Adolf von Bassewitz (District Administrator)

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Joachim Adolf von Bassewitz (born September 26, 1774 in Schönhof / Mecklenburg ; † July 20, 1838 Bad Kissingen ) was Mecklenburg-Strelitz's privy councilor and district administrator .

family

He came from the old Mecklenburg family von Bassewitz . His father was the Hesse-Cassel lieutenant colonel and participant in the Seven Years War Ulrich Carl Adolph von Bassewitz , his mother Sophie von Barner . His first marriage was to Elisabeth von Dewitz and his second marriage to Louise von La Roche-Starkenfels. From both marriages he had 15 children, 10 of whom survived.

Life

Riots between students and soldiers in the wake of the chocolateist riots (engraving from 1792). Caption: “The students in Jena, imbued with a true sense of honor, give the Consilium Abeundi to a strong patrol of hunters, hussars and militia with the noble intention of preventing a bloodbath. On July 17, 1792. "

He spent his school days first on the pedagogy of Professor Hecker in Bützow , from 1787 on the royal pedagogy in Halle an der Saale . At the age of seventeen on October 5, 1791, he moved to the University of Rostock , where his brother Friedrich Magnus von Bassewitz was already studying. Between 1792 and 1794 he studied cameral sciences together with his brother in Jena , but also preferred to attend the philosophical lectures of Professor Carl Leonhard Reinhold , the representative of German idealism at the University of Jena. In 1792 in Jena he took part in the move to Nohra led by the Landsmannschaft der Kurländer as a member of the Mecklenburg Landsmannschaft led by his brother Magnus as a senior , which was triggered by the chocolateist riots. The Mecklenburgers marched with their blood-red traditional flag first in the middle part of the train of the Jena student body, but then regrouped under the leadership of their senior von Bassewitz at the end of the train in order to prevent the more fearful part of the student body from fleeing "even by force". In 1793, Adolf succeeded his brother Senior der Mecklenburger in Jena. As such, he signed a joint letter for the Mecklenburg Landsmannschaft on July 23, 1793 with eight other senior citizens active in Jena Landsmannschaften to the extremely popular philosopher Carl Leonhard Reinhold, with which he was asked by the students in Jena to call the University of Kiel not to accept and to stay in Jena. When Reinhold nevertheless accepted the call to Kiel, the student body decided to coin a gold medal for him and dedicate a celebratory poem to him. The medal was not finished in time and was therefore sent to him with another letter from the student body on April 14, 1794. Both brothers entertained Carl Leonhard Reinhold on behalf of the Jena student body on his way to Kiel in Lübeck at Easter 1794 and corrected his costs for hospitality and accommodation , as was done by other Jena students along Reinhold's travel route at every travel station.

After completing his studies, he became a real chamber councilor in 1800 , and in 1806 a secret chamber councilor in Mecklenburg Strelitz. In 1813 he took part in the Mecklenburg-Strelitz Hussar Regiment in the Wars of Liberation (otherwise Maltzan: "Commitment to the ..."). After the death of his first wife, he asked to leave, which he received in 1818 as a lifelong pension under his appointment as a privy councilor while retaining his salary, and withdrew to his property, the Mecklenburg Gut Schönhof. He later acquired the Mummendorf estate. In 1819 he was elected to the main board of directors of the knightly credit association. In 1827 he became district administrator for the Duchy of Schwerin . He was the bearer of the Swedish North Star Order .

literature

  • Julius von Maltzan : Adolf von Bassewitz in Some good Mecklenburg men, Wismar 1882, pp. 185–193
  • Friedrich August Schmidt a. a .: Joachim Adolf von Bassewitz in New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 16th year, 2nd part 1838, Weimar 1840, pp. 689–691

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Bremen 1995, p. 33
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Julius Freiherr von Maltzan: Some good Mecklenburg men. Wismar 1882, pp. 188-192
  3. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ↑ Imm. Jena from Easter 1992 to 1794
  5. ↑ H. Dahl: The world history from its highest point of view. Germania 1804, p. 343 f., Quoted from: Walter Richter: The Mecklenburg Landsmannschaft in the 18th century. In: Einst und Jetzt Volume 20 (1975), pp. 7–32, (pp. 23 f.)
  6. ↑ Rudolf Körner: The philosopher Karl L. Körner , in: Einst und Jetzt Volume 11 (1966), p. 161.
  7. ↑ Körner (1966), p. 161; From this letter it can be concluded that there were 13 country teams for Jena in the years 1792-94.
personal data
SURNAME Bassewitz, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bassewitz, Joachim Adolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mecklenburg-Strelitzscher Privy Councilor and District Administrator
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönhof / Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1838