Josef Karl Theodor von Eberstein

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Josef Karl Theodor von Eberstein (born August 12, 1761 in Mannheim , † April 29, 1833 in Mainz ) was a German politician from the Franconian noble family Eberstein .

family

Von Eberstein was the son of the Electorate of Palatinate and Colonel Karl Christian von Eberstein (1724–1795) and his wife Sophie (1731–1798), daughter of Hugo Philipp Eckenbert Freiherr von Dalberg. He was of Catholic denomination and his first marriage in 1788 was Sophie von Welden († 1791). In 1791 he married Maria Anna († 1807), the daughter of the Electorate Mainz court judge, vice cathedral and president of the trade office Karl Freiherr von Ritter zu Grünstein (1728–1792). He last married in Paris in 1808 Marguerite († 1837), the daughter of the Maréchal de camp Pierre Michel Vicomte de Brosse († 1809). The first and third marriage had one daughter each, and the second marriage two daughters. The Prussian lieutenant general and heraldist Ernst von Oidtmann (1854–1937) is a grandson.

Life

Von Eberstein was the godson of Elector Karl Theodor von der Pfalz and was educated at his court. From 1780 was an accessist on the aristocratic bank of the Electoral Palatinate court. In 1783 his godfather appointed him treasurer of the Electorate of Bavaria and Bavaria and councilor of the Palatinate and Neuburg government. In 1784 he received the appointment as real noble government councilor. In the same year he entered the service of Karl Anselm von Thurn und Taxis as a prince tutor . As court master of the Taxis princes studying in Würzburg, he also took part in their usual educational trip and in 1788 became a real secret councilor and president of the princely state government in Regensburg, but also remained governor of the Hereditary Prince Karl Alexander von Thurn und Taxis . The attempt to appoint him General Post Director in Regensburg in 1797 failed due to opposition from the Viennese court. He therefore retired to Heidelberg for private life in 1798.

In 1806 Prince Karl Alexander von Thurn und Taxis appointed him resident of the Prince Primate of the Rhine Confederation, Karl Theodor von Dalberg . Dalberg appointed von Eberstein to be the Real Secret Council of State for the administration of the Principality of Regensburg and a few months later on November 29, 1806, he was appointed Konkommissar at the Princely Primatic General Commission set up for the administration of the city of Frankfurt am Main. There he was the driving force behind the reforms in the new state of the prince and later in the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt . He was appointed director of the planned Bundestag Bundestag and author of a 19-point program for the 1st session, which never came about. In 1807/08 he visited Paris with Dalberg, where he presented various drafts of the Constitution for the Confederation of the Rhine.

In 1810, von Eberstein became Minister of State as well as Foreign, Cultural and Military Minister of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt. After the collapse of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, he withdrew from politics. He donated his large library to the city of Mainz.

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personal data
SURNAME Eberstein, Josef Karl Theodor von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1833
Place of death Mainz