Joseph von Linden

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Joseph Franz Peter Freiherr von Linden (born June 7, 1804 in Wetzlar ; † May 31, 1895 in Hebsack near Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German lawyer and politician in the Württemberg civil service.

Life

He came from the Linden family , from the marriage of the Reich Chamber Court Assessor and Württemberg civil servant Franz von Linden (1760–1836) with Maria geb. Freifrau v. Bentzel (1769-1805). Linden attended the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart. Then he studied law in Tübingen . After studying in France , he was a judge at various Württemberg courts. Linden had been born with Emma since 1830. Freifrau v. Koenig-Warthausen (1810-1893) married. The couple had a son and three daughters. Linden's nephew Karl von Linden was the founder of the Linden Museum in Stuttgart. Linden supported his great niece Maria von Linden on her way to become the first woman to study in Württemberg.

The politician Carl Freiherr von Linden and the military Ludwig Freiherr von Linden were his brothers.

Political career

Joseph von Linden ( lithograph by Christian Pfann , 1853)

From 1838 to 1849 he was a member of the second chamber of the Württemberg state parliament as a representative of the knighthood . From 1842 to 1850 he held the office of President of the Catholic Church Council. In 1847 Linden became a member of the Privy Council and on July 1, 1850, King Wilhelm I appointed State Councilor and Head of the Interior Department. In 1850 Linden won a mandate as an elected member of the state assembly that advised the constitution , which had been formed in the wake of the March Revolution . Since September 20, 1852 he officially held the title of Minister of the Interior (Minister of State of the Department of the Interior) and remained in this position without interruption until September 20, 1864. From July 6, 1850 to May 8, 1851 and from July 14, 1854 Until October 29, 1855, Linden also headed the Württemberg Foreign Ministry.

Although there was a Prime Minister in Württemberg only from 1876 onwards, with the midnight government being re-consolidated , those ministers who emerged as speakers in the state parliament were generally regarded by contemporaries as the primus inter pares of the college of ministers. The respective governments were named after these ministers. In this sense, Linden was the successor to Johannes von Schlayer from 1850 to 1864 as the leading minister of the Kingdom of Württemberg.

Linden was an opponent of the revolution of 1848 and, in the spirit of the German Confederation, ruled conservatively and sometimes repressively. Nevertheless, he tried to convince the democratic opposition in the state parliament of the correctness of his policy. If the state parliament nevertheless refused to support it, Linden dissolved it and called new elections, for example in 1850 and 1855.

In order for Württemberg to enjoy positive economic development, he and Ferdinand von Steinbeis were very committed to promoting agriculture, trade and industry. In 1861 the Stuttgart Stock Exchange was founded . As a Catholic in the Lutheran-dominated Württemberg, he succeeded in passing a law in 1862, which changes the conditions of the Catholic. Church to the Württemberg state in such a way that the kingdom spared the culture war that later took place in the German Empire (especially in Prussia , but also, for example, in Baden ) .

With the death of King Wilhelm I in 1864, the Linden government came to an end.

The role of the new leading minister in Württemberg was now carried out by Varnbuler . After Linden's dismissal as minister by King Karl , he became the Württemberg ambassador to the courts of Hesse and Frankfurt .

From 1867 to 1893 Linden was an appointed lifelong member of the First Chamber of the Württemberg Landtag. Together with the time as a member of the knighthood from 1838 to 1849 and the time as an elected member of the state assembly that advised the constitution in 1850, he was a member of the state estates for 55 years and thus the longest active member in the history of the Württemberg parliament. On January 10, 1893, at the age of 89, he stood down from office for health reasons.

Awards

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Joseph von Linden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Baden 1880 , p. 102
predecessor Office successor
Karl von Waechter-Spittler Head of the Württemberg Ministry (Department) of Foreign Affairs
1850–1851 		Constantin Franz von Neurath
predecessor Office successor
Constantin Franz von Neurath Head of the Württemberg Ministry (Department) of Foreign Affairs
1854–1856 		Karl Eugen von Hügel
personal data
SURNAME Linden, Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linden, Joseph Franz Peter Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1895
Place of death Lift sack near Freiburg im Breisgau