Alban von Dorbenck

Alban von Dobenck, photograph from the family chronicle he created

(Hans) Alban Freiherr von Dorbenck (born November 20, 1833 in Ansbach ; † December 10, 1919 in Traunstein ) was a farmer , politician and genealogist of the Vogtland noble families.

biography

Wife Marianne, née von Nostitz

Alban came from the noble family of von Dobenck and was the second eldest son of (Hans) Carl von Dorbenck and Franziska, née Freifrau von Welden. They had seven children. Since Alban was supposed to be the later head of his father's property, he attended the Hohenheim Agricultural Academy after finishing school. As part of his training, he stayed on the Reuth estate near Erbendorf and then on the property of Major von Nostitz near Guhrau , today Góra, in Lower Silesia . In 1857 he married the major's daughter, Marianne von Nostitz (* July 28, 1838 in Wurzen , † December 4, 1905 in Traunstein). After a semester of study at the University of Berlin, he took over the management of the Brandsteiner property in 1856 , which he became owner in 1873. In 1885 he sold the property to Enno Mammen , son of Franz August Mammen from a family of industrialists in Plauen . The Dorbenck couple had twelve children, two of whom died at a young age. He lived with his family from 1885 to 1895 in a newly built house on Kaiserstraße in Munich . He then moved with his wife and youngest daughter to his brother-in-law in Laubenberg im Allgäu. In 1901 his wife's health problems forced him to move to Traunstein again, where she died in 1905.

Alban von Dobenck was active as a practical farmer in agricultural associations. He was secretary of the district association Hof and a member of the district committee for Upper Franconia in Bayreuth. He was also a delegate in the German Agricultural Council in Berlin and was elected second president at the traveling meeting of Bavarian farmers in Bayreuth in 1878. He was awarded the large silver and gold medal of merit and in 1877 with the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of St. Michael . From 1879 to 1887 he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament .

At the end of his professional career, Alban von Dobeneck began a lively publication activity. After completing his extensive family chronicle, his source study enabled him to describe other small Franconian knight families (von Sparneck 1905 and 1906, von Kotzau in 1909, von Lüchau in 1911 and the Rabensteiner zu Döhlau in 1914). Alban published the extensive essays in the Archive for History of Upper Franconia of the Historical Association for Upper Franconia , of which he was a member. For the von Sparneck family, the first comprehensive genealogy was created, which has largely retained its importance to this day and forms the basis for further research, among other things. a. by Karl Dietel and Elisabeth Jäger . Assuming a tribal relationship, he also described the von Weißelsdorf family in connection with the Sparneckers .

At the end of Alban von Dobenck's life, the First World War broke out. He lost four of his sons who had risen to high military ranks. Arnold von Dobenck, one of the two remaining sons, completed his father's work on local history by publishing his manuscripts and wrote a short essay himself on the Franconian local nobility. Alban von Dobenck died on December 10, 1919 in Traunstein. In his obituary of December 17, 1919 in the Hofer Anzeiger he was remembered as the former owner of the Brandstein manor and as a “capable farmer” with “excellent character traits”. The votes cast on him in the Reichstag election in 1881 also caused a stir , which led to the victory of the progressive government councilor Heinrich August Papellier from Bayreuth over the long-time national liberal Hof representative in the Landtag and Reichstag Friedrich von Schauß . All bearers of the name still alive are descendants of Alban von Dorbenck. The family archive is located in the Bamberg State Archive .

bibliography

• Alban (Freiherr) von Dorbenck: History of the von Dobeck family . Schöneberg-Berlin 1906. (published by the son Dr. phil. (Hans) Arnold (Freiherr) von Dorbenck)
• Alban von Dobenck: History of the extinct family of the von Sparneck (part 1) . In: Archives for history and antiquity of Upper Franconia . 22nd volume, 3rd issue. Bayreuth 1905. pp. 1-65.
• Alban von Dorbenck: History of the extinct family of the von Sparneck (part 2) . In: Archives for history and antiquity of Upper Franconia . 23rd volume, 1st issue. Bayreuth 1906 p. 1-56.
• Alban von Dobenck: Supplements from the von Schirnding family, written and communicated by Ed. Gustav Counts of Pettenegg and Frhrn. Maximilian von Gravenreuth, printed in the organ of the heraldic-genealogical association "Adler", born in Vienna in 1881 . In: Archives for history and antiquity of Upper Franconia . 23rd volume, 2nd issue. Bayreuth 1907. pp. 108-112.
• Alban von Dobenck: History of the extinct family of Kotzau . In: Archives for history and antiquity of Upper Franconia . 24th volume, 1st issue. Bayreuth 1909. pp. 1–111.
• Alban von Dobenck: History of the extinct lineage of Lüchau . In: Archives for history and antiquity of Upper Franconia . Volume 24, Issue 3. Bayreuth 1911. pp. 21-194.
• Dr. Arnold von Dobenck: On the history of the extinct family of the Rabensteiner von Doehlau . In: Archives for history and antiquity of Upper Franconia . Volume 25, Issue 3. Bayreuth 1914. pp. 37-145. (published by son)

literature

• Peter Braun (ed.): Alban Freiherr von Dorbenck - History of the extinct family of the von Sparneck . Edited reprint of the work from 1905/1906. Norderstedt 2009. pp. 7-9. ISBN 978-3-8370-8717-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans Seiffert : Castles and palaces in the Franconian Forest . Helmbrechts 1937. p. 134.
2. ^ Arnold von Dobenck: The landlord families of the Vogt and Regnitzland in the Middle Ages . Bayreuth 1926.
3. ↑ Hof City Archives , L0250