Philipp von Wintzingerode

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Philipp von Wintzingerode (born February 4, 1812 in Hanau , † April 8, 1871 in Kassel ) temporarily headed the Hessian Foreign Ministry.

origin

His family came from Eichsfeld, now in Thuringia . He was the second eldest son of the Hesse-Kassel chamber councilor Levin von Wintzingerode (1768-1813) and Amalie Luise von Motz (1776-1840). His brothers were the future Minister of State Friedrich von Wintzingerode (1800–1870), the District President Heinrich Philipp Rudolph Levin von Wintzingerode (1806–1864) and the Prussian Major General Adolph von Wintzingerode (1801–1874). His father was a landlord in Oberurff in what is now the Schwalm-Eder district .

Life

He began to study political science and law at the Philipps University of Marburg in 1830 and became active in the Corps Teutonia Marburg . As an inactive , he moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1835 he began the state service in the state of Hesse with a legal clerkship at the Hanau district . In 1844 he moved to the Marburg district . In 1848 he was Councilor and lecturer Council in Hessian Interior Ministry.

In the course of the German Revolution of 1848/1849, Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I was forced to set up a liberal cabinet, whose Foreign Minister Wilhelm Schenck zu Schweinsberg was. The ultra-conservative elector tried to boycott this “revolutionary” government - for example by not processing the files sent to him and provoking the ministers - and getting rid of it as soon as possible. A first attempt in September 1849 to dismiss the ministers failed because no replacement could be obtained for them so quickly, and he had to keep the so-called "March Ministry" in office until 1850. Only Schenck zu Schweinsberg, whom the elector considered a “radical”, was immediately dismissed. Subsequently, Philipp von Wintzingerode was appointed provisional director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the remaining term of the “March Ministry” . When the elector succeeded at the end of February 1850 in establishing a cabinet with the desired reactionary orientation under Ludwig Hassenpflug , the “March Ministry” was dismissed, and with him Philipp von Wintzingerode. In 1850 he was appointed to the Hessian Estates Assembly .

Initially on hold , he was assigned to the government commission for Schmalkalden from 1852 . He resigned at his own request in 1854 and entered the service of the Grand Duchy of Saxony as Minister of Education and Justice . After the fall of the Electorate of Hesse caused by the German War , he was regional director in the (now Prussian) administrative district of Kassel from 1869 to 1871 .

Philipp von Wintzingerode inherited the Oberurff estate and owned Bubenrode (Malsfeld) . He was married to Marianne geb. from Berlepsch .

family

He married Marianne von Berlepsch (born February 18, 1827) in 1844 . The couple had several children:

  • Hermann Friedrich (born September 7, 1846)
  • Adolf Ernst Lewin (born October 12, 1850)

literature

  • Harald Höffner: Kurhessens Ministerialvorstand the constitutional period 1831-1866 . Dissertation. Giessen 1981, p. 349 ff.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1858, eighth year, p.860
  • 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. 414.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Blue Book of the Corps Teutonia Marburg 1825 to 2000
  2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 166 , 78
personal data
SURNAME Wintzingerode, Philipp von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wintzingerode, Philipp Wilhelm Franz von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Foreign Minister of the State of Hesse
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1871
Place of death kassel