Adam Otto von Viereck

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Adam Otto von Viereck (born March 10, 1684 in Wattmannshagen , † July 11, 1758 in Buch ) was a Prussian Minister of State and Privy Budget Councilor.

Adam Otto von Viereck, 1745
Memorial plaque on the house, Wiltbergstrasse 25, in Berlin-Buch

Life

Adam Otto von Viereck (the family name was originally also written Vieregg [e] ) was a son of the lawyer of the same name and Mecklenburg-Güstrow Chamber President Adam Otto von Viereck (1634–1717) and his second wife Anna Helena, née von Wolffersdorff (1651–1701 ).

Viereck first studied with his brothers with Jesuits in Wilda and then attended the universities in Frankfurt and Halle. After graduating, he served in the Guard under Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig . In the War of the Spanish Succession in 1705 he became adjutant of Hessen-Kassel. In 1707 he accompanied Princess Katharina Elisabeth on the way to her bridegroom, who later became Emperor Charles VI. , to Vienna. In that year he was also chamberlain to Friedrich Wilhelm I. In 1711 he was marshal of the Prussian embassy for the emperor election in Frankfurt am Main , where he a. a. was beaten to imperial knight. In 1713 he was also Marshal of the Prussian embassy in the negotiations for the Peace of Utrecht . In 1716 he was sent to Paris as an envoy and in 1719 to Kleve as a secret councilor. From there he went to France as ambassador for two years.

In 1724 he became a real secret Kurmärkischer war and domain council and was responsible for the administration of the agriculture and the taxes to be paid by it. He was also responsible for the settlement of immigrants in rural areas.

In January 1727 he became a real secret budget, war and directing minister at the General Directory. In 1733 he was commendator of the Kommende Lagow and on January 27, 1736 senior of the Brandenburg Ballot of the Order of St. John. In 1745 he received the Order of the Black Eagle from Friedrich II . In 1747 he became an honorary member of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences .

Adam was the heir to Weitendorf and in 1724 he acquired the estate in Buch near Berlin (in what is now the Berlin district of Pankow ). Viereck made four special contributions to the community:

He had the palace garden redesigned based on the model of Versailles , an orangery and pheasantry were built . The buildings and the park shape the face of the place to this day. Otto von Viereck's richly decorated grave with the house coat of arms is in the Buch castle church; Johann Georg Glume , father of Friedrich Christian Glume , created his marble bust in 1763 as his last work.

1747 Von Viereck takes over the entire village of Birkholz as the owner, as the Magistrate of Cologne cedes its shares to him.

In 1752 he can be proven as Canon of Halberstadt and Provost of Liebfrauen .

The Buchs, the Viereck and Voss, who owned successively in 1761, were related to one another. Julie von Voss is a child of both families .

1761 Otto von Viereck bequeaths Birkholz to his son-in-law the Privy Councilor and provost Friedrich Christian Hieronymus von Voss .

In 1751 the colonist settlement Jägersberg, founded in 1748, was renamed Viereck in his honor. On May 11, 1938, the Viereckweg in Pankow, Buch district, was named after Adam Otto von Viereck and runs from Pölnitz to Hörsten- and Röbellweg.

family

In 1718 he married Katharina Louise von Gersdorf (1700–1728), the daughter of Lieutenant General von Gersdorf .

  • Sophie Wilhelmine († 1742) ⚭ Adam Friedrich von Jeetze (1689–1762), Prussian general
  • Charlotte Sophie (1722–1770) ⚭ August Friedrich von Itzenplitz (1693–1759), Prussian general
  • Wilhelmine Dorothea (1726–1799) ⚭ November 14, 1743 Otto Friedrich Leopold Finck von Finckenstein (1717–1790)

His second wife was Countess Maria Anna Finck von Finckenstein (1704–1758), the daughter of Field Marshal Albrecht Konrad Finck von Finckenstein .

  • Sophie Wilhelmine Albertine (1731–1772) ⚭ Friedrich Wilhelm von Pannewitz (1719–1790)
  • Amalia Ottilie (1736–1767) ⚭ February 15, 1754 Friedrich Christian Hieronymus von Voß (1724–1784), parents of Julie von Voß
  • Ulrike Charlotte Auguste Luise (1742–1797) ⚭ 1763 Christian Friedrich von Viereck (1725–1777), Prussian major general

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ today district of Lalendorf
  2. ↑ New genealogical-historical news of the most distinguished events which happened at the European courts, in which at the same time many class persons life descriptions occur Der Theil 109 Leipzig 1759, volume 10 p. 149
  3. ↑ The Territories of the Mark Brandenburg or History of the Niederbarnim District ..., Volume 1, Edition 2 by Ernst Fidicin p. 44, 1st paragraph
  4. ↑ European Genealogical Handbook 1752. pp. 179–180.
  5. ↑ The Territories of the Mark Brandenburg or History of the Niederbarnim District ..., Volume 1, Edition 2 by Ernst Fidicin p. 44, 1st paragraph
  6. ↑ cf. Cantow in Western Pomerania, since 1748 .
  7. ↑ Viereckweg. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Viereck, Adam Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vieregge, Adam Otto from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Minister of State and Privy Budget Councilor
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1684
PLACE OF BIRTH Wattmannshagen
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1758
Place of death Berlin book