Hans Christoph Ernst von Gagern

Hans Christoph Ernst Freiherr von Gagern ( born January 25, 1766 Kleinniedesheim at Worms, † October 22, 1852 in Hornau in Frankfurt) was a statesman and political writer.

Biography

Hans Christoph Ernst von Gagern was the son of Baron Christoph Carl von Gagern (1743-1825) and his wife Susanne Esther Laroche of heavy rock. His father was a Lutheran, Calvinist mother. In Worms he went to school with the Jesuits. From 1778, he attended high school in Zweibrücken and the Ecole Militaire from 1779 in Colmar.

In 1781 he began studying law and political sciences in Leipzig and Göttingen. In April 1785, he first entered the Palatinate - Zweibrücken government service as a government scholar in Zweibrücken, where his father was chief steward. In 1787 he moved to the nassau - burg because the civil service as a council in the residence town of Kirchheim in Thunder Mountain and was promoted in 1788 as the successor of Friedrich Ludwig von Botzheim to Chief Minister and Supreme Court president. In 1791 he was ambassador at the Reichstag, 1801 Nassau negotiator in Paris and soon Privy government and president. Napoleon's decree that no one should hold public office on the left bank of the Rhine born outside France, forced him in 1811 to take his dismissal. He went to Vienna, where he stood with Joseph of Hormayr and the Archduke Johann in connection and the new insurrection of the Tyrol 1812 took an active part in the designs. Therefore, he was expelled in 1813 from Austria and went to the Prussian- Russian headquarters. In 1813 he was a member of the Board of Directors for the liberated territories under German Freiherr vom Stein.

He then moved to England, where he entered the service of the Prince of Orange, and was busily working for its restitution in the Netherlands. Then the new King of the Netherlands appointed him chief minister of the Orange four principalities in Germany with headquarters in Dillenburg.

In 1815 he took over as ambassador of the King of the Netherlands, the Congress of Vienna in part and obtained by close connection to England and Austria the magnification of the new Kingdom of the Netherlands through the Belgian provinces and the reasoning of the Duchy of Nassau as oranischem agent state between Prussia and France, he also to 1818 as a Dutch envoy representing the German Bundestag.

As he had already recognized the person entitled to the same at the outbreak of the French Revolution, he penetrated even now on implementation of measures which might find the German nation the true political unity and freedom, and called in all his votes introducing constitutions estates of the land in the German Federal States. Retired in 1818, he privatized on his estate at maximum Hornau am Main in Nassau. He engaged in literary work about the past and future of the nation and stood with many famous contemporaries in vivid written communications.

1820 to 1824 he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse for the constituency Pfeddersheim. From 1829 he was a lifelong member of the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse.

As a parliamentarian, he had ample opportunity to draw the attention of the government and stands on patriotic and philanthropic issues. To 1847 was hardly a session of the stands, in the non Gagern would have made ​​an application. Although he had previously always rejected the idea of popular representation at the Bundestag of himself, but he welcomed the Frankfurt Parliament with joy, and the best hopes.

He is buried in the family grave in Hornau listed next to his wife.

Family

Hans Christoph Ernst von Gagern was the son of (Christoph Gottlieb) Charles of Gagern ( 1743-1825 ), a Pfalz- Zweibrücken Privy Councillor and Lord Chamberlain and ( Susanne ) of Gagern Esther, born Laroche ( 1743-1783 ). He came so that an old noble family from the island of Rügen. Hans Christoph Ernst von Gagern married on December 7, 1793 (called Charlotte) Baroness Caroline of Gaugreben ( 1776-1881 ). Friedrich von Gagern, Heinrich von Gagern, Moritz von Gagern and Maximilian of Gagern were his sons.

Works

From his writings, except his autobiographical memoirs (. . My share in the Policy 5 ( 6 ) volumes among others Cotta, Stuttgart, inter alia, from 1823 to 1845 ) are providing a vivid picture of the Napoleonic era and the diplomatic situation during the War of Independence, noted:

  • The results of the moral history. 9 volumes. 1808-1847; Vol 1: The prince. Wilmans inter alia, Frankfurt am Main 1808;
  • Vol 2: The Fürnehmen or aristocracy. Anton Strauss, Vienna 1812;
  • Vol 3: Democracy. Wilmans inter alia, Frankfurt am Main, 1816;
  • Vol 4: Politie or States constitutions. Cotta Tübingen et al 1819;
  • Vol 5/6: friendship and love. Cotta, Stuttgart et al 1822;
  • Vol 7/9: housing, employment, and property or the family. 1: civilization. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1847.
  • Vol 1: From the ancient time to the Gothic kingdom under Herman Rich. 1813
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