Adam Reimar Christoph von Schack

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Adam Reimar Christoph von Schack , also Adam Reimer Christoph von Schack (born August 9, 1780 in Groß Raden, today part of Sternberg , † August 14, 1852 in Vevey ), was a Mecklenburg landowner and diplomat.

Life

Adam Reimar Christoph von Schack came from the Mecklenburg branch of the Lüneburg nobility family of the Lords of Schack and was a son of the Mecklenburg Chamberlain Ulrich Friedrich Johann Gottlieb von Schack (1751–1823) on Groß Raden and his wife Elisabeth Benedicta Maria von Koppelow (1762–1829) .

He attended education in Halle / Saale and studied law. In 1802 he entered the state service in Mecklenburg-Schwerin as an auditor . He became a chancellery in 1805 and a councilor in 1807. In 1819 Friedrich Franz I appointed him Vice Director of the Grand Ducal Justice Chancellery in Schwerin .

From 1821 he took care of the administration of his estates Groß Raden (until 1836), Brüsewitz (acquired in 1818) and Zülow (inherited in 1823). He was vice land marshal and from 1828 ( estate ) district administrator.

From the end of 1828 to 1836, 1839/40 and 1846 to 1848 he represented both Mecklenburg (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz ) as envoy to the Bundestag of the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main .

Since 1811 married to Wilhelmine Catharina Henriette, b. Kossel (born March 10, 1792 in Groß Voigtshagen, today part of Dassow ; † July 3, 1869 in Schwerin). The couple had two sons: Adolf Friedrich von Schack (1815-1894), who was his father's legation secretary in the 1840s, and Rudolf von Schack (1825-1906) auf Brüsewitz, father of Ulrich von Schack .

Schack mausoleum in the churchyard in Stralendorf

He was buried in the mausoleum built in 1853 in the neo-Gothic style in the churchyard of the Patronatskirche Stralendorf .

Awards

literature

  • Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815–1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer. Saur, Munich 2001 ISBN 978-3-598-11431-1 , p. 267

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Ende : Schacksche's Mausoleum in Stralendorf MM regional supplement of the SVZ, No. 8, 1992 p. 16.
  2. ↑ Order according to the state calendar of the Free City of Frankfurt am Main 1847, p. 170
personal data
SURNAME Schack, Adam Reimar Christoph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schack, Adam Reimer Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mecklenburg landowner and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß Raden, today part of Sternberg
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1852
Place of death Vevey