Franz von Gruben

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Franz Heinrich Freiherr von Gruben (born September 26, 1774 in Bonn , † February 4, 1848 in Koblenz ) was a royal Prussian district administrator, administrative officer and mayor.

origin

Franz von Gruben was a son of the Electorate Cologne's real secret court and government councilor Constantin von Gruben (1712–1788) and his second wife Maria Anna Josepha, born. von Vogelius (1736–1784).

Life

After attending school in Bonn, he studied law in Marburg and from 1795 to 1796 in Göttingen . He then took a job at the Imperial Court in Wetzlar and in 1800 he became assessor first instance in the Electoral Cologne Offizialat or on Hofgericht Arnsberg and shortly thereafter assessors second instance. From 1806 to 1814 he was mayor of Gelsdorf and from 1815 also of Kuchenheim . Gruben was initially district commissioner of the Adenau district before he became district commissioner for the Ahrweiler district in 1816 and finally the first district administrator of the new Ahrweiler district with his office in Blankartshof in Ahrweiler . In 1820 he was put into temporary retirement, which was followed by retirement in 1825 at his own request.

Gelsdorf Castle

After the death of his father in 1788, the Franz von Grubens siblings took over the property in Gelsdorf before he was entrusted with the management of the family estates in Gelsdorf in the summer of 1801 as co-owner of Gelsdorf Castle . As it became increasingly difficult to maintain the property financially - first attempts to sell the castle were made as early as 1790 - he and his two sisters Maria Anna and Ernestine von Gruben let the property in on January 30, 1821 in a foreclosure auction Auction capital of 13,700 thalers .

Royal link

The royal member of the St. Sebastianus Bürgerschützengesellschaft Ahrweiler, which has existed since 1403, was founded in 1819 as an accompanying group for the king of the society. The first persons mentioned for 1819 were Franz Heinrich von Gruben, who was the first to register and has since been considered the founding father, as well as the royal Prussian secretary Honecker and the royal forest master Schenk.

siblings

Franz von Gruben, who remained unmarried, had three brothers and two sisters, all of whom were promoted to the status of imperial baron on March 8, 1805.

  • Karl Klemens von Gruben , auxiliary bishop in Cologne and Osnabrück.
  • Ignaz Friedrich von Gruben († March 30, 1823), Imperial Chamber Court Assessor in Wetzlar.
  • Peter Joseph von Gruben , Minister in the Grand Duchy of Hesse.
  • Marie Anne von Gruben
  • Ernestine von Gruben

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 484 .
  2. ↑ Bernhard Peter, Gallery: Photos of beautiful old coats of arms No. 2429, Ahrweiler (to Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Ahrweiler district), In: welt-der-wappen.de
  3. ↑ a b 200th birthday of the Ahrweiler district, by Anton Simons, January 7, 2001, In: blick-aktuell.de
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Bernhard Peter, the Gelsdorf Castle, In: welt-der-wappen.de
  5. ↑ A group of lame and hunchbacked people, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, The royal member of the Ahrweiler citizens' riflemen celebrated its 200th anniversary In: localbook.de
  6. ^ Gelsdorf history in the 19th and 20th centuries, by Ottmar Prothmann (Heimatjahrbuch 1986) and Siggi Meissner, Gelsdorf in February 2004, In: grafschaft-gelsdorf.de
  7. ↑ Anniversary in Ahrweiler, the royal member of the citizens' marksmen turns 200 years old, by Thomas Weber, September 3, 2019, In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de
  8. ^ King's member, In: Bürgererschützen-Gesellschaft Ahrweiler 1403 e. V.
  9. ^ A b Archive for civil and criminal law of the Royal Prussian Rhine Provinces, supplementary or seventh volume, Cologne 1825 in the Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Gruben, Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gruben, Franz Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator, administrative officer and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1848
Place of death Koblenz