Maximilian Joseph von Lamotte

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Funerary inscription, Speyer cemetery
Grave in the new Speyer cemetery

Maximilian Joseph von Lamotte , also de Lamotte and de la Motte (born April 19, 1809 in Munich ; † January 9, 1887 in Speyer ) was a senior Bavarian administrative officer, vice-president of the Rhine Palatinate and first director of the Palatinate Ludwig Railway .

Live and act

He was born as the son of the Bavarian court jeweler Peter Lukas de Lamotte and his wife Anna Maria, geb. de Quaglio , born; King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria was his godfather. The paternal family originally came from Normandy and used to write de la Motte .

Maximilian Joseph von Lamotte entered the Bavarian administrative service. Initially employed by the government of Upper Bavaria , he became an accessist in 1836 and immediately afterwards government secretary in the government of the Rhine district in Speyer , and from 1837 an actuary in the Bergzabern regional commissioner . From 1840 to 1848 Maximilian Joseph von Lamotte was the Land Commissioner of Kaiserslautern . Here he acquired the name of an organizer of road construction and traffic infrastructure, which is why he was appointed first director of the Palatinate Ludwig Railway Company in 1844, which he held until 1849. The construction management of the Ludwig Railway , with around 14,000 employees, was in his hands. 1848 joined Lamotte as agricultural commissioner to Germersheim , on August 27, 1850 appointed him King Maximilian II. To the Government with the Government of Rheinpfalz in Speyer, which is why his time in the country's Commissariat Germersheim ended 31 August. In 1867 he was promoted to director of the Chamber of the Interior in Speyer . From 1853 to 1867 the Bavarian government appointed him as a member of the Board of Directors of the Palatinate Railways. Most recently, Maximilian Joseph von Lamotte was Vice- President of the Bavarian Rhineland Palatinate, making him the second highest administrative officer. As such, he retired in 1881. In 1853 he wrote a highly regarded memorandum on the up-and-coming business location Ludwigshafen am Rhein , which is still important for the city's history today.

When a cathedral building association was founded there for the first time in 1853 with the construction of the new westwork of the Speyer Cathedral , Maximilian Joseph von Lamotte was elected as chairman. This cathedral building association was the forerunner of today's association, which was re-established in 1995. When he took over the chairmanship, King Ludwig I wrote in a letter on December 16, 1853, among others. a. the very personal words:

“ It is nice that you - a Lamotte - are at the head of this association whose grandfather was a faithful servant of mine. Old Lamotte is still standing before me as I saw him at the end of the last century. "

- Franz Xaver Remling, Nikolaus von Weis, Volume 2, 1871, page 284, footnote 453

According to the epitaph, Maximilian Joseph von Lamotte was Commander of the Order of Merit of St. Michael and Knight of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown .

In September 1840 the administrative officer Sibylla Michell, daughter of the highest Palatinate tax inspector Philipp Joseph Michell, married. After her death in 1854, he married her sister Therese in 1855, who, however, died in 1860, after which he remained a widower. Lamotte and his family were decidedly Catholic, and some of the children were raised by nuns from Speyer. The second marriage had a son, while the first had seven children, of whom the unmarried daughter Clara Anna Maria von Lamotte (1849–1938) looked after the father in old age. She was very involved in the Catholic women's pastoral care, founded the Speyer Marienheim for domestic training for girls and was the owner of the papal decoration of honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice .

Maximilian Joseph von Lamotte was buried in the (new) Speyer cemetery, the grave is still there. The daughter Clara is also noted on the base.

literature

  • State Archives Administration Rhineland-Palatinate: Yearbook for West German State History. Volumes 3–4, 1977, p. 381 Scan from the source with a tabular curriculum vitae
  • Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn: history, operation and vehicles of the Palatinate railways. 1982, p. 28, ISBN 3806203016 .
  • Maria Adele Herrmann: Clara de Lamotte, the founder of the Marienheim , in Women in Speyer. Stadtverwaltung Speyer, 1990, pp. 88–98.
  • Writings on the history of the city and district of Kaiserslautern. Volume 2, Arbogast Verlag, 1960, p. 102, excerpts from the source
  • Lothar Keller: Land Commissioner Max Joseph de Lamotte, a pioneer of road construction. In Kaiserslautern city and country. 1970 issue 2, pp. 15-18. Find tip
  • Ludwig Hans: Germersheim land commissioners of the 19th century. In: Series of publications on the history of the district of Germersheim. Volume 2, Steimer Verlag, 2012, pp. 199-234, ISBN 978-3-9815628-0-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maria Adele Herrmann: Clara de Lamotte, the founder of the Marienheim , in Women in Speyer , Stadtverwaltung Speyer, 1990, page 88
  2. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn: History, operation and vehicles of the Palatinate railways , 1982, page 28, ISBN 3806203016 ; Excerpt from the source
  3. ↑ Werner Weidmann: School, economic and social history of the Palatinate , Volume 3, page 92, Arbogast Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3870223014 ; Excerpt from the source
  4. ↑ Ludwig Hans, p. 216
  5. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn: History, operation and vehicles of the Palatinate railways , 1982, page 28, ISBN 3806203016 ; Excerpt from the source
  6. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn: History, operation and vehicles of the Palatinate railways , 1982, page 28, ISBN 3806203016 ; Excerpt from the source
  7. ^ Society for corporate history: Journal for corporate history , volumes 12-13, 1967, page 580; Excerpt from the source
  8. ^ Oskar Poller: Ludwigshafen 1853 and 1873: The memoranda of Lamotte and Matthäus , Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pfälzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde, 1974
  9. ^ Franz Xaver Remling : Nikolaus von Weis , Bishop of Speyer, in life and work , Volume 2, Speyer 1871, pages 283–285
  10. ↑ Website on the history of the Speyer Cathedral Building Association ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rheintaler.net
  11. ^ Newspaper article on the sale of the Marienheim, Speyerer Tagespost, October 2, 1999
personal data
SURNAME Lamotte, Maximilian Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lamotte, Maximilian Joseph de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian administrative officer, Knight of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1887
Place of death Speyer