Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser

Clemens von Schorlemer-Lieser

Clemens August Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser (born September 29, 1856 in Horstmar , † July 6, 1922 in Berlin ) was a German politician.

Life

Lieser Castle near Bernkastel-Kues

Baron von Schorlemer came from the original Westphalian Catholic noble family Schorlemer and was born in 1856 as the second eldest son of the German politician Burghard von Schorlemer-Alst and Countess Anna von Imbsen zu Wewer, widowed von Droste zu Vischering (1820-1891), on Haus Alst near Horstmar. After attending school at the Dionysianum grammar school in Rheine , where he graduated from high school in 1874, he studied law in Würzburg and Göttingen . In Würzburg he became a member of the Catholic student union K.St.V. Walhalla Würzburg in the KV . In 1878 he received his doctorate and did his military service. In 1880 he married the wealthy Maria Puricelli (born February 1, 1855 Krefeld; † 1936), the daughter of the iron and steel works, gas works, knight and winery owner Eduard Puricelli (1826-1893), who later inherited a fortune in the millions. Together they acquired a winery in Lieser on the Moselle and expanded the Puricelli castle villa in Lieser ( Lieser Castle ), whose name Freiherr von Schorlemer chose for himself. The couple had six children. Her two sons Friedrich-Leo (1894–1915) and August (1885–1940) died in the First and Second World Wars, respectively .

In 1884 von Schorlemmer gained administrative experience as a court assessor at the public prosecutor's offices in Bonn and Düsseldorf . From 1886 to 1888 he worked as a government assessor in Magdeburg . On December 1, 1888, von Schorlemer was unanimously elected district councilor of Neuss . It was in Neuss that he established solid relationships with social groups for the first time. In 1892 Schorlemer was made an honorary member of the Neuss Citizens' Rifle Club, of which he became the rifle king in 1893/1894. Politically, he supported several projects: In 1889 he set up the holiday colonies . In 1882 he initiated both the Prämiensparkasse and the bathing establishment. The Neuss Cravatten technical school was based on his idea. Schorlemer tried to integrate himself in the place. In 1893 he became king of the marksmen. In addition, he built a district building in Neuss, which was inaugurated in 1894.

In 1897 he was called to Breslau , where he took over the office of President of the Province of Silesia . When he left Neuss, the local newspapers praised him as a deserving district administrator, but criticism of his anti-center attitude was criticized.

On August 19, 1905, at the personal request of Wilhelm II , von Schorlemer was the first Catholic to be appointed Upper President of the Rhine Province . From then on he resided in Koblenz . During a visit from Neuss he was given honorary citizenship, which he also received in Koblenz and St. Wendel in 1910 .

On June 18, 1910, Schorlemer rose to the position of Prussian Minister of Agriculture . He held this office until 1917. In 1918 the Chamber of Agriculture for the Rhine Province appointed him chairman. In addition, he was now a member of the Prussian manor house .

Lieser Friedhof Gruftkapelle Schorlemer front view

Since April 1920 he was district deputy of the Bernkastel district . After Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser died in the Hedwig Hospital in Berlin in 1922, the obituaries honored him as a politician between Catholicism and Prussia, aristocratic origins and commitment to the workers, patriotic enthusiasm and incorruptible administration .

Schorlemer-Lieser died on July 6, 1922 in the Hedwig Hospital in Berlin and was buried in Lieser on July 11, 1922.

Schorlemer visiting Pope Pius X in 1908, picture by an unknown painter

family

In 1880 he married the wealthy Maria Puricelli (born February 1, 1855 Krefeld; † 1936), the daughter of Eduard Puricelli (1826-1893). The couple had six children, including:

• Friedrich-Leo (1894–1915)
• August (1885–1940)
• Helene (1882-1938)

∞ Baron Joseph von Fürstenberg († 1904), Prussian first lieutenant

∞ Count Hugo Montgelas (1866–1916), Chamberlain of Württemberg

• Maria (1888–1959) ∞ Count Karl von Kageneck (1871–1967), major general, wing adjutant of Emperor Wilhelm II.
• Elisabeth (1898–1979) ∞ Kurt von Oswald (1892–1971) Graduate engineer, industrialist

Honors

• 1910: Honorary citizenship of the city of Koblenz
• 1910: Honorary citizenship of the city of St. Wendel
• 1911: Honorary doctorate to Dr. hc by the Berlin Veterinary University

literature

• Dieter Gerhold: Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer (1856-1922). Prussian Minister for Agriculture, Domains and Forests from 1910–1917. dissertation.de, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89825-428-3 (Münster, University, dissertation, 2002).
• Franz Schmitt: Chronicle Weindorf Lieser. Paulinus printing works, Trier 1988.
• Reinhold Zilch:  Schorlemer-Lieser, Clemens Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 480-482 ( digitized version ).
• Joachim Lilla: Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer (-Lieser) (1856–1922), Upper President of the Rhine Province (1905–1910) .
• Theophil Gerber: Personalities from agriculture and forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine - Biographisches Lexikon, NORA Verlag Berlin, 4th exp. Ed., 2014, 700–701. ISBN 978-3-936735-67-3
• Biograms from the Veterinary Medical Library of the Free University of Berlin: Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser

Web links

• Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser in the online version of the edition files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic
• Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser in the biographies of the VMB of the Free University of Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ^ Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 7th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 9). Akadpress, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-939413-12-7 , p. 134.
2. ^ Franz Schmitt: Chronicle Weindorf Lieser. 1988, p. 465.
3. ^ Franz Schmitt: Chronicle Weindorf Lieser. 1988, p. 466.
4. ^ Descendants of Oswald