Hans von Specht
Heinrich Karl Rudolf Hans von Specht (born January 2, 1825 in Braunschweig , Lower Saxony , † December 26, 1913 on Farm Spring Branch, Harris County near San Antonio , Texas , USA ) was initially a ducal officer in Brunswick , from 1844 he was in the USA Farmer , carter and postmaster .
family
Specht came from the old Lower Saxon noble family Specht and was the son of the landowner and ducal chamberlain and Colonel Wilhelm von Specht (1795–1869), lord of Gut Heybütten, and Elise (Lisette) Scherenberg (1792–1864).
He married on January 18, 1853 in New Braunfels (Texas, USA) the orphan Lisette Schmidt (born September 8, 1833 in Koblenz , † January 22, 1924 in Spring Branch , Harris County near San Antonio, Texas, USA). The couple had ten children, including the oldest child Wilhelm von Specht (1851-1940), who simply called himself William Specht as a farmer and postmaster.
Hans von Specht's uncle (younger brother of his father) was the electoral major general of Hesse and royal Prussian lieutenant general Friedrich von Specht (1803–1879).
Life
Specht was an officer in a Duke of Brunswick Hussar - Regiment . In 1844 he left his homeland at the age of 19 and went to Texas in the USA with Carl Prinz zu Solms-Braunfels (called " Texas-Carl ", founder of the city of New Braunfels) (see: Mainzer Adelsverein ).
At Honey Creek he built a small farm on the banks of the Guadalupe River and earned his additional living as a carter transporting timber by ox wagon from the sawmill in Curry's Creek to New Braunfels.
In the orphanage of New Wied , only 5 km from New Braunfels and named after Hermann Fürst zu Wied (member of the Mainz Adelsverein ), he met the orphan Lisette Schmidt, whom he married in January 1853. An epidemic in New Braunfels in 1846 killed over 300 settlers; within three days the parents of Lisette Schmidt, then 13, and her sister.
The great flood on the Guadalupe River in 1869 completely destroyed his property on Honey Creek and so the family moved to a hill near Spring Branch and built a new farm there. In Spring Branch, Specht also worked as postmaster from February 15, 1875, until his son William Specht replaced him in this position for a year on September 14, 1906 - until he was finally handed over to Charles Knibbe in 1907.
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelige Häuser B Volume XXIII, page 432, Volume 121 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2000.
- Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 1910, p.763ff
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Specht, Hans von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Specht, Heinrich Karl Rudolf Hans von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Braunschweig officer, in the USA farmer, carter, postmaster |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig , Lower Saxony |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1913 |
| Place of death | Farm Spring Branch near San Antonio , USA |