Wilhelm zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen

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Bookplate Count Wilhelm zu Leiningen-Westerburg, 1901
Old town hall Grünstadt , donor inscription from the Counts of Leiningen, 1906

Wilhelm Emich Thomas zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen (born May 11, 1875 in Landshut , † September 8, 1956 in Großgmain ) was a Count of Leiningen and professor of agricultural chemistry .

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Wilhelm Emich Thomas zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen was the son of the Bavarian equestrian officer Count Wilhelm zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen (1824–1887) and his wife Therese Anna Adelgunde nee. Flossmann (1842–1918), daughter of Ludwig Flossmann, brewery owner “zum Loderer” , am Anger , in Munich . The Leiningen ancestor Count Georg II. Carl Ludwig (1666–1726) had built Oberhof Palace in the Palatinate town of Grünstadt , residence of the County of Leiningen, as the ancestral seat of the Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen family branch he founded .

Count Wilhelm Emich Thomas studied chemistry as a major subject in Munich and Heidelberg , and botany , zoology , geology , rock and soil science as minor subjects. From 1901 he worked in Munich as an assistant to Professor Emil Ramann .

In 1904 the count received his doctorate from the Munich Research Institute for Forestry and completed his habilitation in 1907 in agricultural chemistry and soil science at the University of Munich . At first he stayed there as a private lecturer , then went to Vienna and worked there until 1938 as a full professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences . He held the chair for forest site studies and forest chemical technology.

Count Wilhelm Emich Thomas zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen stayed in Austria even after his retirement, settled in Großgmain near Salzburg and died there in 1956. He was married to Kreszentia Eleonore Julie born in 1912. Mühlbaur, the marriage remained childless. In contrast to most of his relatives in Leiningen, he belonged to the Catholic Church. With him the house of Leiningen-Westerburg went out.

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Together with his cousin Count Karl Emich zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen (1856–1906), he donated the inventory in the council chamber of the town hall of the Grünstadt main residence in the year of his death . It has been preserved to this day (2019) and the main table has a recessed, carved plate with the Leininger coat of arms and the inscription “Gest. v. Karl u. Dr. Wilhelm, Count v. Leiningen-Westerburg, 1906 ” .

There is an ex-libris from 1901, designed by Lorenz M. Rheude , which, in addition to the family coat of arms, also bears the coat of arms of Bavaria and his native Landshut. Minerals, a fossil, mortar, chemical bottle, glass flask, retort and books symbolize his scientific activity.

literature

  • Hans Heiberger: The end of the counts of Leiningen Westerburg , Klaus Dinges publishing house, Grünstadt, 2000, ISBN 3-9806596-1-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zweibrücker Wochenblatt No. 78, from June 30, 1861; (Digital scan)
  2. ↑ Landshuter Zeitung , No. 142, of June 22, 1861; (Digital scan)
  3. ^ Headcount of the Ludwig Maximilians University, summer semester 1911 , Munich 1911, p. 18; PDF view
personal data
SURNAME Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen, Wilhelm zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen, Wilhelm Emich Thomas Graf zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German or Austrian nobleman, chemist, forest scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1956
Place of death Grossgmain