Karl von Closen

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Karl Ferdinand von Closen, lithograph by Franz Hanfstaengl

Karl Ferdinand Heinrich Freiherr von Closen-Haidenburg (born December 31, 1786 in Zweibrücken , † September 19, 1856 in Gern ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Life

Closen was the son of the general in French service Hans Christoph Friedrich Ignatz Ludwig von Closen (1755–1830) zu Haidenburg and Dorothea, née. von Fürstenwarther († 1800). He had four siblings. His sister Charlotte Henriette (born September 14, 1788) was married to Friedrich Carl Hector Wilhelm von Günderrode .

Karl von Closen studied law at the universities of Vienna and Landshut. In Landshut in 1803 he was one of the founders of the Corps Suevia .

In 1805 he became an accessist in the Bavarian civil service. In 1814 he took part in the war of liberation as a volunteer . In 1817 he became a councilor. In the years 1819, 1825 and 1828 he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament for the faction of landowners.

In 1831 he resigned from the civil service because the liberal members of the civil service were not granted leave due to a conflict with the Bavarian state government. As a member of parliament, Closen criticized the government's crackdown on the Munich student uprising of December 1830, which resulted from the July Revolution of 1830 in Paris. As a result, investigations were initiated against him for the alleged dissemination of the revolutionary poem Farewell, Farewell to the Sick Poet von Baiern by Ernst Ludwig Große . He was detained for four months and was then made to report to the police. He was only allowed to leave his place of residence with the permission of the examining magistrate. The persecution was only lifted by a decision of the Munich Higher Appeal Court on December 30, 1839.

In 1848 he took part in the pre-parliament and was elected a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and a member of the Committee of Fifties , but only took up these mandates for a short time because King Max II of Bavaria appointed him envoy to the German Confederation . After the resignation of the March Ministry, Max II appointed him to the Bavarian State Council in extraordinary service. From then on he took care of the promotion of agriculture in Bavaria.

He died without offspring. As a Fideikomiss heir, his great-nephew Hector Karl Eduard von Günderode received the right to wear the coat of arms and baron titles of the von Closen family.

Others

The Karl-von-Closen-Gymnasium in his home town of Gern (today part of the city of Eggenfelden ) is named in his honor.

Fonts

  • Critical compilations of the Baierischen civilization laws , 1818
  • The agricultural educational institution in Gern , 1825
  • Comments on the §§. 2 and 3 of the draft Reich constitution with special regard to the relationship between Austria and Germany , 1848 ( full text (72 pages) )
  • The Army as the Nation's Military Educational Institution , 1850, with an addendum (1851) ( full text )

literature

  • Karl Theodor von Heigel:  Closen, Karl Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 339-341.
  • Egbert Weiß: Corps students in the Paulskirche (= once and now, yearbook of the association for corps student history research, special issue 1990). Stamsried: Birds 1990

Web links

Commons : Karl von Closen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Simon, Ernst-Otto: Hans Christoph Ludwig von Closen. Simmern 1986, p. 37
  2. ↑ Entry on Ludwig von Closen in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database.
  3. ↑ Weiß, p. 52; White refers to an unpublished manuscript by Wolfgang Gottwald: Supplementary Corpslist of Suevia Landshut-Munich , there: No. 8 Closen .
  4. ↑ Farewell, farewell to the sick poet from Baiern (digitized version)
  5. ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
  6. ↑ The German Herald. Journal of Coat of Arms, Sigel and Family Studies 6 (1875), p. 56 (digitized version)
  7. ↑ Karl von Closen. In: www.closen.de. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Closen, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Closen, Karl Ferdinand Heinrich Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1856
Place of death Gladly