Heinrich Philipp Rudolph Levin von Wintzingerode

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Heinrich Philipp Rudolph Levin Freiherr von Wintzingerode (born November 19, 1806 in Hanau ; † March 20, 1864 in Graefenberg ) was the ducal chamberlain of Nassau and regional president. He was also an honorary knight of the Order of St. John .

Life

Heinrich's family comes from Eichsfeld, now in Thuringia . He is the third son of the Hesse-Kassel chamber councilor Levin von Wintzingerode (1768–1813) and Amalie von Motz. His brothers were the future Minister of State Friedrich Freiherr von Wintzingerode and Lieutenant General Adolph Freiherr von Wintzingerode .

On June 2, 1842, he married Therese Adolfine von Preen (* 1822), daughter of the Duke of Nassau Lieutenant General and Chamberlain Friedrich Christian Theodor von Preen (* 1787–1856) and the baroness Auguste von Dungern (* 1801–1868 ) in Wiesbaden. .

During the Schleswig-Holstein War (1848-1851) Wintzingerode was used as the imperial administrator of the Paulskirchenregierung for the Duchy of Lauenburg . In this function, he put the liberal constitution for the duchy into force on May 13, 1849. It would have transferred the country into a constitutional monarchy with the King of Denmark as duke, but was soon repealed by the Danish central authority.

In 1851 Wintzingerode was appointed president of the state government of the Duchy of Nassau and remained in this office until his death. In the Nassau state government, the competencies of the modern interior, culture, justice, economy, agriculture and health ministries were essentially bundled. Wintzingerode was also a member of the Nassau State Council , Grand Commander of the Order of Adolph von Nassaus , Knight of the Red Eagle Order and the Order of St. John .

Heinrich von Wintzingerode died during a stay at a spa in Austrian Silesia .

From 1827 he was a member of the Corps Saxonia Jena II.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Basic Law for the Duchy of Lauenburg
  2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 127 , 194

literature

  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses . Gotha 1909, p. 821.
personal data
SURNAME Wintzingerode, Heinrich Philipp Rudolph Levin von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wintzingerode, Heinrich Philipp Rudolph Levin Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ducal-Nassau chamberlain and regional president
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1864
Place of death Graefenberg