Sigismund von Dawans

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Johann Joseph Gerhard Sigismund von Dawans (born June 3, 1744 in Oppenheim , † February 24, 1822 in Mannheim ) was an official in the Electoral Palatinate of Baden who took over the provisional management of the Baden Ministry of Finance from 1817-1819.

Family and origin

The Dawans family is believed to come from Wallonia and lived in Toulouse and Marseille in the 18th century . The French spelling of the name was d'Arance . In Germany, the Dawans or Davans family wrote themselves. In Germany the family is traced back to a Carl Dawans who died in Düsseldorf in 1731.

Dawans was the son of Carl Adolph Dawans (1707-1752) and Anna Ludovica Amalia Weiss († 1748).

He married Helena Christina Domicella Wüst (1741–1802), with whom he had five children:

  • Helena Anna Franziska (1768–1837) ∞ Franz Arnold Freiherr von der Becke
  • Bernhard († 1809)
  • Johann Melchior (1769–1846) ∞ Franziska Elisabeth Bernritter
  • Franz Jakob (1770–1845) ∞ Leopoldine Theresia von Pierron
  • Anna (1777-1860)

Life

In 1765 Dawans entered the service of the Elector of the Palatinate , Karl Theodor , as a learned councilor at the court court dicastery . In the autumn of 1791 he was sent to the Oberamt Simmern as extraordinary government commissioner . Here the communities had revolted against a corrupt land clerk and Dawans rehabilitated the financially desolate Oberamt. In 1791 he also became a learned real government councilor and higher appeal judge at the Palatinate Higher Appeal Court. On July 7, 1792, Dawans was raised to knighthood and nobility by Elector Karl Theodor and was henceforth allowed to call himself Edler von Dawans. From 1800 Dawans worked as a councilor of the Rhenish government of the Electoral Palatinate in Mannheim and in 1802 as government director of the constitutional deputation in Mannheim, which was responsible for questions of state sovereignty, the police and fiscal tasks.

In 1803 the areas of the Electoral Palatinate on the right bank of the Rhine came to the newly formed Electorate of Baden and Dawans transferred to its service. In 1805 Dawans was Hofratsdirektor in the Electoral Baden Hofrats-Collegium of the provincial administration of the Palatinate. On November 25, 1806 he was appointed to the real Privy Council of the Grand Duchy of Baden , 2nd class . With a sovereign ordinance of October 13, 1807, Dawans was appointed government director of the government of the Palatinate County. In 1808, as the successor to Karl Freiherr von Hacke, he took over the chairmanship of the Mannheim demolition commission, which organized the dismantling of the ramparts and walls. In 1811 Dawans was appointed one of 14 members of the State Council.

Grand Duke Karl transferred the provisional management of the Ministry of Finance to the State Councilor Dawans on July 15, 1817 after the previous incumbent, Ernst Philipp von Sensburg , had taken over the Ministry of the Interior in the Berstett cabinet . The appointment of the 73-year-old Dawan was a stopgap solution, as the Grand Duke's preferred candidate for the office, Karl Wilhelm Marschall von Bieberstein , had rejected the takeover. With the appointment of his successor, Karl Friedrich von Fischer , Dawans became an extraordinary member of the State Ministry.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Grass / Siebmacher pp. 94–95; Becke-Klüchtzner p. 102 mentions d'Avance as the French spelling .
  2. ↑ see entry on gedbas.genealogy.net; accessed on December 27, 2017
  3. ↑ see Becke-Klüchtzner p. 102
  4. ^ Karl-Georg Faber: Andreas van Recum, 1765-1828. A Rhenish Cosmopolitan , Bonn (Röhrscheid) 1969 (Paris Historical Studies, 8). P. 52
  5. ↑ His electoral candlelight to Pfalzbaiern ... Hof-und ... 1791
  6. ^ Also Reichsedler
  7. ↑ see Grass / Siebmacher p. 95 and Gritzner p. 210a
  8. ↑ Churfürstlich-Pfalzbaierischer Hof- und Staatskalender: to the year 1802; P. 228
  9. ^ Kur-Badischer Hof- und Staats-Calendar: for the year 1805
  10. ↑ Grand Ducal Baden State and Government Gazette 1806
  11. ^ Government gazette of the Grand Duchy of Baden from October 13, 1807, Nro. 34, p. 193
  12. ↑ MARCHIVUM : Chronicle star . 1808, accessed September 29, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Großherzoglich Badisches Regierungsblatt, No. XXIV. Of September 26, 1811, p. 107 Google digitized version
  14. ^ Grand Ducal Baden State and Government Gazette, No. XVIII. of July 22, 1817, p. 67 Google digitized version
  15. ↑ Willy Andreas: On the assessment of the Baden administrative organization of November 26, 1809 and their further training. In: Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine, NF Volume XXVII. (1912), p. 325 ; Marshal von Bieberstein died in August 1817 after announcing the day before that he wanted to take over the post.
  16. ^ Grand Ducal Baden State and Government Gazette, No. XIII. from April 19, 1819, p. 71 Google digitized version
personal data
SURNAME Dawans, Sigismund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dawans, Johann Joseph Gerhard Sigismund von (full name); Davans, Sigismund; Dawans, Sigismund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Palatinate and Baden civil servant, Baden state council and finance minister
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Oppenheim
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1822
Place of death Mannheim