Georg von Stengel (Office Director)

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Georg von Stengel grave monument, Mannheim main cemetery
Mourning "Mannheim", side relief on the tombstone of Georg von Stengels, Mannheim

Johann Georg Anton Stengel , from 1740 von Stengel , from 1788 Baron von Stengel (born March 21, 1721 in Wetzlar , † May 10, 1798 in Mannheim ) was the Palatinate chancellery director and state councilor. Stengel became director of the Electoral Palatinate Academy of Sciences in 1763 and its second honorary president in 1784. In 1763 he became a member of the Leopoldina . He is the tribe of the baronial lines of the noble family of Stengel . Stengel and his wife Maria Christina Edle von Hauer (1734–1796) lived in Mannheim. In 1768 they built a castle in the district of Seckenheim and to the south of it an estate called Stengelhof, from which today's Rheinau district developed.

Life

Stengel was a son of the Electoral Palatinate Privy Councilor and Office Director Franz Joseph Stengel , who came from Hechingen in Hohenzollern, and Maria Christine nee. Noble von Hauer. Stengel was from Elector Karl III. Philip was raised to hereditary nobility with a diploma on September 26, 1740.

From 1773 to 1784 he was the owner of the Freihof in Wiesloch .

Stengel was a close confidante and advisor to Elector Karl Theodor , with whom he is said to have grown up. This raised him during his time as imperial vicar with a diploma from June 18, 1788 to the baron status for himself and for his descendants of both sexes. Various historians suspect that this was an act of gratitude by the ruler, since the firstborn son Stephan von Stengel was an illegitimate child of Elector Karl Theodor, which Maria Christine Edle von Hauer expected from him when she married Johann Georg von Stengel. The increase in the coat of arms with the lozenges (Wecken) of the Wittelsbachers , which von Stengel was allowed to lead from this point in time, also points in this direction. Both ancestry versions are reported by historians. Johann Georg Freiherr von Stengel died in Mannheim in 1798 and was buried in the Catholic cemetery there (now square K 2). His classical tombstone, made by Maximilian Joseph Pozzi , was moved to the new Mannheim main cemetery when the Catholic cemetery was closed , where it is located in grave field I / 5.

From 1759 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

He was married to Maria Christine Edle von Hauer from 1750. They had several children, including six sons:

Children (born in Mannheim):

  • Stephan Christian Franz Nikolaus (1750–1822), royal Bavarian real Privy Councilor
  • Franz Joseph Johann Nepomuk Leopold (* 1753), Royal Bavarian Privy Councilor, Provost of the Freising Cathedral Monastery
  • Gottfried Joseph Ignaz Leoplod Maria (* 1762), royal Bavarian forest inspector
  • Carl Joseph (1765–1818), Royal Bavarian Major General
  • Ernst Joseph (* 1769), Chancellor of the Grand Ducal Baden Higher Court in Mannheim
  • Joseph Gabriel (1771–1848), Ober-Hofrichter of Mannheim, Grand Ducal Baden, Privy Councilor

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Barons von Stengel

Shield quartered: 1 and 4 in silver, two blue alarm clocks, one against the other; 2 and 3, in blue on a green ground, a crowned golden lion, turned to the right, holding a golden rod down in the front paws (family coat of arms). On the shield, over a five-pearl baron's crown, there are two crowned helmets. A crowned, blue lion grows up out of the right-hand helmet, holding a blue alarm clock in its front paws, the left wears four ostrich feathers, alternating blue and gold (helmet of the family coat of arms). The helmet covers are blue and gold.

Honors

The plant genus Stengelia Neck is named after him . from the family Podostemaceae .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The date of birth March 21st follows the information on the tombstone. Other sources give March 9 or 10.
  2. ^ Acta Academiae Theodoro-Palatinae , Vol. 1, Mannheim 1766, p. 8
  3. ↑ Acta Academiae Theodoro-Palatinae, Vol. 5 Hist., Mannheim 1783, p. 11, identical to Vol. 5 Phys., Mannheim 1784, p. 11
  4. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Johann Georg Anton von Stengel
  5. ^ Artur Hochwarth: The Freihof in Wiesloch , in: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , volume 3, 1983, pp. 131–146, here p. 139.
  6. ↑ Die Friedhöfe in Mannheim, Südwestdeutsche Verlagsanstalt Mannheim, 1992, pages 90–91 (with photo)
  7. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families. Volume 2, TO Weigel, Leipzig 1855, p. 418 f .; Book of Arms of the Kingdom of Bavaria, IV. 18; Tyroff, I. 185.
  8. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Stengel, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stengel, Johann Georg Freiherr von (full name); Stengel, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chancellery director of the Electoral Palatinate and State Councilor
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1798
Place of death Mannheim