Philipp Karl von Arberg
Count Philipp Karl von Arberg (French Charles Philippe Alexandre d'Arberg de Valangin ) (* 1776 ; † 1814 ) was a German-Austrian nobleman and French prefect of the department of the Weser estuary .
Life
Arberg came from the illegitimate Aarberg-Valangin branch of the ancient noble house of the Counts of Neuchâtel, which was located in what is now western Switzerland. He was the son of Nicolaus Graf von Arberg and Valentin and Franziska von Arberg (* 1756), who came from the princely house of Stolberg-Gedern .
After 1804 Arberg became Chamberlain of Napoléon I and Knight of the Legion of Honor . At the end of 1810 he became prefect of the department of the Weser estuaries (French: Département des Bouches du Weser ) established on January 1, 1811 of the French Empire .
Arberg resided in Bremen in Eelkingschen Haus am Domshof and then in Eschenhof on Domsheide . He also lived in the country estate Gut Landruhe in Horn . He is said to have been a hardworking and insightful civil servant and also to have worked for the good of the Hanseatic city of Bremen. As prefect, however, he was heavily dependent on the ordinances and decrees of France. Napoleon's defeats in the Russian campaign of 1812 led to riots in occupied Germany in the spring of 1813. On March 15, 1813, the prefect's carriage near Brinkum was attacked and looted. Arberg had to flee on October 17, 1813. After his escape, the previous sub-prefect Johann Pavenstedt took over the prefecture until the department was dissolved (1814) after the Allied victories over Napoleon.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Jean Grellet: La maison d'Aarberg en Flandre. In: Musée Neuchatelois , 26th year (1889), pp. 193–195 pdf, French
- Jean Grellet: Aarberg-Valangin. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 1, Neuchâtel 1921, p. 13 pdf
Web links
- Germain Hausmann / AZ: Aarberg, from. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Entry Charles Philippe Alexandre d'Arberg de Valangin on gw.geneanet.org, accessed February 27, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ see Grellet
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arberg, Philipp Karl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arberg de Valangin, Charles Philippe Alexandre d ' |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Austrian nobleman and French prefect of the Weser estuary department |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1776 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1814 |