Philipp von Lehrbach

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Philipp Eugen Erwein Graf von Lehrbach zu Lehrbach (born November 7, 1789 in Kassel , † May 15, 1857 in Gießen ) was a grand ducal Hessian officer and politician . He was Minister of War and a member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

Philipp von Lehrbach was the son of Baron and Major General Joseph Georg Benedikt von Lehrbach (1750-1812), who was raised to the rank of imperial count on September 10, 1790, and his wife Christine Philippine nee Ries. Philipp von Lehrbach, who was a Protestant denomination, married Juliane Friederike Wilhelmine, nee Freiin Riedesel zu Eisenbach (1786–1820), on September 16, 1817 , the daughter of Johann Conrad Riedesel zu Eisenbach and his wife, Countess Louise Charlotte von Hompesch-Heyden. In his second marriage he married Ernestine nee von Herff (1803-1832).

Philipp von Lehrbach became major and wing adjutant in 1820 and retired as colonel and court marshal in 1833. In 1843 he became major general and in 1847 Oberhofmarschall. From 1837 to 1839 and from 1848 to 1849 he was director of the Darmstadt Court Theater . In the 3rd to 10th electoral term (1826–1847) he was a member of the state parliament as a member of the manorial nobility. In the estates he took conservative positions.

In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament . and from 1848 to 1849 Minister of War in the March Ministry . In 1850 he was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt parliament .

Philpp went into financial decline, so that he had to sell his family estate in 1856. He died from a shot from his own rifle when entering the shooting range in Gießen. With his son from his second marriage, Hugo Ludwig Wilhelm Eugen, who died childless in Offenbach on February 5, 1862 , court squire of the Hesse and post office and was only 30 years old, the noble family of the von Lehrbach died out.

He was a member of the Darmstadt Masonic Lodge Johannes der Evangelist zur Eintracht .

literature

  • Eckhart G. Franz : Hessen-Darmstadt 1820–1935. In: Klaus Schwabe (Ed.): The governments of the German medium and small states. 1815–1933 (= German leadership classes in modern times. Vol. 14 = Büdinger research on social history. Vol. 18, 1980). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1983, ISBN 3-7646-1830-2 , p. 300.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 237.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 516.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , pp. 171–172.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette for the year 1820, p. 197
  2. ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
  3. ^ Gerhard Xaver: The Lords of Lehrbach. On the story of an extinct noble family from Hessen. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies (ZHG) Volume 117/118 (2012/13), pp. 103–114, here: p. 110
personal data
SURNAME Lehrbach, Philipp von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehrbach, Philipp Eugen Erwein Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hessian officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1857
Place of death to water