Ludwig zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich

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Ludwig zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich

Prince Ludwig zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (born January 24, 1805 in Lich ; † February 29, 1880 ibid) was a German nobleman from the house of Solms and a politician in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Prussia .

Life

Ludwig was born as the second of four children of Prince Carl Ludwig August zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (1762-1807) and Henriette Sophie, née Countess zu Bentheim and Steinfurt (1777-1851) in Lich. After the early death of his father and his brother Carl (1803-1824), he initially took over the post of Prince of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich under the tutelage of his mother.

Solms attended high school in Gotha . He then studied law in Göttingen and Heidelberg . From 1824 he was the ruling prince of the Solms-Hohensolms-Lich estate . His possessions were on both Prussian and Hessian territory.

On May 10, 1829, Ludwig married Princess Marie zu Isenburg-Büdingen (1808–1872), daughter of Prince Ernst Casimir I of Isenburg-Büdingen (1781–1852) and Ferdinande Marie, née Countess zu Erbach-Schönberg (1784 -1848). The marriage of the two remained childless.

As a Hessian subject, he was a member of the first chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . With Heinrich von Gagern he had violent parliamentary disputes. Solms rejected absolutism , but also criticized the modern representative constitution and spoke out in favor of a renewal of corporate structures. It was with this in mind that he wrote his work: "Germany and its representative constitutions" (1837). Although he was vice-president of the Hessian state parliament in 1835, his influence seemed too limited and he concentrated on politics in Prussia.

Monument to Ludwig zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich in Lich

From 1837 to 1845 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Rhine Province . There he officiated as state marshal . From 1837 Solms was also a member of the Prussian State Council . In 1845 he became a member of the estate Immediatkommission. In 1847 he was Marshal of the Herrenkuria of the United Diet . At joint meetings of all the curiae, he was the state marshal. During the revolution of 1848/49, the provisional central authority tried in vain to win him over to the post of envoy in Constantinople .

In 1850 Solms was a member of the state house of the Erfurt Union Parliament . From 1832 until the electoral reform after the March Revolution in 1849 and from 1856 to 1880 he was a member of the first chamber of the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Between 1856 and 1861 he was president of the first chamber of the assembly of estates in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. From 1861 Solms also belonged to the Prussian manor as a hereditary member. In 1867 and 1868 he was a member of the North German Reichstag for the free conservative party .

In addition to political writings, Solms also wrote religious works. After Ludwig's death in 1880, his nephew Hermann Adolf (1838–1899), son of his younger brother Ferdinand (1806–1876), took over the title of prince.

In 1905 a statue of the prince was unveiled in front of Lich Castle .

Fonts

  • Germany and the representative constitutions . Heyer, Giessen 1838 ( digitized version )
  • Historical notes. Berlin 1848
  • Ten conversations about philosophy and religion. Perthes, Hamburg and Gotha 1850
  • Reformed Declaration on the Lord's Supper . Heinemann, Giessen 1858
  • Basic features of Christian dogmatics for reformists . Heinemann, Giessen 1859
  • Overview of theological speculation according to Richard Wittenberg . Koelling, 1872

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 158; see also Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867–1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 312, short biography p. 471.

literature

  • Minutes of the Prussian State Ministry. Volume 4 / II ( digitized version )
  • Ferdinand Gustav Kühne: My diary in turbulent times . 1863, p. 58 ff. ( Digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, Ludwig zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, Ludwig Prince to
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Lich
DATE OF DEATH February 29, 1880
Place of death Lich