Karl Christian von Berckheim

Karl Christian von Berckheim on a drawing from 1846

Karl Christian von Berckheim (born August 12, 1774 in Lörrach , † March 1, 1849 in Karlsruhe ) was a Baden statesman and minister.

Life

Berckheim came from the younger (Catholic) line of the barons of Berckheim zu Rappoltsweiler . He was born in Lörrach in 1774 as the son of Baron Ludwig Karl von Berckheim, who died in 1797, and had been in the service of the Grand Duke of Baden at the age of 23 since 1797, after studying constitutional law in Freiburg im Breisgau and Erlangen . In 1801 he was appointed Chamberlain and in 1803 Privy Councilor . From 1806 he was chief steward. In 1812 Berckheim was admitted to the Council of State and in 1813 attended the Congress of Vienna as Minister of the Interior with Grand Duke Karl Ludwig Friedrich (Baden) . From 1817 he worked as an envoy to the Bundestag. In 1820 Berckheim was appointed a member of the First Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly by the Baden Grand Duke Ludwig I (Baden) . On December 24, 1821 he was reappointed Minister of the Interior. Although he worked on the Baden constitution , he was not well-disposed towards it and later campaigned against broader representation rights. Berckheim was considered conservative and monarchical and defended Baden's sovereignty.

In 1828 he was appointed Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honor and finally retired in 1831; on December 29, 1830, under Grand Duke Leopold (Baden), he gave up his office as Minister of the Interior to his successor Ludwig Georg Winter . After that he was still active as Grand Chamberlain.

Berckheim was born with Pauline Luise Sophie Freiin Wurmser von Vendenheim (born April 19, 1780; † 1851) married and had two children with her: Rudolph Otto Franz (born March 4, 1805 in Karlsruhe) and Emma Luise Henriette Auguste (born March 18, 1811 in Karlsruhe). His son Rudolph Otto Franz later became Chamberlain and Legation councilor for the Grand Duke of Baden. since 1844 he was married to Balbina, geb. Baroness Neveu von Windschlug (born 1810).

In 1833 Karl Christian von Berckheim bought the Rittersbach Castle in Bühl in the Rastatt district in the central Black Forest. Originally it was a Niederungsburg and served as an outpost for Windeck Castle (Bühl) . There are more castles or ruins of the same name in the winner country in Rheinhessen , in Steigerwald and Weinheim the Windeck Castle (Weinheim) . It was bought by his relative, Count Siegmund Theodor Friedrich von Berckheim (1851–1927), who was the Baden ambassador to the Prussian court in Berlin .

A younger brother was Franz Karl von Berckheim (* May 2, 1785, † 1836). He was u. a. Russian State Councilor and got to know the religious zealot Juliane von Krüdener in Baden around 1817 and was at times part of her missionary followers. He married their daughter Juliette von Krüdener.

A younger sister was Caroline de Berckheim (* February 23, 1788; † 1827). On March 13, 1810 she married Baron Maximilien Joseph de Schauenburg zu Hochfelden (* 1784 in Strasbourg, † 1838 in Paris), royal French Maréchal de Camp, brigadier general.

Berckheim was made an honorary citizen of the city of Karlsruhe on March 16, 1821 .

Works

• Letters about the political, civil and natural state of Switzerland, for use by travelers. Augsburg, 1797 digitized
• Lettres sur Paris, on correspondance de M. dans les annés 1806 et 1807. Heidelberg, 1809

literature

• Friedrich von Weech : Karl Christian Freiherr von Berckheim. Badische Biographien (editor Friedrich von Weech), 1st part, Heidelberg 1875, pp. 73–75. Digitized version of the Baden State Library

Web links

• Works by and about Karl Christian von Berckheim  in the German Digital Library
• Rittersbach Castle near Bühl, a residence acquired from Karl Christian von Berckheim

Individual evidence

1. ^ Josef Inauen: Focus on Switzerland: the southern German states of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria and the Confederation 1815–1840. Saint-Paul, 2007, ISBN 9783727816383 , p. 336.
2. ↑ Hans Körner:  Berckheim, Karl Christian Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 66 f. ( Digitized version ).
3. ^ Hermann Julius Meyer: The large conversation lexicon for the educated classes. Volume 4, Part 4, 1845, p. 430.
4. ^ Friedrich Cast: Historical and genealogical book of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden. Cast, 1845, p. 42.
5. ↑ Honorary Citizens of the City of Karlsruhe (1821–1895) ( Memento of the original dated November 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the city of Karlsruhe, as of October 18, 2006, accessed on January 16, 2011.