Georg Carl I. August Ludwig of Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen

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Contemporary portrait as a Dutch officer and Pour le Mérite bearer, in the old town hall in Grünstadt

Georg Carl I August Ludwig von Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen (born February 17, 1717 , † March 19, 1787 in Grünstadt ) was the ruling Count of Leiningen-Westerburg , knight of the order Pour le Mérite and Dutch lieutenant general .

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He was the eldest surviving son of Count Georg II. Carl Ludwig von Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen and came from his third marriage to the Norwegian Margarethe Christiane Auguste nee. Countess von Güldenlöw-Danneskjold-Laurwig (1694–1761). She was the daughter of Ulrich Friedrich Gyldenlöwe , Danish viceroy in Norway, the illegitimate son of the Danish king Friedrich III.

Georg Carl I, of the Lutheran faith , studied at the University of Giessen , stayed at the court in Darmstadt for some time and then joined the Prussian Army as an officer , where he was awarded the Pour le Mérite order for his special bravery. Most recently he served here as a lieutenant colonel in the Dossow regiment . Then Graf Leiningen went into Dutch service and finally advanced to lieutenant general in the Orange-Nassau battalion .

In 1740 Georg Carl I. August Ludwig took over the government of the County of Leiningen-Westerburg from his widowed mother. He mainly resided in the Oberhof Palace in Grünstadt, which his parents had built. In 1762, Count Leiningen, under threat of punishment, made school compulsory in his country for children from the age of 7. On a mountain near Altleiningen he founded the village Carlsberg , which was named after him, and in 1780 took over the office of Grand Master of the Order of St. Joachim , a secular order of knights.

Georg Carl I. August Ludwig von Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen died in Grünstadt in 1787 and was buried in the Neuleininger crypt of the local St. Martin's Church.

family

In 1741 the Count married Johanna Elisabeth Amalie Countess zu Isenburg-Philippseich (1720–1780), daughter of Count Wilhelm Moritz II, and had 9 children with her. Leiningen's successor, as ruling count, was his son Carl II. Gustav Reinhard Woldemar (1747–1798).

His grandchildren were the Austrian officers August Georg zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen (1770–1849) and Christian Ludwig zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen (1771–1819).

literature

  • Hans Heiberger: The Counts of Leiningen-Westerburg: Origin, Shine, Decline , Kiliandruck, Grünstadt, p. 80, ISBN 3-924386-00-5
  • Günter Herrmann, Per Holck, Horst Wilhelm: "The Leininger Grüfte in the Martinskirche zu Grünstadt" , Prot. Kirchengemeinde Grünstadt, 2000, pp. 23–33, ISBN 3-00-007212-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website on the grandmasters of the Order of St. Joachim from the Leiningen house
  2. ↑ Website for the examination of the grave in 1999, in the Herrmann-Chirurgie portal , with photos of the coffin that was opened at the time
  3. ↑ William Haanemanns wonderfull English fortune teller or detailed forecast icon of the 1767 year , Augsburg, 1766, p. 94; Digital view
  4. ^ Count Wilhelm Moritz II. In the Hessian biography
personal data
SURNAME Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen, Georg Carl I. August Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ruling Count of Leiningen-Westerburg, Dutch lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1717
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1787
Place of death Grünstadt