Friedrich Wilhelm von Ketelhodt

Friedrich Wilhelm von Ketelhodt (born February 24, 1766 in Rudolstadt ; † April 20, 1836 there ) was a German lawyer and chancellor .

Life

family

Friedrich Wilhelm von Ketelhodt was the third son of 12 children of Carl Gerd von Ketelhodt , Chancellor in Rudolstadt, and his wife Auguste Friederike (born April 25, 1742 in Schlettwein near Gera; † February 28, 1803 in Rudolstadt), born Freiin Bachoff von Real, born.

His siblings were:

• Friedrich Carl Vredeber von Ketelhodt (born January 15, 1764, † December 5, 1764);
• Carl von Ketelhodt (born January 12, 1765, † January 12, 1765);
• Ludwig Ferdinand von Ketelhodt (born August 19, 1767; † 1789), chamberlain of Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern , Queen of Prussia;
• Sophie Henriette von Ketelhodt (born October 22, 1768; † unknown), married to the Chamberlain and Major von Imhof from Coburg;
• Friederike Caroline von Ketelhodt (* June 24, 1770; † October 8, 1824 in Rudolstadt), married to Johann Friedrich Bachoff von Echt (1773–1801);
• Karl Ulrich Freiherr von Ketelhodt (born March 30, 1773 in Rudolstadt; † November 7, 1832 there), chamberlain , chief hunter and head of forestry in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt ;
• Theresia Christiane Friederike von Ketelhodt (* March 28, 1775, † March 28, 1825), lady-in-waiting to the Princess of Hesse Philippstal, later married a missionary and religion teacher near St. Louis;
• Georg Ernst von Ketelhodt (* December 18, 1776; † April 21, 1830), Rittmeister and Brigade Adjutant at the Brigadier von Stülpnagel;
• Leopold Gerad von Ketelhodt (born February 28, 1779 - † July 22, 1822), head stable master ;
• Auguste Friederike von Ketelhodt (born January 12, 1781; † May 21, 1808), princely court lady of Schwarzburg;
• Louise Charlotte von Ketelhodt (* December 7, 1782 - † May 4, 1870), married the chief forest manager Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Hake (* January 3, 1777 - July 7, 1851) from Hasperde, son of Adolf von Hake

In 1792 Friedrich Wilhelm von Ketelhodt married Caroline Ulrike (* December 25, 1772; † April 10, 1832 in Rudolstadt), a daughter of the Court Marshal von Kyckebusch from Homburg. Because they had no children, they took in Louise von Imhoff, the daughter of a sister-in-law, as a foster daughter, who later married the master hunter Bernhard von Holleben.

Career

Friedrich Wilhelm von Ketelhodt received his first lessons from a private tutor . He then attended grammar school in Rudolstadt and in 1781 began a four-year study of history and law at the University of Jena and completed this successfully at the University of Göttingen with his dissertation De agnato in feudo citra consensum obligato before the Presidium of the Court Council and Professor Möckert . He then returned to Rudolstadt and began his career in court and civil service.

Friedrich Wilhelm von Ketelhodt received the character of a court squire and by decree of August 19, 1778, the assurance of employment. By a further decree of March 26, 1785 he was appointed chamberlain and government assessor, and on April 15, 1789 promoted to the government council.

From 1789 to 1790 he accompanied Prince Ludwig Friedrich to Switzerland, France and Italy and kept a travel diary which he later published.

On July 21, 1790 he was raised to court and legation councilor . On March 21, 1792 he was promoted to vice director of the government and the associated colleges in Frankenhausen . On April 11, 1792, he was Amtshauptmann with the character of a provincial governor and by decree of 18 May 1793, he director of the government in Frankenhausen with the title of Vice-Chancellor and Vizekonsistorialpräsidenten what on June 24, 1805 he was appointed Chancellor and Konsistorialpräsidenten in Frankenhausen took place.

Due to his diplomatic skills, he brokered the accession of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt to the Rhenish Confederation in Warsaw on April 18, 1807 , although France did not intend to include the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in the Rhenish Confederation.

The protection of Napoleon ended in 1813 and Friedrich Wilhelm von Ketelhodt played a key role in the Principality's accession to the German Confederation in 1815 .

In 1814/5 he took part in the Congress of Vienna as a representative of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . Since the Congress of Vienna, the Final Act of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt delegates, the Chancellor Friedrich Wilhelm von Ketelhodt, June 8, 1815 " Baron signed", the family officially takes the title Baron. It was then confirmed again for various reasons in Mecklenburg on July 20, 1843 and in Rudolstadt on December 15, 1854 and August 29, 1913.

In 1816 the feudal relationships with Prussia, to which all rights of the crown of Saxony had passed to the House of Schwarzburg, were reorganized through assignments and exchanges of territories. Friedrich Wilhelm von Ketelhodt also played a significant part in this. His most important work was the creation of the constitution, which came into force in January 1816, the first constitution in Thuringia .

On December 19, 1827, he received the title of a privy councilor with the predicate of excellence , and he was also given the directorate of the government with the associated colleges in Rudolstadt.

The necrology was written by Julius Eberwein .

Honors / awards

• Inheritance gift of the dignified county of Henneberg ;
• Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle 2nd class;
• Grand Cross of the House Order of Loyalty ;
• Honorary member of the Latin Society in Jena.

Works

• De agnato in feudo citra consensum obligato . Gottingae, 1785.
• Speech when placing the congratulations for the fifty-year official jubilation of the Sr. Excellency of Mr. Friedr. Wilh. Ludw. von Beulwiz of the colleges and offices subordinated to the Presidium of His Excellency on November 10, 1824, spoken by Friedrich Wilhelm von Ketelhodt. Rudolstadt: Froebel, 1824.
• Vredeber von Ketelhodt: Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Ketelhodt as statesman: on the 75th birthday of our honored senior Vredeber Freiherr von Ketelhodt in Neuenhain / Taunus - 1896 - November 21 - 1971 - presented by the family association . Ansbach, 1971.
• The diary of a trip by the Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt princes Ludwig Friedrich and Carl Günther through Germany, Switzerland and France in 1789 and 1790 . Weimar; Jena: Hain, 2004.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voight: New Nekrolog der Deutschen, 15th year, 1837, 1st part, pp. 13-17 . BF Voigt, 1839 ( google.de [accessed on March 19, 2018]).
2. ↑ Documents and historical news Ketelhodtscher Familie, p. 102 ff. Stiller, 1855 ( google.de [accessed on March 19, 2018]).
3. ^ Rheinische Bund: a journal historically, politically, statistically, geographically, p. 136 . JCB Mohr, 1807 ( google.de [accessed March 19, 2018]).