Friedrich Ludwig III. Truchsess zu Waldburg

Friedrich Ludwig III. Count Truchseß zu Waldburg, lithograph by Friedrich Oldermann after a drawing by Franz Krüger , around 1840

Count Friedrich Ludwig III. Truchseß zu Waldburg (born October 25, 1776 in Tangermünde , † August 18, 1844 in Turin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general , diplomat and politician from the Waldburg-Capustigall family .

Life

Friedrich Ludwig grew up in the East Prussian castle Waldburg-Capustigall near Königsberg . His parents were the Prussian major and chamberlain Friedrich Ludwig II. (1741-1807) and his first wife Albertine Wilhelmine, born von Ingersleben (1755-1796).

From January 1791 to February 1801 he served in Berlin in the regiment of the Gardes du Corps , then diminished and became chamberlain at the Württemberg court in Stuttgart . From 1804 he was the Württemberg ambassador in Vienna , from 1806 in the same function in Paris . In May 1808 he finally received the post of Chief Chamberlain of King Jérôme Bonaparte in Kassel , after his wife had already become Chief Chamberlain of Queen Katharina on December 1, 1807 .

Around November 1808 he called Ludwig van Beethoven as Kapellmeister to Kassel. Beethoven seriously considered accepting this call, but turned it down in March 1809.

In May 1809 Friedrich Ludwig and his wife left Kassel. He then stayed in Italy for a long time and returned to Prussian service on June 3, 1813 . As a lieutenant colonel from mid-December 1813 he was assigned to the headquarters of Prince Carl Philipp von Wrede . Friedrich Ludwig took part in the Wars of Liberation in 1813/14 and conducted secret negotiations with Tsar Alexander I. As Prussian commissioner, he accompanied Napoleon into exile on the island of Elba in April 1814 and published a report on it that provided interesting insights into Napoleon's personality.

In 1816 he became the Prussian ambassador in Turin at the court of the King of Sardinia . A close friendship connected him with Prince Carlo Alberto (1798–1849), who was crowned King of Sardinia in 1831. His special care was given to the religious community of the Waldensians , who lived in terrible poverty in the valleys around Turin. As early as 1822 he used a conference of the Holy Alliance held in Verona to make the European delegates aware of the grievances. King Friedrich Wilhelm III. and Tsar Alexander I supported him in building a hospital.

In 1827 he became the Prussian ambassador to The Hague , where his wife died in 1831. In March 1832 he returned to Turin. In 1837 he reached the rank of lieutenant general, on October 15, 1840, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV awarded him the Order of the Red Eagle, 1st class with oak leaves. On August 18, 1844, Count Truchseß-Waldburg died in Turin and, according to his wishes, was buried in Torre Pellice , the main town of the Waldensians.

family

He was married to Princess Maria Antonia von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* February 8, 1781, † December 25, 1831 The Hague), daughter of Hermann von Hohenzollern-Hechingen , since July 12, 1803 . The couple had five children:

• Maria Antonia Mathilda (* May 8, 1804 - November 24, 1882) ⚭ May 8, 1822 Conte Maurizio Nicolis di Robilant (* June 19, 1798 - April 13, 1862)
• Hermine Luise Amalie Pauline (born June 13, 1805; † September 23, 1872) ⚭ September 6, 1832 George Friedrich Petitpierre von Wesdehlen (1791–1883)
• Louise (born May 22, 1807 in Paris, † May 23, 1807)
• Mathilde Friederike Maximiliane Josephine, heiress of Capustigall (* January 23, 1813 - December 1, 1858) ⚭ June 6, 1835 Richard Friedrich zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1807-1894)
• Philippine Rudolfine (born April 28, 1814; † July 22, 1841) ⚭ July 12, 1834 Count Friedrich Karl Alexander zu Dohna-Lauck (1799–1873)

With the death of Friedrich Ludwig III. the Capustigall line became extinct. His daughter Mathilde Friederike Maximiliane Josephine got his inheritance and with her the Capustigall Castle went to the Dohna-Schlobitten line .

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 4, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632799 , p. 414, no. 1368.
• Hans Graf zu Donna, Waldburg-Capustigall. An East Prussian castle at the intersection of manor and European history , 2nd edition, Limburg 2009, pp. 75–88, pp. 235 f. (Family table)
• Klaus Martin Kopitz , Beethoven's appointment to Kassel at the court of Jérôme Bonaparte. A search for clues. In: Die Tonkunst , Vol. 5, No. 3 from July 2011, pp. 326–335 ( PDF )

swell

• Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage, I. Main Department Rep. 81 Legation Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (after 1807), No. 34 and 35.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Napoleon Buonaparte's journey from Fontainebleau to Fréjus from April 17th to 29th, 1814, published by Nap. Buonaparte's most highly appointed royal. Prussia. Commissarius Count v. Truchses-Waldburg. Berlin 1815.
2. ^ Lettere di Carlo Alberto a Federico Truchsess. ed. by Francesco Salata and Niccolò Rodolico, Florence 1937. - The estate of the Count used for the edition was then at Waldburg-Capustigall Castle near Königsberg, which was completely destroyed in 1945. Hans Graf zu Dohna in Potsdam has around 80 of Carlo Alberto's letters today .

predecessor	Office	successor
Albrecht Christoph von Bühler	Wuerttemberg envoy in Vienna 1804–1806	Paul Joseph von Beroldingen
Ludwig von Taube	Wuerttemberg envoy in Paris 1806–1807	Ferdinand Ludwig von Zeppelin
- August Schoultz von Ascheraden	Prussian envoy in Turin 1816–1827 1832–1844	Friedrich von Martens Heinrich Alexander von Redern
Friedrich Heinrich Leopold von Schladen	Prussian envoy in The Hague 1827–1828	August Schoultz from Ascheraden