Gebhard Blücher from Wahlstatt
Gebhard Bernhard Carl, 2nd Prince Blücher von Wahlstatt (born July 14, 1799 in Münster , † March 8, 1875 at Raduň Castle ) was a large Prussian landowner and hereditary member of the Prussian manor house .
origin
Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt came from the Blücher family , an originally Mecklenburg family of the nobility , whose ancestral seat was in Blücher near Lauenburg on the Elbe and which first appeared in 1214 with Ulrich de Bluchere, the ministerial of the bishops of Ratzeburg , and the lineage began. Gebhard's line was raised with the Prussian General Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher , his grandfather, on June 3, 1814 in Paris to the hereditary Prussian count and personal prince status as Prince Blücher von Wahlstatt .
The parents of Gebhard Bernhard Carl, 2nd Prince Blücher von Wahlstatt were the Prussian Major General Count Franz Blücher von Wahlstatt (1778-1829) and his wife Bernhardine von Sass († 1806). His father became mentally ill as a result of a head wound near Peterswalde in 1813.
Life
He was the grandson of Field Marshal and 1st Prince Blücher von Wahlstatt. Because the dignity of the first prince was only ad personam and the dignity of the count was hereditary, but only in 1814, he was born on July 14, 1799 only as Gebhard von Blücher in Münster in Westphalia . After the death of the field marshal, the dignity of prince expired, but Gebhard and his father had been counts since 1814, as this title had been granted to the field marshal without restriction. Simultaneously with the death of the first prince, his numerous goods, which the Prussian crown had given him as thanks for his military services, passed to his heirs. Gebhard inherited the Palais Blücher in Berlin as well as the majority rule Krieblowitz and in 1841 acquired the rule Wahlstatt , both located in the Prussian part of Silesia .
Since his marriage to the Austrian Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich (born September 3, 1801, † 1889) in Warmbrunn on October 29, 1832 in Warmbrunn (* September 3, 1801; † 1889), his wife's important lands were added to this already very extensive property Austrian part of Silesia owned, in particular the rule of Raduň Castle in Moravian Silesia. Because of this large property and in order to bind the Field Marshal's descendants more strongly to the Prussian crown (Gebhard lived mostly in Radun, Austria), King Wilhelm I of Prussia renewed the dignity of prince in Königsberg in Prussia on October 18, 1861, the king's coronation day as a hereditary title ( Primogeniture with the salutation Your Highness ). In addition, Wilhelm I granted the then 2nd Prince Blücher von Wahlstatt a hereditary seat in the Prussian mansion on January 28, 1869, which the family held until the 1918 revolution.
Gebhard 2. Prince Blücher von Wahlstatt lived primarily as a feudal landowner on his estates, which he managed together with his wife's estates. He took his mansion seat, but without developing special political activities there. He died in Radun on March 8, 1875 and was inherited by his eldest son Gebhard Leberecht as 3rd Prince Blücher of Wahlstatt.
His second son Gustav Gebhard Leberecht (* 1837) was a Knight of Honor of the Order of Malta .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Document book of the St. Michaelis monastery in Lüneburg , No. 33
- ^ A b Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon, Volume 1, Pages 438, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1972
- ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses. Volume 30, p. 95, [1]
- ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses 1876. S.487
- ^ Genealogy. Handbook of the nobility, Volume Fü I, p. 471, CA Starke-Verlag, Glücksburg 1951.
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| SURNAME | Blücher from Wahlstatt, Gebhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blücher von Wahlstatt, Gebhard Bernhard Carl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian landowner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1875 |
| Place of death | Raduň Castle |