Franz Joseph Scheven

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Franz Joseph Scheven (actually Johann Joseph Franz Xaver Scheven ; born September 14, 1766 in Hennef ; † March 13, 1837 ibid) was a Prussian district administrator and owner of the Birlinghoven manor .

Life

Scheven was born as the son of the lawyer Johann Wilhelm Scheven (* 1720 in Elsdorf, † 1784 in Hennef) and Anna Ursula Scheven. Merchant born in Hennef. Scheven was a Catholic.

Scheven studied law and mathematics in Bonn .

career

On March 29, 1784, he was electoral-Bavarian mayor in the Blankenberg office . He took over the office of mayor in the parish of Eigen from his father after his death. On December 1, 1786, he was appointed as Advocatus legalis ( Vogt ) Rentbeamter in the Bergische government in the same office. On November 8, 1803 he became administrator of the secularized Heisterbach Abbey . In October 1806 he came to the municipal administration in the arrondissement of Mülheim am Rhein . Under Joachim Murat , Grand Duchy of Berg , he became Provincial Councilor in the Mülheim arrondissement in December 1806. 1807-1813 he was domain inspector of the Rhine Department . From 1814 he was domain, forest and mining council at the Generalgouvernement in Düsseldorf.

After the Kingdom of Prussia took possession of the Rhineland in 1816, the counties were established in the provinces as the middle level between the provincial governments and the mayor's offices. Organization commissioner Philipp von Pestel proposed Franz Joseph Scheven as district administrator for the newly created Uckerath district , which was formed from the cantons of Eitorf and Hennef . On May 10, 1816, he was first district administrator in Uckerath, and in 1820 also district administrator of the Siegburg district. In 1825 the two districts were united to form the Siegkreis . The previous district administrator of the Siegburg district , Ludwig Eberhard Freiherr von Hymmen , took over the Bonn district . Siegburg became the seat of the district, but Scheven left the seat of administration at his residence Heymershof in Hennef. On November 24, 1834, Scheven was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle III. Class awarded. On January 2, 1837, he asked for his retirement; shortly afterwards he died in Hennef before he left the service. His successor was the district deputy Maximilian Freiherr von Loë .

family

Scheven married Godefriede Henrietta Maria Josefa Freiin de Martial (born October 24, 1766 in Birlinghoven, † March 19, 1840 in Hennef) from Birlinghoven Castle on July 20, 1792 in Stieldorf . Josepha de Martial came from the first marriage of the father (Freiherr Carl Georg de Martial) with Gertrud Thurn. In 1795 Scheven became co-owner of Birlinghoven Castle.

literature

  • Ralph Dietl-Hühnermann, Franz Joseph Scheven - from treasure school to district administrator. A civil servant career among Bergisch, French and Prussian sovereigns , in: Yearbook of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis 32 (2017), Blattwelt Edition Verlag

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The nickname Franz Joseph Wilhelm Scheven, which is occasionally read, has not been historically documented to date. It was used here in an earlier version without specifying an individual proof.
  2. ↑ a b c Welcome to the portal of the archives in NRW. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e 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. 718 .
  4. ↑ His electoral examination of the Pfalzbaiern ... court and state calendar: for the year ... 1799 . Franz, 1799.
  5. ↑ Historical facts about Franz Joseph Scheven. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  6. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Cöln v. April 20, 1816
personal data
SURNAME Scheven, Franz Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheven, Johann Joseph Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Hennef (victory)
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1837
Place of death Hennef (victory)