Wilhelm zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg

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Wilhelm Paul Ludwig zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (born March 19, 1817 in Stuttgart , † March 10, 1887 in Karlsruhe ) was a German nobleman and fourth prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg .

origin

Coat of arms of the princes of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg

The noble family of those zu Löwenstein goes back to the Wittelsbacher Friedrich I, the victorious , elector of the Palatinate (1425–1476), whose children from his morganatic marriage with Clara Tott were not entitled to inheritance in their own dynasty, which is why they formed an independent noble family . With the death of Count Ludwig III. von Löwenstein in 1611 the two main lines emerged, the Evangelical line Löwenstein-Wertheim-Virneburg (later Freudenberg) and the Catholic line Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (later Rosenberg).

Life

Prince Wilhelm was born on March 19, 1817. He was the son of Count Wilhelm, since 1812 prince, of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (1783–1847) from his marriage to Dorothea Christine von Kahlden (1791–1862), daughter of Hans Adam von Kahlden. Prince Wilhelm received a humanistic education from private teachers in Geneva and Dresden. He studied law, economics, philosophy and art history at the University of Bonn . He shared an apartment in Bonn with his friend Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . He then studied at the University of Berlin and decided to work in the diplomatic service. Initially he worked in the Prussian Foreign Ministry in Berlin before he came to London in 1840 as a legation secretary. He was then appointed secretary of the Prussian legation in Lisbon , from where he also made trips to Spain and Morocco. Because of the revolutionary unrest of 1848 he quit diplomatic service and went back to his parents' house in Dresden, where he married his first wife in 1852. He lived with her on the princely estate at Patzau in Bohemia until 1856 and then became a member of the Prussian legation in Bavaria .

With the death of his predecessor Adolf, Prince Wilhelm became the new Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg on August 9, 1861. As a Baden registrar, Wilhelm had a seat and vote in the First Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly and was president of this chamber from 1861 to 1863. In addition, since 1861 he was also a member of the First Chambers in Bavaria , Hessen-Darmstadt and Württemberg .

Prince Wilhelm died in Karlsruhe on March 10, 1887, nine days before his seventieth birthday.

Marriages and offspring

On April 20, 1852 Wilhelm married in Pillnitz near Dresden Countess Olga von Schönburg-Glauchau (1831–1868), daughter of Karl Heinrich Alban, Count von Schönburg-Fordglauchau and Christiane Mary Emily Jenison, Countess von Walworth. The couple had nine children:

From his second marriage to Bertha Hagen (1845–1895), Baroness von Grünau since 1870, he had two sons:

  • Curt, Baron von Grünau (1871–1939)
  • Werner, Baron von Grünau (1874–1956)

See also

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Bosbach: The studies of Prince Albert at the University of Bonn (1837-1838) , publisher: Saur KG Verlag GmbH 2009, p. 133.
  2. ↑ Franz Bosbach, op.cit., P. 133.
  3. ↑ For freedom and democracy. Baden parliament history 1818–1933 . A chronicle of the democratic movement since 1818 with biographies, historical film and sound recordings, election results, image documents and a comprehensive bibliography. Multimedia CD-ROM published by the Karlsruhe City Archives 1997, ISBN 3-9805956-0-9 . System requirements Windows 95 or Apple Macintosh. The CD-ROM cannot be used with operating systems from the Microsoft Windows NT line!
personal data
SURNAME Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, Wilhelm zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, Wilhelm Fürst zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman, head of the Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg family
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1887
Place of death Karlsruhe