Adolph Franz Carl von Seckendorff
Adolph Franz Carl Freiherr von Seckendorff , from 1816 Count von Seckendorff , (* October 30, 1742 ; † November 9, 1818 in Merseburg ) was a court official who was in the service of various gentlemen and was most recently the Royal Saxon Privy Council and director of the estates in the Merseburg Monastery , Royal British Chamberlain and Grand Cross bearer of the Royal Danish Order of Dannebrog as well as heir, feudal and court lord of Kölzen and Starsiedel.
Life
origin
He came from the Frankish noble family von Seckendorff , specifically the Gudent line. One of their representatives, the imperial field marshal Friedrich Heinrich Freiherr von Seckendorff (1673–1763), had been raised to the rank of imperial count, but had left no sons.
Career
Adolph Franz Carl Freiherr von Seckendorff embarked on an administrative career and entered the service of the Crown of Denmark , where he was appointed Chamberlain. As such, he had enough capital to buy his relative Ernst Anton Heinrich Freiherr von Seckendorff the indebted Kölzen manor , to which the village and Vorwerk Starsiedel also belonged, on July 31/12. To buy August 1783. As a result, Adolph Franz Carl Freiherr von Seckendorff became a supporter of a manor in the Merseburg monastery belonging to the Electorate of Saxony . The representatives of the estates of this territory elected him their director. He held this position until his death in 1818. At the Dresden court he was last titular Privy Councilor.
In the Prussian count status he was on January 17, 1816 by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. raised by Prussia in Berlin.
family
He was married to Amalie Sophie Elisabeth, nee Countess von Hardenberg (1767–1848). From this marriage five sons emerged, including the later Prussian Oberbergrat Carl von Seckendorff and the diplomat Theodor Franz Christian von Seckendorff .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Seckendorf, the barons and counts of, genealogy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 33. Part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1877, p. 266 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Gerhard Rechter: Seckendorff. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 115 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Royal Saxon Court and State Calendar , 1810, p. 113.
- ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Seckendorf, the barons and counts of, genealogy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 33. Part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1877, p. 266 f. ( Digitized version ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seckendorff, Adolph Franz Carl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seckendorff, Adolph Franz Carl Freiherr von; Seckendorff, Adolph Franz Carl Graf von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German court official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1742 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1818 |
| Place of death | Merseburg |