Hamilkar von Fölkersahm

Coat of arms of the von and Baron Fölkersahm and von Völckersahm families

Wilhelm Hamilcar von Fölkersahm (* 6 January ^July / 18 January 1811 ^reg. In Mitau , Courland ; † 19 April ^July / 1 May 1856 ^reg. In Riga ) was a Livonian land marshal , d. H. Chairman of the Livonian Knighthood .

Life

Hamilkar von Fölkersahm comes from the noble family of the von Fölkersahm .

In 1829 he went to Berlin to study and came under Hegel's influence. In 1838 he bought the Rujen- Großhof estate in Livonia , and in 1839 he joined the state parliament. In 1842 he went to Berlin again to study there.

Fölkersahm is known as the “ Mirabeau von Vidzeme ” because, in contrast to the largely conservative German-Baltic landowners, he promoted the abolition of forced labor, which was practiced in place of the earlier serfdom. At his Rujen-Großhof estate, he first carried out the liberation of the peasants, which, at his endeavor, was implemented in the whole of Livonia in 1847 as an agricultural and peasant ordinance and sanctioned by Tsar Nicholas I two years later . It was important to him that a Latvian and an Estonian peasant class were formed, that the peasants cultivated their own land and were no longer dependent on large landowners.

Quote

A quote handed down by Hamilkar von Fölkersahm reads: "It is not the rights that someone exercises, but the duties that he imposes that give him value."

literature

Genealogical handbook of the Baltic knighthoods, Livonia. Volume 1. Görlitz 1929, p. 495
Julius von Eckardt : Hamilkar von Fölkersahm. Livonian still life. Jonck and Poliewsky, Riga 1908.
Julius von Eckardt: Fölkersahm, Hamilcar Baron von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 148.
Reinhold Wilhelm Baron Stael von Holstein: Baron Hamilkar von Fölkersahm. Riga 1907.
RW Baron Stael Von Holstein: Baron Hamilkar Von Folkersahm (1907). Kessinger Pub Co, Whitefish 2009 (new edition), ISBN 978-1-104-03846-5 .
Theodor Heuss : The Livonian Mirabeau. In: Ders .: Shadow conjuring. Figures on the margins of history. Wunderlich, Stuttgart / Tübingen 1947; Klöpfer and Meyer, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-931402-52-5 .
Alexander Tobien: The Livonian knighthood in its relationship to tsarism and Russian nationalism. Volume 1. G. Löffler, Riga 1925, pp. 40-41.
Georg von Krusenstjern : The land marshals and district administrators of the Livonian and the Öselschen knighthood in portraits. Hamburg 1963. p. 74 (with portrait).

Web links

Literature by and about Hamilkar von Fölkersahm in the catalog of the German National Library
Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Hamilkar von Fölkersahm. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Carl Baron Manteuffel-Szoege : My settlement work in Courland. 1941. ( Online ( Memento from November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))
Hermann von Bruiningk : The Bruiningk family in Livonia . Family history news . (Abstract)
Baltic Knightships ( Memento from April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

^ The Latvian Institute 2008: Germans in Latvia
^ Vija Daukšte: Education as a political factor in the history of Latvia. The peasant school and educational policy of the Baltic German knights in the 19th century . In: Imbi Sooman, Stefan Donecker (eds.): The “Baltic Frontier” revisited. Power structures and cross-cultural interactions in the Baltic Sea Region . Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-9501575-1-2 , pp. 107–120, here p. 115.

personal data
SURNAME	Fölkersahm, Hamilkar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fölkersahn, Wilhelm Hamilkar von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Estonian land marshal and peasant liberator (1811-1856)
DATE OF BIRTH	January 18, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mitau , Courland
DATE OF DEATH	May 1, 1856
Place of death	Riga

[1] The Latvian Institute 2008: Germans in Latvia

[2] Vija Daukšte: Education as a political factor in the history of Latvia. The peasant school and educational policy of the Baltic German knights in the 19th century . In: Imbi Sooman, Stefan Donecker (eds.): The “Baltic Frontier” revisited. Power structures and cross-cultural interactions in the Baltic Sea Region . Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-9501575-1-2 , pp. 107–120, here p. 115.