Karl von Eichendorff

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Karl Joseph Hartwig Erdmann Hermann Freiherr von Eichendorff (born February 24, 1863 in Aachen , † March 22, 1934 in Altenbeuern ) was a Prussian lieutenant colonel , genealogist, publicist and grandson of Joseph von Eichendorff .

Life

He came from the Catholic noble family von Eichendorff . His father was the Prussian administrative lawyer Hermann von Eichendorff (1815–1900).

Karl von Eichendorff attended grammar school in Aachen and joined the Hohenzoller Fusilier Regiment in 1884, renamed the Fusilier Regiment "Prince Karl-Anton von Hohenzollern" No. 40 in 1889 , as a flag junior . On November 12, 1895, he married Antonie Franziska Freiin von Negri (1869–1948) in Jülich . In 1893 he served as a Premier Lieutenant in the 2nd Rhenish Infantry Regiment "von Goeben" No. 28 , from 1898 in the 2nd  Grenadier Brigade, then from 1900 as a captain in Fulda and Wiesbaden and in 1908 he retired .

During the First World War he was mobilized again for the Gendarmerie Corps , deployed to the border guard and after the armistice in November 1918 dismissed as a lieutenant colonel .

Eichendorff family grave, Fraueninsel island cemetery

He researched his ancestors of the Eichendorff line and wrote to archives in Brandenburg, Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. In 1913 he founded the Eichendorff Society in Gleiwitz with Adolf Dyroff , Karl Schodrok and Wilhelm Kosch, and from 1929 worked on the publication of the annual Aurora. A romantic almanac with.

In 1922 he moved from Wiesbaden to Altenbeuern and lived there until the end of his life. The burial took place in the Frauenchiemseeinsel cemetery . The Eichendorff House and Eichendorffstrasse in Altenbeuern were named after him.

Fonts (selection)

  • O valleys wide, o heights. Poems and songs by Joseph von Eichendorff. Kempten 1922.
  • A century of Eichendorff literature. In: Historisch-Kritische Ausgabe (HKA). Vol. 22, 1927.
  • with Adolf Dyroff , Karl Schodrok : Joseph von Eichendorff. His life and his writings. Leipzig 1923.
  • Participation: Complete works of Joseph von Eichendorff. In: Historisch-Kritische Ausgabe (HKA).

Publications

  • Eichendorff and his ancestors. In: Eichendorff calendar for the year 1914. P. 18–37.
  • New Eichendorff letters. In: Eichendorff calendar for 1915.
  • The end of the Silesian noble seat. In: News sheet of the German Eichendorff Society. 1917.
  • The Sedlnitz Eichendorff Fund. In: The Guardian. 1921.
  • Eichendorff's father. In: Eichendorff calendar for 1922.
  • Eichendorff family life. In: Eichendorff calendar for 1924.
  • Fairy tales from the estate of Joseph Freiherrn von Eichendorff. In: The Guardian. 1925.
  • To the family tree of the Eichendorff family. In: The genealogist. 1928.
  • The 64 ancestors of Baron Joseph von Eichendorf. (Pedigree and family trees), Troppau 1929.
  • Lubowitz. In: Aurora. A romantic almanac. 2/1932.
posthumously :
  • Eichendorff as a Breslau high school graduate. In: Aurora. A romantic almanac. 3/1933, pp. 30-37.
  • Eichendorff's unprinted manuscripts. In: Aurora. A romantic almanac. 5/1935, pp. 9-17.
  • Judgments about Eichendorff from old and new times. In: Aurora. A romantic almanac. 5/1935, pp. 41-48.
  • From Upper Silesian family books. In: Aurora. A romantic almanac. 5/1935, pp. 75-84.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Eichendorff, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eichendorff, Karl Joseph Hartwig Erdmann Hermann Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant colonel, grandson of Joseph von Eichendorff
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1934
Place of death Altenbeuern