Oskar von Wedel

Oskar Georg Ludwig Ernst Graf von Wedel (born October 29, 1835 in Osnabrück , † January 15, 1908 in Weimar ), studied law, from 1860 cabinet secretary, later chamberlain , house marshal and upper court marshal to the Grand Duke of Saxony-Weimar .

origin

His father was Count Carl von Wedel (1790-1853), an administrative lawyer, since 1826 director of the Osnabrück Justice Chancellery , 1837-1846 Osnabrücker Landdrost , 1847 Minister of Education in Hanover. His mother was Freiin Wilhelmine von dem Bussche-Hünnefeld (1805-1892), lady of state of the Queen of Hanover, daughter of Clamor Graf von dem Bussche-Hünnefeld (1767-1822), Kurhannoverscher Kammherr, Royal Westphalian envoy in St. Petersburg, Royal Westphalian Count ⚭ June 3, 1803 with Mauritia von Dalwigk (1775–1805).

Life

Wedel first grew up in Osnabrück, where his father Landdrost was, and in 1847 went with the family to Hanover, where his father became a minister. The half-brother Erhard and the brothers Alfred and Ernst attended the Knight Academy in Lüneburg . Oskar may have done that too, but unlike his brothers, he does not pursue a military career. He first studied law in Göttingen and then from the summer semester of 1856 in Heidelberg. He was most recently enrolled as a law student at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in the winter semester of 1959/60.
In 1860, at the age of 25, Wedel entered the service of Grand Duke Carl Friedrich von Sachsen-Weimar as a chamberlain and stayed at the Weimar court for the rest of his life. A little later he became cabinet secretary to the Grand Duke and in the following decades rose to the very top of the court in the Duodec principality , via chamberlain , castle captain , house marshal to the office of court marshal . In 1876 Wedel married the daughter of Oberhofmarschall Friedrich Graf von Beust , whom he succeeded in office after his death in 1889. In spite of this marriage, which is sure to promote his career, Wedel's rise would not have been possible without a close relationship and the Grand Duke's appreciation. Between 1895 and 1900 Wedel was awarded the title “ Excellence ”.

family

Oskar von Wedel married Maria Caroline Cäcilie born on March 27, 1876 in Weimar . Countess von Beust (pseudonym: Marie Witilo) (1855–1913), writer, daughter of Friedrich Graf von Beust (1813–1889), then Oberhofmarschall of the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Cäcilie von Gersdorff (1821–1872), a daughter of State Minister Ernst Christian August von Gersdorff .
Children:

• Erhard (1879–1955), lawyer, diplomat in the foreign service was 1909.
• Pauline (1881–1964) ⚭ September 7, 1911 with Clemens Wilhelm Paul Karl Graf von Wedel-Jarlsberg (1866–1945), son of Clemens August Karl (1829–1907), Oldenburg master stable master and head bailiff ⚭ Margarethe Pauline Constanze von Falkenstein (1842 -1926).
• Eva Jenny Clara Emilie (1893–1972) ⚭ April 8, 1919 in Weimar with Wilhelm Johann Hugo Alexander Leszczyc Prince of Radolin (1894–1965), a son of Alfred Leszczyc Prince of Radolin (1864–1910), (eldest son of Hugo Prince of Radolin ) and Elisabeth von Königsmark (1866–1965).

medal

State manual for the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach 1900. Weimar 1900, p. 76:

• Grand Duchy of Saxony Weimar: Grand Cross in diamonds of the Grand Ducal House Order of Vigilance or of the White Falcon , awarded in 1898.
• Duke of Anhaltinian house order Albrecht the Bear 2nd class
• Kingdom of Hanover: Ernst August Order, 4th class
• Grand Ducal Baden Order of the Zähringer Lion 2nd class
• Grand Cross of the Royal Bavarian Order of Merit of St. Michael
• Grand Cross of the Duke of Brunswick, Henry the Lion
• Japanese Order of Merit of the Rising Sun 2nd Class
• Grand Officer of the Grand Ducal Luxembourg Order of the Oak Crown
• Grand Cross of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin Order of the Griffins
• Knight of the Royal Order of the Dutch Lion
• Grand Cross of the Royal Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau
• Grand Cross of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Order of the Iron Crown
• Grand Cross of the Grand Ducal Oldenburg House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig
• Iron Cross 2nd class
• Grand Cross in diamonds of the Royal Prussian Order of the Crown
• Imperial Russian Order of St. Anne 2nd class
• Imperial Russian Order of St. Stanislaus 2nd Class
• Right knight of the Royal Prussian Order of St. John
• Grand Cross of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order
• Grand Cross of the Royal Saxon Order of Albrecht
• Princely Schwarzburg Cross of Honor, 1st class
• Commander 1st class of the Royal Swedish North Star Order
• Princely Waldeck Order of Merit, 2nd class

Fonts

• Letters 1864–1903. Calliope network
• Mourning announcement by the Grand Ducal Oberhofmarschall Oskar Graf von Wedel for the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach on the occasion of the death of Grand Duke Ludwig IV of Hesse and by the Rhine, March 13, 1892. (Print) [2]
• The old Weimar. In: Weimar newspaper, No. 166/1903 of July 18, 1903. [3]

literature

• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1859. pp. 931-933
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1910, p. 707.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses. Twenty-fourth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1894, p. 134.
2. ^ B. von Cramm, The winter of 1865/66 in Hanover. In: Prussisches Jahrbuch, Volume 111 (1903), 43.
3. ^ Enrolled on April 19, 1856: Gustav Toepke (Ed.), Die Matrikel der Universität Heidelberg (6th part): From 1846–1870. Heidelberg 1907. p.
4. ↑ Official directory of the authorities, teachers, civil servants and institutions ... and the ... lectures to be given (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, WS 1859/60 = No. 76) [1]
5. ↑ Countess Elisabeth Werthern [a granddaughter of Oscar], From Weimar to Bonn - memories . 1985 p. 23.