Franz von Spee

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Franz von Spee (lithograph, 1835)

Franz Josef Anton Ambrose Adam Graf von Spee (* 28. August 1781 in Dusseldorf , † 14. May 1839 in Lohausen ) was 1837/1838 and order as in 1839 District Administrator of the district Dusseldorf , owner of numerous estates , including the inhabited from him lock Heltorf , and Royal Bavarian Chamberlain .

ancestry

As a member of the von Spee family , Franz von Spee belonged to the Rhenish nobility. His father was Carl-Wilhelm Franz-Xaver Reichsgraf von Spee (1758–1810), Elector of Cologne or Electorate of the Palatinate Privy Councilor, head kitchen master and head stable master, who swore up to the state parliament in 1779. In 1780 this Elise married Auguste Freiin von Hompesch-Bollheim . She was the daughter of the Bavarian Finance Minister Franz Karl Joseph Anton von Hompesch zu Bolheim and the granddaughter of the Electoral Palatinate Baron Ludwig Anton von Hacke .

Life and career

In 1828, the office of district deputy was introduced by decree , whose task was in particular to carry out the administrative business in the case of a short absence due to vacation, illness or business trips or in the event of vacancies as a result of reoccupations. The estates proposed up to three (at least two) residents of the district to the monarch, who also had to be eligible owners of the manor. In this function as district deputy, Franz Graf von Spee was entrusted twice with the administration of the Düsseldorf district after the departure of Friedrich Freiherr von Lasberg and interrupted by Anton von Lorch : from December 1, 1837 to June 1838 and from January 1 to the inauguration of the new district administrator Emmerich Freiherr Raitz von Frentz on March 6, 1839.

Spee Memorial Chapel, Düsseldorf-Lohausen

Spee died suddenly, of a stroke . After his death, his son had a memorial chapel built in Lohausen in 1842, designed by Rudolf Wiegmann .

family

The Catholic Franz von Spee married Sophia Maria Franziska von Merveldt (born March 18, 1786; died November 25, 1848 at Haus Westheim) on May 14, 1808 , a daughter of Count August Ferdinand von Merfeldt and his wife Therese Countess von Pergen. Among their eight children (three daughters and five sons) were August Graf von Spee and Wilderich Graf von Spee , who later also temporarily acted as district administrators in the Düsseldorf district , and Leopold Graf von Spee, who had a doctorate in theologian, Aachen Cathedral Chapter and papal secret chamberlain . Maximilian Graf von Spee was a grandson through his father Rudolf August Josef Hubert Graf von Spee. Others were the Borkener district administrator Stephan Graf von Spee , the anatomist and embryologist Ferdinand von Spee and the major general Heribert Oktavian von Spee .

Web links

literature

  • 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. 290 note 54 .
  • Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 15. Folder 1151-1236. SPECKHEWER – WALDBOTT VON ULMEN. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies , Cologne, New Series No. 94). Cologne 1998, pp. 13-65. (Folder 1152 Spee; originally Spede).
  • Carl Heiner Beusch: Noble class politics in the Vormärz: Johann Wilhelm Graf von Mirbach-Harff (1784-1849) , LIT Verlag Münster, 2001, p. 59, footnote 219, ISBN 3825843777 ; (Digital scan with CV)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtmann and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 15.
  2. ↑ a b Private genealogical page on the von Spee family, without reference to the source Generation 6: SPEE, VON Franz Ambrosiue Joseph Anton Adam, (son of SPEE, VON Carl-Wilhelm and HOMPESCH-BOLLHEIM, VON Augusta - 5) born 28 Aug 1781 in Düsseldorf , died 14 May 1839 in Lohausen.
  3. ↑ Romeyk gives May 14, 1849 as the date of death without mentioning the source. According to the death notes published by Schleicher, however, he was at the death of his wife, Sophie von Spee, née. von Merfeldt had died for nine years in 1848.
  4. ↑ 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 .
  5. ^ Genealogical page on Carl-Wilhelm Franz-Xaver von Spee
  6. ↑ Julia Brabeck: Flowers for the Spee'sche Chapel . There is a small Romanesque chapel on Niederrheinstrasse. It was built in 1842 and commemorates Count Franz von Spee. , in Rheinische Post on August 23, 2013
  7. ^ Herbert M. Schleicher: 80,000 death notes from Rhenish collections. (= Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, New Series No. 38), Volume IV, Cologne 1987, without ISBN, p. 567.
  8. ^ Sophia Maria Franziska Huberta, Countess von Merveldt (* March 18, 1786, Münster; † November 25, 1848, Westheim) , on geneall.net
personal data
SURNAME Spee, Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spee, Franz Ambrosius Josef Anton Adam Graf von (full name); Spee, Franz Anton von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1839
Place of death Lohausen