Wilhelm rival of Meysenbug

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Wilhelm Rivalier Freiherr von Meysenbug , born as Wilhelm Rivalier (born July 11, 1813 in Kassel , † February 14, 1866 in Karlsruhe ), was a Baden diplomat and politician.

Origin and career

Wilhelm Rivalier von Meysenbug came from a Huguenot family from Kurhessen . Meysenbug's father, Carl Rivalier , was raised to hereditary nobility in 1825 by the Elector of Hesse with an increase in his name by von Meysenbug , the name of an extinct family of the Old Hessen knighthood ; In 1834 he received the hereditary title of baron from the emperor . The writer Malwida von Meysenbug was Wilhelm's sister.

Wilhelm Rivalier von Meysenbug studied at the universities in Berlin and Heidelberg and then entered the diplomatic service of the Grand Duchy of Baden . In 1842 Meysenbug became legation secretary at the Württemberg royal court in Stuttgart and in 1843 at the Austrian imperial court in Vienna . In 1846 he returned to Karlsruhe as a legation counselor in the Baden residence. In 1849 Meysenbug went on a diplomatic mission for the Grand Duke to Berlin . There he brought about the military intervention of the Prussian Army in June 1849 against the Baden Revolution and negotiated Baden's accession to the Epiphany . In the same year Meysenbug was Baden representative on the administrative council of the allied governments in Berlin and in 1851 certified envoy to the Prussian royal court . In 1850 he was a member of the state house of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

Foreign Minister of Baden

On May 19, 1856, the Baden regent appointed the diplomat Meysenbug as Minister of State of the Grand Ducal House and Foreign Affairs and thus formally head of the new government, although this top position was somewhat after the entry of Interior and Justice Minister Franz von Stengel on September 20, 1849 took a back seat, so that the term Kabinett Stengel , and sometimes also Kabinett Stengel-Meysenbug, entered the literature. In any case, there was no minister of state officially appointed head of the entire ministry in Baden for the period from 1846 to 1861. While Meysenbug was still an advocate of a small German solution before joining the ministry, as Foreign Minister he increasingly thought in favor of Austria. Although Meysenbug was a Protestant, he and the Catholic Stengel consistently followed the line of a concordat with the Vatican, which granted the Archdiocese of Freiburg extensive rights of autonomy. According to the Liberals, this would have meant giving up essential sovereign rights of the Baden state. A dispute broke out between the Baden Estates Assembly and the Stengel-Meysenbug government when it initialed the treaty of the Grand Duchy of Baden with the Roman Catholic Church on June 28, 1859, without having previously asked the chambers to approve the Concordat. When the Second Chamber decided to reject this church convention in March 1860 by 46 votes to 15, the Grand Duke dismissed the Stengel-Meysenbug cabinet and formed the new liberal Stabel government . Meysenbug retired and lived in complete seclusion for another six years.

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personal data
SURNAME Meysenbug, Wilhelm Rivalier von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meysenbug's rival, Wilhelm Freiherr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1866
Place of death Karlsruhe