Conrad von Rappard

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Conrad von Rappard

Conrad von Rappard (born August 19, 1805 in Unna ; † June 11, 1881 in Matten near Interlaken , Switzerland ) was a lawyer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

Conrad von Rappard was born the son of the Justice Director Conrad Gerhard and his first wife Ottilie , née Pilgrim . After graduation in 1823 at the High School Hammonense in Hamm began in 1824 jurisprudence in Bonn, Halle and Jena to study. In Bonn he joined the Corps Guestphalia . After completing his studies, he was a court trainee in Berlin until 1832. Then he was a regional and court assessor in Unna . In 1839 he became a land and city judge in Altlandsberg , and in 1840 he became a member of a law firm for the development and organization of lignite mining in the Middle Mark . From 1841 he was the owner and partner of various brown coal mines and mines in the Lebus and Storkow districts . In the same year he went to Beelitz in the same position as in Altlandsberg , to Unna in 1843 and from 1844 to Wollstein .

In addition to his involvement in lignite mining near Frankfurt / Oder, he appears mainly in connection with mining in Rauen near Fürstenwalde / Spree. Starting in September 1841, with a provisional prospecting permit, he initiated the construction of test bores and shafts in the Paul mine field in Rauen, which initially identified three first saddle-shaped lignite seams. From the summer of 1842, three production shafts went into operation there, with which the Rauener mining began and Rappard can be regarded as its founder. The final granting of the prospecting right for various mine fields near Rauen took place on December 2nd, 1842. Also in the summer of 1842, starting from the three already existing conveyor shafts, he had a horse-drawn railway to the Great Tränke in Fürstenwalde and there a coal deposit for temporary storage before onward transport by barge to Berlin invest. In connection with the construction of this infrastructure (this also included the setting up of "fireplaces" suitable for lignite in Berlin pubs and private houses at his own expense) von Rappard overestimated both his financial possibilities and his income from coal sales. He tried to counter this with a loan application to the king on November 24, 1842, in the grounds of which he u. a. claimed that the production could supply Berlin with lignite for centuries with an estimated daily production of 1000 t. In fact, only 300 tons were mined daily during the period mentioned, and mining was stopped after a good 60 years (apart from the Petersdorfer mines, which were closed around 1925 and the Rauener emergency coal mines, in which one was again for a short time after the Second World War Promotion took place). Despite the loan of 60,000 thalers approved on February 23, 1844, the financial situation remained tense, so that von Rappard founded the joint-stock company Rauenscher Bergwerkverein for a capital increase with effect from November 15, 1844 and 25 shareholders , which went bankrupt in 1853.

In 1844 he gave up his job as a judge. At the same time he became the owner of the manors Osdorf and Glambeck near Angermünde .

On May 18, 1848 von Rappard became a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly , to which he belonged until the rump parliament was dissolved . There he was first in the Württemberger Hof parliamentary group , then a member of the Westendhall parliamentary group . In January 1849, with the collapse of Westendhall, he became a member of the Central March Association . He played a key role in the coming about of the Simon Gagern Pact on March 22, 1849. On May 15, 1849 he became a member of the Central Committee for the examination of the elections .

After von Rappard had been accused of high treason in 1849 for membership in the rump parliament , he fled to Zurich via Berlin and England . In 1850, together with August Heinrich Simon, he acquired the Mariafeld estate near Meilen . He gave up this a year later and founded the Microscopic Institute in Zurich with August Menzel , among others . Also in 1851 he stayed for research in Paris and in the following years went on various research trips to France , Holland , England and Italy . In 1853 he was sentenced in absentia to 15 years imprisonment for high treason. Because of this judgment and the resulting stay in exile, his family broke up.

On June 28, 1856 von Rappard married Albertine Engell in the Reformed Church of Friborg. In 1856 he also acquired two hotels (the Kurhaus Jungfraublick and the Hotel Giessbach ) and a steamship on Lake Brienz (the screw steamer Giessbach ). In the same year he founded the Microscopic Institute (later Engell's Institute ) in Wabern near Bern . On May 19, 1857, their daughter Clara von Rappard was born in Wabern near Bern , who became an important painter. In January 1858 von Rappard was naturalized in the municipality of Nieder-Gerlafingen (Canton Solothurn) and in the same year he was amnestied for high treason. In 1862 he founded the Hotel Jungfraublick joint stock company near Interlaken , which he managed together with Friedrich Wilhelm Loewe .

literature

  • Albert Portmann-Tinguely: Rappard, Konrad von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Joachim Winkler: Member of the National Assembly of 1848 from Frankfurt (Oder); in Mitteilungen Frankfurt (Oder), Historical Association of Frankfurt (Oder) eV; Issue 1 1998; Pp. 29-40.
  • Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , p. 270.
  • Hermann Butzer: Conrad Gerhard von Rappard Guestphaliae Bonn: A backbencher in the Paulskirche? in: Einst und Jetzt Volume 44 (1999) pp. 199–205.
  • Hermann Cramer: Contributions to the history of mining in the province of Brandenburg , Halle, 1870–1875. Full text
  • Klaus-Dieter Wille: Conrad von Rappard. Stations in the life of a Westphalian nobleman between Brandenburg and Switzerland . In: The Herald. New episode . Volume 47. Issue 16, 2004, p. 461≈473.
  • Holm Drischer: Conrad von Rappard - for the Angermünde district in the Frankfurt National Assembly . In: Angermünder Heimatkalender , (2008), pp. 73–81.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 10 , 47
  2. ↑ Hermann Cramer
  3. ↑ Joachim Winkler; 1998, p. 39
  4. ^ Website about Clara von Rappard
personal data
SURNAME Rappard, Conrad von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Unna
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1881
Place of death Mats at Interlaken