Carl Caspar von Droste zu Hülshoff

Caspar Theodor Carl Wilhelm Freiherr von Droste zu Hülshoff (born March 21, 1843 at Hülshoff Castle near Münster , † July 22, 1922 in Meersburg ) was a German politician, officer, entrepreneur and landowner.

Carl Caspar von Droste zu Hülshoff (1843–1922), painting approx. 1880

Life

Caspar Carl Freiherr von Droste zu Hülshoff was born as the youngest son of the landowner and politician Werner-Constantin von Droste zu Hülshoff (1789–1867) and his wife Caroline, née. Born Freiin Wendt -Papenhausen (1802–1881). He belonged to the 21st generation of his family and became the progenitor of the family branch that still exists today. He was the youngest nephew of the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , who only knew him as a small child. His siblings were u. a. Heinrich von Droste zu Hülshoff , Ferdinand von Droste zu Hülshoff , Clemens Friedrich Freiherr Droste zu Hülshoff and Elisabeth von Droste zu Hülshoff. He studied law, served in the Franco-Prussian War and until his marriage was infantry - first lieutenant in the hussar regiment "Emperor Nicholas II of Russia" (1st Westphalian) No. 8 .

In 1873 he married Pierrine Fischer (born December 4, 1852 in Paris , † November 24, 1903 in Paderborn ), who came from a Warburg patrician and legal family , with whom he lived in a villa in Münster until 1878 and then at Hamborn Castle near Paderborn. Pierrine died at the age of 51 and was buried in Hamborn, but later transferred to the family grave of the Fischer family in Warburg.

In 1905 he married Marie von Bothmer . After handing Gut Hamborn over to his only son Heinrich in 1912, they lived in Kassel and Meran and Meersburg . Both are buried in the family graveyard Laßberg- Droste zu Hülshoff in the Meersburg cemetery in Meersburg , directly opposite the much-visited grave of the poet.

Possessions and ventures

Pierrine was the daughter of the banker and landowner Robert Fischer (1820–1870) and his first wife Pierrette, b. Charvin grew up in the elegant Rue de Rivoli in Paris and had inherited part of his fortune, which had the following unusual history: Pierrine's father Robert, the youngest son of Justice Councilor Philip Fischer, who came from a patrician family , was still born in Warburg (where his brother Heinrich Fischer ( Politician, 1807) was mayor). After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he moved to Paris to take care of his much older sister, Viktorine-Charlotte Charvin, née. Fischer from Warburg, to help with the administration of the assets inherited from her husband Pierre Charvin, which he then took over. The Parisian brother-in-law Charvin had originally come from Paris to Kassel with Jérôme Bonaparte and worked his way up to be a hotelier there. After his marriage in Warburg, Charvin went back to Paris with his wife because an uncle who was a notary there had made him his heir. This uncle originally had the great fortune from a Marquise de Chevriers whom he, who was a Jacobin , had saved from the guillotine by marriage and then inherited.

Hamborn Castle, Borchen near Paderborn, seat of Carl Caspar from 1879 to 1912

Fürstenhäusle in Meersburg, seat of Carl Caspar and his second wife from 1915 to 1922

With the fortune of his wife, Caspar Carl acquired Hamborn Estate and Castle from the estate of Hermann von Mallinckrodt in 1879 . Through acquisitions (including Haxtergrund, origin of the Haxthausen family, related to the Droste zu Hülshoff ), he brought the estate to around 750 hectares. He redesigned it like a castle and had various, partly still existing buildings erected, as well as a park and stalking trails. He had the elm house (as a stable or stables) and the Rentei (today's children's home) built, and a sawmill was operated on the property. He also had a manor chapel built. He completed the road and bridge construction work planned by his predecessor. His coat of arms is still there on an outer wall. As an entrepreneur, he suffered setbacks in the early years : a cement works in which he was involved and the Paderborner Bank (founded in 1900 by Catholic circles, supported by the Bonifatius Association ), on whose supervisory board he sat, collapsed. After handing over the property to his son in 1912, Caspar Carl acquired the Fürstenhäusle in Meersburg in 1915 from the estate of Hildegunde von Laßberg, daughter of Joseph von Laßberg and Jenny von Droste zu Hülshoff . He made it habitable through an extension and lived there with his second wife until his death. The weather vane with the Droste zu Hülshoff and Bothmer coats of arms and his carvings in the room decorated with family coats of arms also remind of Carl Caspar.

Public work

In the Kulturkampf of 1874, Caspar Carl Droste zu Hülshoff helped to hide files of the arrested Bishop Johann Bernhard Brinkmann von Münster on his property next to the bishop's palace. When he was threatened with harassment, he acquired residence and citizenship in Böttstein Castle , Canton Aargau, from the conservative Swiss National Councilor Karl von Schmid . After the acquisition of Hamborn he was mayor of Borchen . In 1882 he and his first wife Pierrine had a statue of Mary erected on the "Stern" at Hamborn Castle in memory of the apparitions and pilgrimage in Lourdes , which is still there. From 1882 to 1883 he was a member of the provincial parliament of the province of Westphalia for the constituency of Paderborn , where he represented ultra-monthly positions. He received the Princely House in Meersburg , which he expanded and lived in, for posterity. His second wife Marie, b. Freiin von Bothmer (a daughter of Lieutenant General Eduard von Bothmer ) set up the Droste Museum there. In 1928 she self-published her illustrated booklet: "The princely house of the poet Annette Freiin Droste zu Hülshoff. Unpublished family pictures, letters, documents" (69 pages).

private interests

In 1887 Droste zu Hülshoff wrote a (unpublished) story of the vondeckebrock-v. Droste-Hülshoff. It supplements the family history of J. Holsenbürger, based on his father's preliminary work and published in 1868, and contains a.o. a. the text of medieval documents. He organized concerts, festivals and hunts at Hamborn Castle.

Honors

Droste zu Hülshoff was the papal secret chamberlain .

Descendants

The only son and heir of Carl Caspar von Droste zu Hülshoff, from his first marriage to Pierrine Fischer, was the lawyer and writer Heinrich von Droste zu Hülshoff (author) . His only son, Mariano Freiherr von Droste zu Hülshoff (1907–1997), is the father of Bernd von Droste zu Hülshoff and Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff .

literature

• Wilderich from Droste to Hülshoff : 900 years of Droste to Hülshoff . Verlag LPV Hortense von Gelmini, Horben 2018, ISBN 978-3-936509-16-8
• Wilderich from Droste to Hülshoff : Annette v. Droste-Hülshoff in the tension between her family . CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISBN 3-7980-0683-0
• Albert Fischer: History of the Fischer family in Warburg . Self-published, Warburg 1935
• Christoph Möllmann: From the history of Hamborn Castle . Verlag Ch. Möllmann, Borchen, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89979-120-4
• Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 250.