Friedrich Ludwig zu Solms-Wildenfels and Tecklenburg

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Friedrich Ludwig Count of Solms-Wildenfels and Tecklenburg

Friedrich Ludwig Graf zu Solms-Wildenfels and Tecklenburg (born September 2, 1708 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † August 27, 1789 in Sachsenfeld ) was a Russian officer and statesman from Electoral Saxony .

Life

He came from the noble family of the Counts of Solms and was the son of the Prussian Real Chamberlain and Major General Heinrich Wilhelm zu Solms-Wildenfels (1675–1741) and Helene Dorothea born. Countess Truchseß von Waldburg (1680–1712).

He lost his mother early on on July 11, 1712. After his father remarried on April 16, 1713, he found a stepmother in Countess Sophie Albertine von Dohna-Schlobitten (1674–1746). On the run from the plague, his parents settled in Wildenfels , where he received private lessons. At the age of 13 Friedrich Ludwig went to the pedagogy and in 1724 to the University of Halle . Two years later he moved to the University of Leipzig . In 1729 he received his doctorate there with the dissertation De Maioratu , which he gave Emperor Charles VI. dedicated. This gave him the promise of a position as Reichshofrat at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar with Johann Jakob von Zwierlein . However, he did not pursue a career as an official, but settled in the Bielitz rule in Upper Silesia, which his father had bought in order to devote himself to agriculture. In the end, however, he did not like it and quickly embarked on a military career when a Russian auxiliary army of 18,000 men was set up in Upper Silesia, into which he joined as an ensign in June 1735 with the consent of his father.

Under the Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshal Graf von Münnich , Graf Solms became company commander in the Turkish War , in which he was wounded in 1737. After recovering from his injury, he asked for the hand of Field Marshal Münnich's youngest daughter. Countess Beate died soon of the leaves , so that he married his older sister Louise Dorothea (1710–1775) widowed von Schaumburg in 1739 in Kiev.

In 1740, Count Solms administered the Wartenberg rule for a few months , which had previously belonged to Duke Ernst Johann von Biron , who had been exiled . In March 1741 he was appointed Real Privy Councilor and Russian envoy to the Saxon court in Dresden and received the Polish White Eagle Order from Elector Friedrich August II of Saxony . In 1744 he acquired the Großrückerswalde manor including the associated properties Niederschmiedeberg and Kühnhaide . In 1745 he was appointed governor of the Erzgebirge district , which office he held until 1788. During the famine raging in the Ore Mountains in 1771/72 , Solms proved to be a benefactor for the needy population. Gustav Beyer wrote the following adoring sentences about Solms in his Beierfelder Chronik in 1923:

“In the terrible rise in prices and famine of 1771–73, his philanthropic zeal was shown in the most beautiful light. Through incessant presentations he tried to find all possible help for the starving Erzgebirge people. He himself traveled to Bohemia and collected food and subsistence there. He succeeded in getting 2,000 poor children, who otherwise would have perished miserably, to regularly receive bread and regular education. 16,000 thalers of support alone went through his hand. He created income and bread for the unemployed by expanding his garden in Sachsenfeld. "

When Count von Münnich fell out of favor, this also hit him. He then withdrew to the country, especially since his father had died and his possessions had to be administered. He settled on the Sachsenfeld manor near Schwarzenberg in the Ore Mountains , where he died in 1789. He was buried in the crypt of the Peter and Paul Church in Beierfeld , of which he was the patron saint as the owner of the manor of Sachsenfeld. He had a library of more than 10,000 volumes in a rented farmhouse. In 1743 Solms founded the Masonic Lodge Drei Rosen in Sachsenfeld , which was later moved to Rußdorf and went out there.

progeny

Count Solms had the following five children:

  • Christoph Heinrich Friedrich (born December 26, 1741 in Dresden, † March 12, 1829 in Freiberg )
  • Ludwig Ernst (born June 2, 1743 in Sachsenfeld; † November 4, 1768 there)
  • Otto Wilhelm (born July 30, 1744 in Rückerswalde; † November 27, 1793 in Sachsenfeld)
  • Christian August (born September 5, 1748 in Rückerswalde, † October 31, 1763 in Sachsenfeld)
  • Sophie Amalie Luise (* / † 1751 in Rückerswalde)

Works

  • De Maioratu. Diss. University of Leipzig, 1729
  • Translation of the Odes of Horace. (3rd and 4th book) Braunschweig: Verlag des Großes Waisenhauses, 1757/58
  • Fragments from the history of Solmes. Dresden and Leipzig, 1785

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Körner: Brief outline of some geographical-historical news , Vol. 7, p. 302 digitized
  2. ↑ Gustav Beyer: Beierfeld - History of its political, historical and cultural development . Evangelical Lutheran Parish office, Beierfeld 1923. , p. 13
  3. ^ Friedrich Bülau: Secret stories and enigmatic people: Collection of hidden or forgotten oddities. Vol. 1, Brockhaus: Leipzig, 1850, p. 358 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Solms-Wildenfels and Tecklenburg, Friedrich Ludwig to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solms-Wildenfels and Tecklenburg, Friedrich Ludwig Graf zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian officer and statesman from Electoral Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1708
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1789
Place of death Sachsenfeld