Karl von Merveldt
Charles Hubert Graf von Merveldt (* 26. October 1790 on Lembeck in Lembeck , Recklinghausen , † 28 January 1859 in Merano ) was a Prussian officer, district administrator of the district of Beckum and politicians.
family
He came from the Westphalian nobility of the Merveldt from the Münsterland.
His parents were the landowner August Ferdinand Graf von Merveldt (1759-1830) and his first wife Maria Theresia Josepha von Pergen (1763-1802). Merveldt was married three times; first with Therese von Nagel († 1828), then Marie von Nagel († 1838) and finally Marie von Vittinghoff (* 1819). His only child and heir Friedrich (1840–1905) comes from the third marriage .
Life
Merveldt was a major in the Prussian army and then switched to civil service. From 1829 to 1848 he was district administrator for the Beckum district. After his brother's death in 1853 he inherited alongside the Erbmarschallswürde the Principality of Münster the large landholdings of the family with a fideicommissum combined goods Lembeck and Hagenbeck and goods in Geinege , Werne , Westerwinkel in district Lüdinghausen , Wolbeck in county Münster , Huxdieck, Sepp Hagen Beckum district, Freckenhorst in Warendorf district , Empte and Ostendorf in Coesfeld district .
In 1841 he was the representative of the Prince of Rheina-Wolbeck and in 1843 and 1845 he represented the Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg on the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Westphalia . In 1847 he was elected as a deputy member of the Provincial Parliament and as such took part in the First United State Parliament in Berlin. From 1851 to 1858 he was a member of the provincial parliament for the knighthood in the constituency of East Münster. In 1854 Merveldt became a member of the Prussian manor house for life at the presentation of the Count's Association of Westphalia .
literature
- Krüger (ed.): Chronicle of the Prussian manor house 1885, p. 29
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New General German Adels Lexicon , Volume 6, Leipzig 1865, p. 211
- Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 448.
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| SURNAME | Merveldt, Karl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Merveldt, Karl Hubert Graf von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian district administrator and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1790 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lembeck , Recklinghausen district |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1859 |
| Place of death | Meran |