Otto Victor I. von Schönburg

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Otto Victor Monument in the Princely Park Grünfeld (1903)

Otto Victor I. von Schönburg-Waldenburg (born March 1, 1785 in Waldenburg (Saxony) , † February 16, 1859 in Leipzig ) was a member of the Saxon state parliament and since 1800 Prince of Schönburg .

Life

The son of Prince Otto Carl Friedrich von Schönburg-Waldenburg (1758–1800) and Countess Henriette Reuss zu Köstritz (1755–1829) was still a minor in 1800, so a guardian took over the administration of the Schönburg possessions. In 1806 Otto Victor took over the rule, before that he had served briefly in the Austrian army and in 1805 took part in the campaign against France.

Since the primogeniture of his father had not been confirmed by the sovereign, from 1811 to 1813 he had to lead a legal dispute with his three brothers who were born later. In a comparison , he therefore renounced the Stein and Hartenstein dominions in 1813 and kept the economically significantly more lucrative dominions Lichtenstein , Remse and Waldenburg . Since two brothers died childless in 1840 and 1846, Otto Victor became co-owner of the two estates given up in 1813 .

On November 13, 1813, he entered the Saxon service as a colonel in the hussar regiment and fought in the corps of the Duke of Weimar in 1813/14 in the campaign in the Netherlands . With the same rank he was employed in the Prussian Army on April 12, 1815 , where Otto Victor was assigned to the headquarters of Prince Blücher . In the campaign of 1815 he was able to distinguish himself at Ligny and Belle Alliance and received the Iron Cross II. Class after he had suffered a foot injury in the Battle of Waterloo . For his services Otto Victor was on March 30, 1817 by Friedrich Wilhelm III. promoted to major general and retired a short time later on April 7, 1817 at his own request from military service.

After that, Otto Victor mainly dealt with domestic politics in the Kingdom of Saxony . He was instrumental in drawing up the Saxon constitution of 1831 , and he was also a member of the First Chamber of the State Parliament.

Despite his political efforts, he could not prevent the explanatory recession of October 9, 1835 , which further curtailed the sovereign rights remaining after the recession of 1740 the Schönburgers.

In 1816 Otto Victor bought the Bohemian rule of Hlubosch from a Viennese court saddler who had won it in a lottery . In 1826 he sold the rule to his sister-in-law Louise Princess zu Schönburg-Hartenstein .

In 1840 he acquired an important collection of works of art and natural objects from the Linck family of pharmacists in Leipzig , which had been brought together as a bourgeois cabinet of curiosities between 1670 and 1800. The cabinet is housed in a museum building built especially for this purpose in 1844 and is still accessible today as the Waldenburg Natural History Cabinet .

Although he implemented numerous reforms and improvements during his reign, his autocratic style of governance aroused popular displeasure. As a result, Waldenburg Castle was burned down on April 5, 1848 during the German Revolution .

family

From his marriage to Princess Thekla von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (* February 23, 1795 - † January 4, 1861 at Schloss Gauernitz ), daughter of Prince Ludwig Friedrich II. Von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , nine children emerged:

  • Karoline Henriette Marie Luise (born March 13, 1818 in Waldenburg; † April 22, 1829 ibid)
  • Otto Friedrich (1819–1893), 3rd Prince of Schönburg
  • Ida (born April 25, 1821 in Waldenburg; † January 12, 1895)
∞ Gustav Viktor Otto Graf von Wartensleben (1836–1900)
  • Hugo (1822–1897), Prussian general of the infantry, commander of the Order of St. John
  • Emma (born July 24, 1824 in Waldenburg; † July 12, 1839)
  • Mathilde (born November 18, 1827 in Waldenburg; † March 22, 1914)
∞ Friedrich Adolf von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1801–1875), Lieutenant Field Marshal
  • Georg (1828–1900), Saxon cavalry general, adjutant general to the King of Saxony
  • Ottilie (born May 3, 1830 in Waldenburg; † November 3, 1880)
∞ Richard Clemens Graf von Schönburg-Hinterglauchau (1829–1900)
  • Karl Ernst (born June 8, 1836 in Waldenburg, † June 8, 1915 at Gauernitz Castle), Lord of Gauernitz and Schwarzenbach, legal knight of the Order of St. John

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical paperback . 134th year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1897, p. 222.
  2. ↑ Michael Wetzel: The Schönburg Office Hartenstein 1702–1878. Social structure - administration - economic profile. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-937209-03-4 , p. 140.
  3. ↑ Michael Wetzel: The Schönburg Office Hartenstein 1702–1878. Social structure - administration - economic profile. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2004, p. 157.
personal data
SURNAME Schönburg, Otto Victor I. von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönburg-Waldenburg, Otto Victor I. von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince von Schönburg and member of the Saxon state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldenburg
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1859
Place of death Leipzig