Leopold von Fürstenwarther

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Coat of arms of the Fürstenwarther-Kellenbach family branch. The Fürstenwarther family coat of arms is on the left, with a tower and a virgin

Leopold Wilhelm Heinrich von Fürstenwarther (born July 17, 1769 in Meisenheim , Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken , † May 5, 1839 in Munich ) was a baron and Bavarian officer who came from the Palatinate-Bavarian ruling house Wittelsbach .

origin

Duke Friedrich Ludwig von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Landsberg (1619–1681), regent of the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, married after the death of his first wife Juliane Magdalena von Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1621–1672), the civil wife Maria Elisabeth Hepp (1635– 1722). Since this was a wife who was not of equal status, the children from this connection should not be dynastically entitled to inheritance and were given the rank and name of Freiherr von Fürstenwarther, Burgsassen zu Odenbach .

biography

Leopold von Fürstenwarther was the great-grandson of the ruling Duke Friedrich Ludwig and his civil wife Maria Elisabeth Hepp. He was born in Meisenheim, the son of Baron Ernst Ferdinand Ludwig von Fürstenwarther (1737–1821) and his Monsheim- born wife Elisabeth Charlotte von La Roche-Starkenfels (1734–1800), sister of the Hesse-Kassel district president Friedrich Georg Philipp Freiherr von La Roche-Starkenfels (1729-1802). Leopold's twin brother was the later Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Friedrich Karl von Fürstenwarther (1769-1856). In the birthplace of Meisenheim, the family owned the still existing Fürstenwarther Hof as an aristocratic residence, the Odenbach Castle , which they also owned, was in ruins and only served as a title.

From 1778 to 1782 both twins attended the Karlsschule in Stuttgart . Initially an officer in the French army service, Leopold von Fürstenwarther changed to the guard of the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken and joined the army in 1799 when the territory was merged with Electoral Palatinate Bavaria . In 1807 he became a captain company commander in the 14th Bavarian Line Infantry Regiment . As such, he suffered severe wounds in the Battle of Eggmühl in 1809, which made him unfit for field service from then on.

The one appointed Baron of Fürstenwärther on October 10, 1810 Place Major of the royal capital and seat of Munich, in which office he, in 1822 to lieutenant colonel and in 1833 for Colonel transported until remained to his death. In 1813 his relative, King Maximilian Max I Joseph , sent him to Dresden as a special courier with the difficult task of informing Emperor Napoleon about Bavaria's departure from the French alliance.

As early as 1812, Leopold von Fürstenwarther was promoted to royal chamberlain , in 1821 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown , and in 1839 the Cross of the Order of Ludwig . King Louis XVIII awarded him the French Military Merit Order in 1824 . He was married to Maria Anna Schmid von Haslau (1776–1841), who lived in Vienna after his death.

Field Marshal Lieutenant Friedrich Karl von Fürstenwarther looked so similar to him that it was difficult to tell the two twin brothers apart, even at an advanced age.

literature

  • Friedrich August Schmidt: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 17th year (1839), first part, Weimar 1841, pages 433 and 434; Scan from the source
  • Genealogical yearbook of the German nobility for 1847 , Cast`sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1847, pages 339 and 340; Scans from the source
  • Johann Keiper: Die Freiherren von Fürstenwarther, Burgsassen von Odenbach , in: Mitteilungen des Historisches Verein der Pfalz , Speyer, Volume 36 (= annual volume 1916), pages 49-88
  • Werner Gebhardt: The students of the Hohen Karlsschule. A biographical lexicon . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021563-4 , pp. 242 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "La Roche noble lord von Starkenfels, Friedrich Georg Philipp Freiherr von". Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Website on the Fürstenwarther Hof in Meisenheim
  3. ^ Karl Heinrich von Lang: Book of the nobility of the Kingdom of Baiern , 1815, basic work, Volume 1, page 230; To the family of Schmid von Haslau
  4. ^ Genealogical page on the married couple
  5. ^ Friedrich August Schmidt: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 17th year (1839), first part, Weimar 1841, page 433, (footnote)
personal data
SURNAME Fürstenwarther, Leopold von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baron von Fürstenwarther, Leopold von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian officer from the House of Wittelsbach
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Meisenheim
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1839
Place of death Munich