Joseph Kleiser of Kleisheim

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Joseph Kleiser of Kleisheim

Joseph Kleiser von Kleisheim (born September 9, 1760 in Urach , † May 6, 1830 in Konstanz ) was the last district president of the principality of Fürstenberg , which was directly under the empire . In 1806 he tried in vain to secure the existence of the principality. In 1814 he entered the service of the Grand Duchy of Baden and in 1819 became director of the Seekreis.

Life

Joseph Kleiser is described in the literature as a "talented Black Forest farmer's son". In 1780 he began to study law at the University of Freiburg, which he continued in France in 1784. In 1788 he became the travel companion of the future Prince Karl Joachim zu Fürstenberg and in 1790 Hofrat of the Principality of Fürstenberg.

The Princely Fürstenberg President

Shortly after taking office, Karl Joachim zu Fürstenberg raised him to the hereditary nobility and knighthood on July 18, 1796, and he was now allowed to add Kleisheim to his name . Since 1801, Kleiser headed the princely conference of the principality, which consisted of four privy councilors, as district president. He was also president of the secret court and government and feudal court college. He also represented the principality in the Swabian Empire in Ulm .

After the death of Prince Karl Joachim, Karl Egon II zu Fürstenberg inherited the principality in 1804, whereby his mother, Elisabeth zu Fürstenberg, together with a distant uncle from the Moravian line, Landgrave Joachim Egon von Fürstenberg, took over the guardianship of Karl, who was just eight years old Egon took over.

In 1806 he made the late attempt to position Fürstenberg, similar to Württemberg and Baden, as allies of France and to benefit from the impending national chess, but the others had been working towards this for a long time and the Fürstenberg were stamped as followers of Austria from the French point of view. In Paris, Kleiser discussed with the Baden ambassador Sigismund von Reitzenstein also about the possibility of a voluntary annexation of Fürstenberg to Baden in order to avoid the more dangerous variant of a forced annexation to the Kingdom of Württemberg. However, this solution was not pursued by any side. In negotiations with the Baden government in 1811, Kleiser succeeded in restoring Fürstenberg's judicial sovereignty, whereby his policy of cooperation with the new sovereign paid off, while the princely mother, Elisabeth , continued to strive to restore Fürstenberg's old sovereignty and subsequently also the Congress of Vienna used as a platform for these endeavors. The tensions between her and her confidante, Joseph von Laßberg , on the one hand, and Kleiser on the other, steadily increased.

The Baden court had made Kleiser - with the consent of Landgrave Joachim Karl - the counter-guardian for Karl Egon II zu Fürstenberg and tried to get him into a dominant role, which met with resolute resistance from Elisabeth .

The grand ducal official of Baden

After his relationship with the mother of the underage prince, Elisabeth zu Fürstenberg , worsened, Kleiser switched to Baden in 1814 and worked as court judge in Meersburg . In 1819 he was appointed director of the Baden lake district based in Constance . In 1821 he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Zähringer Order of Lions . In 1825 he was a member of the First Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly , appointed by the Grand Duke .

Marriage and offspring

Kleiser married Josephine von Langen on May 6, 1796, with whom he had five children

  • Josef (January 21, 1800 - April 28, 1859); Pastor to Pfaffenweiler
  • Carl Adolf (born April 17, 1801); Grand-Ducal Chamberlain and Forest Master of Baden
  • Ferdinand (April 11, 1803 - July 21, 1836)
  • Hermann (born April 18, 1805); Dean of the Kreuzlingen Monastery
  • Albert (February 2, 1811 - May 21, 1860)

literature

Individual references / comments

  1. ^ Karl Siegfried Bader : Princess Elisabeth zu Fürstenberg in the struggle to preserve the rights of her mediatized house . In: Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar and the adjacent parts of the country in Donaueschingen , XXIV. Issue 1956, Donaueschingen 1956; P. 121
  2. ↑ s. Political Correspondenz Volume 5, p. 661
  3. ↑ Becke-Klüchtzner, p. 229
personal data
SURNAME Kleiser von Kleisheim, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleiser, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION last district president of the Principality of Fürstenberg
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Urach
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1830
Place of death Constancy