Kurt of Marval
Kurt von Marval (born November 12, 1888 in Stuttgart ; † March 31, 1980 ibid) was an honorary citizen of Nordheim in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg from 1969 . He was the founder of the Von Marval'schen Familienstiftung , which arose from the former Seyboldschen Familien-Fideikommiss and the Von Seybold-von den Velden'schen Stiftung and in particular includes numerous properties in the district of Nordheim and the neighboring town of Heilbronn - Klingenberg . Through generous, inexpensive land sales to the community, he made it possible to design what is now the center of Nordheim with today's town hall and the town hall park, as well as developing various residential and commercial areas. The Kurt-von-Marval-Schule Grund- und Hauptschule Nordheim is named after Kurt von Marval .
Life
He was the son of Wilhelm von Marval-Seybold (born as Guillaume von Marval , 1861-1944) and Edith Storr (1866-1945). In 1907 , when he joined the 2nd Uhlan Regiment "King Wilhelm I." No. 20, Marval embarked on a military career in the Württemberg Army , in which he rose to lieutenant until 1914 . With the 2nd Dragoon Regiment "König" No. 26 , he initially took part in theaters of war in the West during World War I before he was in the field in 1916 as Rittmeister in Serbia and Russia. On November 16, 1917, Marval was awarded the Knight's Cross First Class of the Order of Frederick with Swords for his achievements . Towards the end of the war he was in action in Upper Alsace. After the end of the war, he initially remained in military service in the Württemberg cavalry regiment 13, then joined the Poland Border Commission in June 1920 and was dismissed as a major from the Reichswehr in November 1921 .
Now 33 years old, he began an apprenticeship as a banker in order to be able to secure a civilian existence. Not enthusiastic about the future career prospects, however, he decided to found an office for industrial insurance, which he led until the outbreak of the Second World War and for a few years after the war. During the Second World War he entered the 78th Infantry Division as a major , took part in the Balkan campaign from April 1941 and later in operations in Russia. In the further course of the war he was employed as a training and staff officer in Ludwigsburg until the end of the war .
With the death of his father in July 1944, he became the owner of the Seybold family entrepre- neurship and thus one of the largest landowners in Nordheim with around 78 hectares of land in 1947, including a manorial property over 100 acres in the center of Nordheim with a well-tended landscape park. At his instigation, the Nordheim kindergarten, the last main object of the Von Seybold-von den Velden Foundation , which had shrunk due to inflation and currency reform , was transferred to the Protestant parish in 1954 and the old, now massless foundation was dissolved. Around the same time, Marval provided the property for the Nordheimer gymnasium and festival hall as well as the largest area of the Weihen development area , the most important street of which was named Seyboldstraße in memory of the older donors . The sales price was only about a third of the otherwise customary land prices.
The law on the expiry of family entails and other tied assets ( RGBl. I 1938, 825) of July 6, 1938 resolved to dissolve entails. However, implementation dragged on well after the Second World War, so that von Marval always had to obtain special permits for real estate transactions until the Real Estate Movement Act of 28 July 1961 came into force. From January 1, 1962, he could freely dispose of his land.
In July 1962 he sold the old Seybold property in the center of Nordheim, a total of six buildings and a park with a total area of 104 ares, for 446,000 DM to the municipality of Nordheim. The fire station and the building yard were built on the site, the manor house was converted into the town hall and the rest of the park was prepared as a public green area. Also in 1962 he sold very cheaply the site on which the Kurt-von-Marval-Schule Grund- und Hauptschule Nordheim , named after him in 1980 , was built. In the further course of the 1960s, he laid the foundation for the approximately 6.5 hectare Kelteräcker industrial area in Nordheim through further inexpensive property sales and his approval of a development plan ; the Geißbühl / Imenäcker development area also goes back to old Marval property that had been given cheaply. In the 1970s he sold further large agricultural areas to farmers in Nordheim at a favorable price. In recognition of his services to the major municipal tasks after the end of the war and his willingness to meet the large land requirements quickly and cheaply , he was made an honorary citizen of Nordheim on August 1, 1969 .
Kurt von Marval remained unmarried and was in good health well into old age. He died suddenly while preparing for a spring cure at the age of 91. He was buried in the Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart. In his will from 1973 he ordered the establishment of the Von Marval Family Foundation , from which the Nordheim community still benefits today. Marval was also an art collector and bequeathed a large collection of copperplate engravings and etchings to the Stuttgart State Gallery . He bequeathed various Marval family portraits to the Neuchâtel Art Museum, where they had been on loan for a long time.
From Marval'sche Family Foundation and predecessor
The Seybold family has been recorded in Nordheim since 1782. The basis for the large later Marval'schen property was laid by the court clerk Johann Gottfried Seybold (1757–1816), who after his marriage in 1782 with his wife Susanne Herrlinger settled in Nordheim, where the couple received properties from the bride's parents and other properties , especially from emigrants.
The son Josef Wilhelm Friedrich Seybold (1799–1874), born in Nordheim, was a trader in Antwerp and later in France. He increased his parents’s already considerable property in Nordheim by buying more land and returned to Nordheim around 1835, the year he married Amalie von den Velden, to manage the family’s estates himself. In 1836 he settled in Heilbronn and had the property in Nordheim run by an administrator. From 1837 to 1846 he was the tenant of the municipal grinding mill on the Hefenweiler in Heilbronn. In 1848 and 1849 he was a member of the state parliament of Württemberg as a member of Heilbronn. In 1849 he moved to Stuttgart. From 1851 to 1855 he was a member of the state parliament for the city of Ludwigsburg. At that time he had the architect Georg von Morlok build a stately home on Nordheimer Marktplatz (today's town hall), which the family only lived in during the summer months, while Stuttgart remained the main residence. In a front building that was demolished in 1972, the administrator or, later, tenant apartment was located.
On the occasion of the marriage of the eldest daughter Agathe Seybold (1836-1917) to the landowner Friedrich von Marval in 1860, Wilhelm Seybold determined in his will the Seybold family entails for the properties and goods bought by his parents and him. At the same time, he founded the Von Seybold-von den Velden Foundation , which was equipped with larger funds and a new building for a toddler school. This foundation existed until 1954.
While the Seybold / Marval property in 1892 comprised only 12 properties with a total area of 277 ares, it was primarily thanks to Wilhelm von Marval-Seybold (1861–1944) that he bought larger quantities of properties. He was a trained forest scientist and wing adjutant to King Wilhelm II of Württemberg . He too had the Nordheim estate managed by administrators or leaseholders and lived mainly in Stuttgart. Only after his home in Stuttgart had been destroyed in 1944 did he flee to Nordheim, where he and his wife died and were buried. By 1939 the Fideikommiss property had grown to 61 pieces of land with an area of 5667 acres. Regarding the number of plots, it should be noted, however, that a total of five land consolidations took place in Nordheim between 1892 and 1939 and the 61 plots of land in 1939 decrease to a total of 338 plots before the respective land consolidations. The division of the estate between the children Gabriele von Marval (1891–1973) and Kurt von Marval favored the daughter with the house in Stuttgart and the financial estate, while the son Kurt inherited the property in Nordheim.
Kurt von Marval's real estate, though significantly diminished by his numerous property sales, was still substantial at the time of his death. The extent of the legacy was around 45.5 hectares, mostly arable land in the Nordheim district and a further 78.63 arable land in the Klingenberg district. In the will it was stipulated that the Von Marval'sche Foundation, to be established from his inheritance, would be represented externally by the municipality of Nordheim and that the three-person foundation council would consist of the respective mayor of Nordheim, a long-established citizen to be determined by the municipal council and one of two Stuttgart lawyers (to be replaced by a long-established Nordheimer after their departure). The foundation was established on May 8, 1981.
literature
- Karl Wagner: Kurt von Marval and his ancestors in Nordheim. Von Marval'sche Foundation, Nordheim 1987.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Royal Württemberg Military Ordinance Sheet. No. 51 of November 23, 1917, p. 396.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marval, Kurt von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German founder of the von Marval'schen Family Foundation |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1980 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |