Georg Friedrich Karl (Waldeck-Limpurg)

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Georg Friedrich Karl zu Waldeck and Pyrmont in Bergheim

Georg Friedrich Karl zu Waldeck and Pyrmont in Bergheim (born May 31, 1785 in Bergheim ; † June 18, 1826 in Gaildorf ) was Count of Waldeck-Limpurg , royal Württemberg governor of Heilbronn (1811-1812) and Stuttgart (1812-1816) ) and one of the leaders of Standesherren during Württemberg constitution struggle 1815-1819.

origin

Georg was the youngest son of Count Josias II von Waldeck-Bergheim (1733–1788) from the count's branch line of the Princes of Waldeck and Pyrmont and his wife Christine zu Ysenburg-Büdingen (1756–1826). After studying at the University of Göttingen , he went to the princely court of his relatives in Arolsen , where under Georg II von Waldeck and Pyrmont he became a secret councilor and president of the commission for the poor.

marriage

On June 17, 1809, he married Amalie Wirths (born September 7, 1785 in Adorf; † September 29, 1852 in Gaildorf), daughter of the Prince Waldeck miner Johann Reinhard Wirths from Bergheim. After this improper marriage, he had to renounce all rights in the Principality of Waldeck and moved to Heidelberg as a privateer . In 1811 he entered the service of King Friedrich I of Württemberg , who appointed him Privy Councilor and Governor of Heilbronn and in 1812 of Stuttgart . In these offices he proved himself as a competent administrative officer.

Limpurg-Gaildorf

In 1816 Georg acquired the shares of his siblings Karl (1778–1849) and Karoline (1782–1820) in the lordship of Limpurg-Gaildorf-Solms-Assenheim around Gaildorf in Württemberg , which after the end of the Limpurg inheritance dispute in 1774/75 from the 1690 and 1690 respectively. In 1713 the male taverns had come to the Waldeck-Bergheim house from Limpurg via the Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim house; since then he has called himself Count von Waldeck-Pyrmont and Limpurg-Gaildorf. However, Limpurg-Gaildorf-Solms-Assenheim had already been mediated in the course of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 and was placed under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Württemberg by the Rhine Confederation Act of 1806 as a state rule . Even after the Waldeck shares were acquired, a quarter of the Limpurg-Gaildorf estate remained in the possession of the Kingdom of Württemberg, which was created on January 1, 1806. A smaller part remained in the possession of the house of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Meerholz until 1861 , and Limpurg-Gaildorf-Solms-Assenheim was thus a “civil society” under constitutional law with a correspondingly divided virile vote in the Bundestag of the German Confederation .

Württemberg constitutional conflict

All too clearly represented differences of opinion in the years 1815 to 1817 with King Friedrich and his successor Wilhelm I , when Georg, as one of the spokesmen of the landlords during the Wuerttemberg constitutional struggle against the autocratic claims of the king and championed the rights of the mediatised noblemen, led to his Dismissed from civil service and expelled from Stuttgart in 1817. At the Württemberg Landtag, convened by King Friedrich in 1815, he spoke out against the new constitution given by the King, and then he resolutely advocated the restoration of the old Württemberg constitution and the claims of the mediatised both in the Württemberg assembly of estates and at the Bundestag in Frankfurt . He was elected to all important committees of the Estates Assembly, but aroused the displeasure of the King, who rejected him as Estates negotiating commissioner in the constitutional negotiations, initiated several investigative proceedings against him because of his steps in the Bundestag, and removed him from civil service. Frederick's successor, King Wilhelm I, finally revoked his appointment as a privy councilor. After Georg voted against King Wilhelm's draft constitution in June 1817 with a large majority in the state parliament, he was expelled from Stuttgart. When he returned three weeks later, his expulsion was renewed; neither legal action nor complaints to the Bundestag were successful.

Acceptance of mediatization

The old castle in Gaildorf, residence of the Limpurg taverns and from 1817 to 1826 by Georg Friedrich Karl von Waldeck-Limpurg

In 1817 he moved with his wife Amalie to the old castle in Gaildorf . After a new assembly of the estates met in July 1819 and the Karlovy Vary resolutions became apparent with the Karlovy Vary Ministerial Conferences in August 1819 , Georg finally accepted the inevitability of mediatization and received from King Wilhelm on August 25, 1819 the civil status of his rule confirmed. From then on he endeavored to round out the rule of Limpurg-Gaildorf-Solms-Assenheim by buying up additional shares of the former county, which was split into dozens of parts, which he succeeded in up to about 5/18. In 1821, for example, he also acquired half of the Wurmbrand district, which had initially gone to Württemberg in 1780.

In the constitutional state parliament of 1819 he spoke only once at the beginning, and illness prevented his participation in the later negotiations and the signing of the constitutional proposal in September 1819. From 1820 onwards he was a member of the Chamber of Classes and the other Estates committee.

Death and successor

Georg died at the age of 41 and childless after a long illness on June 18, 1826 in Gaildorf. By virtue of the inheritance statute he had issued, his wife Amalie Charlotte Auguste, who had meanwhile been raised to countess, followed him in all possessions. She built the Villa Waldeck in Gaildorf in 1846, which after several renovations became the New Castle and today's town hall of Gaildorf.

After her death on September 29, 1852, the state rule Waldeck-Limpurg came to Georg's nephew Richard Kasimir Alexander (* December 26, 1835 - December 5, 1905), son of his brother Karl, who had become Count of Waldeck-Bergheim in 1829.

By family contract of March 16, 1868 Richard transferred the rule of Waldeck-Limpurg to his sister Mechthild Karoline Emma (* June 23, 1826, † February 28, 1899), married to Count Karl Anton Ferdinand von Bentinck since January 30, 1846.

Remarks

  1. Kgl. State Statistical Office: The Kingdom of Württemberg. Volume 3, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1886, pp. 483–484 ( on Google Books )
  2. Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau: Württemberg Yearbooks for Statistics and Regional Studies. Born 1879, Volume I, Half I, p. 42 ( on Google Books )

literature

  • Albert Eugen von Adam:  Waldeck and Pyrmont, Georg, Graf zu . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 667 f.
  • Hans König: The new castle. Once a villa, then a castle, today the town hall. A report on the history of the new castle. = The New Palace - our town hall. Self-published, Gaildorf 1996.
  • Rudolph Friedrich von Moser: Description of the Oberamt Gaildorf. Müller, Stuttgart 1852 ( description of the Kingdom of Württemberg 31), (new edition, unchanged photomechanical reprint: Bissinger, Magstadt 1972, ISBN 3-7644-0030-7 ).
  • Karl Otto Müller: The sex of the Imperial Heirloom from Limpurg until the male line died out. In: Journal of Württemberg State History. Volume 5, 1941, ISSN  0044-3786 , pp. 215-243.
  • Heinrich Prescher : History and description of the imperial county Limpurg belonging to the Franconian district, which at the same time explains the older Kochergau history in general. 2 parts. Erhard, Stuttgart 1789–1790 (reprint: Wettin-Verlag, Kirchberg an der Jagst 1977 ( Hohenlohe-Franken reprints by Wettin-Verlag )).
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 980 .
  • Robert Uhland:  Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 232 ( digitized version ).
  • Gerd Wunder , Max Schefold, Herta Beutter: Limpurg's taverns and their country. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1982, ISBN 3-7995-7619-3 ( research from Württembergisch Franken 20).
  • Ludwig Luckemeyer: Liberales Waldeck and Pyrmont and Waldeck-Frankenberg 1821–1981, 1984, pp. 33–36.

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