Friedrich zu Erbach-Erbach

Arms of the counts of Erbach- Lauterbach and Wartenberg-Roth (sign quarter 1: Count to Lauterbach , 2: Count piston of Wartenberg , 3: Reichsabtei red at the red , 4: Men to Breuberg ; escutcheon: Imperial grace crest with doppelköpfigem Reich Adler and Letter F [for Emperor Franz I.])

Franz Georg Friedrich Christian Eginhard Count of Erbach-Erbach, Lord of Breuberg and Wildenstein, since 1806 by adoption at the same time Count of Wartenberg-Roth, Lord of Curl and Ostermannshofen, later also Lord of Steinbach (born January 4, 1785 in Erbach (Odenwald) ; † September 2, 1854 in Heidelberg ), was a Bavarian major general à la suite and, as a member of the old aristocratic house of Erbach, representative of the Erbach-Erbach estate in the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

family

Friedrich zu Erbach-Erbach was the seventh and last child and the second son of Count Franz I zu Erbach-Erbach (1754-1824) from his first marriage to Luise Charlotte Polyxene zu Leiningen-Dagsburg (1755-1785). He remained unmarried and had no offspring.

In 1804 Friedrich and his older brother Carl (1782-1835) were taken over by Count Ludwig Kolb von Wartenberg (1752-1818), the brother of Count Franz I's second wife and widow of Count Friedrich August zu Erbach-Fürstenau (1755 –1844), Charlotte Louise Polyxene b. Kolb von Wartenberg (1755–1785), adopted, which gave them the title and coat of arms of the Counts of Wartenberg-Roth with imperial approval from January 1806, but without continuing the old tribal name Kolb of their adoptive father.

Life

After private lessons from private tutors, Friedrich began a military career in the Bavarian Army and fought with it in the coalition wars, first in the campaigns of 1809 in alliance with Napoleonic France, then after the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 like his brother Carl against the French. He achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel in active service . After the " Second Paris Peace " in 1815, he took his leave as Bavarian major general à la suite and, as an apanaged co-heir , led an inconspicuous private life in 1818 in the county of Wartenberg-Roth in the Kingdom of Württemberg and then in 1823 in the sub- county of Erbach-Erbach until his death. Like his brother, he called himself Count zu Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth, Herr zu Breuberg, Wildenstein, Curl and Ostermannshofen ; since he was temporarily in possession of the Steinbach office of the county of Wartenberg-Roth, which was in the Kingdom of Bavaria , he also called himself Herr zu Steinbach .

During his military career, Friedrich zu Erbach-Erbach had become a Knight of the French Legion of Honor ; he was also a knight of the Royal Prussian Order of St. John .

At the end of his brother Carl zu Erbach-Erbach's life and after his death in 1835, Friedrich represented him and his underage son and successor in the government of the Erbach-Erbach Eberhard (1818-1884) from 1834 to 1836 in the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (swearing in on April 29, 1834).

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , p. 280.
• Gustav Simon: The history of the dynasts and counts of Erbach and their country. Brönner, Frankfurt a. M. 1858. p. 466.

Web links

• Erbach-Erbach, Franz Georg Friedrich Graf too. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).