Ludwig von Stein

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Baron Ludwig von Stein (detail from the portrait of the Duke Christian IV family, by Johann Christian von Mannlich )

Ludwig von Stein (born January 12, 1693 ; † August 12, 1780 ) was a bastard of Count Palatine Christian II of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld from the house of Wittelsbach , colonel , baron and benefactor of the city of Zweibrücken.

Life

Baron Ludwig von Stein devoted himself to military service and subsequently became a French colonel and commandant of a battalion in the royal Regiment d'Alsace and a knight of the French Military Merit Order. After he had been under this regiment for 40 years, he stayed at the court of his nephew Christian IV of Pfalz-Zweibrücken from 1748 , where he enjoyed high honors and many graces. He was the educator of the barons Christian von Zweybrücken (1752-1817) and Wilhelm von Zweybrücken (1754-1807), children from the morganatic marriage of his nephew to Marianne Camasse, Countess von Forbach . In the family portrait of Duke Christian IV, painted by Christian Mannlich in 1764 , Baron Ludwig von Stein appears on the left, sitting in an armchair, as a reference point for the family.

In his will of April 3, 1780, Baron von Stein bequeathed the considerable sum of 19,364 guilders to the hospital in Zweibrücken and thereby became a benefactor of the urban poor and sick. A painting of Baron von Stein by Johann Georg Ziesenis, owned by the city, hung in the conference room of the Zweibrücker town house in 1885 and until the Second World War . The painting was lost in the final chaos of the war.

Awards

literature

  • Ludwig Molitor : Complete history of the former Palatinate-Bavarian residence city Zweibrücken , Zweibrücken 1885, facsimile reprint Zweibrücken 1989, about Baron von Stein p. 454. ISBN 3-924171-04-1
  • Charities in the Rhine district . In: Intellektivenblatt des kb Rheinkreis , published in numerous episodes 1820–1825 (overview in Intellektivenblatt 1830, p. 120) and continued in 1830. The Spital zu Zweibrücken is dealt with in Intelligenceblatt 1830, p. 205 ff., On Baron von Stein ibid. P. 207. Online

supporting documents

  1. ↑ The family portrait of Duke Christian IV.
  2. ↑ Elmar Wadle : Constitution and Law: Waymarks in their history , Vienna, Böhlau 2008, p. 94. Online
  3. ↑ Julius Dahl, Karl Lohmeyer : Das barocke Zweibrücken and his masters , 1957, p. 295. Schnipsel
personal data
SURNAME Stein, Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stein, Heinrich Ludwig Wilhelm von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German colonel, baron and benefactor of the city of Zweibrücken
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1693
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1780