Reinhard Carl Friedrich von Dalwigk

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Reinhard von Dalwigk
Reinhard von Dalwigk as Hesse from Giessen , around 1824

Reinhard Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels (born December 19, 1802 in Darmstadt ; † September 28, 1880 ibid) was a statesman, Prime Minister from 1850 to 1871 and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt . He worked in the interests of Austria and with Bishop Ketteler for the church reaction.

origin

His parents were the Hessian lieutenant general and governor of Darmstadt Reinhard von Dalwigk (1770–1844) and his wife Luise Höpfner (1779–1855), a daughter of the Privy Tribunal Councilor Ludwig Höpfner (1743–1797). His uncle Karl von Dalwigk (1761-1825) was the President of the Nassau Higher Appeal Court in Diez.

Life

Reinhard von Dalwigk, 1861.

The doctor of law entered the administrative service of the Grand Ducal Hesse in 1828 and became a district councilor in Worms in 1842 . In 1845 he was given the provincial commissioner of the Rheinhessen province and the territorial commissioner in the Mainz fortress . In 1850 he was sent to Frankfurt am Main as an envoy to the Bundestag , but in July of the same year Grand Duke Ludwig III. Head of Hessian politics, initially as head of the Interior Ministry and soon after that of the Foreign Ministry; In 1852 he was finally "President of the Ministry as a whole", the constitutional title of the Prime Minister .

During his more than twenty years in office, Dalwigk distinguished himself as a conservative hardliner and opponent of liberalism . The free-spirited electoral law of 1849 was abolished with the help of an extraordinary state parliament appointed by ordinance (ordinance) , a new electoral law was introduced and the then elected state parliament was used to remove the traces of the years 1848 and 1849 in the legislation.

In terms of foreign policy, he fought both resolutely and unsuccessfully against small German unity under Prussia's leadership, including through Hesse's participation in the German War of 1866.

Since the military victory of Prussia and the reorganization of Germany by Bismarck , Dalwigk was considered politically finished. Described in public as an unpatriotic "particularist" and declared a persona ingrata by the new Reich leadership in Berlin , he finally had to resign in April 1871, after having signed the contract between Hesse and the North German Confederation on November 15, 1870 in Versailles German Reich had signed. He was appointed a lifelong member of the first chamber of estates . With the appointment of the 76-year-old Justice Minister Friedrich von Lindelof as Prime Minister, the Grand Duke initially only decided on a transitional candidate. It was not until the following year (1872) that Lindelof's successor, Karl Hofmann, was able to initiate a complete political change of course in the spirit of Bismarck.

During his studies he became a member of the Old Göttingen Burschenschaft in 1820 and a member of the Old Gießen Burschenschaft Germania in 1823 , later probably a member of the Corps Hassia Gießen .

Honors

Reinhard von Dalwigk was made an honorary citizen of the city of Mainz. He received

and des

as well as the title of Chamberlain .

family

He married in Strasbourg in 1839 Mathilde von Coëhorn (1810-1860), a daughter of the French major general Louis von Coëhorn (1771-1813) on Ittenweiler and Maria von Beyer . The marriage remained childless. After the death of his wife in Baden-Baden in 1862, he married her niece Adele von Dunten (1839-1911), the daughter of the Russian Lieutenant Count Wilhelm von Dunten (1800-1878) and Adele von Coëhorn . The couple had a son and two daughters.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume 1: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. 1996, p. 180.
  2. ^ Academic monthly books . Vol. 9, 1892/93, p. 209.
  3. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1870, page 259
personal data
SURNAME Dalwigk, Reinhard Carl Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels, Reinhard Carl Friedrich Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hessian statesman
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1880
Place of death Darmstadt