Wilhelm von Taubenheim

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Monument to Wilhelm Graf von Taubenheim in the courtyard of the Kursaal Bad Cannstatt , sculpture by Paul Gottfried Christaller , donated by the Cannstatt Fountain Association , erected in 1894

August Wilhelm Freiherr von Taubenheim , from April 6, 1859 Count von Taubenheim (born April 16, 1805 in Stuttgart ; † January 4, 1894 there ), was stable master and chamberlain to Kings Wilhelm I and Karl von Württemberg . From 1841 to 1846 he was also director of the Royal Court Theater in Stuttgart .

Life

Taubenheim was a scion of the Saxon noble family Taubenheim , grandson of the Württemberg State Minister Rudolf August Leberecht Freiherr von Taubenheim and son of the Württemberg stable master and chamberlain August Freiherr von Taubenheim and his wife Caroline, née Bawr (1786-1856, also "Freiin von Baver"), a educated woman from the Electorate of Hesse . The father, who died on January 14, 1806 after a short illness, was a friend of the Crown Prince and later King Wilhelm I. He took on the education of Taubenheim.

Until the age of 16 he attended the Royal High School in Stuttgart , then the Ludwigsburg War School . His interest in horses as a second lieutenant in the Royal Life Guard shaped his further career. In 1824 he began studying at the University of Göttingen . There he also attended the school for riding and equitation founded by Johann Heinrich Ayrer . He then went to a riding school in Vienna for a long time .

In 1826 he returned to Stuttgart and was appointed chamberlain and stable master. As such, he acted as a companion, advisor and close confidante of King Wilhelm I. With him he shared a strong interest in horse breeding. With Julius von Hügel (1810-1884), the son of the Württemberg Minister of War Ernst von Hügel , Taubenheim founded the “Race Club” in 1834, which organized a horse race every year at the main agricultural festival in Cannstatt and its members' contributions to the Purchase of a noble horse to be raffled off.

In the years 1840/1841 Taubenheim undertook in the company of writers Friedrich Wilhelm Hack countries , the painter Friedrich Frisch and doctor Karl Bopp (1817-1847) a trip to the Orient , also in order for the Royal Württemberg studs Because and Marbach Arabian horses to procure. The journey, which fell in the time of the Orient Crisis and which Hacklanders documented in the later multiple published work Reise in den Orient and Frisch in the lithographic panel sequence Arabia and Oil Paintings, first took the ship down the Danube via Vienna to Giurgiu , then with the Horse to Constantinople , where Sultan Abdülmecid I received the Württemberg delegation in an audience. The ship went on via Rhodes , Cyprus and Beirut , surviving a shipwreck of the sea steamer Seri-Pervas of the Danube Steamship Company built in Trieste in 1841 in stormy winter weather in the port of Therapia . From Beirut they moved overland to Damascus and Jerusalem . In Jaffa there was an encounter with the Ottoman General Ibrahim Pasha , who was then as Wali over Syria and Palestine prevailed. The journey went over the Sinai to Egypt . The return journey led by ship via Malta , Sicily , Naples and Genoa .

Report to King Wilhelm I , 1847, painting by Franz Seraph Stirnbrand , Taubenheim second from the left

In 1841 Taubenheim rose to the position of Oberststallmeister ("Oberststallmeister") and thus head of all royal stables . In the same year, he was appointed as the successor to Victor Carl Emanuel Philipp von Leutrum-Erdingen (1782–1842) as artistic director of the Royal Court Theater , a position he held on a provisional basis until his successor Ferdinand von Gall was appointed in April 1846. For his loyal service, Wilhelm I raised him to hereditary count on April 6, 1859 .

After Karl von Württemberg ascended the throne in 1864, Taubenheim continued to enjoy the royal trust. Karl, whom he accompanied on his winter travels to the south of France, often entrusted him with important assignments. With Wilhelm II's accession to the throne , Taubenheim submitted his resignation, which was granted to him in recognition of his services. Taubenheim died at the age of 88 in Stuttgart.

Taubenheim became an honorary citizen of Cannstatt in 1854 . He was also honorary president of the Cannstatter Brunnenverein, which honored him in 1894 in the Brunnenhof at the Kursaal Bad Cannstatt with a memorial created by the Stuttgart sculptor Paul Gottfried Christaller . In terms of art history, Taubenheim also made an appearance as a client of the portrait painter Franz Seraph Stirnbrand . In the Order of St. John Taubenheim held the rank and office of commander . Until 1877 he was the owner of the Hohenentringen manor , which he had acquired from Wilhelm Friedrich Albrecht von Plessen in the 1840s along with extensive property .

Marriage and offspring

On September 17, 1842 Taubenheim married in Serach Marie Friederike Alexandrine Charlotte Katharina Countess of Württemberg, (born May 29, 1815 in Stuttgart; † December 31, 1866 ibid), the daughter of Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp of Württemberg from his morganatic marriage with the The mother's lady-in-waiting, Wilhelmine Freiin von Tunderfeld-Rhodis (1777–1822). Through this marriage Taubenheim became brother-in-law of Count Alexander and Wilhelm von Württemberg .

The couple had three daughters and one son:

  • Marie Sophie Wilhelmine (born July 31, 1843 in Stuttgart; † April 11, 1919 ibid), from July 10, 1894 Superior of the Diakonissenhaus Stuttgart
  • Wilhelm Paul Karl Heinrich (born April 4, 1845 in Stuttgart; † September 13, 1887 in Purworejo, Java , Dutch East Indies ), cavalry lieutenant in the German War , first lieutenant in a field hunter squadron in the Franco-German War , from 1871 stableman Karl von Württemberg, from His chamberlain in 1874, resigned from court service in 1876, dismissed from Württemberg citizenship in 1880 and emigrated to the Dutch East Indies, where he died unmarried
  • Olga Charlotte Theodolinde Wilhelmine (born September 15, 1850 in Stuttgart; † May 16, 1925 ibid) ⚭ August Freiherr von Wollwert-Lauterburg (1843–1908), Upper Court Marshal of Württemberg, one daughter: Olga Freiin von Wollwert-Lauterburg (born February 4 1874 in Stuttgart; † April 6, 1894 ibid)
  • Sophie Marie Julie (born October 25, 1852 in Stuttgart; † March 19, 1936 in Baden-Baden ) ⚭ Ernst Friedrich Eduard Bayer von Ehrenberg (1855–1920), Prussian cavalry master and major, one daughter: Wilma Konstanze Anna Helene Philippine Bayer von Ehrenberg (born October 5, 1884 in Berlin, † September 2, 1938 in Aachen)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Pfaff : History of the city of Stuttgart based on archival documents and other proven sources . Volume 2: History of the city from 1651 to 1845 . Verlag der CA Sonnewald'schen Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1846, p. 379 ( Google Books )
  2. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer : Journey to the Orient. Daguerreotypes. Taken during a trip to the Orient in 1814 and 1842 . 2 volumes, Adolph Krabbe, Stuttgart 1842 ( digital version of the 1846 edition )
  3. ^ Friedrich Frisch : Arabia. Sketches from the Orient, collected in 1840 and 1841. Drawn from nature and on stone. Kern, Darmstadt 1842 - cf. Reiss & Sohn: Auction 186: 15. – 16. November 2017 . Königstein im Taunus 2017, p. 34, No. 2006 ( PDF )
  4. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, pp. 140 ff. ( Digitized version of the 1846 edition )
  5. ^ Carl von Rossetti: Letter to the shareholders of the kk priv. Donau-Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft . Carl Ueberreuter's Druck, Vienna 1844, p. 15 ( Google Books )
  6. ↑ Carl A. von Schraishuon: The Royal Court Theater of Stuttgart from 1811 to modern times. Verlag von Emil Müller, Stuttgart 1878, pp. 68, 72 ( Google Books )
  7. ^ Correspondence . In: Didaskalia. Leaves for mind, spirit and publicity . Issue 112, April 23, 1846 ( Google Books )
  8. ^ Memorial for Count Wilhelm von Taubenheim , website in the portal stuttgart.im-bild.org
personal data
SURNAME Taubenheim, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taubenheim, August Wilhelm Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Stable master and chamberlain of kings Wilhelm I and Karl von Württemberg
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1894
Place of death Stuttgart