Karl Müldner of Mülnheim
Georg Karl Wilhelm Müldner (from 1830 from Mülnheim ) (born September 24, 1782 in Breuna ; † January 7, 1863 in Hanau ) was an Elector of Hesse general and minister.
Life and career
His father, Heinrich Wilhelm Müldner, was the Malsburg bailiff in Breuna.
Müldner had been a member of the Hesse-Kassel army since the 1790s. He then served in the military of the Kingdom of Westphalia and returned to the Hessian military in 1814. In 1821 he was appointed wing adjutant to the Prince Elector Wilhelm II of Hesse-Kassel . In 1829 he became a colonel and adjutant general. He was involved in the negotiations on the Hessian constitution of 1831 in an advisory capacity for the elector .
After Müldner was raised to the hereditary nobility on November 27, 1830 by naming von Mülnheim and appointed major general on January 7, 1831, he acted as provisional director of the War Ministry from January 21 to April 9, 1831 , ie as Minister of War . He was dismissed because of a collision with the elector; afterwards he was chief of staff of the mobile corps of the united Hesse-Nassau division. In July 1832 he was appointed commandant of Marburg , and in 1848 he was transferred to Hanau as such, until he was temporarily retired in 1850 and promoted to lieutenant general in 1851 and finally retired in 1851 without permission to wear the army uniform.
coat of arms
In red a silver oblique left-hand bar , illuminated in the direction with a green linden leaf († v. Lindau), accompanied by two gold stars; on the helmet with red and silver covers a silver wing , each buried with a red rose on the six wing feathers.
Orders and awards
- November 1, 1811 Knight of the Order of the Westphalian Crown
- March 7, 1813 Legion of Honor (Kurhessische approval to accept and wear the same December 13, 1822)
- August 19, 1815 Knight III. Class of the Order of the Iron Helmet
- April 28, 1821 Knight of the Military Order of Merit
- July 24, 1824 Commander II class of the House Order of the Golden Lion
- November 27, 1830 Commander 1st class of the House Order of the Golden Lion
He also held the commemorative and honorary coin donated in 1821 for the campaigns in 1814 and 1815.
literature
- Ewald Grothe : Constitution and Constitutional Conflict. The Electorate of Hesse in the first era Hassenpflug 1830–1837 , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996 (= writings on the history of the constitution , 48), ISBN 3-428-08509-4 .
- Harald Höffner: Kurhessens Ministerialvorstand the constitutional period 1831–1866 , phil. Diss., Giessen 1981.
- Hans Lieber: Karl Müldner von Mülnheim (1782–1863) / Lieutenant General and Adjutant General . In: Ingeborg Schnack (Ed.): Life pictures from Kurhessen and Waldeck 1830–1930 . Vol. 4, Marburg 1950 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck , 20, 4), pp. 223-233.
- Wilhelm Rogge-Ludwig: Karl Müldner of Mülnheim. Lieutenant General and Adjutant General of Elector Wilhelm II of Hesse. A Hessian picture of time and life , Kassel 1885.
- Hellmut Seier (Ed.): Files and letters from the beginnings of the Hessian constitutional period 1830–1837 , edit. from dems. and Ewald Grothe, Elwert, Marburg 1992 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , 48.4; Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse , 8), ISBN 3-7708-0993-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludwig Emil Grimm : Memories from my life . Edited by Adolf Stoll. Hesse & Becker, Leipzig 1913, p. 142, note 2.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müldner von Mülnheim, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müldner, Georg Karl Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Minister of the Electorate of Hesse |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1782 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Breuna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1863 |
| Place of death | Hanau |