Clemens von Harff

Clemens August Freiherr von Harff (born August 6, 1821 at Dreiborn Castle ; † January 21, 1895 in Schleiden ) was district administrator for the Schleiden district from 1863 to 1895 , as well as Fideikommiss owner of Dreiborn and Mauel.

Life

origin

The von Harff family, belonging to the Jülich nobility, lived at Dreiborn Castle since 1564. In that year the forefather of Clemens von Harff, Daem von Harff, married Margaretha von Eltz, the heiress of Dreiborn, for the first time. According to tradition, the father of Clemens August Freiherr von Harff, Clemens Wenzeslaus Philipp Josef Freiherr von Harff (born December 13, 1775 at Dreiborn Castle; drowned on March 12, 1835 in the Seine / Paris ) was a spendthrift. After his death the bankruptcy had to be opened. He was married to his former maid, Catharina, née Kischgens (born September 8, 1790 in Dreiborn; died May 18, 1870 in Schleiden with her son). In addition to their son Clemens, they also had two daughters. Sophia, born in Cologne in 1817, married the Schleiden mayor Mathias Irmen in 1842, but died in 1847. Charlotte, who was born in Bonn in 1825, was married to a bourgeois doctor in southern Germany.

Career

Clemens Freiherr von Harff was first brought up by private tutors , but from 1834 he went to a grammar school in Aachen , from which he switched to a Catholic grammar school in Cologne in 1835 . In 1839 he left this for health reasons with the Obersekunda . In the run-up to the administration of the Majorate Dreiborn, which he was responsible for from 1842, Clemens Freiherr von Harff attended lectures at the Agricultural College in Wiesbaden in 1840 and 1841.

From 1854 Clemens Freiherr von Harff took over political offices: in 1854 with appointment as district deputy for the Schleiden district, in which function he repeatedly represented the incumbent district administrator Richard Graf Beissel von Gymnich from 1858 , then by being appointed mayor of the Dreiborn mayor. After Beissel said goodbye to Gymnich, von Harff initially transferred the administration of Schleiden district on October 1, 1863. The presentation election on April 5, 1864, was followed by the definitive appointment on August 3, 1864, and swearing-in as district administrator on October 20, 1864. Von Harff, who died on duty, received the distinction of Privy Councilor on February 4, 1889 from the very highest authority . He was also the bearer of the Red Eagle Order, 3rd class.

family

On March 2, 1848 married Clemens von Harf on Castle Kellenberg Cunegonde Walpurga Maria, nee Baroness Raitz von Frentz (born March 20, 1824 at Castle Kellenberger, died August 23, 1906 in Gemünd / Eifel), daughter of the nobleman and Prussian lieutenant a. D. Edmund Karl Christian Hubert Baron Raitz von Frentz and his wife Kunigunde, née Countess von Beissel. The couple had only three sons. While the first-born Emmerich Carl Camill Maria Hubert Bartholomäus Freiherr von Harff (1852–1902) died unmarried as Mayor of Schleiden at the age of 52, the second-born Franz Carl Camill Maria Hubert Freiherr von Harff (1854–1913) embarked on a military career. Since he also remained unmarried, only Ludwig Clemens Ernst Maria Hubert Freiherr von Harff (1856–1916) continued the Dreiborn branch. The district judge and district court director left three children. The line died out with the last name bearer Judith Freifrau von Harff, née Freiin Raitz von Frentz. Clemens August arranged for a villa to be built for himself and his family in Gemünd (Kölner Straße 23), which was not completed until 1897.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the university library in Cologne. Volume 7, folder 519-584. GRUITHAUSEN-vd HEIDT gt. HUNGERKHAUSEN. (= Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, based in Cologne, No. 73). Cologne 1994, Mappe 563 (Harff), pp. 563-617, here pp. 584-585.
↑ After Romeyk he died in Dreiborn, but in the end it was only inhabited by tenants. Clemens himself lived in Schleiden.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816-1945 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 505-506 .
^ Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 7., folder 519-584. GRUITHAUSEN-vd HEIDT gt. HUNGERKHAUSEN. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, based in Cologne, No. 73). Cologne 1994, Mappe 563 (Harff), pp. 563-617, here p. 579.
↑ Harald Herzog: Castles and palaces, history and typology of the aristocratic seats in the Euskirchen district. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1067-6 , pp. 215-231 (Dreiborn), here p. 222.
↑ Ruth Schmitz-Ehmke , Barbara Fischer: The architectural and art monuments of the district of Euskirchen. City of Schleiden (= The architectural and art monuments of North Rhine-Westphalia I. Rhineland 9.9). Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7861-1873-6 , p. 131 and Fig. 361.

personal data
SURNAME	Harff, Clemens von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Harff, Clemens August Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH	August 6, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dreiborn Castle
DATE OF DEATH	January 21, 1895
Place of death	Schleiden

[Schleicher7-1] A ^b ^c ^d ^e Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the university library in Cologne. Volume 7, folder 519-584. GRUITHAUSEN-vd HEIDT gt. HUNGERKHAUSEN. (= Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, based in Cologne, No. 73). Cologne 1994, Mappe 563 (Harff), pp. 563-617, here pp. 584-585.

[2] After Romeyk he died in Dreiborn, but in the end it was only inhabited by tenants. Clemens himself lived in Schleiden.

[Romeyk-3] Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816-1945 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 505-506 .

[4] Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 7., folder 519-584. GRUITHAUSEN-vd HEIDT gt. HUNGERKHAUSEN. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, based in Cologne, No. 73). Cologne 1994, Mappe 563 (Harff), pp. 563-617, here p. 579.

[Herzog-5] Harald Herzog: Castles and palaces, history and typology of the aristocratic seats in the Euskirchen district. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1067-6 , pp. 215-231 (Dreiborn), here p. 222.

[6] Ruth Schmitz-Ehmke , Barbara Fischer: The architectural and art monuments of the district of Euskirchen. City of Schleiden (= The architectural and art monuments of North Rhine-Westphalia I. Rhineland 9.9). Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7861-1873-6 , p. 131 and Fig. 361.