Karl Joachim (Fürstenberg-Stühlingen)

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Karl Joachim zu Fürstenberg

Karl Joachim Aloys Franz von Paula zu Fürstenberg-Stühlingen (born March 31, 1771 in Donaueschingen ; † May 17, 1804 there ) was (1796–1804) the eighth ruling Prince of Fürstenberg from the Fürstenberg family .

Life

Karl Joachim was the youngest son of Prince Joseph Wenzel zu Fürstenberg and Maria Josepha von Waldburg-Scheer-Trauchburg. In 1787 he finished his training with an extensive trip through Belgium, Holland and England, where Joseph Kleiser accompanied him.

After his brother Joseph Maria died childless in 1796, Karl Joachim became the eighth reigning Prince of Fürstenberg. This happened at a time when his principality was threatened by the French revolutionary armies advancing across the Rhine. Karl Joachim first fled to his Heiligenberg Castle . He appointed Kleiser, who was familiar to him, as regional president. He withdrew the Landsturm's initially issued contingent and he also opposed a decision by the Swabian Reichskreis, which declared Donaueschingen to be the assembly point for the district troops. Karl Joachim is generally attributed with sympathy for the French cause and it is assumed that he would probably have joined the Rhine Confederation had he survived until it was founded.

Nevertheless, the principality suffered from French occupation and the passage of French - as well as Austrian - troops.

On January 11, 1796, Karl Joachim married his cousin Karoline Sophie von Fürstenberg-Weitra (* August 20, 1777; † February 25, 1846), the daughter of Landgrave Joachim von Fürstenberg-Weitra. The marriage remained childless and the Fürstenberg-Stühlingen line died out with Karl Joachim - the entire inheritance passed to Karl Egon II from the Bohemian subsidiary line.

Fürstenberg's starting position before the reorganization of Germany

Europe faced a new order, the Reich faced ruin. The neighbors in Baden and Württemberg had tried to create functional territorial states and to promote the economy - especially Karl Friedrich von Baden had in a long reign (since 1738) that of his grandfather Karl III. Wilhelm used the basis created.

Fürstenberg had not had an energetic regent since Prince Joseph († 1762) and before that, the Fürstenberg had worn themselves out in the service of the Habsburgs and, compared to the House of Baden, had neglected their own lands. - Against this background, it is hardly surprising that the Principality of Fürstenberg was not one of the states that remained after the Napoleonic reorganization.

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  1. Franz de Paula or Franz von Paula after St. Franz von Paola
  2. s. Fickler p. 295
predecessor Office successor
Joseph Maria Prince of Fürstenberg
1796–1804
Karl Egon II.