Andreas van Recum
Andreas van Recum , from 1818 from Recum (born August 6, 1765 in Grünstadt , Palatinate ; † October 31, 1828 in Bad Kreuznach ), was a senior civil servant in the Palatinate, French and Bavarian services, recognized capacity in viticulture and agriculture, as well Knight of the French Legion of Honor and Commander of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown . Since 1981, the “Freiherr Andreas van Recum-Plakette” has been awarded in his memory for special services to education and training in viticulture and agriculture. Some of the Van Recum family still live in the Palatinate today.
Life
Origin and youth
Andreas van Recum was born in Grünstadt as one of the 12 children of the Dutch cloth manufacturer Peter van Recum, who immigrated there in 1735, and his wife Marie Susanna Zeiler, who came from the town itself. The family belonged to the Catholic minority in this Lutheran-dominated capital and residence of what was then the County of Leiningen-Westerburg. She was very wealthy and respected. Andreas van Recum's brother Johann Nepomuk (1753–1801) bought in 1795 a. a. also the Frankenthal porcelain manufactory to continue it as an earthenware factory in Grünstadt from 1801 . The sister Marie Susanne (1774–1844) married the entrepreneur François Joseph Jean Saglio (1765–1813) and their son was the painter Camille Saglio . Maria Magdalena van Recum, another sister, became the wife of the wealthy Koblenz merchant Pierre François Paravey (1775–1828).
Andreas van Recum himself reports on his family circumstances in Grünstadt:
“ My father lived in accordance with his civil status, had a cheerful disposition, was active and generally recognized as an honorable, legal, and at the same time clever man, whose hard work and activity were rewarded by assets which he only benefited from, especially for upbringing and higher education related to his children. "
Initially, it was not he, but his brother Peter Joseph who was destined for the clergy. He had studied in Heidelberg, was a canon at the St. Viktor monastery in front of Mainz , but died in 1780. Andreas was determined by the father to take over the prebend he had already acquired in order not to suffer any economic loss. He attended secondary school in Mainz , studied there, and at the age of 21 was ordained a subdeacon by Worms Auxiliary Bishop Stephan Alexander Würdtwein as well as a benefice as a collegiate capital to St. Victor . Van Recum sought dispensation from the residence obligation in order to obtain a doctorate in law. Since Van Recum did not feel a vocation to the priesthood even later, the Archbishop of Mainz, Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, at his own request , exempted him from the duties of the clergy and from celibacy, whereupon he entered the electoral Palatinate Bavarian service and married in Mannheim in 1791 . Since the archbishop acted without papal approval and had not even reported the matter to Rome for a decision, Pope Pius VI. a special bull that dealt exclusively with the “Andreas van Recum laicization case”.
The pontiff stated that the decision was reserved to Rome, that the archbishop's arbitrary dispensation was invalid and that van Recum should continue to be regarded as a cleric. As a result, the Grünstadt subdeacon made sustained efforts at the Holy See to settle his muddled affair, which put a moral burden on him. Finally Pope Pius VI dispensed him . personally from the spiritual duties under the condition of a renewed ecclesiastical blessing of his marriage, which was not valid due to the previously existing canonical obstacle to marriage. Van Recum followed this requirement immediately, in 1792 he signed a legally valid marriage with Catharina Edle von Rogister (1770-1819) in Simmern.
Civil servant and politician
After his personal status affairs had been settled in a satisfactory manner, the Palatinate resumed his dormant civil service. Andreas van Recum served as court judge in Mannheim from 1791 , and from 1792 as chief administrator and land clerk of the Electoral Palatinate superior office in Simmern . There he tried to introduce clover and potato cultivation to improve the three-field economy .
In 1794, when the French had occupied the areas left of the Rhine in the Holy Roman Empire , Recum left the enemy-occupied area on the basis of government orders from the Bavarian Elector - like all officials - and was used for various tasks, including a. in Basel for negotiations with the French ambassador François Barthélemy .
Andreas van Recum returned to his Palatinate homeland in 1797 and tried to act moderately in the service of the occupying power. In his return year he became justice of the peace and president of the interim government in Bad Kreuznach. Here he made a major contribution to the fact that the refugees, regarded as "emigrants", did not lose their goods - as the French intended - but got them back when they returned. From 1798 Andreas van Recum officiated in the French central administration in Koblenz , then as Sous-Prefect ( sub-prefect ) in Simmern. In 1804 he was elected as a member of the Corps législatif (legislative body) in Paris, and in 1809 a second time. The man from Grünstadt received the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor from Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and became the "Baron of the French Empire". As a result of his membership in Paris, he was also one of the 70 signatories of the deed of Emperor Napoleon's renunciation of the throne.
Andreas van Recum was the founder and master of the chair of the Masonic Lodge “Les amis réunis de la Nahe et du Rhin” , which worked from 1809 to 1814 (re-established in Kreuznach in 1858 as the Johannis Lodge “The United Friends of the Nahe” ).
After the French withdrew from the annexed areas, Andreas van Recum from Palatinate returned to the Bavarian service and was appointed to the debt liquidation commission as Bavarian representative, which regulated the war debts and claims between France, Prussia and Bavaria. After completing the complicated negotiations through a settlement that was also satisfactory to Bavaria, King Maximilian awarded Joseph I. van Recum with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown, combined with the personal title of nobility and a lifelong seat on the Bavarian Imperial Council. At the same time he appointed him royal privy councilor .
Old age as a squire
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After 1818 Andreas von Recum - as he was now called - withdrew from active political life. As early as 1802 he had acquired the Bangert manor near Bad Kreuznach, where he now lived as a squire when he was not in Mannheim. He also owned the Kauzenburg near Kreuznach from 1803 and the Dhaun castle ruins from 1804 . Recum became an agricultural capacity, especially with regard to the three-field economy and its improvement through clover and potato cultivation, lime fertilization and livestock farming. He was particularly fond of viticulture, about which he published several essays, which were also published in reprint in a contemporary way. After the death of his first wife, he married Jeanette Freiin von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1791–1821) in 1820 . As a result of the earlier ennoblement as "Imperial French Baron", von Recum achieved the entry as hereditary "barons" in the Bavarian aristocratic registers for himself and his descendants in 1822. His third wife, whom he married in 1824, was Caroline Christine Freiin von Hundheim (1799–1848).
The “ Society for the History of Wine ” dedicates its own website to him and in 1981 the “Association of Agricultural Technical School Graduates” in Bad Kreuznach donated the “Freiherr Andreas van Recum plaque”, named after the man from the Upper Palatinate, for special services to training and further education in viticulture agriculture.
His modern biographer Karl Georg Faber describes Andreas von Recum as a "Rhenish cosmopolitan " .
Catharina Therese van Recum b. von Rogister (1770–1819), 1st wife of Andreas van Recum
Jeanette van Recum b. von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1791–1821), 2nd wife of Andreas van Recum
Works
- “Individual considerations from the history of Germany” , (dissertation), Mainz, Tobias Sartorius publishing house, 1790. Complete scan of the book
- Jarzäler of the department of the Rhine and Moselle by A. Vanrecum, central administrator in the same department. Year 8 , Koblenz [1799/1800] dilibri Koblenz
- "Attempts about the late autumn, a guide to quality improvement in viticulture in the Prussian Rhine Province" , Mannheim 1826 by Tobias Löffler, reprinted by Weinorden der Nahe, paper no. 1.
- "Messages from the older and more recent history of viticulture on the Rhine, the Moselle, Nahe" ; Mannheim 1826 by Tobias Löffler, reprinted in 1978 by Sparkasse Bad Kreuznach.
- About the planting of the acacia tree for vineyard stakes. Continuation of the agricultural lessons etc. Kreuznach, 1808
- Observations sur la nécessité d'établir en France des Ecoles Forestières. imprimerie de Cellot, Paris, 1807.
- Observations on the loi du 25 November 1808, relatives aux distillations de pommes de terre, sur les inconvéniens qui résulteraient pour l'agriculture de leur suppression, sur les moyens de concilier les intérêts du fisc avec ceux des agriculteurs par M. Vanrecum de André Honesta Pierre Van Recum
literature
- Louis Bruere: Rheinisches Conversationslexikon for educated classes , Cöln, 1835.
- Franz Freiherr von Recum: Andreas von Recum - The life of a Palatinate around the turn of the 18th century , Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter, 8/1927.
- Karl-Georg Faber : Andreas van Recum 1765 - 1828, a Rhenish cosmopolitan (= Paris historical studies, volume 8): Röhrscheid, Bonn 1969 ( digitized version ).
- Walter Lampert: 1100 years of Grünstadt . Stadtverwaltung Grünstadt, 1975, p. 382 (there also information about the brother Johann Nepomuk van Recum).
- Altertumsverein Grünstadt (Ed.): 180 years of the Grünstadt stoneware factory . Emil Sommer Publishing House, Grünstadt 1985.
- GGT Frhrl. H. 1855-1927 (St.R.), 1941; GHdA Miss. H. B VIII / 1982 (Ä. G.), XXIII / 2005; Hdb. Bayern XIV / 1982 (St.R.), XXVI / 2006.
Web links
- French website about the van Recum family (illustrated)
- Biographical website of the city of Bad Kreuznach
- Entry in the Rheinisches Conversationslexikon, Cologne, 1835
- Memorial page of the "Society for Viticulture" about Andreas van Recum.
- Website about the Bangert estate, Bad Kreuznach, with a mention and picture of Andreas van Recum ( Memento from March 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- History of the Schloßparkmuseum
- Tomb for Baroness Johanna von Recum, née Freiin von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1791–1821), in the palace gardens of Bad Kreuznach
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogical website on Maria Magdalena van Recum
- ↑ Historical website about Pierre François Paravey ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ French website on Pierre François Paravey and his family environment
- ^ Genealogical website on Peter Joseph van Recum
- ^ Gustav Toepke : The register of the University of Heidelberg , 4th part, p. 272, Heidelberg, 1903; (Digital scan)
- ↑ Worms consecration book, folium 303
- ^ Wife website
- ^ Les députés français depuis 1789
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Recum, Andreas van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Recum, Andreas von; Recum, André Honesta Pierre Van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian and French civil servant or politician in various offices |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1765 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grünstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1828 |
| Place of death | Bad Kreuznach |