Albert Friedrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt

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Albert Friedrich Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt (born April 27, 1797 in Dresden , † July 6, 1860 in Lichtenwalde Castle ) was a chamberlain to King Johann of Saxony and owner of the Lichtenwalde and Auerswalde Fideikommissgüter .

Life

He came from the Thuringian noble family Vitzthum von Eckstädt and was the son of the chamberlain and chief tax collector Friedrich August Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt . Like many of his family members, he embarked on an administrative career in the service of the Wettins and rose to become chamberlain to King John of Saxony.

In the family he took over the two Fideikommissgüter Lichtenwalde and Auerswalde near Chemnitz .

Albert Friedrich Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt died on the evening of July 6th, 1860 at Lichtenwalde Castle as a result of a heart attack and was solemnly buried on July 10th in the family crypt under the tower of the collegiate church Ebersdorf .

family

Albert Friedrich Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt was married to Amalie nee von Miltitz († 1876) for the second time. The son and heir Friedrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt emerged from the marriage. There were also two underage sons, Otto Friedrich Hermann Günther Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt (1855-1936) and Carl Gotthold Vitzthum von Eckstädt (1859-1945), and four daughters, including Luise Therese Leontine (1849-1916), who with the Russian diplomat Pyotr Alexandrovich Saburov was married.

Honors

Awarded various Saxon medals

literature

  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses 1896, p. 1204.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses , Deutscher Uradel, 21st year, Gotha, Justus Perthes 1920.
  • Rudolf Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt : Contributions to a Vitzthumschen family history. Leipzig 1935.
  • Sonja Schöffler: A touch of the past - the last majorate from Lichtenwalde and Auerswalde and his family; the story of a Saxon aristocratic family, freely told based on authentic events . Drei Birken Verlag, Freiberg 2004, ISBN 3-936980-15-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to information on the death certificate of the Ebersdorf parish office of July 23, 1860.
personal data
SURNAME Vitzthum von Eckstädt, Albert Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vitzthum von Eckstedt, Albert Friedrich Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Saxon Chamberlain
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1860
Place of death Lichtenwalde Castle