Maximilian von Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee

Maximilian Prince of Waldburg zu Wolfegg and Waldsee (born May 13, 1863 in Waldsee ; † September 27, 1950 in Chur ) was a civil servant in the Kingdom of Württemberg . He came from the line Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee of the Catholic noble family of Truchsesse von Waldburg in Upper Swabia .

Live and act

Hereditary Count Maximilian was the son of Prince Franz von Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee (* 1833; † 1906) and Princess Sophie (* 1836; † 1909), born Countess von Arco-Zinneberg . His deeply religious mother shaped the upbringing of her children in the strict Catholic sense. Maximilian spent most of his school days at the Stella Matutina Jesuit college in Feldkirch, Austria . The journeys carried out in the spirit of the cavalier tours took him to Denmark, Ireland and Iceland. At Whitsun 1892, the regional Catholic day of the Volksverein in Upper Swabia took place in Ravensburg , chaired by Maximilian. On the second Catholic Day in Ulm in 1901 Maximilian was also president.

The importance the church and Catholicism had for the mother of the Wolfegger children and their upbringing is shown by her remark when she said goodbye to her daughter Countess Marie in the monastery: "It would be much more difficult for me to give them away if they had married."

In 1897, Hereditary Count Maximilian entered the chamber of the landlord in Stuttgart for the first time as his father's representative . In 1906 he was legitimized as the new Prince of Waldburg zu Wolfegg and Waldsee in this first chamber of the state parliament. In the Chamber he was a member of various commissions, including the Commission for Internal Administration, the Economics Commission and the Finance Commission. He also acted as secretary on the board of directors in the state parliament. Prince Maximilian was Imperial Hereditary Steward of the Crown of Württemberg and Capitular Grand Commander of the Royal Bavarian Order of St. George .

After the end of the monarchy in 1918, Prince Maximilian lost his political mandate with the abolition of the First Chamber in Württemberg. As the senior of the Waldburg House as a whole and also on behalf of other noblemen, he tried in vain to overturn the law on the dissolution of entails passed by the Landtag of the Free People's State of Württemberg on April 1, 1930 . His lawsuit, which he filed with the State Court of the German Empire in Leipzig on May 21, 1930 , was unsuccessful.

Prince Maximilian pursued his great passion for horse breeding from 1901 to 1933 as President of the Württemberg Horse Breeding Association. In 1933, the National Socialists, against whom he felt a deep dislike, made sure that he had to give up his position at the head of the horse breeding club.

In 1935 he became an honorary member of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg.

Marriage and offspring

Hereditary Count Maximilian married on July 26, 1890 in Hořín ( Melnik ) Sidonie (born August 12, 1869 in Drhovl, † July 24, 1941 in Wolfegg), born Princess von Lobkowitz .

Maximilian's marriage to Sidonie had ten children:

• Franz Ludwig (1892–1989) married on May 6, 1920 in Wechselburg Adelheid (born July 28, 1900 in Wechselburg; † January 7, 1987 in Bad Waldsee), born Countess von Schönburg-Glauchau
• Georg (* December 25, 1893 in Waldsee; † (fallen on) May 30, 1915 in Josefowo)
• Friedrich (born May 25, 1895 in Waldsee; † (fallen on) September 20, 1916 in Rancourt )
• Maria Anna (born October 1, 1896 in Waldsee; † July 9, 1954 in Praßberg, Allgäu ) married Albrecht Graf von Spreti on April 26, 1923 in Wolfegg (born August 3, 1890 in Munich; † March 8, 1956 in Praßberg)
• Maria Sophie (born October 10, 1899 in Waldsee; † October 12, 1989 in Kißlegg )
• Joseph (born May 18, 1901 in Waldsee; † November 28, 1972 in Ravensburg )
• Marie Henriette (born September 17, 1902 in Waldsee; † May 9, 1980 in Ravensburg)
• Johannes (born August 10, 1904 in Waldsee; † May 17, 1966 in Kißlegg) married Franziska (born June 18, 1913 in Milleschau; † April 9, 2002 in Kißlegg) in Milleschau am Donnersberg (Bohemia), born Countess von Ledebur-Wicheln
• Maria Elisabetha Bona (born August 10, 1904 in Waldsee; † March 13, 1993 in Salzburg ) married Maximilian Herzog von Hohenberg on November 16, 1926 in Wolfegg
• Heinrich (born September 16, 1911 in Wolfegg; † May 25, 1972 in Stuttgart ) married Maria Antonia Princess of Hohenzollern on January 4, 1942 in Sigmaringen (born February 19, 1921 in Sigmaringen; † October 11, 2011 there)

literature

• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 972 .
• Casimir Bumiller (ed.): Adel im Wandel, 200 years of mediatization in Upper Swabia , exhibition catalog of the exhibition in Sigmaringen 2006, Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2006, page 312.
• Walter-Siegfried Kircher: Catholic above all? The Waldburg House and the Catholic Church from the 19th to the 20th century. In: Nobility in Transition. Oberschwaben from the early modern times to the present Volume 1, Verlag Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7995-0219-X , pp. 287–308.

Remarks

1. ↑ The full name was Maximilian Wunibald Maria Josef Servatius Erbgraf (since December 14, 1906 Prince) of Waldburg zu Wolfegg and Waldsee
2. ↑ Walter-Siegfried Kircher: Catholic above all? ... . In: Nobility in Transition. Volume 1, Verlag Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2006, p. 303.
3. ↑ Walter-Siegfried Kircher: Catholic above all? ... . In: Nobility in Transition. Volume 1, Verlag Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2006, p. 304.
4. ↑ Walter-Siegfried Kircher: "Education, ... Life, ... Trust and Faith". Noble education and Catholic religion in the 19th century. In: Lars Bednorz (ed.): Religion needs education - education needs religion. Horst F. Rupp on his 60th birthday. Publishing house Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009, s. 181.
5. ^ Honorary members of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg
6. ↑ Haus Waldburg in "Online Gotha" (English)