Hanns Carl Wilhelm Haubold von Speßhardt

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Baron Hanns Carl Wilhelm Haubold von Speßhardt (born June 3, 1797 in Coburg ; † November 23, 1860 in Erlangen ) was Minister of State (head of government) of the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen from September 14, 1848 to October 23, 1849 .

He came from the Thuringian imperial knights and barons dynasty of Speßhardt and initially pursued a career as a soldier, where he rose to colonel and adjutant general. Haubold von Speßhardt was the manor owner in Birkig in the Neustadt district near Coburg. His political worldview was liberal, and he proved this during his many years of membership in the Coburg state parliament . In 1834 he was elected to the Coburg state parliament for the first time. Due to his foreign offices, this was only possible with the special permission of the dukes, which was granted. On May 1, 1834 he was able to enter the state parliament. In 1839, however , Duke Ernst withdrew this permit and he was initially unable to continue with the mandate. Under Ernst II the approval was granted again and he returned to the state parliament. In the third electoral term (1834-1839) he was Landtag Director (President of Parliament).

In the pre-March he published in 1845 under the name Haubold Freiherr von Speßhardt his views in the 92-page publication "Where and thereby". In March 1848, very popular with the bourgeois population, he was elected to head the newly formed vigilante group in the ducal residence town of Meiningen . Speßhardt was then a member for Sachsen-Meiningen of the pre-parliament , which met from March 31 to April 3, 1848 to prepare the Frankfurt National Assembly .

When the general dissatisfaction among the population of his duchy after the French February Revolution of 1848 was rising, Duke Bernhard II of Saxony-Meiningen, who had long delayed the formation of a liberal “ March government ”, finally commissioned the popular Speßhardt on September 8, 1848 , although he himself did not appreciate this much, with the formation of a government. Speßhardt immediately abolished the previous curial style of organization of the authorities, including the middle authorities, and replaced it with a cabinet consisting of the Minister of State (himself) and three Councilors of State ( Hermann Friedrich Brandis , Ludwig Blomeyer, Richard Ernst Liebmann), one of which each (the Minister of State two ) were assigned to the now created five departments. The government departments were filled with new, mostly moderate-liberal men.

Nevertheless, there were further unrest in the duchy, particularly in Hildburghausen and Saalfeld , including the liberation of prisoners. Ducal troops occupied Saalfeld, in Hildburghausen a Bavarian battalion suppressed the riots by force, and in December a Saxon rifle battalion was billeted in Meiningen. After the state parliament objected to the government's attempt to join the duchy with the Three Kings alliance concluded on May 26, 1849 between Prussia , Hanover and Saxony and was therefore dissolved, Speßhardt's ministry fell on October 23, 1849, and was replaced Rudolf Hermann von Wechmar (1800–1861) charged with forming a government. In 1850 he was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

literature

  • Detlef Sandern: Parliamentarism in Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1821/26 - 1849/52. In: Writings on the history of parliamentarism in Thuringia. Issue 7, ISBN 3-86160-507-4 , p. 176.
  • Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , p. 296.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Haubold Freiherr von Speßhardt: Where to and by what means ! , Hildburghausen, 1845
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated August 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesarchiv.de
  3. ^ Eva Maria Werner: The March Ministries: Governments of the Revolution of 1848/49 in the States of the German Confederation , V&R unipress, Göttingen, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-510-1 (pp. 32–34)
  4. ^ Wilhelm Germann:  Bernhard Erich Freund, Duke of Saxony-Meiningen-Hildburghausen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, pp. 409-424.
personal data
SURNAME Speßhardt, Hanns Carl Wilhelm Haubold von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Minister of State of Saxony-Meiningen
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1860
Place of death gain