Wilhelm Lebrecht von Baumbach

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Wilhelm Lebrecht von Baumbach (born February 12, 1757 in Nentershausen , † July 8, 1826 in Kassel ) was a Hessian officer in the Dutch service, Nassau court official, landowner, and head of the Hessian knightly donors .

origin

Wilhelm Lebrecht von Baumbach came from the Kirchheim branch of the Lords of Baumbach . His father was Reinhard von Baumbach (born May 1, 1708 in Nentershausen, † December 16, 1765 ibid). He married on November 2, 1745 in Reichensachsen Christine Luise, or Louisa Christina, von Boyneburg called Hohenstein (born May 17, 1730 in Reichensachsen, † December 28, 1805 in Nentershausen), daughter of Dietrich Philipp von Boyneburg called von Hohenstein (Hanstein) zu Reichensachsen (* 1685) and Henriette von Bodenhausen . Ludwig Wilhelm von Baumbach was his brother.

Life

Wilhelm Lebrecht initially became a soldier. He was Rittmeister , later a major in a Dutch dragoon regiment and adjutant to the governor of Maastricht , Landgrave Friedrich von Hessen-Kassel zu Rumpenheim , during the sieges of Maastricht in 1793 and 1794 by revolutionary France . As early as 1793, after France declared war on Great Britain and the United Netherlands , he sent his wife Caroline Schenck zu Schweinsberg back to Hesse with their children Moritz and Caroline. He himself followed in early 1795, after the surrender of Maastricht in autumn 1794 and the end of the old republic of the United Netherlands, and then administered the after the death of the Hessen-Kassel Oberhofmarschall Carl von Boyneburg called Hohenstein (1729-1792), with which the Boyneburg line of Hohenstein in the male line died out, allodial and fiefdoms of the Boyneburg to Reichensachsen that fell to his mother .

When, after a long legal dispute, Landgrave Wilhelm IX. From Hessen-Kassel in 1800 the Reichensachsen fiefdoms of the Boyneburgers moved in as settled fiefdoms , the family moved to the Baumbach family estates in Kirchheim . At the beginning of 1803 Wilhelm Lebrecht von Baumbach was appointed as head stable master in Fulda in the service of Prince Wilhelm Friedrich von Oranien-Nassau , who later became Wilhelm I of the Netherlands , in 1802 for this principality of Nassau-Oranien-Fulda . He lost this position in October 1806 when the Principality of Napoleon was dissolved, and he went back to Kirchheim, where he spent the time of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813).

After the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia and the restoration of the Electorate of Hesse , he became one of the three head directors of the Hessian Knightly Founders , the supply facility for needy family members from the circle of the Knighthood of Old Hessen .

His business ventures were not very successful. The agricultural estates in Kirchheim (owned by Baumbach since 1588) and Frielingen (bought in 1810 and expanded in 1820), which he had a manager run, hardly made any profit. An ash burner set up mainly for the production of potash as a fertilizer only brought losses. In 1816 and 1817 there were bad harvests. The then officially banned use of locally produced grain in the brandy distillery prompted Baumbach to import considerable quantities of rye from the Russian Baltic provinces , which also resulted in large losses after the ban on domestic grain was lifted again soon. The growing debts and increasing health problems finally persuaded him in 1823 to call his son Ludwig back to Kirchheim from the Hessian military service in order to gradually take over the management of the property.

Wilhelm Lebrecht von Baumbach died in 1826 in the apartment of his son Moritz in Kassel, on the trip to the annual chief supervisor conference of the knightly founders in Oberkaufungen .

Marriages and offspring

Wilhelm Lebrecht von Baumbach was married twice.

  • The marriage on May 7, 1788 with Caroline Schenck zu Schweinsberg (May 7, 1770 in Schweinsberg , † November 11, 1796 in Kassel) came from Moritz, Caroline (both born in Maastricht) and Friedrich, born in 1796.
  • In 1798 he married Amalie Treusch von Buttlar from the Altefeld family , with whom he had sons Ludwig, Ernst and Hermann and daughters Marie, Mathilde and Auguste.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ August von Baumbach: History of the von Baumbach family belonging to the old Hessen knighthood. Elwert, Marburg, 1886, pp. 91-92
  2. ↑ Ludwig Carl Wilhelm von Baumbach-Kirchheim: Memories from the life of a very old man (1799 - 1883)
personal data
SURNAME Baumbach, Wilhelm Lebrecht from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hessian officer in the Dutch service
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Nentershausen
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1826
Place of death kassel