Rudolf Emanuel Effinger

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Johann Daniel Mottet, Rudolf Emanuel Effinger (1807).
Effinger's signature (1822)

Rudolf Emanuel Effinger (von Wildegg) (born June 10, 1771 in Wildegg , † November 29, 1847 in Wildenstein ), authorized to reside in Bern , was a Swiss politician, officer and agronomist.

Life

Effinger was born as the son of the Bernese dragoon colonel Niklaus Albrecht Effinger and Maria Magdalena Tscharner (2nd marriage). He was trained by private tutors, later in Aarau, at the Académie militaire in Colmar and at the Hohen Karlsschule in Stuttgart . In 1789 he joined the Dutch Swiss Guard and left it again in 1792 to join the Austrian service. As adjutant to General Friedrich von Hotze , Effinger took part in the siege of Mainz and the campaign in Alsace in the First Coalition War in 1793 . He distinguished himself in storming the Weißenburg lines , where he drew the attention of Field Marshal Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser , which earned him the nickname "Wurmser" among his friends.

With his brother Ludwig Albrecht Effinger he took a long trip to Italy in 1796, after which he traveled to Paris. In the winter of 1798 he married Maria Carolina Rosina von Mülinen, daughter of the mayor Albrecht von Mülinen . Soon afterwards, at the beginning of March, he fought as adjutant general to the Bernese commander-in-chief Karl Ludwig von Erlach against the French invasion off Bern. Together with other officers, he was captured, taken to Besançon and only released at the end of April. In 1802 he commanded the Aargauer in the Stecklikkrieg and thus achieved the withdrawal of the Swiss government from Bern.

After the death of his father, he and his brother inherited the Wildegg and Kiesen castles . Effinger sold half of the Wildegg to his brother and in return bought his half to Kiesen, where he founded the first cooperative valley dairy a few years later. In 1803 he became a member of the Bernese Grand Council and Oberamtmann of Konolfingen , from 1805 he was also Colonel of the Bernese Dragoons. In 1813 he was appointed city commander of Bern, in 1814 he commanded the Bernese armed forces during the riots in the Oberland region and in 1815 he was the Federal Brigade Colonel on the move into Franche-Comté.

From 1816 to 1821 he was a member of the Bernese Small Council and from 1821 to 1831 President of the War Council. As Oberamtmann von Wangen an der Aare (1821 to 1830), he founded the savings fund there and another cheese dairy in 1824. In 1831 he was commander in chief of the Bernese troops until the aristocratic government abdicated.

Effinger had been managing the Wildensteiner estates of his brother-in-law Niklaus Friedrich von Mülinen since 1819 and for this purpose lived temporarily in the tenant house there. In 1840 he was able to buy Wildenstein Castle and in 1846 he succeeded in acquiring the goods from the Mülinen.

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Fonts

  • The defense of the Ormonts in 1798, mostly according to eyewitness reports. With notes on the simultaneous incidents in Vaud and a map of the situation , Bern 1846.

literature

  • Rolf Anderegg: Rudolf Emanuel Effinger von Wildegg . In: Neujahrsblatt Wangen an der Aare 1991, pp. 41–49.
  • Rolf Anderegg: Jeremias Gotthelf and Oberamtmann Rudolf Emanuel von Effinger . In: Neujahrsblatt Wangen an der Aare: 1998, pp. 29–40.
  • Johann Conrad Appenzeller: Emanuel Rudolf von Effinger 1771–1847 . In: Collection of Bernischer Biographien, Vol. II, pp. 192–195.
  • Viktor Fricker: Effinger, Rudolf Emanuel, in: Biographisches Lexikon des Aargau, 1803–1957, ed. by the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, editors: Otto Mittler and Georg Boner, Aarau: Sauerländer 1958 (= Argovia 68/69, 1958), p. 169 f. ( digitized version )
  • Johann Jakob Huber: The Wildenstein Castle in Aargau. Messages from the history of this castle , Brugg 1894.
  • Hans Lehmann : Wildegg Castle and its residents , Aarau 1922.
  • Ludwig Lauterburg (ed.): On the history of the uprising against the Helvetian government in autumn 1802, especially the capture of Bern . By the late Colonel Rudolf Effinger von Wildegg., In: Berner Taschenbuch 1857, pp. 220–249. doi : 10.5169 / seals-119730
  • Ludwig Lauterburg (Ed.): Memories of the first four months of 1798 . From the late Colonel Rudolf Effinger von Wildegg. As a contribution to the history of the fall of the old republic of Bern, communicated in: Berner Taschenbuch 1858, pp. 161–215. doi : 10.5169 / seals-119897
  • Felix Müller: Extinction or Impoverishment? The Effinger von Wildegg , Baden 2000.
  • Georg von Wyß:  Effinger von Wildegg, Rudolf Emanuel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 654 f.
  • Christoph Zürcher: Effinger, Rudolf Emanuel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Archives of the Canton of Bern, FI EK Wangen

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personal data
SURNAME Effinger, Rudolf Emanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Effinger von Wildegg, Rudolf Emanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss officer and agronomist
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Wildegg
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1847
Place of death Wildenstein