Karl Theodor von Wrede

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Prince Karl Theodor von Wrede
Coat of arms of the Princes of Wrede
Advertising poster for the Fürstlich Wredeschen Gutsverwaltung, for Mondsee cheese , around 1900

Karl Theodor Prince von Wrede (born January 8, 1797 in Heidelberg , † December 10, 1871 in Linz ) was a Bavarian state official, district president of the Rhine Palatinate and an honorary citizen of Speyer .

biography

He was born the son of the Palatinate-Bavarian officer and later Field Marshal Carl Philipp von Wrede , as well as his wife Sophie Aloysia Agathe Countess von Wiser-Siegelsbach (1771-1837), daughter of Count Friedrich Joseph von Wiser-Siegelsbach (1714-1775).

Karl Theodor von Wrede studied law at the universities of Würzburg and Landshut . In 1819 he joined the government of the Regenkreis zu Regensburg in the Bavarian civil service. In 1820 he became a councilor, and from 1829 he held the same position in Ansbach .

After the unrest as a result of the Hambach Festival of 1832, his father moved into the Bavarian Rhine district as military commander-in-chief . Carl Albert Leopold von Stengel became the new government president there, and Karl Theodor von Wrede, from December 31, 1832, his government director. Stengel moved to Bern as Bavarian envoy in 1837 and Wrede succeeded him as President of the Palatinate government in Speyer on November 21 of that year .

In 1838 the father, Field Marshal Carl Philipp von Wrede, died. As a result, Karl Theodor von Wrede sought to be dismissed from the civil service because he now wanted to take care of the family property. The desired retirement transfer took place on April 16, 1841; the city of Speyer made the outgoing district president an honorary citizen, especially since he was known as a “benefactor of the poor”. As a prince, he had a hereditary seat in the Chamber of the Bavarian Imperial Councils . His younger brother Eugen von Wrede (1806–1845) became the official successor of the Palatinate government.

Wrede had inherited the Mondsee dominion in the Salzkammergut from his father , where he now mainly resided. Here he let u. a. rebuild the ruins of Hüttenstein Castle in the English Tudor Gothic style. The Mondsee Castle there was owned by Wrede's descendants from the Almeida family until 1985, after the last bearer of the name, Princess Ignatia von Wrede, died in 1905. In their own farm they produced and sold Mondsee cheese , a specialty of the area, in a monopoly position .

Family relationships

Since February 26, 1824, Karl Theodor von Wrede was married to Amalie von Thürheim (1801–1841), the daughter of the Bavarian Foreign Minister Friedrich Karl von Thürheim . After her death in 1844 he married Amalie Loew (1811–1879) from Speyer. Both marriages produced children.

Wrede died in 1871, leaving behind his second wife Amalie nee. Loew as a widow. She was the daughter of the ennobled Palatine government councilor Johannes Loew (1771–1833), a granddaughter of Johann Jacob Loew (1731–83), personal physician of the Speyer bishop August von Limburg-Stirum , the cousin of the soprano Maria Theresia Löw and aunt 2nd degree the opera singer Lilli Lehmann .

The Bavarian major general Wilhelm von Horn (1784–1847), buried in the old cemetery in Speyer, was a cousin of Wredes.

literature

  • Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities , Hennig Verlag Edenkoben, 2004, ISBN 3-9804668-5-X , page 967
  • Genealogical and State Handbook , 65th year, Verlag Johann Friedrich Wenner, Frankfurt am Main, 1827, page 669; Scan from the source

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical website on Sophie Aloysia Agathe von Wiser
  2. ↑ Genealogical website of the parents, with family
  3. ^ Ninth report on the Museum Francisco Carolinum , Linz, 1847, page 89; Scan from the source
  4. ^ Entry about Hüttenstein Castle in Burgen-Austria , with mention of Karl Theodor von Wrede
  5. ↑ Website on the history of Mondsee, with reference to the von Wrede family and the cheese they produce ( memento of the original from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pilgerweg-vianova.eu
  6. ↑ Historical advertising poster for Mondsee cheese from the Fürst Wrede dairy
  7. ^ Website of the University of Erlangen on Karl Theodor von Wrede and his children
  8. ↑ Uwe Harten:  Lehmann, Lilli. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 86 f. ( Digitized version ). - with a detailed description of the relationship
personal data
SURNAME Wrede, Karl Theodor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wrede, Karl Theodor Prince of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian administrative officer and district president
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1871
Place of death Linz