Georg von Wangenheim (Court Marshal)

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Count Georg Christian von Wangenheim, painting
Johanna Wilhelmine von der Betten, whom he married in 1806

Georg von Wangenheim (full name Georg Christian Ernst Ludwig August von Wangenheim ; * August 17, 1780 in Hanover , † October 21, 1851 ibid) was a Hanoverian court marshal .

origin

Georg von Wangenheim came from the noble family Wangenheim . His father Georg August von Wangenheim (1735–1796) was Oberhofmarschall in Hanover. His mother Juliane Philipine (1742-1824; widowed von Bismarck ) was born Countess Eickstedt -Peterswaldt and daughter of the Minister Friedrich Wilhelm von Eickstedt-Peterswald . After the death of her second husband, the widow married the minister Claus von der Betten .

Life

Georg von Wangenheim attended Christian Rudolf Karl Wichmann's private educational institution in Celle . In 1796 Georg entered the service of King George III as court squire . of Great Britain and Ireland, the Elector of Hanover. Although he never entered his Electorate of Hanover , the service at the court in Hanover continued.

In addition to his studies at the University of Göttingen until 1799 , among others with Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , he attended the negotiations of the Rastatt Congress for training in diplomacy and practical politics .

After his father died and his mother wanted to marry Minister Claus von der Betten (1742-1826) in 1800 , he was declared of legal age so that he could manage his estates around Göttingen and Gotha himself.

In 1802 he became a thigh . In the following year, however, the keeping of the court in Hanover was ended after the French took possession of the electorate. Georg went to his property and traveled. In May 1806 he married the daughter of his stepfather, Johanna Wilhelmine von der Betten .

The conditions closed by the Peace of Tilsit in 1807 led him into the ranks of those who quietly worked for the liberation from Napoleon's foreign rule. They had a main representative in the person of the former electoral Hanoverian ambassador to the Habsburg court, Count Ernst Hardenberg, who had stayed in Vienna and who mediated the dealings with London and Count Ernst von Munster who was there. With Hardenberg and his cousin, the Prussian minister of the same name, with Stein and Ludwig Wallmoden , Georg was partly related, partly friends. Therefore, he often took on programs and other assignments directed against foreign rule. He was also in contact with Schill. When this broke loose, Georg was brought under investigation and narrowly escaped conviction. The fact that he steadfastly refused to serve the King of Westphalia , his current sovereign with regard to his possessions in the Göttingen area, made him all the more suspicious. He justified his negative attitude with the fact that, as the owner of a prebend in Havelberg, he was also a Prussian subject. He tied this bond even closer by buying the Eldenburg domain in the Altmark in 1812 .

He earned special services in the salvage of the electoral-royal private property. The French were so suspicious of him that in 1813 he preferred to cross the Elbe to Mecklenburg, where the Hanoverian ministers had already formed a provisional government in Schwerin . The Westphalian authorities followed him with wanted posters and had his property sealed. He first took over a shipment to Stockholm to operate the landing of Swedish troops in Germany, and then found himself at the headquarters of Crown Prince Karl Johann . When the electoral government was restored in Hanover, he went there and entered the court service again, in which he became castle captain in 1814 and court marshal in 1816. The domain chamber was also subordinate to the Hanoverian Oberhofmarschall .

Wangenheim Palace in Hanover

In 1821 he was a member of the Estates Assembly. He participated in public life in a corresponding manner. In 1828 he became a member of the court building commission, whose main task was to build the palace. After the city of Hanover made him an honorary citizen , he built the Wangenheim Palace at the northern end of Friedrichstrasse .

Until King Ernst August I ascended the throne in 1837, he maintained close relationships with the latter. But then they cooled down, and Georg took his leave in 1839. In the following year King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia elevated him to the rank of count. He traveled a lot until his death, and despite his dislike of the French, he visited Paris. Georg von Wangenheim remained childless.

Awards

literature

References and comments

  1. ↑ Dieter Lange: Herrenhausen - architecture in the garden district , in Harold Hammer-Schenk , Günther Kokkelink (ed. :): Laves and Hanover. Lower Saxon architecture in the nineteenth century. (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ), Hanover: Verlag Th. Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , pp. 173–193; here: p. 177
  2. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Peterswaldstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 195
  3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics. Lichtenberg's listener. (Lichtenberg Studies Volume XIV) Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0015-6 , p. 649
  4. ↑ see: Ernst von Malortie , 1836 Court Marshal
  5. ↑ Awards according to Hof- und Staats-Handbuch for the Kingdom of Hanover 1850, p. 489
personal data
SURNAME Wangenheim, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wangenheim, Georg Christian Ernst Ludwig August Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian Oberhofmarschall
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1851
Place of death Hanover