Georg Ferdinand von Lepel

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Ferdinand von Lepel

Georg Ferdinand von Lepel (* 27. November 1779 in Spangenberg ; † 10. November 1873 in Coburg ) was a diplomat and Kurhessischer Foreign Minister from 1836 to 1839. His first name was Ferdinand.

origin

Lepel came from the Pomeranian noble family of the von Lepel family . Father was the Hessian division general major general Gottlieb Christoph Gustav von Lepel (* March 1, 1746, † August 23, 1813), President of the War Department in the State Council of Hesse. The mother was born Marie Karoline Stiern (1749–1826), daughter of the secret chamber councilor Wolrad Stiern.

family

Georg Ferdinand married

  1. on June 10, 1810 in Vienna Christine von Stubenrauch (* July 24, 1781 in Vienna, † February 25, 1812 in Vienna), widowed Hille, daughter of the royal Hohenlohe-öttingen secret councilor Johann Michael von Stubenrauch.
  2. on September 1, 1818 in Höchst Susanna von Günderrode (born September 1, 1792 in Höchst; † April 25, 1850 in Coburg), daughter of the Hesse-Kassel Reichstag envoy and Privy Councilor Philipp Maximilian von Günderrode.
  3. on May 8, 1865 in Coburg Wilhelmine von Meyern-Hohenberg (born January 10, 1828 in Schladen / Altmark , † September 17, 1887 in Coburg), daughter of the ducal Braunschweig major Leopold von Meyern-Hohenberg and sister of Gustav von Meyern-Hohenberg .

From his second marriage he had four sons and two daughters:

  • Karoline Henriette (born December 31, 1820 - † November 6, 1899)
  • Gustav Wilhelm Eduard Maximilian Karl (* October 22, 1821; † January 25, 1901), 1849 attaché in London for the German central authority ⚭ Emma Luise Rosa von Egidy (* October 14, 1832; † April 8, 1916)
  • Emil Hector Konrad (born October 26, 1824 - December 16, 1870), Prussian captain, died near Orleans of his wounds ⚭ 1864 Emilie Charlotte Marianne Ida von Haynau (born December 16, 1839)
  • Karl Siegismund Dietrich Wilhelm (* May 16, 1826; † January 24, 1908), forest controller ⚭ 1856 Amalie Schwinner (* April 26, 1828; † February 28, 1900)
  • Friedrich Ernst Eduard (born November 21, 1829 - June 29, 1875) ducal government councilor of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha ⚭ Fanny Ellen von Barnard (born October 2, 1838)
  • Wilhelmine Julie Louise (March 14, 1832 - March 4, 1923) ⚭ 1853 Bogislav Heinrich Gustav von Steinsdorff (1825–1897), Royal Prussian Major General

Education and career

Georg Ferdinand von Lepel attended the Lyceum Fridericianum in Kassel from 1788 to 1796 . He then studied law in Marburg and Göttingen .

He started his career as a legation secretary at the Landgrave-Hesse-Kassel Reichstag embassy in Regensburg . In 1802 he was promoted to legation councilor and in 1805 chargé d'affaires at the (now) Electoral Hesse embassy in Vienna . After the fall of the electoral state in 1806, he stayed there as the private business agent of the deposed Elector Wilhelm I in Vienna, who subsequently entrusted him with various diplomatic missions.

After Kassel was taken by Russian troops in 1813, the elector commissioned Lepel to negotiate the restitution of the electoral state. Georg Ferdinand von Lepel then went to the large headquarters in Frankfurt am Main , where he was able to conclude the accession agreement for the Electorate of Hesse on December 2, 1813 in favor of his sovereign on his return. The elector then appointed him a secret government councilor, and he became the second Elector of Hesse plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna , where he signed the Federal Act for Hesse. In the following years he received diplomatic duties from the Elector as envoy and extraordinary envoy to the courts in Vienna, Munich , Stuttgart , Darmstadt and at the German Bundestag in Frankfurt . There he had to be withdrawn under pressure from Austria in 1823 after he had participated in reform plans. As a replacement, the elector offered him the office of President of the Provincial Government of the Province of Fulda , which he refused. He had himself retired and stayed in Frankfurt as a private person. He had his citizenship since 1818, after he married into the Günderrode family. He was also using this connection member of ganerbschaft Old Limpurg . He also became a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Lutheran Church Council of Frankfurt.

In 1830 von Lepel submitted a draft constitution for the Hessian electorate, which, however, was not taken into account when the Hessian constitution of 1831 was discussed. In 1836 , the electoral prince, Friedrich Wilhelm , who ruled for his father, Wilhelm II , called him back to Kassel as foreign minister, an office which he held until 1839 and from which he resigned in a violent dispute with his sovereign ruler, who was extremely difficult and unauthorized . He finally left Kurhessen.

Lepel's new professional field of activity was the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha from 1840 to 1846 , where he became Minister of State as the secret councilor. At his own request, he was retired in 1846. Until 1851 he managed the domestic assets of the princes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha who had gone abroad , King Ferdinand II of Portugal , King Leopold I of Belgium and Prince Consort Albert of Great Britain . For the latter he was also a representative in all Coburg affairs.

On September 25, 1854, Lepel bought Hattenbach Castle in Hesse, but handed it over to his son Carl (1821–1901) with the property belonging to it. His grandson Emil then sold the estate in 1892 to his brother-in-law Robert Patry, father of the later agricultural functionary, NSDAP state politician, SS brigade leader and war administrator Karl Patry (1898–1958). After that, the estate remained in this family to this day. Georg Ferdinand von Lepel spent his long evening in Coburg.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung Munich, 1798-1925, S.4852 memorial
  2. ↑ Historisch-Genealogisches Handbuch der Familie v. Lepel (Lepell). Developed by Andreas Hansert and Oskar Matthias Frhr on the basis of family history sources. v. Lepel with the assistance of Klaus Bernhard Frhr. v. Lepel and Herbert Stoyan. (= German Family Archives , Vol. 151), pp. 104 and 193 ff., Verlag Degener & Co., Insingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7686-5201-8 .
  3. ↑ Rudi Fischer: 800 years Calvörde - a chronicle until 1991 .
personal data
SURNAME Lepel, Georg Ferdinand von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Foreign Minister of the State of Hesse
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Spangenberg
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1873
Place of death Coburg