Friedrich Karl zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein

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Friedrich Karl zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and Hohenstein (born February 23, 1766 at Wittgenstein Castle near Bad Laasphe ; † April 8, 1837 there ) was a German prince from the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein .

Prince Friedrich Karl zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, around 1800.

Life

origin

Friedrich Karl was a son of Johann Ludwig Graf zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1740–1797) and his wife Friederike Louise Charlotte, née Countess von Pückler-Limpurg (1746–1772). He had seven siblings. After the death of his first wife in 1772, his father married their younger sister Wilhelmine Henriette Caroline Countess von Pückler and Limpurg (1746–1800) on November 9, 1772. From this marriage there were four more children.

Act

From May 1786 Friedrich Karl studied law with his brother Wilhelm at the University of Marburg. On March 27, 1797 he succeeded his father. Friedrich Karl tried to raise his own income and that of his subjects through a variety of undertakings. This also included the expansion and modernization of a stately hammer mill on the outskirts of the city of Laasphe. The new ironworks in the area of ​​the municipality of Kunst Wittgenstein was set up at his instigation from 1799, continuously expanded and soon bore his name: Friedrichshütte .

On June 20, 1801, Friedrich Karl and his brothers Wilhelm Ludwig Georg and Johann Franz Carl Ludwig were elevated to the rank of imperial prince in 1801 , but only officially accepted the title of prince in 1804 due to the poor economic situation of the county. The brother Wilhelm Ludwig Georg ruled the principality only nominally. The youngest brother, Adolph Ernst Cornelius Alexander, was raised to the rank of prince of the Grand-Ducal Hesse on May 11, 1813.

In 1806 the county of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein was mediatized together with Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and from that point on belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt .

Prince Friedrich got into debt through speculation. In 1810, therefore, a "Grand Ducal Hessian Commission ordered to regulate the Princely Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein debt nature and to administer the Princely House property" was set up. Under the direction of the Solms Chamber Director Karl Wilhelm von Kopp and Prince Wilhelm zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, the commission succeeded by 1816 in reducing the debt from 984,000 guilders to 620,000 guilders.

In 1816 the Principality of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein Prussia (Westphalia Province) was added. That had by Kretschmann Theodor sought to prevent in vain. As a result, Kretschmann was sentenced in court for this. On March 27, 1824, Prince Friedrich Karl received a viril vote in the first state of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Westphalia .

He was the holder of the Order of the Red Eagle .

family

Friedrich married on June 1, 1796 with Friederike Princess zu Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1774–1806). The marriage had four children:

  • Friedrich Wilhelm (1798–1868)
  • Alexander (1801–1874) ⚭ June 3, 1828 in Rheda Amalie von Bentheim-Tecklenburg
  • Emma Hedwig Auguste Caroline Friederike Louise Sophie Wilhelmine (1802–1862) ⚭ June 16, 1844 Curt von Bose (1808–1884)
  • Agnes (1804-1866)
0November 1, 1822 Count Oskar von Blome (1795–1884), divorced in 1825
⚭ October 31, 1828 Moritz Kasimir von Bentheim-Rheda (1795–1872)

After the early death of his first wife on April 4, 1807, he entered into a morganatic marriage with Luise Henriette Langenbach (1790–1864) , from which further children emerged:

  • Christiane Friederike (* 1808)
  • Karl Franz Adolf (1809–1866), ironworks owner
  • Caroline Albertine (* 1811)
  • Ludwig (* 1813)
  • Friederike (1817–1906) ⚭ 1839 with Friedrich von Gilsa (1808–1886), Prussian major general
  • Friedrich Wilhelm (* 1821)
  • Adolf Emil Alexander (1822-1892), Prussian chief forester

Prince Friedrich Karl died on April 8, 1837 at the age of 71. After his eldest son Friedrich Wilhelm was unable to succede due to illness, the second eldest son, Alexander zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, succeeded the regent.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Marburg, Marburg matriculation 1527–1830 (Edition) 1778–1795, page 411: Die 5 Maii: No. 43: Illustrissimus Dominus Fridericus, SRJ Comes in Sayn, Witgenstein et Hohenstein ( https: //www.uni-marburg. de / de / uniarchiv / recherche / digital-resources last accessed: October 26, 2018, 9:40 a.m.)
  2. ^ Wilhelm Hartnack: From the prehistory of the Friedrichshütte . In: Festschrift "500 years Friedrichshütte.", Laasphe 1954
  3. H.-B. Spies: Sayn-Wittgenstein. in: New German Biography. 22 (2005), pp. 482-483 ( online version ), accessed on June 28, 2015
  4. L. v. Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Adels-Lexicon: or genealogical and diplomatic news from the princely, countless, baronial and noble houses residing in or related to the Prussian monarchy. Volume 4: P-Z. Reichenbach Brothers, Leipzig 1837, p. 345.
  5. a b c Entry of the County of Wittgenstein on the Genwiki homepage
  6. ^ Wittgenstein Debit and Administration Commission. In: GenWiki. Verein für Computergenealogie eV, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
  7. Sayn-Wittgenstein et al. Hohenstein, Friedrich Carl Prince to. Hessian biography. (As of November 28, 2011). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  8. ^ Friedrich's first wife, Princess Friederike, gave birth to a son on April 10, 1806, who died on the same day. The princess did not recover and died three months later at the age of 31. See: Family table of the mediatized house Sayn and Wittgenstein 1907 .
  9. ↑ Family tree of the mediatized house Sayn and Wittgenstein 1907. Unchanged reprint of the edition from 1907. Heimat-Verlag and Antiquariat Angelika Wied, Bad Laasphe, 2009, No. 9/100.