Papen-Wilbring

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Wilbring House, headquarters of the Wilbring line
Caspar von Papen-Wilbring and his wife Antonie Maria, b. from Dücker
Ernst Adolph von Papen-Wilbring, Imperial Rittmeister, Lord of the Wilbring House and his wife Antonie, b. from Kückelsheim
Friedrich Caspar von Geismar, Russian general
Ferdinand von Papen-Wilbring, Lord of House Wilbring, married. with Antonie von Papen-Könngen, the sister of Franz-Josef von Papen-Köningen. They are the first parents of the Wilbringer branch line I.
Franz-Josef von Papen-Könngen, m. with Casparine von Papen-Wilbring, the sister of Ferdinand von Papen-Wilbring

Von Papen-Wilbring is a branch line of the main line of the family of Erbsälzer von Papen , which begins entirely with Wilhelm von Papen in 1470.

history

In the fourth generation of the older genealogy (zu Westrich, Scheidingen, Köningen ), the Wilbring line begins with Johann von Papen ("Pape zu Westrich", he was still living in 1685). Like all of his ancestors, he was an Erbsälzer zu Werl and at times Salzeroberst and mayor of Werl . On April 13, 1657, he married Anna Margarete von Zelion-Brandis (born July 19, 1637, buried in Werl on October 12, 1666), who belonged to the heir-alps family. This marriage remained childless. In his second marriage he was married to Wilhelmine Margarete von Papen-Wesseler , daughter of Ernst von Papen-Wesseler, master of Gut Bockum (V. Gen., Bockum line) and Essenthlo, imperial colonel in the Thirty Years War . Ernst von Papen-Wesseler defended Paderborn and Hanau / Hessen against the Swedes and French and was city commander of Friedberg. In 1620 he married Elisabeth von Bönninghausen, the sister of Lothar Dietrich Freiherr von Bönninghausen , including an imperial field marshal lieutenant and Marèchal de Camp, the king of France, lord of Schnellenberg Castle near Attendorn. This in turn had a natural son with the sister of his brother-in-law Ursula von Papen.

From the second marriage of Johann von Papen to Wilhelmine Margarete von Papen-Wesseler, a son was born, Kaspar Dietrich Anton von Papen (* July 21, 1674 in Werl; † 1719). He became a captain of the Electorate of Cologne and fought in the War of the Spanish Succession . He was married to Antonie Mara von Dücker (* 1676, still lived in 1717). She was the daughter of Dietrich Gaudenz von Dücker, master of the Rödinghausen house and his wife Maria Sibylle von Wydenbruck. There were three children from this marriage:

  1. Maria Christina (* October 27, 1710; † February 2, 1773) landowner in Wilbring by marrying Franz Gaudenz von Horst on January 28, 1748 at Haus Wilbring . The marriage was childless and von Horst died before his wife. This overwritten Wilbring
  2. Josef Gaudenz, her brother, (* December 27, 1712 in Andernach; † before 1780), royal Sardinian-Piedmontese major. He was not married and lived in Italy. He signed Wilbring to his brother
  3. Ernst Adolf (born March 2, 1715 in Andernach, reigned Waltrop February 21, 1780), retired Imperial Rittmeister. D., married to Antonie von Kückelsheim.

A son comes from the marriage of Ernst Adolf von Papen : Josef von Papen (born January 15, 1772 in Waltrop; † April 15, 1849 in Wilbring), Herr auf Wilbring, married Waltrop on June 7, 1803 to Sophie von Geismar (* 8 September 1781 in Severinghausen; † August 22, 1851 in Wilbring), daughter of Major Klemens August von Geismar and his wife Bernhardine von Berswordt. She is the sister of the major and later Russian general Friedrich Caspar von Geismar . He led the Russian contingent in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig; In 1813 he saved the city of Weimar from destruction by Napoleon.

  • Manors of the Wilbring line and the families of the wives

  • Site plan of the Wilbring castle complex

  • Courtyard entrance from Wilbring

  • Wilbring outer bailey

  • Former abbess house, later manor house of the former Himmelpforten monastery, Niederense, Ruhr

  • Schwochow manor near Pyritz in Pomerania

Division of the Wilbring line

Josef von Papen and Sophie born. von Geismar had three sons:

  1. Ferdinand von Papen, Lord on Wilbring (Wilbring 1 line)
  2. Philipp von Papen (line dies out in the male line, see: family tables)
  3. Kaspar Theodor von Papen (Wilbring 2 line)

Wilbring line 1

Ferdinand von Papen, Herr auf Wilbring (* August 30, 1805, † January 25, 1881) was married on August 26, 1834 to Antonie von Papen (Köningen) (* February 12, 1814 in Werl; † January 14, 1875 in Evenkamp ), Daughter of Friedrich von Papen auf Köningen and sister of Franz Josef von Papen auf Köningen [he in turn married to Casparine von Papen (Wilbring), sister of Ferdinand von Papen]. He and his wife Anatonie had ten children:

  • 1. Paula Margarete (born July 9, 1835) was highly decorated for her services in the war between the North German Confederation and France. She was the bearer of the royal. bayer. Merit Cross of 1870/71, of the royal. prussia. Augusta Cross and the Medal for Noncombattante. She was a woman with strong personality traits. She married Georg Josef von Papius (born February 24, 1812). He is the author of the book "History of the saltworks in Werl and the local heirs of Lilien and von Papen, and the von Papen family, called Papius in Bavaria", published in 1864.
  • 2. Sophie Friederike (born August 9, 1836; † in Breslau), nun in the monastery of the Good Shepherd, d.? in Wroclaw.
  • 3. Wilhelm Franz (born December 16, 1837 in Wilbring; † January 12, 1886 in Boppard), prussian. Cuirassier captain with the Cologne cuirassiers (cuirassier regiment 8) married to Franziska (Fanny) von Berenberg (born February 20, 1847 in Warburg; † October 28, 1885 in Boppard). From this marriage two daughters were born. One daughter: Adela "Adi", b. 1885, was adopted by the Cologne banking family Anna vom Rath (née Jung) and Adolph vom Rath (married on April 18, 1869 in Cologne). Adolph vom Rath was raised to the Prussian nobility by Kaiser Wilhelm II on August 21, 1901, but kept his old (not aristocratic) name.
  • 4. Antonie Franziska (born March 9, 1840; † in America), sister in the order of Christian love for Paderborn
  • 5. Friedrich (born October 26, 1841 in Wilbring, † June 30, 1893 in Soest), royal Prussian chief forest master in Niederense-Bremen, gentleman from Haus Himmelpforten, married. on June 25, 1867 in Büberich / Werl with Fanny Freiin von Schelver (born January 20, 1841 at Gut Schafhausen near Werl; † March 29, 1891 in Recklinghausen), daughter of Friedrich Freiherr von Schelver. From this marriage there were four children.
  • Freiherr Friedrich von Schelver, lord of Gut Schaffhausen, married three of his daughters as follows: Fanny von Schelver marries Oberforstmeister Friedrich von Papen-Wilbring 1, Herr auf Haus Himmelpforten, Maria von Schelver marries the brother of Friedrich vP: Ferdinand vP der im German / French war dies of an injury and another daughter, Wilhelmiene von Schelver, marries Franz Freiherr von Fürstenberg, Schloss Heiligenhoven line, (born May 3, 1829 at Heiligenhoven Castle; † August 12, 1905 in Mainz)
  • 6. Franz Joseph (born January 26, 1843 in Wilbring; † March 1, 1925 in Detmold), retired lieutenant colonel. D., first marriage to Johanna von Winterfeld (* July 10, 1841, † May 25, 1895), daughter of Colonel Carl von Winterfeld and Ottilia von Steprodt. Second marriage to Johanna von Spillner (born August 6, 1864 in Mainz, † June 27, 1917 in Detmold) daughter of Colonel Hermann von Spillner and Emmy von Brandt. A son from the 2nd marriage
  • 7. Ferdinand (born November 28, 1844 in Wilbring), wounded as a lieutenant in 1870 in the battle of Gravelotte , died in the Rochusberg / Bingen military hospital as a result of this wounding; married to Maria Freiin von Schelver, the sister of Fanny von Schelver, wife of pos. 5.
  • 8. Ludwig Carl Michael (born February 22, 1846 in Wilbring; † March 26, 1916 in Bad Godesberg), major ret. D., married Emma Elisabeth Tiemann on January 17, 1874 (born October 17, 1853 in Braunschweig; † January 3, 1891 in Trier), daughter of the pharmacist Carl F. Tiemann and Mrs. Bertha Wilhelmine Frömling
  • 9. Thekla Bertha (born February 26, 1851 in Wilbring; † 1930), married government councilor Custodis in Werne in 1873
  • 10. Waldemar Josef (born April 16, 1853 in Wilbring; † February 25, 1919 in Südkirchen ), married to Bernhardine Türich, 4 children
  • Children of Ferdinand von Papen Herr auf Haus Wilbring and his wife Antonie von Papen-Köningen

  • Wilhelm Franz von Papen (1837–1886)

  • Friedrich von Papen (1841-1893) and Fanny, born. Baroness von Schelver (1841-1891)

  • Franz Josef von Papen (1843–1925)

  • Ferdinand von Papen, wounded as a lieutenant in 1870 in the battle of Gravelotte , died in the Rochusberg / Bingen military hospital as a result of this wounding (1844–1870)

  • Ludwig Carl Michael von Papen (1846–1916)

  • Friedrich Freiherr von Schelver, he had three daughters. One was married to Friedrich von Papen-Wilbring, another to Ferdinand von Papen-Wilbring, who died of the wounds in the Battle of Gravelotte, and the third to Freiherr von Fürstenberg, lord of Heiligenhoven Castle

Important representatives of the Wilbring 1 line after the establishment of the German national state in 1870/71.

The eldest daughter of Ferdinand von Papen, Paula Margarete von Papen, b. July 9, 1835 was highly decorated for her services in the war between the North German Confederation and France. She was the bearer of the royal. bayer. Cross of Merit from 1870/71, of royal prussia. Augusta cross and the medal for non-acombattante. She was a woman with strong personality traits. She married Georg Josef von Papius geb. February 24, 1812. He is the author of the book "History of the Salinen zu Werl and the local heirs of Lilien and von Papen, and the von Papen family called Papius in Bavaria, 1864".

Felix Maria Michael von Papen , a banker and business journalist, was in opposition to the National Socialist system . He frequented various Prussian-monarchist and upper-class circles in Berlin, including young officers of the Reichswehr who were later active in the military resistance and tried to organize a political resistance in 1933. He grabbed u. a. in memoranda of the violations of the law of the Nazi organizations and presented himself to his Prussian-Jewish friends, whom he also helped with their emigration. He was born on May 12, 1910 in Diedenhofen / Lothringen (then the German Reich) and died a few days before the end of the war, in May 1945 as an inmate of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In December 1933, under unexplained circumstances, he was kidnapped from his house in Berlin-Kladow and transferred to the Oranienburg concentration camp. On July 14, 1934, he was transferred to Lichtenberg concentration camp for two weeks and then released. A few weeks later he was arrested again and released a little later. He first emigrated to Switzerland, and after the annexation of Austria and the increased appearance of Nazi groups in Switzerland, to the Netherlands, his mother's home. After the occupation he was found in his hiding place by denunciation, abducted again and taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Here he died as a result of the conditions of detention a few days before being liberated by US troops.

During his emigration he wrote a book "Ein von Papen speaks ..." about his experiences in Hitler Germany and his painful time and the crimes he experienced in the Oranienburg concentration camp, which appeared in Amsterdam in 1938 and was published in parallel in Willi Munzenberg, Amsterdam and Paris Newspaper "Die Zukunft" was reprinted. In the Netherlands his book was banned before the war began because of insulting a friendly country. Felix von Papen was the 3rd son of a total of 5 children of the mining engineer and mine director in Metz / Lorraine Felix Michal von Papen (Wilbring 1 line) * at Gut Himmelpforten and cousin of Franz von Papen, Chancellor in 1932. His mother was Maria Scholten, daughter of the founder of Basalt AG, Linz, and whose brother was Dipl.-Ing. Jan Arendt Scholten, master and owner of the Genovevaburg in Mayen. Felix von Papen left behind his wife with three children.

Dr. Ferdinand Gaudenz von Papen , b. October 28, 1876 in Wetzlar, died November 26, 1942 in Halle, married. September 15, 1942 in Berlin with Laura (Lore) Walter, b. January 8, 1884 in Berlin, died ... in Tübingen, private scientist, was a well-known Sahara researcher and traveler to Asia in the 1930s. In the 1930s he founded the Asiological Museum in the Zwinger, Dresden. He was the son of Major Ludwig vP born. March 23, 1845 at Wilbring Castle.

Helmut von Papen , science journalist, publicist, publisher and book author is Germany's leading author of scientific publications and publications on Indian studies in North America. His work in the border areas, ice age research, archeology, genetics, and ethnicities, history, and the migration of modern humans of the ancient European mitochondrial DNA N-Lineage (Haplogroup N), from North Africa via Palestine to North and South America, his innumerable scientific publications about the Anasazi, Mogollon, Hohokam and others cultures of the southwest of North America, the early Ice Age cultures of North America, the development of the Mound-Builder (pyramid-building cultures) in the Mississippi Valley and the Southeast of North America and the like. a. made him this. His book about the Anasazi culture and its neighboring cultures (Hohokam culture, Mogollon culture, Sinagua culture) in the area of ​​the Four Corners region in the USA is the only scientific and comprehensive work in German on this topic. "It is the standard work on this topic in the German-speaking cultural area" Quote: Dietmar Kuegler, publisher and editor-in-chief of MAGAZIN for AMERIKANISTIK. Papen gave lectures on the subjects of this book at various universities: Freiburg, Stuttgart, Tübingen, Zurich and lectures at German-American institutes, in cooperation with scientific associations in Munich, Nuremberg, Würzburg. Another book about the state of the Natchez Indians on the Lower Mississippi, which was written in close collaboration with Jim Barnett, the director of the Department of Archeology and History of the State of Mississippi, has been purchased in large numbers by the State of Mississippi.

Wilbring 2 line, with the Schwochow branch line

  • Family tables of the Wilbring line with their subsidiary lines: Wilbring 1, Wilbring 2 and Schwochow

  • Family table of the branch line Wilbring I (Table 1)

  • Family table of the Wilbring I branch line (Table 1.1.)

Literature and Sources

  • (Prof.) Friedrich von Klocke : The patriciate problem and the Werler Erbsälzer; Historical work on Westphalian regional research, Volume 7, 1965 Aschendorfer Verlagsbuchhandlung Münster iW
  • Heinrich Josef Deisting: Archive family von Papen-Wilbring. Finding aid 1541–1997, 1997.
  • Ders .: On the history of the Werl public library and the von Papen house, 1980.
  • Friedrich von Klocke : The von Papen family in Werl and Soest, 1934.
  • Georg Josef von Papius: History of the saltworks at Werl and the local heirs of Lilien and von Papen, as well as the von Papen family called Papius in Bavaria, 1864.
  • Lothar Dietrich Freiherr von Bönninghausen (1598–1657), a Westphalian mercenary leader of the Thirty Years' War: by Dr. Helmut Lahrkamp, ​​Regensberg Münster publishing house
  • Felix von Papen, Ein von Papen speaks ... about his experiences in Hitler Germany, Copyright Felix von Papen, Amsterdam, Printed in the Netherlands, Printed by: NV Drukkerij GJ Thieme, Nijmegen (Holland)
  • Erbsälzer archive, in the city archive of Werl, and by microfilm in the Westphalian state archive in Münster or. outsourced to the NRW state archive
  • Norbert Frey: Dorfmüller - Vicar in Waltrop. Self-published, Waltrop 2009, p. 316ff (no ISBN)