Otto Graf Beissel von Gymnich

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Otto Graf Beissel von Gymnich (born April 18, 1851 in Erfurt , † April 19, 1931 at Frens Castle ) was a Rhenish-Prussian nobleman , politician , civil servant and entrepreneur .

Life

Count Otto came from the Beissel von Gymnich family , one of the oldest Rhineland noble families. He was born in Erfurt in 1851 as the second son of Friedrich Hubert Graf Beissel von Gymnich and his wife Charlotte Freiin Groß von Trockau . In addition to the title of Count , he also held the title of Royal Prussian Chamberlain and the military rank of Rittmeister .

In 1877 Otto married the baroness Auguste von Künsberg -Mandel, with whom he had seven children in the following years. Otto, Klemens, Eugen and Franz Karl are known.

Frens Castle , one of the Count's main residences

From the property of the family - mostly from his father - Otto inherited various estates and manors :

In connection with the management of his estates and lands, Count Otto was also active as an entrepreneur and investor, managing various companies in forestry, agriculture, mining and other branches of industry. Among other things, he founded a sawmill in Schmidtheim in 1899 and the Beisselsgrube named after him in 1896 , a lignite mine with an attached briquette factory near Horrem , near his Boisdorf castle .

Because of his status, the count was a member of the Prussian manor house . In addition to his work as a representative of the state, Otto was also very active as an elected politician: from 1884 to 1889 he was district administrator and police president of the Koblenz district for an electoral term . He was then for almost thirty years, from 1891 to 1919, District Administrator of the Bergheim (Erft) district - an office that his grandfather Franz Ludwig had previously held. As Bergheim District Administrator, Otto was also a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Rhine Province , where he rose to chair the Provincial Committee .

In his function as district administrator and entrepreneur, Count Otto drove the industrialization of the Rhineland, which was structurally weak compared to the Ruhr area. For this he promoted the expansion of the necessary infrastructure, especially the railroad. His initiative, together with Adolf Silverberg, made a significant contribution to the construction of the Bergheim - Horrem railway line, which was necessary for the expansion of the Rhenish lignite industry - including his own Beissels mine . This route formed the basis for the later Bergheimer Kreisbahn and is now part of the north-south railway .

Count Beissel went hunting to relax. He was temporarily chairman of the Bergheim District Hunting Protection Association .

Count Otto Beissel von Gymnich died in 1931, one day after his birthday, at the age of 80 at Frenz Castle.

In memory of Count Beissel and the Beisselsgrube founded by him, there is now a Beisselstrasse in Kerpen and Bergheim . (The Beisselweg in Cologne is not named after Otto Graf Beissel, but after Heribert Beissel .)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Otto, Count Beissel von Gymnich. GeneAll.net, accessed January 13, 2011 .
  2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (ed.): New general German nobility lexicon . First volume. Verlag Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1859, p. 282 ( full text in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ a b List of Members of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament 1888-1933 (according to place of residence) : “Schmidtheim 1890: Beissel von Gymnich, Otto Graf, Kgl. Chamberlain " .
  4. ↑ a b c Ernst von Oidtman : The Gymnich family . In: Aachener Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): Journal of the Aachener Geschichtsverein . tape 30/31 . Verlag der Cremersche Buchhandlung (C. Cazin), Aachen 1908, p. 232 ( full text in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ The art monuments of the Bergheim district . In: Paul Clemen (Ed.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz, on behalf of the Provincial Association . tape 4 . Verlag L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1899, OCLC 3618041 ( full text in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ^ Local history of Schmidtheim. Dahlem parish, accessed on January 13, 2011 .
  7. ^ Local history of Schmidtheim. Schmidtheim Association Cartel, accessed on January 13, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Konrad Adenauer : Address to a meeting of the left-bank representatives for the National Assembly, the left-bank representatives for the Prussian state assembly and the mayor of the occupied Rhenish cities in the "Hansasaal" in Cologne. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , February 1, 1919, accessed on January 13, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Helmut Weingarten: Crisscrossing with your own train. The Bergheim district expanded five routes in the 1990s . With full steam through the district - 150 years of the railway - Part 5. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger . December 18, 1985 ( full text on wisoveg.de).
  10. ↑ Manfred Coenen, Volker HW Schüler: Railway and lignite - the industrial and traffic-related development in the lignite area on the left bank of the Rhine 1877-1913 . In: 5th Colloquium of Mining History . Borken 2002, p. 28 ff . ( Revised full text on dbhverlag.de).
  11. ↑ Funeral advertisement
personal data
SURNAME Beissel von Gymnich, Otto Graf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beissel, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rhenish-Prussian nobleman, politician, civil servant and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1931
Place of death Frens Castle , Bergheim - Quadrath