Carl-Wilhelm von Spee

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Carl-Wilhelm von Spee

Carl-Wilhelm Franz-Xaver von Spee (born May 22, 1758 in Düsseldorf , † July 18, 1810 , at Heltorf Castle ) was a nobleman from the Count von Spee family and served Kurköln and Kurpfalz-Bavaria .

Parentage and family

He came from the Rhenish noble family von Spee and was born as the son of the Jülich-Bergischen court chamber vice- president Ambrosius Franziskus von Spee (1730-1791) and his wife Anna Elisabeth Augusta von Hillesheim (1725-1798), a daughter of the Electoral Palatinate Minister Franz Wilhelm Caspar von Hillesheim (1673-1748).

The wife Auguste Elisabeth von Spee b. from Hompesch-Bolheim

In 1780 he married Auguste Elisabeth Freiin von Hompesch-Bolheim (1763–1785). She was the daughter of the Electoral Palatinate and Bavarian Finance Minister Franz Karl Joseph Anton von Hompesch zu Bolheim and the granddaughter of Baron Ludwig Anton von Hacke .

The couple had four children:

  • Franz von Spee (1781–1839)
  • Wilhelm von Spee (* 1782)
  • Charlotta von Spee (* 1783)
  • Elisabeth von Spee (1785–1834), ∞ Maximilian von Vietinghoff

Life

Carl-Wilhelm Franz-Xaver von Spee entered the service of the Elector of Cologne. Here he became a privy councilor and head chef . When he married in 1780, he also held the dignity of the Electoral Palatinate-Bavarian Court Chamber Councilor and Chamberlain . In the Duchy of Jülich-Berg he officiated as head stable master .

The count was also interested in botanicals and founded the Dickenbusch Park at his ancestral home at Schloss Heltorf . He also owned Ahrenthal Castle from Hillesheimer's possession, and in 1806 he acquired the Speesche Palais (now the City Museum ) in Düsseldorf. He owned a total of nine knight seats.

In 1807 Spee suffered a stroke and remained partially paralyzed, in 1810 he died.

He and his wife are the great-grandparents of Admiral Count Maximilian von Spee , who has become famous in recent German history , and who died with his two sons in a naval battle near the Falkland Islands in 1914.

literature

  • Park Heltorf 1796-1996: Carl-Wilhelm Graf von Spee 1758–1810 - founder of Park Heltorf , Graf von Spee Castle Administration , Heltorf, 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogical page of the von Spee family, with exact life dates
  2. ^ Genealogical page on Carl-Wilhelm Franz-Xaver von Spee
  3. ^ Yearbooks for Prussian Legislation, Jurisprudence and Legal Administration , Volume 47, Berlin, 1836, pp. 247 and 248; (Digital scan)
  4. ↑ Jörg Engelbrecht: The Duchy of Berg in the Age of the French Revolution: Modernization Processes Between the Bavarian and the French Model , Schöningh Verlag, 1996, p. 94, ISBN 3506732706
  5. ^ Hans Friedrich Ehrenkrook: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume 112, 1997, p. 467; (Detail scan)
  6. ↑ Website for Dickenbusch-Park
  7. ↑ PDF document on Schloss Ahrenthal, p. 4 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / spee.23group.de
  8. ^ Website for Speeschen Palais Düsseldorf
  9. ↑ Jörg Engelbrecht: The Duchy of Berg in the Age of the French Revolution: Modernization Processes Between the Bavarian and the French Model , Schöningh Verlag, 1996, p. 94, ISBN 3506732706 ; (Detail scan)
  10. ^ Karl Heck, Hans Homann: The holy fountain: Duisburger Sagen, Legenden und Erzählungen , Mercator Verlag, 1967, p. 129; (Detail scan)
personal data
SURNAME Spee, Carl-Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spee, Carl-Wilhelm Franz-Xaver Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Cologne Privy Councilor, Palatinate Bavarian Chamberlain, Lord of the Castle
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1810
Place of death Dusseldorf