Friedrich von Spee (District Administrator)

Friedrich Stephan Maria Hubertus Benediktus Graf von Spee (born February 12, 1882 at Untermaubach Castle ; † December 11, 1959 in Düren ) was district administrator for the remaining Merzig-Wadern district from 1920 to 1945 .

Life

origin

Friedrich Graf von Spee, who remained unmarried, was the younger brother of the long-time district administrator of the Schleiden district , Josef Graf von Spee , and thus came from the von Spee family , which belonged to the ancient nobility of the Archdiocese of Cologne . Her father was the Düsseldorf District Administrator Wilderich Graf von Spee , his mother Antonia, née Freiin von Mirbach-Harff, a daughter of Richard Freiherr von Vorst-Gudenau . After the death of his uncle Johann Wilhelm Freiherr von Mirbach-Harff, who died without any biological descendants in 1849, von Vorst-Gudenau inherited his Fideikommiss and accepted his name, title and coat of arms with the highest confirmation of May 31, 1850.

Career

Initially instructed by private tutors , Friedrich von Spee subsequently attended the Rhenish Knight Academy in Bedburg , which Johann Wilhelm von Mirbach-Harff co-founded and which he left when he passed his school- leaving examination in spring 1903. Performing military service as a one-year volunteer with the Guard Rifle Battalion in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin (1903/1904), Friedrich Graf von Spee studied law in Freiburg , Berlin , Bonn and Münster from 1903 to 1907 . In addition, von Spee was appointed court trainee on September 7, 1908, and as a court assessor at the Düsseldorf District Court on September 21, 1913 . At the beginning of the First World War , he passed the Grand State Examination on August 4, 1914. Then he immediately reported for military service, came as an officer on the Western Front and was taken prisoner by the British in September 1914. As part of a prisoner exchange, von Spee came to the Netherlands in January 1918 and found employment with the German embassy there until December 1918. On his return to Germany, he was referred to the municipal administration of the mayor's office in Kreuzau , in the area of which he was born in Untermaubach .

Act as district administrator

After as a result of the Treaty of Versailles , the Saar from 1920 to 1935 by the German Reich had been partitioned off, remained only part of the former district of Merzig-Wadern in German Reich. This so-called residual district of Merzig-Wadern was handed over to Friedrich Graf von Spee for administration. Initially only employed as a substitute on March 1, 1920, he was appointed government assessor in Wadern (August 19, 1920) and on December 23, 1921, to the government council , before he was temporarily transferred to the position of district administrator (district administrator) in June 1923. The final appointment was made on July 16, 1923. Expelled by the Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission in 1923 and 1924, Friedrich Graf von Spee remained district administrator for the rest of the district until his dismissal in 1945.

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. 756 .
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), here p. 23.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c 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. 756 .
↑ First names according to: Saarland biographies: Spee Friedrich Stephan Maria Hubertus Benediktus von. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved May 7, 2015.
^ Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 6. Folder 423-518. Fischenich – Gruben (publications of the West German Society for Family Studies , Cologne, New Series No. 70). Cologne 1994, p. 91-115 (folder 434 Forst IV.), Here p. 107 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Spee, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Spee, Friedrich Stephan Maria Hubertus Benediktus Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH	February 12, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	at Untermaubach Castle
DATE OF DEATH	December 11, 1959
Place of death	Düren

[Romeyk-1] A ^b ^c 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. 756 .

[2] First names according to: Saarland biographies: Spee Friedrich Stephan Maria Hubertus Benediktus von. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved May 7, 2015.

[3] Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 6. Folder 423-518. Fischenich – Gruben (publications of the West German Society for Family Studies , Cologne, New Series No. 70). Cologne 1994, p. 91-115 (folder 434 Forst IV.), Here p. 107 f.