army and especially the campaign of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Oels in 1809. Braunschweig 1843 (Ed., Full text ; PDF file; 25.2 MB).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Veit Veltzke (ed.): For the freedom - against Napoleon / Ferdinand von Schill, Prussia and the German nation . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne-Weimar-Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20340-5 , p. 376
  2. ^ Tobias Olfen's, a Brunswick councilor, history books of the city of Brunswick.
personal data
SURNAME Vechelde, Friedrich Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vechelde, Friedrich Karl Adolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1846
Place of death Braunschweig