Von der Becke (noble family)

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The von der Becke family was originally a Westphalian aristocratic family that branched out into different lines.

Early history

The family comes from the bishopric of Münster in Westphalia, according to its historical monuments, as early as 1303 Ekbert von der Becke was named as lay judge of a free court negotiating under the spell of the king , then in 1399 Walter von der Becke on the occasion of a feud in Münster along with other compatriots servants and allies of the Münster bishop Otto von Hoya loaded before the vacant chair of Tecklenburg with the lifting of the charge in the previous state of law reinstated and Godeke von der Becke is listed as Burgmann zu Vechte under the knighthood in the statute unification document of 1446, which is important for the country's history . In the course of the next time, the family joined the patrician families of heirmen according to the tradition preserved in it. The prince-bishop and cathedral chapter disputed their status as a convent . This led to more than a hundred years of trial before the Imperial Court. The judgment of 1685 declared the hereditary men to be right nobles and qualified to join knightly founders. But even when the judgment was declared final and confirmed by the emperor, there was resistance from the rulers. This made the ancestral test for admission to the cathedral chapter difficult and so the judgment was partially undermined in its practical effects.

Iserlohn

As an entrepreneurial family, they shaped the industrial history of Iserlohn and Hemer in the Sauerland .

Johann Bernhard von der Becke (1655–1730) began manufacturing iron buckles and clasps in Iserlohn in 1690, and from 1698 in Sundwig . A short time later he also started making thimbles and sewing rings. In 1712 his son Johann Dietrich von der Becke explored techniques for making them in the Netherlands. Johann later founded the Sundwiger brass factory . In 1736 they were involved in a blast furnace and Sundwig. Heinrich and his brother Johann Adolph took over the business in 1758. Christian von der Becke built a brass rolling mill in 1797, which was taken over by the Basse & Selve company in 1880.

Heinrich von der Becke bought the paper mill in Dieken in 1805 and converted it into a paper mill in 1838. Production was shut down in 1860, and Felix von der Becke founded a metal goods factory on the site.

From this family Johann Karl von der Becke (* 1756 in Iserlohn; † August 21, 1830) became chancellor and head of the state government in the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg . He died in 1830 on his estate package near Zeitz in the administrative district of Merseburg in the Prussian province of Saxony .

Becke-Kluechtzner

In 1862 the King of Saxony gave the approval for the name and coat of arms association of Georg Edmund von der Becke (born October 5, 1832 - November 24, 1912) and Karoline von Klüchtzner (* March 14, 1839 - November 29, 1911).

Baronial Bavarian line

Franz Arnold von der Becke (* January 25, 1754; † August 13, 1832) since 1786 Princely Speyer Privy Councilor and Court Chamber Director in Bruchsal who presented and in the years 1797 and 1798 as assessor of the Reich Chamber Court in Wetzlar for the Lower Rhine-Westphalian district was accepted after the dissolution of the imperial constitution but had transferred to the royal Bavarian judicial service and had held the position of State Councilor and General Director of the Ministry of Justice in Munich since 1817, was free of charge on October 24, 1820 in recognition of his excellent services, which had already been awarded the Order of Merit according to the content of the diploma raised to the hereditary baron status from a royal high-level drive. He was married to Helena von Dawans from Mannheim, a daughter of the local Electoral Palatinate-Bavarian State Commissioner General Director, later Grand Ducal State Councilor Sigismund von Dawans . He was appointed president of the Higher Appeal Court in 1823 and retired in 1826. His son and last representative of the family is the following baron Heinrich Heinrich Arnold von der Becke, royal Bavarian appeal court president a. D. married on November 27, 1832 to Freiin Johanna Schrenck von Notzing and Egmating (born October 4, 1801) lady of honor of the royal Bavarian Order of St. Anne in Munich and daughter of Sebastian von Schrenck .

Baron Prussian line

Originally, the Prussian line and the Bavarian line were to receive the baron status. However, it was not until August 26, 1867 that Friedrich von der Becke became a baron.

Coat of arms (Bavarian line)

In blue, two overturned black hip horns baron's crown with the bends turned against each other, studded with gold ribbons and ears. The crowned helmet with a blue-silver cover wears two silver ostrich feathers, alternating between three blue ones.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The abbreviation is also used in High German to speak and write of the Beck . The form of van der Beke appears authentically only in the Low German dialect, which was formerly also used as a written language, because this absolutely excludes the word from
  2. ↑ A historically indubitable and moreover documented fact which, based on the status of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, suggests the knighthood of the lay judges
  3. ^ Friedrich August Alexander Eversmann, overview of iron and steel production on waterworks in the countries between Lahn and Lippe , 1804, p.198
  4. ^ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 1909, third year, p.29