Moritz Christian von Paepcke

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Moritz Christian von Paepcke

Moritz Christian Edler von Paepcke , also Paepke , (born January 10, 1776 in Quassel , † October 1, 1857 in Lütgenhof ) was a German lawyer, landowner and state parliament deputy.

Life

Moritz Christian Paepcke came from the Papke / Päpke family of lawyers operating in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania . He was a son of the bailiff Christian Friedrich Paepcke (1747–1823) and his wife Hippolyta Elisabeth, geb. Schröder. His sister Louise Juliane Henriette Paepcke (1783–1861) married the state syndic Detlev Friedrich Dreves . His grandfather Moritz Christoph Paepcke (1705–1778) had acquired the Quassel and Bandekow estate in 1755 . Initially taught chatter at home by private teachers, he attended the Güstrow cathedral school from 1791 . He studied law at the universities of Jena and from 1795 Göttingen . In 1798 he entered the service of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and worked in the ducal law firm in Schwerin . In 1801 he was appointed to the chancellery and in 1802 to the real councilor of justice.

Since 1806 he was married to Henriette Luise, b. Kossel, (1789-1862). Her sister Wilhelmine (1792–1862) was the mother of Adolf Friedrich von Schack . In 1812 he resigned from the civil service in order to manage the Veelböken estate , which his wife had acquired from her father's inheritance. The couple kept Veelböken until 1827.

During the Wars of Liberation , in 1813/14, he made himself available as Herzoglich Mecklenburgischer Verpflegungs-Cammissarius in the Vegesack Division of the Northern Army ; He was also involved in the procurement of horses for the Mecklenburg hunters.

In 1815, from the bankruptcy estate of Friedrich von Eyben (1770–1825), he was able to use his large estate in Klützer Winkel , Gut Lütgenhof with Vorwerk and Neuvorwerk and Gut Prieschendorf (today a district of Dassow) with Benedictenwerk (= Hanstorf, district of Papenhusen ) , Wicker jug ​​and portion of tramm ( rye peat ) preserved. This made him one of the largest landowners in the region.

With the possession of Lütgenhof the manorial rule over the knightly spots Dassow was connected since the Middle Ages ; the respective owner of Lütgenhof was both court lord and mayor of Dassow. The constitution of the Fleckens and the regulation of the relationships between the inhabitants of the Fleckens Dassow and their landlord, the Justice Council of Paepke on Lützenhof became a constant topic. In 1857, Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II issued a regulatory recession over the area and the Dassow field mark , and Paepcke gave the place its first basic and municipal code.

Paepcke was active in many ways for the interests of the land-owning knighthood. In 1818 he was a co-founder of the Mecklenburg Knighthood Credit Association , whose aim, as with comparable knighthood institutions of the time ( Ritterschaftliches Kreditinstitut Stade , Calenberger Kreditverein ), was to grant its members long-term loans on favorable terms. Refinancing was carried out by issuing Pfandbriefe , which were secured by mortgages and land charges. From 1821 he was a deputy of the knighthood of the Grevesmühlen office at the Mecklenburg state parliament. In 1836, on his initiative, an Actien-Gesellschaft was formed to build a road from Wismar to Lübeck . He made sure that the debate about whether their route should go via Schönberg (Mecklenburg) or via Dassow was decided in favor of Dassow. In 1847 the Chaussee was completed along the Hansische Ostseestrasse , today's Bundesstrasse 105 .

He fell out of the group of bourgeois landowners such as Theodor Ernst Stever and August Schlettwein , who long fought for equal rights with the noble members of the knighthood privileged in the estate government, insofar as he had these equal rights through his own since the 1820s ennoblement sought to acquire. Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria raised him to the nobility with a diploma issued in Vienna on February 23, 1839, with the predicate noble of . The recognition by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II took place on October 21, 1839. In 1840 he was accepted into the Mecklenburg nobility. Also in 1839 he began building the new Lütgenhof Palace .

During the revolution in Mecklenburg (1848) he was part of a 12-person commission set up by the extraordinary state parliament on April 26th to assess the reform demands. He took a conservative position and demanded a bicameral system for the future Mecklenburg constitution and a representation of interests that favored large property holdings. At the end of 1848 he became a member of the board of the conservative General Political Association for Mecklenburg, which was founded on his initiative , “which stated its purpose very generally in its statutes to the effect that he would use all the forces available in the country to ensure freedom, as well as property and wanted to unite the prosperity of all classes of citizens, but was essentially a covenant to protect the threatened interests of the basic aristocracy. "

Works

  • Record-based news of the last negotiations regarding the intended credit association of knightly goods in Mecklenburg. Lübeck: Römhild 1818
  • Appreciation of the essay contained in Nos. 980 and 981 of the Schweriner Freimüthigen Abendblatt, under the title: the urgent need to dissolve and redesign the credit association of the Mecklenburg Knighthood. Lübeck: Rohde 1838
  • Lecture to the current state assembly in Malchin on the intended tax and customs reform: Malchin, November 12th 1846. Printed as a manuscript for the members of the assembly of estates. Malchin: Piper 1846
  • Contribution to answering the question about the adoption of the two-chamber system in the new draft constitution for Mecklenburg, and how the same is to be implemented? Lübeck: Rohde 1848

literature

  • Claus Heinrich Bill: Moritz Christian Edler of Paepcke. Life and work of a knight from Mecklenburg illuminated in new research; at the same time: Biographical-historical contributions to the ducal and grand-ducal-Mecklenburg aristocratic and rural history in the 19th century. (Series of publications by the Institute for Prussian Historiography 6) Owschlag 1997
  • Volker Jakobs: Moritz Christian von Paepke: his origins, his ennoblement and his work in Dassow. In: Dassower Hefte 6 (2002), pp. 3–4 ( digitized version )
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7316 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo von Boddien: The Mecklenburgische Freiwilligen-Jäger-Regiments: Memories from the years 1813 and 1814. Rostock: Hinstorff 1863 ( digitized version ), p. 159
  2. ↑ The constitution of the spot Dassow. Inventory overview of the State Main Archives Schwerin
  3. ↑ See Adolf Werner: The political movements in Mecklenburg and the extraordinary state parliament in the spring of 1848. Berlin and Leipzig: Rothschild 1907 ( digitized ), pp. 18–36
  4. ^ Julius Wiggers : The Mecklenburg constituent assembly and the preceding reform movement: A historical account. 1850 ( digitized version), p. 94f
  5. ^ Ludwig von Hirschfeld: Friedrich Franz II., Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and his predecessors. Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1891, pp. 342f
personal data
SURNAME Paepcke, Moritz Christian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paepcke, Moritz Christian Edler von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, landowner and state parliament deputy
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Chatter
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1857
Place of death Lütgenhof