Karl Thomas zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg

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Prince Karl Thomas zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg

Prince Karl Thomas Albrecht Ludwig Konstantin zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (born July 18, 1783 in Bartenstein ; † November 3, 1849 in Heidelberg ) was an Austrian officer during the coalition wars and since 1815 a civil servant .

origin

The noble family of those zu Löwenstein goes back to the Wittelsbacher Friedrich I, the victorious , elector of the Palatinate (1425–1476), whose children from his morganatic marriage with Clara Tott were not entitled to inheritance in their own dynasty, which is why they formed an independent noble family . With the death of Count Ludwig III. von Löwenstein in 1611 the two main lines emerged, the Protestant line Löwenstein-Wertheim-Virneburg (later Freudenberg) and the Catholic line Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort.

Life

Hereditary Prince Karl Thomas came as the first-born son from the marriage of Prince Dominik Konstantin zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (* 1762; † 1814) with Maria Leopoldine Princess zu Hohenlohe-Bartenstein (* 1761; † 1807). Hereditary Prince Karl had six siblings and three half-siblings from his father's second marriage. Hereditary Prince Karl and his younger brother Constantine received his lasting educational character in the last years of the Holy Roman Empire . The two grew up aware of the privileges of their imperial aristocratic class. First they were educated in Würzburg and later at the court of the Elector of Trier, Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony . Nothing has been handed down on the person of the Hereditary Prince about studies at universities. In 1802 he took part in a diplomatic mission from his house to Paris . As a result of the formation of the Rhine Confederation , his father's territories were mediatized . They were distributed over the Grand Duchies of Baden and Hesse and the Kingdoms of Bavaria and Württemberg . Hereditary Prince Karl Thomas joined the army of the Austrian Empire and took part in several battles in the coalition wars. Most recently he was a major in the Schwarzenberg Uhlan Regiment .

Due to the loss of the areas on the left bank of the Rhine , including Rochefort , the name of the house was changed from Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort to Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg in 1812/13. In 1814, with the death of his father, the now Prince Karl Thomas resigned from military service and took over the management of his house. As a registrar , he later had a seat in the respective First Chamber of Baden, Bavaria, Hesse and Württemberg, but hardly took any part in the political affairs associated with the four medium-sized states. First of all, the senior officials dealt with the political issues of the class rule, from the beginning of the 1830s his son Constantine, and when he died in 1838, the officials again. During his life, Prince Karl Thomas felt connected to the Habsburg Empire in Austria, from which his wife also came.

On April 29, 1830 he was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece .

In the early 1840s he took up his permanent residence in Vienna . As he got older, the prince devoted himself more and more to the Catholic faith and developed a piety that became the model for his grandson Karl Heinrich .

family

Karl Thomas zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort married Sophie Luise Wilhelmine Countess zu Windisch-Graetz (1784–1848), a daughter of Joseph-Niklas zu Windisch-Graetz, in Ellwangen on September 29, 1799 .

All children of the princely couple at a glance:

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 246.
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 525 .
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 549.
  • Harald Stockert: Nobility in transition. The princes and counts of Löwenstein-Wertheim between state rule and class rule. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-17-016605-0

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List nominal des chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or, depuis son instiution jusqu'à nos jours , in: The House of Austria and the Order of the Golden Fleece. Edited by the Ordenskanzlei. Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz / Stuttgart 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-7020-1172-7 ), pp. 161–198, here p. 188.
  2. ↑ Gothaischer genealogical court calendar together with diplomatic-statistical yearbook ... 1829, p. 116 ( google.de [accessed on January 2, 2020]).
predecessor Office successor
Dominik Konstantin Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
1814–1849 		Karl Heinrich
personal data
SURNAME Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Karl Thomas too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Karl Fürst zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman, head of the Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg family
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Bartenstein
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1849
Place of death Heidelberg