Friedrich Magnus II of Solms-Wildenfels

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Friedrich Magnus II. Count of Solms-Wildenfels (born September 17, 1777 in Wildenfels ; † November 18, 1857 ibid) was a German nobleman , officer and politician . He was a member of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the Saxon state parliament .

family

Solms-Wildenfels was the son of Friedrich Magnus I, Count of Solms-Wildenfels (1743-1801) and his wife Princess Caroline zu Leiningen (1757-1832), the daughter of Prince Carl Friedrich Wilhelm zu Leiningen and his wife Christiane Wilhelmine Louise Countess to Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim.

Solms-Wildenfels married Auguste Caroline zu Erbach-Erbach (born August 19, 1783 in Erbach, † 11 June 1833 in Wildenfels), daughter of Count Franz zu Erbach-Erbach , on August 26, 1803 . On November 25, 1837 he married Elisabeth (Betty) Degenfeld-Schonburg (born February 11, 1802, † April 21, 1880 in Dresden), daughter of the KK major general and treasurer Friedrich Christoph Graf von Degenfeld-Schonburg and the Countess Luise to Erbach-Erbach. Heir was the son from his first marriage, Friedrich Magnus III. Count zu Solms-Wildenfels (1811–1883), hereditary member of the First Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony.

Life

Solms-Wildenfels studied in Wittenberg and in 1801 took over the monastic lords of Engelthal and Wildenfels . Until 1803 he did military service in Saxony before he took over the government in 1803. After being mediatized by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, he remained privileged as a class lord. This included a hereditary mandate in the first chamber of the Hessian estates. From 1820 to 1836 (1st – 7th Landtag) he was a member of the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In 1836 he sold the Engelthal Monastery, which ended the mandate in the first chamber. From 1831 he was the hereditary member of the First Chamber in the Kingdom of Saxony as the owner of the Wildenfels estate .

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Rack: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the First and Second Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 , Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 849.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 263.
  • Detlev Schwennicke [Ed.]: Europäische Stammtafeln NF 17, 1998, T. 53.
  • Silke Marburg: European high nobility - King John of Saxony (1801–1873) and the internal communication of a social formation. Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-05-004344-9 , pp. 160, 161 and 314.

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personal data
SURNAME Solms-Wildenfels, Friedrich Magnus II. To
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solms-Wildenfels, Friedrich Magnus II. Count too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Member of Parliament for the Grand Duchy of Hesse
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Wildenfels
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1857
Place of death Wildenfels