Jacob of Lavale

Photo, around 1908

Karl Jakob Lavale , Knight of Lavale since 1888 , (born August 30, 1843 in Langenkandel , † March 8, 1925 in Heidelberg ) was a German entrepreneur, Bavarian Reichsrat , director of the Palatinate Railways .

Live and act

The family confessed to the Catholic denomination, originally came from France and emigrated during the revolution. The grandfather died as a chief forester in Kaiserslautern in 1857 .

Karl Jakob Lavale was the son of the district building councilor Georg Lavale, who worked on the straightening of the Rhine . The boy moved with his parents to Speyer , where he attended high school. He studied law in Heidelberg (member of the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg ) and in Erlangen . After working as an accessist with the district government of the Palatinate in Speyer and as an assessor in Kaiserslautern, Jakob Lavale became secretary of the management of the Palatinate Railways on April 1, 1869 , inspector in 1872, chief inspector in 1874, board member in 1880 and deputy director in 1883.

After the death of long-time director Albert von Jäger , Lavale was given his position as head of the company on March 13, 1884, which he held for almost 25 years. At that time, the Palatinate Railways were one of the most successful commercial enterprises in Germany, generating surpluses of millions. When the railway company became state-owned in 1909, Lavale retired and moved to Heidelberg, where he died in 1925. His successor as director of the Palatinate Railways was Alexander von Gayer (1852-1917), the grandson of the Speyer district archivist and draftsman Peter Gayer .

Lavale also served as a member of the supervisory board of the Pfälzische Hypothekenbank (Ludwigshafen, member of the supervisory board from 1894 to 1925, chairman from 1910 to 1920), the Rheinische Hypothekenbank (Mannheim) and the Atlas Deutsche Lebensversicherungs-Gesellschaft (Ludwigshafen).

Karl Jakob Lavale was married to Elsa Eswein (born January 25, 1880 in Ludwigshafen, † July 6, 1962 in Munich). Elsa Eswein was the daughter of Karl Eswein (1844 to 1925), the longstanding bank director of the Palatinate Bank. The marriage remained childless.

Honors

In 1880, the railway director was involved in the conclusion of a Bavarian-Prussian state treaty on the St. Ingbert - Saarbrücken railway line and was therefore awarded the Crown Order III by Kaiser Wilhelm I. Class excellent. In 1888 Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria personally awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown on the occasion of a visit to the Palatinate . With the award the elevation to the personal nobility was connected and he was allowed to call himself Knight of Lavale after entry in the nobility register . In 1908 Lavale was appointed Bavarian Imperial Councilor, and in 1909 he retired . He remained a member of the 1st Chamber of Parliament until the end of the monarchy in 1918.

For his meritorious work in the railway sector, in addition to the medals already mentioned, he received the Order of Merit of St. Michael II Class with Star (1903), the Bavarian Jubilee Medal in silver, the Commander's Cross II Class of the Baden Order of the Zähringer Lion , the Commander Cross II. Class of the Hessian Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous , the Star to the Red Eagle Order II. Class, the Star to the Crown Order II. Class, the Commander Cross II. Class of the Württemberg Frederick Order , the Commander Cross with Star of the Spanish Order Isabellas the Catholic .

In Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Jakob-von-Lavale-Platz near the main train station was named after him.

literature

Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate personalities. Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben 2004, ISBN 3-9804668-5-X , p. 510 (with portrait).
Academic monthly books 25 (1908/09), p. 392.

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Individual evidence

↑ The Lavale family died out. In: Palatinate Museum. Year 1929, double issue 11/12, p. 363 u. 364.
^ Josef Nikolaus Köstler: Gayer, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 109 f. ( Digitized version ).
^ Epochs in banking history . Published on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Pfälzische Hypothekenbank Ludwigshafen, and the opening of the new administration building in May 1962, text: Manfred Tridon, Darmstadt: Hoppenstedts Wirtschaftsarchiv, 1962, p. 96.

personal data
SURNAME	Lavale, Jacob of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lavale, Karl Jakob von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German railway entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	August 30, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH	Langenkandel
DATE OF DEATH	March 8, 1925
Place of death	Heidelberg

[1] The Lavale family died out. In: Palatinate Museum. Year 1929, double issue 11/12, p. 363 u. 364.

[2] Josef Nikolaus Köstler: Gayer, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 109 f. ( Digitized version ).

[3] Epochs in banking history . Published on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Pfälzische Hypothekenbank Ludwigshafen, and the opening of the new administration building in May 1962, text: Manfred Tridon, Darmstadt: Hoppenstedts Wirtschaftsarchiv, 1962, p. 96.