Karl you Thil

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Karl Wilhelm Heinrich Freiherr du Bos du Thil.

Karl Wilhelm Heinrich Freiherr du Bos du Thil (born April 22, 1777 in Braunfels , † May 17, 1859 in Darmstadt ) was a politician of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and long-standing President of the Ministry.

origin

Karl du Thil comes from the noble family du Bos from Normandy . The branch "du Bos du Thil" of this family was owner of the dominion le Thil near Dieppe . At the beginning of the 18th century, the grandfather Karl du Thils emigrated from France because of his Protestant-Reformed faith and moved first to Holland, then to Germany. Karl du Thil was the eldest son of Ferdinand du Thil (1728–1813), an officer in the service of the ducal Brunswick, and Friederike Luise Albertine Röder von Diersburg (1750–1802), a daughter of the Nassau-Saarbrück chief forest and hunter Ludwig Roeder von Diersburg (1723-1799).

education

Karl du Thil was initially taught at his father's estate, Hof Graß near Hungen , and then attended the school in Neuchâtel and the Karlsschule in Stuttgart . In 1793, at the age of 16, he began studying law in Tübingen and Göttingen . After graduating, he worked at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar . In 1799 he became an assessor in the Princely Solms-Braunfels government college and later a councilor there.

Political career

Karl du Thil entered the service of Hessen-Darmstadt as chamberlain in 1802 . After Karl Ludwig von Barkhaus was dismissed , du Thil was transferred to the Foreign Ministry as an expert for the Starkenburg Province in 1806 .

Karl du Thil became Minister of Foreign Affairs and Finance of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1821. After Grolman's death in 1829, Karl du Thil was President of the entire Ministry (Prime Minister).

Political positions

Du Thil supported Metternich's restoration policy . In 1820 he signed the Vienna Final Act for the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

In 1821 du Thil was the grand ducal Hessian negotiator in the talks about the establishment of the South German Customs Union . Even if he let these negotiations fail on July 3, 1823, du Thil was basically not averse to the idea of ​​a customs union . In 1824 he operated a trade union with Baden and in 1828 the Prussian-Hessian Customs Union with Prussia .

March Revolution

Du Thil was considered a symbol of the reaction. The liberal opposition spoke of the "System du Thil". During the March Revolution , Grand Duke Ludwig II of Hesse had to dismiss him on March 5, 1848.

He is buried in the old cemetery in Darmstadt (grave site: I Wall 135).

family

In 1804 in Kirchheimbolanden he married the grand-ducal palace lady Wilhelmine von Günderrode (1784–1819), a daughter of the Baden government councilor Hector Wilhelm von Günderrode (1755–1786). After the death of his first wife, he married Ulrike von Ketelhodt (1784–1836) in Altheim near Dieburg in 1822 , she was married to the head stable master Christian von Fabrice (1782–1842) and was the daughter of the Schwarzburg court marshal of Rudolstadt Johann Friedrich von Ketelhodt (1744–1809). The last time he married Friederike von Rotsmann (1811-1891) in 1836 , she became the Grand Duke's Chief Chamberlain in 1855 and was the daughter of Major Ludwig Franz von Rotsmann . All marriages were childless.

literature

  • Siegfried Büttner: The beginnings of parliamentarism in Hessen-Darmstadt and the du Thil'sche system. Historical Association for Hesse, Darmstadt 1969.
  • Ludwig Clemm:  Du Bos Freiherr du Thil, Carl Wilhelm Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , pp. 148-150 ( digitized version ).
  • Wilhelm Diehl :  Du Thil, Freiherr Karl Wilhelm Heinrich du Bos . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 215-217 .; 2. Article
  • Hans-Werner Hahn : "... maybe I will come across as being a demagogue again." The repression policy of the Hesse-Darmstadt state minister du Thil from 1830 to 1837 reflected in his letters to the Prussian ambassador von Otterstedt. In: Archives for Hessian History and Archeology. NF 63 (2005), pp. 125-156.
  • Hans-Werner Hahn: Between the Confederation of the Rhine and the Revolution of 1848/49: The state conservatism of the Hesse-Darmstadt Minister du Thil. In: Ewald Grothe (Hrsg.): Conservative German politicians in the 19th century. Effect - Effect - Perception (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. 75). Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-942225-09-0 , pp. 35-51.
  • Hermann Haupt: Hessian biographies. Volume 3, 1973 (unchanged reprint of the 1939 edition), ISBN 3-500-26830-7 , biography of du Thil on pages 254-260 * Heinrich Ulmann (Ed.): Memories from the service life of the Hessen-Darmstadt Minister of State Freiherrn du Thil, 1803-1848. Stuttgart / Berlin 1921.
  • 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. 380.
  • 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. 906.
  • Philipp Walther :  You Bos du Thil, Karl Wilh. Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 444 f .; 1. Article
  • Uta Ziegler (edit.): Government files of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt 1802–1820 (= sources on the reforms in the states of the Rhine Confederation. Volume 6). Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-56643-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich von Treitschke: The founding of the German customs union.
personal data
SURNAME Thil, Karl you
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thil, Karl Wilhelm Heinrich Freiherr du Bos you
BRIEF DESCRIPTION President of the entire Ministry of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunfels
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1859
Place of death Darmstadt