Christoph Ernst Friedrich von Forcade de Biaix (* 17 September 1821,
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† 18 July 1891 at Reckenberg Castle, in Lichtenfels, Hesse) was a German Rittergut
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owner, Appellate Court Judge in Hamm
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, Supreme Court Judge in Berlin and Member of parliament in the German Reichstag.
He was the great-grandson of Royal Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm Quirin von Forcade de Biaix
Friedrich Wilhelm Quirin von Forcade de Biaix,Lehmann, Band 1, Page 34, Nr. 24(in German)/ref> baptized ''Quirin Frideric de Forcade,'' aka ''Friedrich Quirin von Forcade,'' aka ''Frédéric Quérin de Forcade''Tollinen, Band III, Abteilung 1B, Pa ...
(1698–1765), one of King Frederick the Great's most active and most treasured officers, himself the son of Prussian noble Jean de Forcade de Biaix
Jean de Forcade de Biaix,Picamilh, Tome 1, Page 42(in French)/ref> aka ''Jean de Forcade, Marquis de Biaix'',Priesdorff, Band 1, Page 114, Nr. 188 (in German)Zedlitz-Neukirch, Band 4, Page 39(in German) aka ''Jean-Quirin de Forcade de Biaix,''Ve ...
(1663–1729), also a Royal Prussian Lieutenant General, an early Huguenot immigrant to Brandenburg-Prussia
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and a descendant of the noble family of Forcade of Béarn
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, France.
Family
Christoph Ernst Friedrich von Forcade de Biaix was the son of Rittmeister ''Friederich Georg Leopold von Forcade de Biaix'' (* 9 January 1793 in Winzig, Breslau; † 21 June 1831 in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia) and his wife ''Anna Maria, Freiin von Krane zu Matena'' (* 3 May 1798 in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia; † 26 October 1884 in Soest, North Rhine-Westphalia).
He was born Protestant but converted to Catholicism on 21 June 1861.
Forcade-Biaix was married in :de:Schloss Brünninghausen, in Brünninghausen
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With a population of 3,913 and an area of 2.16 km2 it is one of the smaller parts of Do ...
, near Dortmund
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in North Rhine-Westphalia on 25 September 1860, with ''Isabella Maria Aloysia Franziska Ferdinandine Wallpurgis Huberta Felicitas, Freiin von Romberg'', daughter of ''Klemens Konrad Franz, Freiherr von Romberg, on Brünninghausen and Buldern'' and ''Marianne, Gräfin von Fürstenberg, from the house of Neheim''. Their marriage produced at least three sons and two daughters:
* ''Clemens Anna Maria Friedrich Quirin Augustin von Forcade de Biaix'' (* 29 March 1862, Bochum
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, North Rhine-Westphalia), who married Anna Jenny Noack (* 2 August 1873, Senftenberg, Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Brandenburg) on 24 August 1907 in Berlin.
* ''Maria Anna von Forcade de Biaix'' (* 1 April 1863, Bochum
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, North Rhine-Westphalia)
* ''Maria Giesbert Carl Friedrich Quirin von Forcade de Biaix'' (* 15 April 1864, Bochum
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, North Rhine-Westphalia)
* ''Paulus Hermann von Forcade de Biaix'' (* 2 August 1865, Bochum
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, North Rhine-Westphalia)
* ''Anna Maria Josepha Isabella Benedicta von Forcade de Biaix'' (* 2 March 1868, Hamm
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, North Rhine-Westphalia; † 9 January 1941, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada), married 1887 with Baron
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Clemens von Romberg (1863-1923), divorced 1904.
Career
Forcade-Biaix completed his secondary education at the Gymnasium in Soest[Datenbank der deutschen Parlamentsabgeordneten, 2. Wahlperiode (1874]
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/ref> and studied Case Law
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at the universities of Bonn, Göttingen and Berlin. He began a career in law in 1844 and became Judge in the District Court of Bochum in 1855, Appellate Court Judge in Hamm in 1865 and Supreme Court
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Judge in Berlin in 1873.
From 1874 to 1877 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the Centre and the constituency of the government district of Düsseldorf 5 (Essen
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).[Datenbank der deutschen Parlamentsabgeordneten, 4. Wahlperiode (1878]
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/ref> On 24 November 1877, he advanced through the by-election in the constituency of government district of Trier 1 ( Daun, Prüm
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Geography
Prüm lies on the river Prüm (a tri ...
, Bitburg
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), winning the seat that had been held by Member of Parliament Ferdinand von Hompesch-Bollheim. In July 1878, he was reelected to the same seat. On 1 October 1879, he was appointed to the ''V. Zivilsenat des Reichsgerichts'', a division of the Supreme Court responsible for decisions on matters related to civil
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property law
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, where he remained a member until his retirement in 1890. He resigned his appointment as a Judge on the Supreme Court on 14 October 1879.[Specht/Schwabe, Page 177 (in German)][Philips, Page 110 (in German)]
Notes
References
* Forcade de Biaix, Christoph Ernst Friedrich (von) in the database of Members of Parliament of the German Reichsta
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* Forcade de Biaix, Christoph Ernst Friedrich (von), in the Biography database of Members of Parliament of the German Reichstag during the Imperial German Reich 1867/71 until 1918 (Biorab – Kaiserreich) by Heinrich Bes
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* Phillips, A. (Hg.): ''Die Reichstagswahlen von 1867 bis 1883. Statistik der Wahlen zum Konstituierenden und Norddeutschen Reichstage, zum Zollparlament, sowie zu den fünf ersten Legislatur-Perioden des Deutschen Reichstages''. Berlin: Verlag Louis Gerschel, 1883, Page 110 (in German)
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* Specht, Fritz / Schwabe, Paul: ''Die Reichstagswahlen von 1867 bis 1903. Eine Statistik der Reichstagswahlen nebst den Programmen der Parteien und einem Verzeichnis der gewählten Abgeordneten''. 2. Edition, Berlin 1904, Verlag Carl Heymann, Page 177 (in German)
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Politicians from North Rhine-Westphalia
Members of the Reichstag of the German Empire
1821 births
1891 deaths