Ludwig von Ompteda (civil servant)

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Ludwig Freiherr von Ompteda (born May 18, 1828 in Hoya ; † January 26, 1899 in Wiesbaden ) was a Prussian civil servant and court servant.

biography

He came from the Lower Saxon noble family Ompteda and studied law in Lüneburg, Heidelberg, Berlin and Göttingen. In Heidelberg he became a member of the Corps Suevia Heidelberg . Ompteda passed his first state examination in 1849 and his second state examination in 1852. In Hanover, he initially worked as an assistant judge.

In 1858 he became a consultant in the Royal Prussian Ministry of Finance. He came into contact with the Crown Prince couple Friedrich and Victoria , whom he admired very much. Like the two of them, he disapproved of the policies of Bismarck, who was unfriendly to him.

In 1883 he was appointed chamberlain to Empress Augusta and castle captain of Homburg .

As early as 1886 he received a secret order from Crown Princess Victoria to look out for a retirement home in the Rhine area. But it was only after the death of Emperor Friedrich III, in the early summer of 1888, that he pursued the search intensively and chose the Schönbusch palace , which served as the summer residence of the Frankfurt merchant Jacques Reiss, in Kronberg im Taunus . On October 1, Victoria, who since the death of Frederick III. Empress Friedrich named the palace and received permission from her son Wilhelm to call her new palace "Friedrichshof". As the empress's chief representative, Ompteda supervised the construction work.

The empress wanted proof that she descended from the Kronberg lords. With his book Die von Kronberg und Ihr Herrensitz. The origin, flowering, and outcome of the sex; the castle foundation, expansion, decline, decay, restoration; a cultural-historical narrative from eleven centuries, from 770 to 1898 , in which some of his historical events are incorrectly reproduced in order to confirm the relationship, but he also presented a detailed and extensive work on the Kronberg history, which for almost 100 years as Standard work was valid.

Works

  • The von Kronberg and its manor: a cultural-historical tale from eleven centuries 770 to 1898. Frankfurt a. M.: Keller, 1899. Digitized
  • A Hanover-English officer a hundred years ago: Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Ompteda ... Nov. 26, 1765 to June 18, 1815. Leipzig: Hirzel 1892.
engl .: In the King's German legion. Memoirs of Baron Ompteda, colonel in the King's German legion during the Napoleonic wars. London: Grevel 1894 ( digitized in the Internet Archive )

literature

  • Armin Danco: The Yellow Book of the Corps Suevia zu Heidelberg, 3rd edition (members 1810–1985), Heidelberg 1985, No. 359

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personal data
SURNAME Ompteda, Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian civil servant and imperial court servant
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoya
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1899
Place of death Wiesbaden