Franz Heinrich Erich II. Von Lepel
Franz Heinrich Erich II. Von Lepel (born July 5, 1803 in Berlin , † January 1, 1877 in Wieck ) was a Prussian captain, Pomeranian manor on Wieck and a member of the Prussian mansion .
Life
origin
Franz was the son of Friedrich Wilhelm von Lepel (1768–1825), a Prussian captain and landowner on Wieck, and Henriette Elisabeth Lanz (1780–1812).
Career
After the death of his mother, he was nine years old, Franz grew up with his uncle Idam von Lepel (1750-1834) on the Gnitz ( Usedom ). His second uncle Franz Heinrich Erich I von Lepel (1760-1811) was a squire on Wieck near Gützkow in Swedish Pomerania . He appointed him as heir, since his own son died as a child. However, when his uncle died, Franz was still a minor, and so his father had to be called back from military service in Berlin in order to take over the management of the estate until his son came of age. Franz then started his military career in 1821 as a one-year volunteer with the 2nd hunter department in Greifswald, in line with family tradition. In 1822 he returned to Wieck to support his ailing father in managing the estate. When his father died in 1825, at the age of 22 he had to start his job as a landlord. In his military career he was inactive in the 3rd Battalion (Anklam) of the 2nd Landwehr Regiment from 1825 to 1848 up to the rank of captain.
In 1826 he married Mathilde Rodbertus from a distinguished family of lawyers, whose father Johann Christoph Rodbertus for his judicial service squire on Beseritz in Mecklenburg-Strelitz was. Her brother was the economist Karl Rodbertus .
Benefiting from a considerable inheritance from his maternal grandfather Lanz, as well as the dowry from his wife, but also from his own good management, he was able to rebuild all of the farm buildings on the Wiecker estate. The Vorwerk in the direction of Breechen was also built, as well as the Schlossberg with mill and reservoir in Gützkow, and later the Gützkower ferry was added. From 1846 to 1859 he had Wieck Castle modernized and renovated.
In 1852 he founded with his wife, the pastor Karl Balthasar (1784-1853) and the Gützkower surgeon Krüger a "reform institution" for girls.
In 1854 the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV visited Wieck. In the same year Franz von Lepel became a member of the newly formed Prussian mansion on presentation of the old and fortified property in the rural district of Neuvorpommern and Rügen .
In 1859 he commissioned the renowned Berlin architect Richard Lucae to build a funeral chapel, which was consecrated that same year. He and his wife devoted themselves to the strict line of Pietism and from 1865 held the Wieck pastoral conferences.
His life was marred by the poor economic management of his son Wilhelm, who drove his mother's inheritance, the Beseritz estate, into bankruptcy after his mother's brother Karl had been compensated for half of the inheritance with income from the Wieck estate, despite his father's help.
In 1873 Franz founded an entails commission for Wieck and in his will determined his grandson Franz Bernhard (1851–1906) to be the heir to the exclusion of his son Wilhelm. Wilhelm was resigned by the handover of the property Beseritz. Franz Bernhard was the son of the Gnitzer writer Bernhard von Lepel .
Franz Heinrich Erich II. Von Lepel died on January 1st, 1877 and was buried in the grave chapel he had built. His coffin and the rest of his family were broken into by Red Army soldiers in 1945 and the remains dumped into a hole in the ground. The occupiers needed the oak and zinc coffins to bring their fallen officers back home. In 2000 a large memorial stone was erected on the unworthy grave.
family
He married Johanna Mathilde Rodbertus (1804–1886) in 1826 . The couple had three children:
- Hedwig Eleonore Friederike (born August 11, 1827 in Wieck; † October 26, 1893 in Wieck), ∞ Bernhard von Lepel (1818–1885), her cousin from the Gnitz line
- Wilhelm Friedrich Karl (born May 2, 1829 in Wieck; † May 22, 1886 in Croatia), landlord on property (1854 to 1879 - bankruptcy), ∞ Helene Mathilde Therese Ida Countess von Schlippenbach (1835–1917)
- Hermine Johanna Luise (born September 5, 1830 in Wieck; † March 17, 1858 in Neustrelitz ), ∞ Carl Friedrich Georg Ludwig Ernst Alexander von Malschitzki (1814–1876), Grand Ducal Chamberlain and Councilor of Justice in Mecklenburg-Strelitz
See also
literature
- Historisch-Genealogisches Handbuch des Familie v. Lepel (Lepell). Developed by Andreas Hansert and Oskar Matthias Frhr on the basis of family history sources. v. Lepel with the assistance of Klaus Bernhard Frhr. v. Lepel and Herbert Stoyan. German Family Archives, Volume 151, Verlag Degener & Co., owner Manfred Dreiss, Insingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7686-5201-8 .
Footnotes
I. Voice: August von Gadow (1854–1860) | Karl Graf von Krassow (1861-1892) | Achim von Voß-Wolffradt (1892–1904) | Wernher von Quistorp (1904–1908) | Carl Graf von Behr (1909–1918)
Part II: Franz von Lepel (1854–1877) | Friedrich von Behr (1877-1892) | Christoph von Platen (1892–1909) | Hans Dietrich von Zanthier (1909–1918)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lepel, Franz Heinrich Erich II. Von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lepel, Franz von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian officer and landlord |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1877 |
| Place of death | Wieck |