Ludwig von Lichtenberg
Ludwig Christian Christoph Freiherr von Lichtenberg (born February 27, 1784 in Darmstadt , † July 29, 1845 in Mainz ) was a Hesse-Darmstadt administrative officer.
family
Ludwig Christian Christoph Freiherr von Lichtenberg was the son of the later State Minister of Hesse-Darmstadt, Friedrich August von Lichtenberg (1755-1819), who had been raised to the rank of baron for his services and who was Johannette Rosine-born Küster (1757-1839). His great uncle and godfather was the mathematician Georg Christoph Lichtenberg .
He married in Paris in 1812 (and on September 4, 1816 in Mainz) his first marriage was Margarete geb. Rigollet (born January 4, 1790 in Saint-Florentin (Yonne) , Burgundy, † March 1, 1826 in Mainz). The marriage resulted in six sons and one daughter. After the death of his first wife on April 9, 1828 in Eisenach , he married Johanna geb. von Aachen, widowed von Schorcht (* 1789 in Münster in Westphalia, † November 12, 1851 in Mainz).
Life
Lichtenberg studied from 1800 at the Hessian Ludwig University , where he became a member of the Corps Rhenania. From 1802 to 1804 he studied at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1806 he became an assessor at the Darmstadt provincial government and then a secret trainee lawyer at the Darmstadt Foreign Ministry. In 1810 he was appointed government councilor. After an educational trip through Italy, he became an attaché at the embassy of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in Paris and, in 1812, a legation councilor there . He later moved back to the Foreign Ministry and was posted to the Allied Headquarters in Paris in 1815. In 1816 he became a member of the first grand ducal Hessian commission that organized the takeover of the province of Rheinhessen . In 1817 he became president of the provisional provincial government commission and in 1818 the first president of the provincial government for Rheinhessen. Until his death in 1845 he remained head of the Rhine-Hessian government (under changing office titles). From January 1, 1837, he was also President of the Agricultural Association for Rheinhessen.
See also
literature
- Heinz Engelhaupt: The introduction of the Hessian-Darmstadt administration in the northern part of the Donnersbergkreis, Diss., 1971, pp. 96-98
- Conversations-Lexikon der Gegenwart, Volume 18, Issue 8, Verlag F. Brockhaus, 1839, pp. 20-21, online
- Lichtenberg, Ludwig Christian Christoph Freiherr von. Hessian biography. (As of March 5, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 56/3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lichtenberg, Ludwig von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lichtenberg, Ludwig Christian Christoph Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hesse-Darmstadt administrative officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1784 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1845 |
| Place of death | Mainz |