Rudolf von Wagner-Frommenhausen

Rudolf Freiherr von Wagner-Frommenhausen (born December 19, 1822 in Frommenhausen , † February 10, 1891 in Stuttgart ) was a Württemberg lieutenant general and minister of war .

ancestry

The Catholic family Wagner was in 1656 by Emperor Ferdinand III. ennobled and given the predicate of Frommenhausen, and at the same time she received the estate in the village of Frommenhausen in the Rottenburg office of the Upper Austrian county of Hohenberg as a fief.

His parents were Baron Karl Fiedel Anton von Wagner-Frommenhausen (born November 14, 1778) and his wife Maria Cressentia Epplen von Hartenstein (born June 15, 1788).

Life

After attending the war school in Ludwigsburg , Wagner-Frommenhausen was made a lieutenant in 1843 . He served first in the artillery and later in the Württemberg general staff . From February to autumn 1866 during the German War , he was Plenipotentiary of the 8th Army Corps at the German Bundestag in Frankfurt. Then until spring 1867 he was the representative of Württemberg at the liquidation commission in Frankfurt.

Afterwards Wagner-Frommenhausen was appointed major general and at the same time head of the Württemberg war department. He was the successor to War Minister Oskar von Hardegg . On September 27, 1868 he was promoted to lieutenant general and appointed minister of war. Wagner-Frommenhausen tried to reorganize the Württemberg armed forces based on the Prussian model. In 1868, against fierce opposition, he enforced a new military service law and thus general conscription. There was further opposition from the public and from the state parliament against the minister's policy . The majority of MPs called for a reduction in attendance times and a reduction in the military budget. Against this background, Wagner-Frommenhausen resigned from the office of Minister of War on March 23, 1870.

After leaving office, Wagner-Frommenhausen was elected to the Reichstag in 1871 . He represented the constituency of Württemberg 6 ( Reutlingen , Tübingen , Rottenburg ). In parliament he belonged to the faction of the German Reich Party . His poor health soon prevented him from further public activity. For the last few years of his life he was bedridden. He wrote Das Jagdwesen in Württemberg under the dukes. A contribution to German cultural and legal history. He was an honorary citizen of his hometown.

literature

Albert von Pfister : Wagner-Frommenhausen, Rudolf Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, p. 782 f.
The local nobility of Frommenhausen

Web links

Rudolf von Wagner-Frommenhausen in the database of the members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

^ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses, 1863, p.1011

^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd edition, Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 239.

personal data
SURNAME	Wagner-Frommenhausen, Rudolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wagner-Frommenhausen, Rudolf Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Württemberg Lieutenant General, Minister of War and Politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	December 19, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frommenhausen
DATE OF DEATH	February 10, 1891
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses, 1863, p.1011

[2] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd edition, Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 239.