Wilhelm (Solms-Braunfels)

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Wilhelm Prince of Solms-Braunfels, in the background Braunfels Castle
Signature of the Prince (1813)

Wilhelm Christian Karl zu Solms-Braunfels (born January 9, 1759 in Braunfels ; † March 20, 1837 there ) was first an imperial prince , then a nobleman and head of the Princely Solms-Braunfels government , a Prussian major general and Hessian deputy .

Life

family

Little Prince Wilhelm zu Solms-Braunfels with his maternal grandfather, the ruling Count Christian August zu Solms-Laubach (1714–1784) and valet Bernard and wife von Dietzer, painting by Anton Wilhelm Tischbein (1762)

Wilhelm was a member of the Princely House of Solms-Braunfels . His grandfather Friedrich Wilhelm (1696–1761) was the first prince of Solms-Braunfels. His parents were the Imperial Colonel and Lieutenant General of the States General Ferdinand Wilhelm Ernst (1721–1783) and Sophie Christine Wilhelmine zu Solms-Laubach (1741–1772). The Prussian major general Friedrich Wilhelm (1770–1814) was his brother.

He himself married Auguste Wild- and Rhine Countess zu Salm-Grumbach (1771–1810) on October 6, 1792 (she was a half-sister of Prince Friedrich zu Salm-Horstmar ) and had four children with her:

With his mistress (with her since October 20, 1804 to Braunfels addition to its main marriage contract marriage connected) Anna Elisabeth Becker (January 22, 1779 Greifenstein , † March 24, 1852 in Braunfels), daughter of Johann Georg Becker († 1787) and the Philippine born Metzger († 1819), he had three other children who were given the patronymic surname Wilhelmi :

  • Heinrich Wilhelm (born January 11, 1805 in Braunfels, † 1864 in Ehringshausen ), zu Greifenstein, assessor at the Justice Office , ⚭ October 14, 1835 in Koblenz Anna Elisabeth Roos (born November 13, 1808 in Koblenz, † September 14, 1865)
  • Louise Wilhelmine (born March 30, 1806 in Braunfels, † 1808 in Braunfels)
  • Karl August (born May 25, 1809 in Braunfels), head forester in Braunfels, 1845–1859 Oberförsterei Elgershausen ( Elgershäuser Hof ), ⚭ Wilhelmine NN (1840 godmother to her husband's niece in Greifenstein)

Career

Grave in the St. Georgen cemetery in Braunfels

Wilhelm zu Solms-Braunfels was initially in the Dutch service, most recently as a major . In 1783 he became the third prince of Solms-Braunfels. On March 24, 1784 he was accepted into the Freemason Lodge Joseph zum Reichsadler in Wetzlar; He was later an honorary member in the Marburg box Marc Aurel zum flammenden Stern , to which his sons Ferdinand and Bernhard belonged. With the beginning of his reign he began as a supporter of the Enlightenment to collect books on a large scale, before the stock of the princely house library was relatively small. The problems associated with mediatization (the Principality of Solms-Braunfels became Nassau in 1806, Prussian in 1815) required the acquisition of administrative and legal literature. In addition, the prince dealt intensively with issues of agriculture, theology and natural sciences.

The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 had given him a virile vote in the Reichsfürstenrat , but the dissolution of the Reich no longer allowed the promise to come into effect. Since 1815, under royal Prussian sovereignty, Wilhelm owned the offices of Braunfels and Greifenstein and under the grand-ducal Hessian the offices of Grüningen , Hungen , Gambach and Wölfersheim and, under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Württemberg, the civil lordship of Limpurg-Gschwend in the Jaxtkreis. As a registrar, he was a hereditary member of the First Chamber of the Grand Duchy of Hesse since 1820 and a knight of the Hessian House Order of the Golden Lion since 1793 . The jurisdiction of the title Serene Highness was confirmed to him primogenitur according to a resolution of the Bundestag in 1825. The King of Prussia granted the mediatized prince his own government for the principality , which was implemented in 1828.

Out of gratitude for very successful advertisements , Prince Wilhelm was given the character of Prussian major general in 1796 , also as a confession of friendship with King Friedrich Wilhelm II. From 1835, he was included in the Prussian rankings à la suite of the army.

Solms-Braunfels had been a Knight of the Red Eagle Order since 1798 , became a Knight of the Bavarian Order of Hubert in 1806 and finally, in 1833, a Knight of the Black Eagle Order .

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility . Princely Houses IV, 1956, p. 287.
  • Hermann Hengst: The Knights of the Black Eagle Order. Biographical directory of all knights of the High Order of the Black Eagle from 1701 to 1900. Festschrift to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the High Order. Duncker , Berlin 1901.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen 1808-1996. Biographical index. 1996, p. 361.
  • Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 2, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632772 , pp. 462-463, no. 938.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the states 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, No. 832.
  • Detlev Schwennicke (Ed.): European Family Tables New Series. Volume XVII Hesse and the Tribal Duchy of Saxony. Verlag von JA Stargardt, Marburg 1998, Tfl. 36.
  • New genealogical paperback to the year 1820, volume 1, p. 183.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book together with diplomatic-statistical yearbook for the year 1867, p. 250.

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Her father was Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Theodor zu Salm, Wild and Rhine Count of Salm-Grumbach and Dhaun (1729–1799), cf. Christoph Graf von Polier's Family Tree: Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Theodor zu Salm (accessed on August 2, 2015) and Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , Neues Prussisches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 5, Leipzig 1839, p. 392.
  2. ^ Family Wagner - Dillkreis, Anna Elisabeth Becker (accessed on August 2, 2015)
  3. ^ Karl Wilhelmi had been enrolled at the University of Giessen since April 6, 1827 to study forest science. See. REPORTS -AND WORKS FROM THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY AND THE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVE CASTING 48 STUDENT DISCIPLINE AND ACADEMIC JURISDICTION IN the 1st half of the 19th century REPERTORY TO IN DISCIPLINARY COURT REPORTS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS LISTED CASTING, 1997, p 212 ( digitized )
  4. ↑ family thinkers, Elger houses Hof, Elgershausen (accessed on August 3, 2015)
  5. ^ Association for computer genealogy , Greifenstein local family book, Wilhelm Christian Karl family report on SOLMS-BRAUNFELS (accessed on August 3, 2015)
  6. ^ Marburg Freemason Documentation. Edit v. Helmut Keiler. Giessen 1980 [University Library Marburg].
  7. ↑ Handbook of Historical Book Holdings , 2006, p. 44.
  8. ↑ Historical and genealogical book of the nobility of the Kingdom of Württemberg (1839), p. 75.
  9. ↑ GHdA , Princely Houses Volume XV, Volume 114 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1997, p. 430.
  10. ^ Friedrich Kilian Abicht, Political History of the District of Wetzlar , Wetzlar 1836, p. 134.
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solms-Braunfels, Wilhelm Christian Karl zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general and Hessian deputy
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunfels
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1837
Place of death Braunfels