Karl Christoph Gottlieb von Gagern
Karl Christoph Gottlieb von Gagern (born June 25, 1743 in Bergen auf Rügen , † October 19, 1825 in Gauersheim ) was a baron , French officer and high court official in the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken .
Origin and family
He came from the originally north German noble family von Gagern , which originated on the island of Rügen , in what is now Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . His parents were Captain Johann Friedrich von Gagern, who was in French service, and his wife Margarethe Eleonore nee. from Usedom . The father died on Rügen in 1747 and the boy grew up with his grandfather Claudius Mauritius von Gagern (1696–1758) in Morschheim . The latter had married the heir to the von Steinkallenfels family there in 1713 , inherited their property and transplanted his family branch from the Baltic Sea to southern Germany.
Life
Like his father, Karl Christoph Gottlieb von Gagern chose the French officer career and joined the “Royal Deuxponts” regiment from Palatinate-Zweibrücken at a very young age . He took part with this unit in the Seven Years War and lost a leg as a result of a serious wound on July 8, 1760, in the battle near Korbach .
Raised a Knight of the Order of Military Merit by the French king , the war invalids were accepted into the courtly service of the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken. In 1764 the baron Susanna married Esther geb. from La Roche to Starkenfels, which gave him their castle in Monsheim . In 1765 he sold his Morschheim family estates and bought Kleinniedesheim Castle as his residence . His only child from this marriage, Hans Christoph Ernst von Gagern (1766–1852), was born here in 1766 ; later Prime Minister of the Prince of Nassau-Weilburg , as well as Dutch envoy to the Congress of Vienna . The family stayed in Kleinniedesheim for only about nine years. In 1774, Susanna's poor health forced Esther von Gagern to move to nearby Worms , where she died in 1783. In Kleinniedesheim , the baron employed Laurent Louis Midart (1733–1800) from Lorraine , who later made a name for himself as a painter and engraver, as his son's court master and French teacher . According to Hans Christoph Ernst von Gagern's memories, he often brought him field flowers from the district, which Midart then painted.
On pfalz-zweibrückischen farm was Karl Christoph Gottlieb von Gagern 1776 Chamberlain , 1779 Colonel wardrobe master, 1781 High Steward and 1782 Privy . In 1787 he asked for his release and after the sale of Schloss Kleinniedesheim (1784) he lived in Monsheim and Gauersheim.
As a widower, von Gagern began a love affair with Anna Margaretha Burger from Alzey (1775–1859), who was 32 years his junior , and was known as "the beauty of Alzey" because of her grace . He had two sons with her before he married her in 1810, and another son was added afterwards. The best known of these sons from his second marriage is Ernst von Gagern (1807–1865), who converted to the Catholic Church at the age of 17 and became a priest. He is one of the well-known clergy in the Diocese of Speyer in the 19th century.
Karl Christoph Gottlieb von Gagern, also Knight Councilor of the Upper Rhine knight canton , died in Gauersheim in 1825. This is where his tombstone is placed in front of the cemetery today. The second woman lived with her priest's son in Schifferstadt , where she died in 1859 and was buried with him in the old cemetery. Both graves are still there.
The politician Maximilian von Gagern (1810–1889), Heinrich von Gagern (1799–1880), President of the Frankfurt National Assembly, and General Friedrich von Gagern (1794–1848) are grandsons of Karl Christoph Gottlieb von Gagern's first marriage. According to the memories of Heinrich von Gagern, Emperor Napoleon I granted his grandfather a private audience in Kirchheimbolanden and, as a knight of the former French Military Merit Order, awarded him the new Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor . In addition, he represented the Upper Rhine knight canton in its last negotiations at the Rastatt congress .
literature
- Paul Karmann: From the Baltic Sea to the Palatinate: Claudius Mauritius von Gagern and his family. In: Donnersberg yearbook. Volume 16, 1993, pp. 98-101 (find a note)
- Kurt Baumann: Baron Karl von Gagern, the last lord of the Gauersheim castle , in: Palatinate Press of April 1, 1939
- Joachim Specht: Ernst von Gagern - a baron as pastor of Schifferstadt , in: Heimatjahrbuch Landkreis Ludwigshafen , No. 18 (2001), pp. 76–79
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon in association with several historians. 3rd volume, Leipzig 1861, p. 426 ( digitized in the Google book search).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical website on Laurent Louis Midart
- ^ Hans Christoph Ernst von Gagern : Mein Antheil an der Politik , Volume 1, S. 8, Verlag Cotta, Stuttgart, 1823; (Digital scan)
- ^ Johann Jacob Moser: Vermischte Nachrichten von Reichs-Ritterschäftlichen things , first piece, p. 24, Nuremberg, 1772; (Digital scan)
- ^ Heinrich von Gagern : The life of General Friedrich von Gagern , Leipzig, 1856, 1st volume, p. 12; (Digital scan)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gagern, Karl Christoph Gottlieb from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gagern, Carl Christoph Gottlieb from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baron and imperial knight, officer and court official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1743 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mountains on Rügen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1825 |
| Place of death | Gauersheim |