Moritz Kasimir von Bentheim-Rheda

Moritz Casimir Georg Ludwig Friedrich Karl, 2nd Prince of Bentheim-Tecklenburg (* March 4, 1795 in Rheda ; † December 5, 1872 ibid) was a Westphalian nobleman from the Bentheim-Tecklenburg family and second prince of the Rheda and Limburg rule .

family

Moritz Casimir zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg was the eldest son of the ruling Prince Emil Friedrich I. zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg (1765-1837) and his wife Luise, Countess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1768-1828), daughter of Count Johann Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1740–1797) and Friederike Louise Charlotte (née Countess von Pückler-Limpurg).

Bentheim-Tecklenburg married Countess Agnes zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1804–1866) in 1828. The marriage remained childless. His younger brother Franz (1800–1885) became heir .

Life

After the death of his father in 1837, Moritz Casimir zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg became heir to the rulers of Rheda and Limburg and assumed the hereditary rank of prince .

In 1834, together with his brother-in-law, the district administrator of the Bochum district, Count Gotthard Carl Ludwig von der Recke-Volmerstein, he bought the Herrschaft Frauendorf in what was then the Weststernberg district (today Powiat Słubicki in the Lebus Voivodeship , Poland ) for 290,000 thalers.

From 1837 to 1861 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Westphalia as a registrar . In 1847 he was a member of the United State Parliament with a seat on the Herrenkuria (on the Second United State Parliament in 1848 he was represented by Lords von Hövel).

In 1854 he took the hereditary seat of the family in the Prussian mansion , which he kept until his death in 1872.

literature

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Acta Borussica. New episode. Row 1: The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Volume 4, Part 2: Bärbel Holtz (Ed.): March 30, 1848 to October 27, 1858. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim et al. 2003, ISBN 3-487-11825-4 , p. 544.
Hermann Crüger (ed.): Chronicle of the Prussian manor house. A commemorative book to commemorate the manor's 30th anniversary. sn, Berlin 1885, p. 43.
Alfred Bruns (ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The members of the Westphalia parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, volume 2). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe , Münster 1978, p. 178.
Carl Heiner Beusch: Westphalian noblemen. The princes of Bentheim-Tecklenburg in the 19th century . (PDF file) Westfälische Zeitschrift 145, 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Genealogical manual of the nobility , Fürstl. Houses. Volume XIX, 2011.
^ Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus: Land book of the Mark Brandenburg and the Markgrafthum Nieder-Lausitz in the middle of the 19th century; or geographical-historical-statistical description of the province of Brandenburg . Third volume. Printed and published by Adolph Müller, Brandenburg (an der Havel), 1856. ( Online at Google Books ).
↑ Castle and Lordship of Rheda

predecessor	Office	successor
Emil Friedrich I.	Head of the House of Bentheim-Tecklenburg 1837–1872	Franz

personal data
SURNAME	Bentheim-Rheda, Moritz Kasimir von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Moritz Casimir IV (ruler name); Bentheim-Tecklenburg, Moritz Kasimir Georg Ludwig Friedrich Karl Fürst zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lord of the rank of Rheda and Limburg
DATE OF BIRTH	March 4, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rheda
DATE OF DEATH	December 5, 1872
Place of death	Rheda

[1] Genealogical manual of the nobility , Fürstl. Houses. Volume XIX, 2011.

[Berghaus-2] Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus: Land book of the Mark Brandenburg and the Markgrafthum Nieder-Lausitz in the middle of the 19th century; or geographical-historical-statistical description of the province of Brandenburg . Third volume. Printed and published by Adolph Müller, Brandenburg (an der Havel), 1856. ( Online at Google Books ).

[3] Castle and Lordship of Rheda