Henrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode

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Count Henrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode

Count Henry of Stolberg-Wernigerode (* 25. September 1772 on Castle Wernigerode , † 16th February 1854 ibid) was followed in 1824 his father as Regent on the Kingdom of Prussia belonging county Wernigerode .

origin

Count Henrich was the eldest son of Count Christian Friedrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1746-1824) and Countess Auguste Eleonore zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1748-1821). He comes from the noble family of the Counts of Stolberg .

family

On July 4, 1799, he married his first wife, Princess Caroline Alexandrine Henriette Jeanette (Jenny) von Schönburg-Waldenburg (* October 4, 1780, † August 29, 1809). The couple had the following children:

On December 30, 1810, he married Freiin Eberhardine von der Reck (born January 25, 1785 - October 24, 1852), the daughter of the Prussian Minister of State Eberhard von der Reck .

Life

Count Heinrich, Ducat, 1824

Henrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode was trained by private teachers and then studied until 1790 (with an interruption in 1789 due to the turmoil of the revolution) in Strasbourg . Then he continued his studies in Göttingen . Then he devoted himself to the administration of his property. After the efforts to prevent the mediatization of his house in the context of the Reichsdeputationshauptschlusses failed, he stood on the side of Napoleon and became head stable master in the Kingdom of Westphalia . From 1808 to 1813 he was a member of the imperial estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia .

Under the General Government in 1813 he was district administrator of the Osterwieck district . Count Henrich represented the entire Stolberg family at the Congress of Vienna .

In 1825 he was a member of the Prussian State Council . From 1825 to 1854 he was a member of the Saxon provincial parliament . The provincial parliament of the Province of Sachsten he was from 1825-1845 as a Landtag Marshal, so the President of the Landtag . From 1847 to 1848 he was a member of the First and Second United State Parliaments . From 1824 to 1854 he ruled over the county of Wernigerode in the administrative district of Magdeburg in the Prussian province of Saxony . As a registrar, he was a hereditary member of the 1st Chamber of Estates in the Kingdom of Hanover and in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Count Henrich was canon of Halberstadt , knight of the Royal Prussian Black Eagle Order and the Order of St. John .

In 1853 he bought the Bruch house . The Henrichshütte in Hattingen was named after Count Henrich and started operating in the year of his death.

Fonts

  • Diary about my stay in Vienna at the time of the Congress from September 9, 1814 to April 1815, edited by Doris Derdey, with an introduction by Konrad Breitenborn and Uwe Lagatz, Halle 2004, ISBN 3-89923-059-0 .

literature

predecessor Office successor
Christian Friedrich Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode
1824 - 1854 		Otto
personal data
SURNAME Stolberg-Wernigerode, Henrich to
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Regent over the county of Wernigerode
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernigerode Castle
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1854
Place of death Wernigerode Castle