Adolf Karl Alexander Lothar von Zehmen

Baron Adolf Karl Alexander Lothar von Zehmen , (* May 5, 1729 in Aurach , † May 24, 1801 in Dresden ) was an Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor , Elector. Bayr. Chamberlain, Prince-Bishop Chamberlain for Eichstätt, Salzburg, Würzburg and Councilor.

Live and act

He came to Munich as a page of the Elector, studied at his expense in Leipzig, then in Munich, was Prince-Bishop Chamberlain at Eichstätt and Salzburg . Then Adolf Karl Alexander Lothar von Zehmen was appointed Chamberlain and Councilor by the Bishop of Würzburg and President of the Reich Chamber Court in Wetzlar. Also as elector. Bayr. He is designated chamberlain. In 1768 he was appointed by the Elector of Saxony , Friedrich August III. , as secret advice . There he proved himself through honesty and great altruism. Ability and Right Judgment. In 1778 the Secret Council of Zehmen was sent from Dresden to Munich to assert the inheritance claims of the Electorate of Saxony in the War of the Bavarian Succession .

family

Von Zehmen came from the old Meissen-Saxon noble family von Zehmen . His father Johann Friedrich converted to the Roman Catholic Church on January 15, 1706 and served as Privy Councilor for the Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt , his mother was Sophie Charlotte Marie Freiin Knebel von Katzenellenbogen . His siblings included Johann Anton Ernst , Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt, Philipp Ernst, Fürstl. Calibration Privy Councilor, and Karl Friedrich von Zehmen , auxiliary bishop and cathedral provost.

literature

• HM von Zehmen: Genealogical news about the Meissen nobility of Zehmen, 1206 to 1906. Dresden, print by Wilhelm Baensch, 1906.
• Reiner Gross: History of Saxony , special edition of the Saxon State Center for Civic Education, 4th expanded and updated edition, Dresden / Leipzig 2007, p. 168. Adolf Karl Alexander Lothar von Zehmen in the diplomatic mission in the Bavarian War of Succession .

Web links

• Report on Adolph Karl Alexander Lothar von Zehmen, Archive for Saxon History, Volume 10, p. 386 and p.387.
• Electoral Saxon court and state calendar from 1787 with mention of Adolph Karl Alexander Lothar vZ
• Johann Gottlob Emanuel Breitkopf: "The scene of the Bavarian success war or historical and geographical contributions to the history of the war", publisher Johann Gottlob Emanuel Breitkopf, Leipzig 1778, mentioning and explanation of the role of Adolph Alexander v. Zehmen, p. 4.
• Dr. Eduard Vehse (ie Karl Eduard): History of the courts of the House of Saxony, volumes 33-34, Verlag Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1854; Explanation of the role of Adolph Alexander v. Zehmen, p. 199.
• Dr. S. Gretschel, continued by Professor Bülau: History of the Saxon People and State, Third Volume, Verler IC Hinrichs`sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1853, explanation of the role of Adolph Alexander v. Zehmen, p. 202.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive f. Saxon business VIII u. X and Gretschel, S.Gesch. III, p. 202 and P. 227.
2. ↑ Reiner Gross: History of Saxony , special edition of the Saxon State Center for Civic Education, 4th expanded and updated edition, Dresden / Leipzig 2007, p. 168