Conrad von Koch

Conrad Reinhard Koch (from 1769 Edler , from 1815 Knight von Koch; * December 22, 1738 in Buchsweiler in Alsace ; † June 9, 1821 in Teublitz ) was envoy of the Prince Diocese of Lübeck and the Duchy of Oldenburg at the Perpetual Diet in Regensburg and Hofmarks - resp . Patrimonialgerichts -Mr in Teublitz in the Upper Palatinate .

Family and childhood

Conrad Reinhard Koch was born as the ninth of a total of eleven children of the Protestant married couple Johann Reinhard Koch and Susanna Dorothea Koch (née Fleischmann), nine of whom reached adulthood. Conrad Reinhard's father was a councilor and his maternal grandfather was a privy councilor in the government of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg and later a plenipotentiary in Paris . Since his father after the fall of the County of Hesse-Darmstadt with the new rulers Landgraf . Louis VIII did not understand well, he went in 1750 to the wife and the still unserved children (which include the eleven-year old Conrad Reinhard counted) to Strasbourg , leaving his place for the then 25-year-old eldest son Johann Friedrich Achatius. Together with his younger brother Friedrich Albrecht and his next older brother Christoph Wilhelm , Conrad Reinhard attended the Protestant grammar school there after moving to Strasbourg . A strong bond with Protestantism can be seen in the von Koch family , for example the second oldest brother Conrad Reinhard, Christian Nikolaus, Magister and pastor in Buchsweiler, his oldest sister Sophia Dorothea was married to the superintendent (Spezial) von Buchsweiler, Gerhardi, the sister Sibylla Sophia with the pastor Beyer von Münster in Alsace and the sister Euphrosina Salome with Ludwig Kern, the president of the General Consistory of the Church of Augsburg Confession in Strasbourg, established in 1802 . Conrad von Koch was married to Friederike Luise Ernestine, also a Protestant, b. von Brandenstein, a daughter of Johann August von Brandenstein and his wife Maria Magdalena Ernestine, born. Devil from Pirkensee .

diplomacy

Three of the five brothers later left Strasbourg or Buchsweiler and entered the diplomatic service. As mentioned above, the oldest, Johann Friedrich Achatius, was initially Real Privy Councilor of the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and later Ambassador to the French court in Versailles . Friedrich Albrecht was the Imperial Russian Privy Councilor , Minister in St. Petersburg and Envoy in Regensburg and Vienna and founded a Russian line of the von Koch family. The unmarried brother Christoph Wilhelm, however, stayed in Strasbourg and embarked on a scientific and political career.

Conrad Reinhard himself had been canon of the prince-bishopric or bishopric of Lübeck since 1797, as well as princely Lübeck and ducal Oldenburg conference councilors and envoy to the German Reichstag in Regensburg. The Hochstift Lübeck was secularized to a principality by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 and until then it was the only Protestant ecclesiastical imperial estate in the Old Kingdom . The Lübeck prince-bishops have always been elected by the cathedral chapter from the House of Holstein-Gottorp since 1586 and have also been dukes of Oldenburg since the Treaty of Tsarskoe Selo in 1773. At the latest in 1806 with the laying down of the crown by Emperor Franz II and thus the end of the Holy Roman Empire and its institutions, Koch's activity as envoy will have ended.

Nobility rise

On November 27, 1769, at the age of 30, Conrad Reinhard was raised to the imperial aristocracy by Emperor Joseph II in Vienna with the predicate "Edler von" (as were his brothers Johann Friedrich Achatius, Christoph Wilhelm and Friedrich Albrecht in 1777) . Later he looked for the elevation to the imperial baron status and if this was not possible, then for the recognition of his imperial knighthood . As such, he was then also registered on July 23, 1810 at the Reichsheroldenamt in Munich in the local aristocratic registers.

Teublitz

On January 16, 1796, Conrad Reinhard von Koch, together with his wife , bought the Hofmark Teublitz from their maternal uncle, Karl Philipp Wolfgang Teufel von Pirkensee , for 50,000  florins . After the end of the Perpetual Reichstag in Regensburg, Koch seems to have lived permanently in Teublitz. With the death of his at the age of 45 on October 25, 1800, Conrad Reinhard von Koch at the age of 61 finally became the sole owner of the Hofmark Teublitz, which later became a patrimonial , then a local and finally through the state reforms of Montgelas a patrimonial 2nd class was converted.

Retirement

At the end of his life, Koch was heavily in debt, which may have been due to the costly redesign of his palace gardens in addition to paying off the other interested parties . He blamed Napoleon for his precarious financial situation , possibly because he had forced the end of the Holy Roman Empire and thus made his livelihood - the Perpetual Diet - null and void. In 1812 Koch wrote to his son in consternation : "En verité si L'Empereur Napoléon n'avait à répondre que du seul mal qu'il m'a fait, il devrait trouver sa conscience encore bien chargé." ( "If Emperor Napoleon only had to answer for one single wrong that he did to me, then he would really still find his conscience burdened enough!" ) In 1820 Koch finally had to sell the Teublitz castle property to his son's mother-in-law, Maria Anna Bertrand de St. Rémy Countess de La Perouse, a born Countess of Arco-Valley , sold, but stayed in Teublitz until his death. Conrad Reinhard Ritter von Koch died on June 9, 1821 at the age of 82 in Teublitz, he rests in the family crypt next to the church in Saltendorf an der Naab .

progeny

Conrad Reinhard, then “Edler von Koch” had four children with his wife, three of whom reached adulthood. On April 3, 1782, the first child Friederike Wilhelmine Ernestine Philippine Caroline was born in Regensburg. Also in Regensburg, on March 17, 1783, the second child, Friedrich August Theodor, was born, who later became Bavarian State Minister as Freiherr von Gise . On March 16, 1784 the second daughter Magdalena Auguste Wilhelmine Sophie was born. The second son, Peter Friedrich Ludwig, who was born on February 8, 1793, died on July 19 of the same year at the age of five months in Regensburg.

swell

• Bavarian Main State Archives Munich, nobility register K 13; Palatinate-Neuburg-Files 2288.
• Evangelical Church Book Archive Regensburg, Regensburg Church Books, Books 24 & 25.
• Family crypt Saltendorf an der Naab
• Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, inventory GA 90, no.796
• State Archives Amberg , House and Rustic Tax Register Burglengenfeld, 95.
• Teublitz city archive, letters from Conrad Reinhard von Koch.
• Thomas Barth, Noble Lives in the Old Kingdom. The landed gentry of the Upper Palatinate in the 18th century, Regensburg 2005.

literature

• Friedrich Buech: Christoph Wilhelm Koch (1737-1813). The last law teacher at the old Strasbourg university. A picture from the Alsatian scholarly life. In: Writings of the Scientific Institute of the Alsace-Lorraine in the Reich at the University of Frankfurt. New episode 17; Frankfurt 1936.
• Walter Demel : Structure and development of the Bavarian nobility from the middle of the 18th century until the founding of the empire. In: ZBLG. 61, 1998, 295-345.
• Everhard Illigens : History of the Lübeck Church from 1530 to 1896. History of the former Catholic diocese and the current Catholic community as well as the Catholic bishops, canons and pastors of Lübeck from 1530 to 1896. Paderborn 1896.
• B. Koerner (Hrsg.): Genealogisches Handbuch Bürgerlicher Familien. Volume 9, Berlin 1902.
• Johann Kolb: Chronicle of Teublitz. (Handwriting with illustrations) Saltendorf 1908.
• Wolfgang Schöberl: The city triangle. Maxhütte-Haidhof - Burglengenfeld - Teublitz. Kallmünz 1978.

See also

• List of the canons of Lübeck

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang Prange : Directory of the Canon. In: Ders .: Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, principality and part of the country 1160-1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 421 No. 427