Karl Emich zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen

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Count Karl Emich zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen
Old town hall Grünstadt , donor inscription from the Counts of Leiningen, 1906
The southeast tower of the Neuleiningen castle ruins, rebuilt and inhabited by Count Karl Emich
Allegory by Oskar Roick , on the Count's death

Karl Emich Philipp Wilhelm Franz zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen (born September 15, 1856 in Bamberg , † September 28, 1906 in Munich ) was a Count of Leiningen , hussar officer, and hobby historian, genealogist and heraldist.

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family

Karl Emich zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen was the son of the Bavarian Lieutenant Colonel Count Thomas Hermann Adolph zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen (1825-1887) and his wife Margaretha Josephine, née Spruner von Merz (1835-1917), daughter of General Karl Spruner from Merz . The mother also worked as a poet, as did her father Karl Spruner von Merz.

The Leiningen ancestor Count Georg II. Carl Ludwig (1666–1726) had built Oberhof Palace in the Palatinate town of Grünstadt , residence of the County of Leiningen, as the ancestral seat of the Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen family branch he founded .

Military background

Karl Emich joined the Prussian Army in 1873 , became Second Lieutenant in the 2nd Hessian Hussar Regiment No. 14 in Kassel in 1874 , advanced to personal adjutant to the Hereditary Grand Duke Karl August of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , in 1888 to Brigade Adjutant in Breslau and divorced in 1890 retired from active duty as Rittmeister . In the same year he married Magdalena Rogalla von Bieberstein and moved with her to Neupasing near Munich.

Private scholar

Karl Emich zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen lived there as a privateer and devoted himself to family history and heraldic research. He was also an avid Poster stamp collector systems and published in 1901 the standard work German and Austrian Library sign . Since 1882 he was a member of the Heraldic Association Herold , from 1898 honorary member. He also belonged to the heraldic association “Zum Kleeblatt” and as an honorary member of the Swiss Heraldic Society and the Ex-libris Association Berlin. He has written numerous related publications, including a. to the historical shields of the Elisabeth Church in Marburg and to historical collections of coats of arms such as the Manessische Liederhandschrift or the Redinghoven coat of arms. For himself and his relatives, he had many well-known artists design bookplate characters.

The count acquired the ruins of the Neuleiningen ancestral castle in 1874 and had its southeast tower rebuilt or made more comfortable. He stayed there regularly as a holidaymaker, because he had grown fond of the Leininger Land . The municipality of Neuleiningen made him an honorary citizen in 1889 ; the historical association of the Palatinate 1893 honorary member.

Together with his cousin Count Wilhelm zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen , he donated the inventory in the council chamber of the town hall of Grünstadt in 1906 . It has been preserved to this day (2019) and the main table has a recessed, carved plate with the Leininger coat of arms and the inscription “Gest. v. Karl u. Dr. Wilhelm, Count v. Leiningen-Westerburg, 1906 ” . In 1889, Count Karl Emich had a wooden death shield for his deceased father put up in the Martinskirche in Grünstadt , below the organ , which, however, burned in 1942 when the church was bombed.

According to his obituary, he died "unexpectedly" .

literature

  • Hans Heiberger: The end of the counts of Leiningen Westerburg. Verlag Klaus Dinges, Grünstadt 2000, ISBN 3-9806596-1-5 .
  • Karl Emich Graf zu Leiningen Westerburg : in Neue Leininger Blätter , Altertumsverein Grünstadt , 1930, pp. 87–92

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries: Repertories on German literary history. Volume 9, p. 181, Springer-Verlag, 2016, ISBN 3476031411 ; (Digital view)
  2. ^ Digital view, Book of Arms Redinghoven
  3. ↑ Illustration of the death shield
  4. ^ Digital view, obituary in: Der Deutsche Herold, No. 10, October, 1906

Bookplate gallery

personal data
SURNAME Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen, Karl Emich too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen, Karl Emich Philipp Wilhelm Franz Graf zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman, cavalry officer, historian and heraldist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1906
Place of death Munich