Joseph of Parseval

Joseph Ferdinand von Parseval (* 6. February 1825 in Landau , † 26. March 1887 in Nymphenburg in Munich ) was a Royal Bavarian Councilor and Chamberlain . From 1863 to 1869 he was District Officer and Badkommissar (Kurdirektor) in Bad Kissingen .

Life

Joseph von Parseval was a descendant of an original from Fontaine at Belfort originating French noble family , whose still in Metz -born father Ferdinand von Parseval (1791-1854), the last royal Bavarian Major General and Chamberlain, as in 1816 captain had been taken in the Bavarian nobility. His mother was the Dublin born Franziska (Fanny) Countess O'Hegerty (1797-1881).

As a royal Bavarian noble boy, Parseval attended the royal new high school in Munich from the school year 1839/1840 . From the year 1842 one finds in his files: The prize in the modern languages ​​was won by Joseph von Parseval, a pupil of the third high school class, according to the judgment of his own fellow pages.

After studying law , he was initially a land commissioner - actuary in Kusel , then at his request was transferred to Frankenthal (Palatinate) in November 1856 in the same position , where he stayed until at least 1861 and with his wife and first-born son August as a subtenant in his parents' house of the later ophthalmologist Julius von Michel lived. He then worked until the summer of 1863 as a government assessor for the administrative district of Swabia and Neuburg in the district capital of Augsburg .

With effect from August 1, 1863, Parseval was appointed as the official successor of Count Friedrich von Luxburg to the royal Bavarian district administrator in Bad Kissingen with jurisdiction for the district court districts of Bad Kissingen and Münnerstadt and at the same time with the task and function of the bath commissioner (spa director) of the then " world bath " entrusted. With a new office he was promoted to government councilor. During his six-year tenure until the spring of 1869, he lived in house 269 on Obere Marktstrasse. On January 20, 1864, the former was chamberlain to Chamberlain raised.

The Bad Kissinger Luitpoldbad around 1910

Advert dated August 13, 1866

“Mourning Germania” in Bad Kissingen

At Parseval's instigation, in the winter of 1864/1865 the foundation of the stock corporation , which had been planned since 1855, was finally carried out, the aim of which was to build a "Actienbad" closer to the spa center, which was later officially named Luitpoldbad . Because until now there was only the salt bath ("gas bath") at the lower salt works, about 30 minutes' walk away . The noble spa guests from all over Europe, whose number had risen rapidly after the construction and inauguration of the arcade building (1838), no longer wanted to take this long journey in bad weather.

But in 1866 the German War broke out and the construction plans could not be implemented for the time being. The course of the war even brought the fighting directly to Bad Kissingen. Hundreds of dead and over 1,200 wounded Bavarian and Prussian soldiers were the result of the battle in Bad Kissingen on July 10, 1866. The health resort came to a complete standstill. The wounded had to be cared for in the new arcade building as well as in the larger sanatoriums and hotels of the spa town.

On August 13, 1866, Parseval thanked for the many food and clothing donations that had been sent to the plundered and war-torn Bad Kissingen after the end of the war. Now, however, he expressly asked for donations of money for the replacement of cattle.

To commemorate those who fell in the war, Parseval later promoted the erection of the “ Mourning Germania ” memorial created by the Bad Kissingen sculptor Michael Arnold . He had donation books printed and turned to all regiments and battalions involved in the fighting in Kissingen to find out the names of the fallen and to solicit contributions. In addition, he collected the 4,000 guilders required for the memorial from wealthy spa guests . The memorial above a mass grave at the chapel cemetery was only able to unveil Parseval's successor in office, Clemens Graf zu Pappenheim , who had been a councilor of the Chamber of the Interior in Würzburg on September 8, 1869.

It was not until two years after the war that construction work on the “Actienbad” could be resumed in the summer of 1868. On June 1, 1869 - Parseval had already been transferred to Schwabach at the beginning of the year - the new bath house with initially only 66 bath cabinets (bathrooms) was opened; a further expansion was planned.

With the announcement of Parseval's transfer to Schwabach on May 1st, 1869, rumors of corruption were already circulating "from a certain side" at the turn of the year 1868/1869 that his transfer allegedly only happened because Parseval, as Kissinger district administrator of the Russian Tsar Alexander II . meanwhile spa stay requested a cash donation and have actually received. However, this rumor was declared clearly false in January.

As early as 1867, the government-critical Volksbote für den Bürger und Landmann , a Catholic-Conservative newspaper published in Munich from 1848 to 1872 by the Mecklenburg- based publisher Ernst Zander (1803–1872), had Parseval in an article about an annual battle celebration in Bad Kissingen politically attacked and slandered at Königgrätz . Thereupon the Franconian Courier found benevolently on July 15, 1867 that the Volksbote was forced to print a correction with a declaration of honor for Parseval on July 15 .

Joseph von Parseval's brothers Maximilian von Parseval (1823–1902), Otto von Parseval (1827–1901) and Ferdinand Jakob von Parseval (1829–1919) were Bavarian generals.

Parseval married on May 8, 1860 in Munich Marie Amélie von Schaden (born October 3, 1840 in Erlangen , † January 14, 1918 in Munich), the daughter of Emil August von Schaden (1814-1852) and Karoline von Thiersch and granddaughter of the philologist Friedrich Thiersch , to whom he got engaged in autumn 1859. Their eight children were the Frankenthal born airship August von Parseval (1861–1942), namesake of the Parseval airships , Ferdinand (1862–1940), born in Munich, Leonie (1863–1946), Julie Mathilde (1864- ??) and Cäcilie Amalie von Parseval (1866–1955), all three born in Bad Kissingen, Henri Otto Joseph (1869–1875) and Friedrich Ferdinand Siegfried (1871–1873), both born in Schwabach, and Amalie Caroline Ferdinande von Parseval, who was born in Augsburg .

Awards

• 1864: Austrian Order of the Iron Crown 3rd class
• 1864: Russian Order of Saint Anne 2nd Class - 1868: with diamonds
• 1866: Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Bavarian Order of St. Michael
• 1868: Württembergischer Friedrichs-Order Commentary Cross 2nd Class

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume X, page 174, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISBN 3-7980-0819-1
2. ↑ Parseval's ancestral list ( online )
3. ↑ Annual report on the Königliche Neue Gymnasium in Munich from August 1, 1841, page 15 ( digitized version )
4. ↑ Annual report on the progress of the royal noble boys in the sciences and arts in the school year 1842 ( online ). - The “new languages” French and English should have been easy for the high school student, as his father was French and his mother Irish .
5. ↑ Würzburger Anzeiger of November 16, 1856 ( digitized version )
6. ^ Directory of civil servants and employees in the state and municipal services of the Royal Bavarian Government District of the Palatinate , 1857, page 11 ( digitized version )
7. ^ Son August was born in Frankenthal in 1861, but son Ferdinand was born in Munich in 1862.
8. ↑ Pfälzer Heimat , Volumes 12-14, Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science, 1961, page 73 ( excerpt )
9. ↑ Augsburg Latest News from August 7, 1863, page 2259 ( digitized version )
10. ^ Augsburger Postzeitung from August 6, 1863, page 1231 ( digitized version )
11. ↑ Lindauer Tagblatt No. 184 of August 7, 1863 ( digitized version )
12. ^ FJ Reichardt (Ed.): Address book of Kissingen , 1865, page 68 ( digitized version )
13. ↑ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria No. 5 from January 30, 1864, page 101 ( digitized version )
14. ↑ Allgemeine Medizin Zentral-Zeitung , Volume 38, 1869 Column 672 ( digitized version )
15. ↑ Bayerische Zeitung of August 15, 1866, page 267 ( digitized version )
16. ↑ Johannes Erichsen, Evamaria Brockhoff: Bavaria and Preussen and Bavaria's Preussen , House of Bavarian History, Augsburg, 1999, page 426
17. ↑ Michael Henker (Ed.): Bavaria, Germania, Europa. History in Bavarian. Catalog book for the state exhibition of the House of Bavarian History in cooperation with the museums of the city of Regensburg, May 18 to October 29, 2000, Volume 42 of publications on Bavarian history and culture, Verlag F. Pustet, 2000, page 60, ISBN 3791717073 or ISBN 9783791717074 ( excerpt )
18. ↑ Tag and announcement sheet for Kempten and the Allgäu of January 20, 1869, page 33 ( digitized version )
19. ^ Kissinger Tagblatt of January 22, 1869, page 67 ( digitized version )
20. ↑ By winning this decisive battle, Prussia became the leading power in Germany
21. ↑ Franconian Courier of July 15, 1867 ( digital copy )
22. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Josias Thiersch : Friedrich Thiersch's Life , 1866, page 608 ( digitized version )
23. ^ A. de Parseval: The genealogy of the de Parseval family (French) of March 2, 2009 ( online )
24. ↑ Johann Friedrich von Cotta (ed.): Allgemeine Zeitung Munich of September 7, 1864, page 4082 ( digitized version )
25. ↑ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria No. 5 from January 31, 1867 ( digitized version )
26. ^ Courier for Lower Bavaria No. 253 of September 15, 1868 ( digitized version )