Joseph von Theobald

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Joseph Apollinaris Honoratus von Theobald (born April 3, 1772 in Rastatt , † March 19, 1837 in Stuttgart ) was a Württemberg general quartermaster , chief of geniuses and author.

Life

Theobald attended grammar school in Strasbourg and the Hohe Karlsschule and then had the choice of taking up a professorship in Graubünden or pursuing a military career like his father, who was a colonel. He opted for the latter and began his career as a junker in the artillery corps of the Swabian district . Theobald became lieutenant in the general staff in the ducal Württemberg service in 1800, captain in 1801 and major and quartermaster in 1805. In 1806 the ranks of lieutenant general quartermaster and executive quartermaster general and lieutenant colonel followed. A year later he became a colonel and permanent quartermaster general, and in 1808 major general. After the end of the war against Austria, Joseph von Theobald was entrusted, in addition to his military posts, with the presidium of the road and bridge construction department and soon afterwards appointed to the state council. In 1812 Joseph was dismissed by Theobald. He should have served as the Crown Prince's first adjutant general during the war, but was seriously ill in Lithuania and had traveled back to his homeland. Because he was skeptical about the company, his trip home was misinterpreted. He withdrew into private life and, apart from a plan to defend the Black Forest , hardly took part in the wars of liberation . Two years later, however, he was reinstated as head of the genius corps. He remained in this rank until his retirement in 1833.

In 1819 he was elected by Esslingen as a member of the constituent assembly of the estates; later he represented Esslingen as a member of the constitutional party in the Württemberg state parliament . Then he represented the Tettnang District Office . He received the citizenship of Esslingen for himself and his descendants.

Joseph von Theobald's reference files are preserved in the Stuttgart State Archives. His grave is in the Hoppenlaufriedhof in Stuttgart . The inscription on the gravestone reads: After ten campaigns in the service of the fatherland, the constitutional treaty of the fatherland was signed by him.

In the Chamber of Deputies

In 1828 Friedrich Ludwig Lindner edited the wording of the negotiations in the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Württemberg on the proposed law concerning the public relations of the Israelites in the journal "Neue Allgemeinepolitische Annalen", which he edited together with Heinrich Heine and published by Johann Friedrich Cotta . Von Theobald made several emphatic statements. The same star in the sky that shines for the Christian also shines above the Jew. The same voice of God that speaks in the Christian's chest speaks and commands in the Jew's chest. This applies to Gentiles, Jews and Christians. He considered the " chess trade " to be indispensable, in fact the "chess Jew" was the "most interesting" one for him (general laughter), because he was the most unhappy one (deep silence). When it came to the adoption of the legislative proposal, which could only be acknowledged with a yes or no and which was even tightened by numerous bourgeois MPs, von Theobald summarized his brief statement as follows:

Do not tremble before the slave when he breaks his fetter, before the free man! Says the great MP from Marbach; therefore, with all my heart: yes!

Von Theobald referred to Friedrich Schiller's "The Words of Faith" from 1797.

Works

Joseph von Theobald wrote numerous books and writings on the military history of Württemberg. The first work was published in 1801 and was entitled Schiksale of the ducal Wirtemberg troop corps in the 1800 winter campaign . There followed in 1805 the main moments of the art of war according to the system of Mr. Venturini in two volumes, in 1820 illumination of the debates that had taken place in the Chamber of Deputies about the Gensd'armerie and illumination of the report which Frey von Varnbuler, as an organ of the Finance Commission in the Chamber of Deputies, via the Department of Warfare and The Art of Great War Operations , 1821 About Military Systems , 1823 the draft of a war constitution for the states of the German Confederation, initially in Relationship to Würtemberg shown . From the 1820s onwards, he also wrote numerous papers dealing with finance and pensions in the country. Again and again he dealt with military-technical and military-historical topics. For the publishing house of the Franckh brothers in Stuttgart, he translated in several volumes from the English Walter Scott's life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of France, with an overview of the French Revolution .

Family environment

His brother Karl Peter von Theobald (1769-1837) was a Bavarian lieutenant general , owner of the 4th Bavarian Infantry Regiment and Palatine military commander (brigadier) in Speyer . Because of his special bravery in the Wars of Liberation , he had received the Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order in 1814 and carried the personal title of nobility of "Knight of". Another brother, Joseph Karl Valentin Theobald (1800–1862), was a lieutenant general in Baden. Joseph von Theobald's daughter Charlotte was Friedrich Notter's first wife .

The uncle (brother of the father) was Johann Wilhelm Theobald (1726-1816), Lazarist father and first provincial of his order in the Electoral Palatinate .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Gebhardt: The students of the Hohwen Karlsschule. A biographical lexicon . Stuttgart 2011, p. 524
  2. ↑ https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/einfueh.php?Stock=4255
  3. ↑ FLLindner: negotiations of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Württemberg, on the k. Proposal for a law concerning the public relations of the Israelites , in: Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Ludwig Lindner (Eds.): Neue Allgemeine Politik Annalen, Volume 27, Stuttgart and Tübingen, pp. 99 to 218
  4. ↑ http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/viaf-DNB%7C100636691
  5. ↑ Source on Karl Peter von Theobald, followed by the curriculum vitae of Joseph himself, here erroneously called Johann

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personal data
SURNAME Theobald, Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Theobald, Joseph Apollinaris Honoratus von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chief of the Genius Corps
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastatt
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1837
Place of death Stuttgart