Felix of Loë

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Felix of Loë

Felix Freiherr von Loë ( often named Felix Freiherr von Loë-Terporten after his manor Terporten from 1861 ; * 23 January 1825 at Schloss Wissen , Kleve ; † 26 May 1896 at Schloss Räckelwitz , Oberlausitz ) was a German administrative lawyer in the Rhine Province . He founded the Rheinischer Bauernverein. He sat in the Prussian House of Representatives for twelve years and was a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation before the establishment of the German Empire . He stood for Catholicism in the Protestant Kingdom of Prussia .

origin

Maximilian August von Loë came from the noble family of Loë . He was the son of Friedrich Karl Alexander Klemens von Loë (from October 15, 1840 Count von Loë-Wissen), who was a member of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament from 1826 to 1845 for the 2nd estate. The mother was Countess Luise Wolff Metternich zur Gracht (1800–1837), the daughter of Max Werner Joseph Anton Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht . His brother Maximilian August (1817–1879) was also a member of parliament.

Life

Up to the age of 18 he was brought up by private tutors . He began to study law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 1843 and became active in the Corps Borussia Bonn . As an inactive , he moved to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg . There he also joined the other large Prussian corps Guestphalia Heidelberg in 1846 . He finished his studies in 1848 at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In the Prussian Army he served in the 17th Landwehr Regiment and in the Uhlan Regiment "Grand Duke Friedrich von Baden" (Rheinisches) No. 7 (1848).

He started his legal clerkship with the government in Düsseldorf on December 19, 1851. In 1854 he became mayor of Pont (Geldern) and Walbeck (Geldern) . His eldest brother Maximilian August von Loë was a district administrator in the Geldern district . The district estates of Kleve elected Felix v. Loë became district administrator in 1859. He provided this office with skill and energy until 1868. From 1861 he lived in the Terporten house in Hassum , which he had acquired from his brother Max.

Loë was the first head of the Clevische Niers water association in 1872 . In 1882 he founded the Rheinischer Bauernverein, which he headed until 1896. He died at the age of 71 in the Catholic "relict" Räckelwitz.

Catholic

As a knight of devotion to the Order of Malta , he was President of the Katholikentag in Bamberg in 1868 . In 1872 he was instrumental in founding the Mainz Catholic Association, which he also chaired as president. In the Kulturkampf , the Mainz association was classified as hostile to the state by the Prussian government; in August 1872, all 20 board members, including von Loë, were sentenced to heavy fines. In 1874, Reich Baron von Loë assured the Bishop of Münster of his loyalty at the head of a group of Catholic men from the deaneries in Kalkar, Kleve and Rees. His opposition to the May Laws (German Empire) brought him imprisonment in the Wesel Citadel from August 1876 to February 1877.

When he was released from prison, Count Rudolf von Schaesberg picked him up in a four-horse carriage. His return was like a triumphal procession. After his discharge from civil service, he devoted himself to the management of his Terporten manor. On the Catholic Day in 1877, Felix von Loë presided again. Subsequently, he was received by the Pope in Rome and on June 5, 1877 made papal Count of the Primogeniture . In the same year 1877 he was one of the founding fathers of the Catholic-Commercial Association .

In 1879 he founded the Canisius Association with others and became its chairman.

Politician

From 1868 to 1888 he was a member of the Rhenish provincial parliament , from 1871 for the German Center Party . From 1870 to 1876 and from 1890 to 1896 he sat in the Prussian House of Representatives. He was a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation from 1867 to 1871.

family

Loë married Walburga Jacobine von Groote on June 25, 1850 (* June 22, 1831). The couple had a son:

Honors

Monument next to the castle in Kempen

The members of the Rhenish Farmers' Association erected a monument to their founder in 1901 right next to the castle. The inscription on the base reads:

“To his founder and first chairman
Freiherr Felix von Loë
in gratitude and love.
The Rhenish Farmers' Association. "

In 1980 the district of Viersen and the Sparkasse Krefeld issued 500 commemorative coins with his face. Upon request, it could also be minted in ducat gold.

literature

  • Leo Klövekorn: When a new district administrator came to Kleve a hundred years ago . Calendar for the Klever Land for the year 1966, pp. 72–76.
  • Martin Schumacher:  Loë, Felix von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 13 ( digitized version ).
  • Vera Torunsky : The members of the Rhenish provincial parliaments and landscape assemblies. Volume 1: The representatives of the provincial parishes and their deputies 1825-1888. Cologne 1998.
  • Hartmut Benz: Felix Freiherr von Loë-Terporten, Comes romanus. About the loyalty of the Rhenish nobility to the Pope . In: Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history (110/2), 2015, pp. 218–250.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses. 1898, p . 606 .

Web links

Wikisource: Felix von Loë  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Hübner: The right-wing Catholics, the Center Party and the Catholic Church in Germany up to the Reich Concordat of 1933. A contribution to the history of the failure of the Weimar Republic . Lit, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-643-12710-5 . P. 202.
  2. ↑ a b Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 228; 112 , 573
  3. ^ Jürgen Karsten: Felix Freiherr von Loe (1825-1896) . In: The Lower Rhine. Journal for home care and hiking , 47th year, April 1980, issue 2, p. 79 f.
  4. ↑ F. v. Loë (territorial.de)
  5. ↑ Leo Klövekorn: The Rheinische Bauernverein and Felix Freiherr von Loe . In: Heimatbuch des Grenzkreis Kempen-Krefeld , 12th episode (1961), pp. 130–140.
  6. ↑ KKV Federal Association (ed.): People and work - Our responsibility as Christians. 81st Federal Association Day, 24.-27. May 2001 in Essen . Lit, Münster 2001. ISBN 3-8258-5779-4 . P. 76.
  7. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 214, short biography p. 433.
  8. ↑ Specht, Fritz / Schwabe, Paul: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives . 2nd Edition. Carl Heymanns Verlag , Berlin 1904, p. 169.
personal data
SURNAME Loë, Felix from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loë, Felix Max Clemens Maria Freiherr von (full name); Loë-Terporten, Felix Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian administrative lawyer, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Wissen Castle , Kleve District
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1896
Place of death Räckelwitz , Saxony