Josef von Spee

Josef Maria Augustin Hubertus Apollinaris Rudolf Paschalis Graf von Spee (born April 18, 1876 in Düsseldorf , † November 10, 1941 in Bonn ) was district administrator for the Schleiden district from 1916 to 1933 .

Life

origin

Von Spee came as the son of the Düsseldorf District Administrator Wilderich Graf von Spee and grandson of Franz Graf von Spee from the ancient nobility of the Archdiocese of Cologne , the von Spee family . His mother Antonia, née Freiin von Mirbach-Harff , was a daughter of Richard Freiherr von Vorst-Gudenau , who after the death of his uncle Johann Wilhelm von Mirbach-Harff, who died without any biological descendants in 1849 , inherited his Fideikommiss and with confirmation from highest point on May 31, 1850 also adopted its name, title and coat of arms.

Career

After visiting the co-founded by Johann Wilhelm von Mirbach Rheinische Ritterakademie in Bedburg from 1889 to 1898 Josef von Spee studied until 1902 in Freiburg , Berlin , Munich and Goettingen jurisprudence . He passed his first legal examination on July 23, 1902 at the Higher Regional Court of Celle . After his appointment as a trainee lawyer (September 11, 1902), he continued his training at the Jülich District Court and subsequently at the Aachen Regional Court . At the same time he was appointed government trainee (October 24, 1904), Josef Graf von Spee then transferred to the Prussian administrative service, where he found employment with the Royal Prussian governments of Aachen and Potsdam . With the passing of the major state examination (August 31, 1907), the appointment as government assessor followed on September 11, he was first transferred to the district office in Kolberg and from there in 1909 to the royal government in Cologne . During his activity there, he was a combatant from the beginning of World War I in August 1914 until May 31, 1916. During this period of life, von Spee was also appointed to the government council on February 3, 1915 .

Before von Spees returned from the war, Schleiden District Administrator Albert Kreuzberg died on February 28, 1916 and his position has been vacant since then. On July 15, 1916, the office was provisionally transferred from Spee; he took up office two days later, while the final appointment was not made until March 9, 1917.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Josef Graf von Spee was in the interim on August 31, 1933 retirement was added. On February 21, 1934, the final adoption of retirement on June 1, 1934 based on Section 6 of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was issued .

Josef Graf von Spee was a member of the center .

family

The Catholic Josef Graf von Spee married Karoline von Kesselstatt (born July 17, 1893 in Grundlsee / Styria) on January 14, 1920 in Heckenmünster , a daughter of the Prussian chamberlain and entails master Eugen Graf von Kesselstatt and his wife Margareta, née Countess Széchényi von Sárvár and Felsövidék. The couple had six children.

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. 757 .
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 ^d ^e ^f 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 .
^ 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, pp. 91-115. (Folder 434 Forst IV.), Here p. 107 f.
^ 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.

personal data
SURNAME	Spee, Josef von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Spee, Josef Maria Augustin Hubertus Apollinaris Rudolf Paschalis Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH	April 18, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	November 10, 1941
Place of death	Bonn

[Romeyk-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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 .

[2] 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, pp. 91-115. (Folder 434 Forst IV.), Here p. 107 f.

[3] 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.