Achatz Ferdinand von der Asseburg

Achatz Ferdinand von der Asseburg (born July 20, 1721 in Meisdorf , † March 13, 1797 in Braunschweig ) was a German diplomat.

Life

He is the son of the Prussian chamberlain and owner of Meisdorf, Johann Ludwig von der Asseburg , and Anna Maria geb. from the Schulenburg from the house of Apenburg. Asseburg had Meisdorf Castle built in 1769 and was the owner of Falkenstein Castle (Harz) in what is now Saxony-Anhalt . He was in correspondence with the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock .

The political career of Asseburg has so far been little researched. Since he was a councilor and chamberlain on January 31/11. February 1746 in Stockholm in the service of King Friedrich of Sweden and Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, he got into trouble with the Prussian government of the Principality of Halberstadt in 1750 , because King Frederick II had forbidden the vassals of his country to enter foreign services . In a personal letter to the King of Prussia on December 15, 1750, Asseburg asked for a special permit. On December 22nd, 1750, Friedrich replied in a personally signed letter from Berlin that he "absolutely cannot cancel the action you have planned so that others do not draw it to the wrong conclusion." Despite this, Asseburg took away after the death of King Friedrich Sweden on December 27, 1751 in Kassel a position as chamberlain with his brother, the now ruling Landgrave Wilhelm von Hessen . He later became chamberlain and Enroyé Extraordinaire at the Russian imperial court and is referred to as a knight. On April 20, 1767 he was appointed Privy Councilor of King Christian VII of Denmark and Norway in the Christiansburg in Copenhagen .

literature

• Memories of Baron Achatz Ferdinand von der Asseburg, hereditary lord of Falkenstein and Meißdorf etc., Russian-Imperial real secret council and authorized minister at the Reichstag in Regensburg, knight of the order of St. Alexander-Newsky and Danebrog . Nicolai, Berlin 1842. Digitized