Georg Ludwig von Welck

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Georg Ludwig Freiherr von Welck
Rabenstein Castle - manor house of the Oberrabenstein manor

Georg Ludwig Welck , von Welck since 1785 , Baron von Welck since 1792 , (born May 25, 1773 in Meißen , † August 14, 1851 in Dresden ) was a German manor owner , Prussian officer and Saxon politician .

Life

The son of the district administrator Karl Wolfgang Maximilian Welck in Meißen and his wife Rahel Amalie, née Siegert, spent his childhood on the Oberrabenstein estate , which his mother had inherited from her father, the Chemnitz businessman Johann Georg Siegert . When his father was raised to the nobility in 1785, he too became noble and received the title of baron in 1792.

He received his school education at the pedagogy in Halle . Then Welck began a military career, initially as a cornet in the cuirassier regiment "von Sachsen-Weimar" of the Prussian army in Aschersleben . In 1792 he received the patent of a Second Lieutenant . Promotions to prime lieutenant followed in 1798 and 1801 to staff assistant master . As such, Welck became squadron chief in 1803 . From 1804 he studied at the University of Leipzig . In the Napoleonic Wars in 1806 he took part in the double battle at Jena and Auerstedt with the carbine regiment from Rathenow .

After leaving Prussian service, Welck returned to Saxony in 1808. Here he fought together with General von Mieth and Dietrich von Miltitz in the Siebeneichener Kreis against Napoleon Bonaparte . After the military governor of Saxony, the Russian Prince Repnin , called for the formation of the banner of the voluntary Saxons after the Battle of Nations in 1813 , Welck took the lead of the volunteers from the greater Chemnitz area. At his suggestion, the banner's own standard was established, bearing the inscription “For Law and Fatherland”. The squadron of mounted hunters led by Welck was involved in the siege of Mainz fortress . In June 1814 he returned to Saxony and received the Order of St. Vladimir from Tsar Alexander for his services .

From 1809 Welck was the owner of the manor Oberrabensteins by inheritance. He had "the castle freshened up in the old knight style and embellished with parks". At the first constitutional Saxon state parliament in 1833/34 he represented the interests of the manor owners of the Erzgebirge district in the first chamber of the state parliament. He sold his manor Oberrabenstein in 1837 to the merchant William Eduard Kraft from Leipzig. Welck moved to the Saxon residence city of Dresden, where he died in 1851.

The newly laid Welckstrasse has been a reminder of the work of the Welck family in Rabenstein since 1997 .

family

He first married Ulrike Karoline von Byern (born January 13, 1778, † March 19, 1803), a daughter of Major General Karl Wilhelm von Byern . After the death of his first wife, he married Rosalie Adelheid von Schönberg on May 1, 1817 (born September 17, 1801). The couple had several children:

  • Karl Otto (born May 31, 1818) ⚭ 1849 Emilie von Schönberg (born October 19, 1819)
  • Robert (born February 27, 1828), Saxon lieutenant colonel
⚭ 1852 Editha von Welck (* June 16, 1829 - † October 18, 1856)
⚭ 1858 Maria Elisabeth von Welck (born September 8, 1832), sister of Editha

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eberhard Huebsch: Georg Ludwig Freiherr von Welck. In: From Alberti to Zöppel. 125 biographies on Chemnitz's history. Edition Reintzsch, 2000, ISBN 3-930846-22-5 . P. 128.
  2. ^ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History. Presidents and members of parliament from 1833 to 1952. Dresden 2001, p. 53.
personal data
SURNAME Welck, Georg Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Welck, Georg Ludwig Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manor owner, officer and politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1851
Place of death Dresden