Andreas of Grand-Ry

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Andreas von Grand-Ry (1837-1903). Photograph by Leopold Haase & Comp., Berlin around 1874

Andreas Karl Hubert von Grand-Ry (born May 4, 1837 in Eupen ; † September 25, 1903 in Kettenis near Eupen) came from a noble Catholic family, Grand Ry , was the owner of a manor ( Stockem Castle ) and a member of the Reichstag .

Life

Grand-Ry was the son of the cloth manufacturer Heinrich Wilhelm Joseph von Grand Ry (1810–1878) and the Félicie Le Picard (1809–1881). He attended high school in Bonn and then studied law at the universities in Bonn and Berlin. In the meantime he was in the Prussian army from 1859 to 1862 , where he resigned as a lieutenant . From 1862 he resumed his law studies and, after passing his exams, was a trainee lawyer with the district government in Aachen . Since 1858 he was a member of the Catholic Reading Association Berlin (now KStV Askania-Burgundia ) in the KV . Later he also became a member of the K.St.V. Arminia Bonn . In 1868 Grand Ry was elected as District Administrator of Eupen, but was not confirmed by the Prussian government, which is why he resigned from the civil service.

From 1870 to 1882 and from 1887 to 1903 he sat as a center politician in the Prussian House of Representatives , and from 1879 to 1888 he was a member of the Rhineland Provincial Parliament . From 1871 until his death in 1903 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Koblenz 6 ( Adenau - Cochem - Zell ). Because of his eagerly defended Catholic faith, he was accepted into the knightly class of the Papal Order of Gregory . Between 1900 and 1903 Andreas von Grand Ry sat the history painter Georg Waltenberger portrait for whose work The Chancellor von Bülow speaks in the Reichstag , completed in 1905 , on which Grand Ry can be seen sitting to the right of the Chancellor.

Andreas von Grand Ry was married to Marie Anne Julie de Grand Ry (1838-1924), daughter of Charles Joseph Jacques de Grand'Ry (1805-1875) and a second cousin. Through her he inherited the Grand Ry house and sold it to the Imperial Postal Administration, which moved there on April 1, 1893. From his father he inherited the Weims Castle, which his grandfather had bought, and also took over Thal Castle in 1899 , which had already been owned by the family until 1801 and has since had other owners. He restored this property and died there in 1903. After the loss of the First World War and the takeover of the Prussian territories around Eupen by Belgium, his son André Joseph Jules von Grand Ry (1870–1929) sold the Weims Castle and his widow in 1919 the castle Thal.

literature

  • Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 8, 1903, Reimer, Berlin
  • Wilhelm Kosch , continued by Eugen Kuri: Biographisches Staats Handbuch. Volume 1, Francke, Bern [et al.] 1963.
  • Bernhard Mann: Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives (1867-1918). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties, volume 3)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 150 years of Askania-Burgundia in Berlin, p. 108
  2. ↑ Short biography see also: Hirth, Georg (Hrsg.): German Parliament Almanach . 9th edition of May 9, 1871. Berlin: Verlag Franz Duncker, 1871, p. 191; see also: Reichstag Bureau (Hrsg.): Official Reichstag manual. Tenth legislative period 1898-1903 . Berlin: Printing House of the Reichstag, 1898, p. 186
  3. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 153 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 792-795.
  4. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, pp. 161-162; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Statistics of the elections for the constituent and North German Reichstag, for the customs parliament, as well as for the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag . Berlin: Verlag Louis Gerschel, 1883, p. 110
  5. ↑ Fabrice Müllender: Grand Ry - Grandeur and Granit , p. 53, Grenzecho Verlag, Eupen, 2018, ISBN 978-3-8671-2132-3
personal data
SURNAME Grand-Ry, Andreas von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manor owner and politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Eupen
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1903
Place of death Kettenis near Eupen