Albrecht Christoph von Wüllen

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Albrecht Christoph von Wüllen (also: Albert Christoph von Wüllen ; * February 11, 1713 in Hanover ; † January 27, 1789 ibid) was state syndic of the Principality of Calenberg and newspaper publisher in Hanover.

family

Albrecht Christoph von Wüllen came from the von Wüllen family, which was one of the Minden vassals of the House of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . His grandfather Gerhard von Wüllen (1638–1672) was a rent master from the Brandenburg region and official voucher, married to Anna Elisabeth b. Stocksieck († 1717).

Von Wüllen was the eldest child of the electoral Hanoverian bailiff in Lauenau Georg Bernhard von Wüllen (* March 10, 1669 - January 8, 1746) and his wife Louise Klara, born in 1712. Ebell (* 1693), daughter of the Hanoverian court and personal physician Heinrich Christoph Ebell (1652–1727). Von Wüllen still had eleven siblings, including a .:

  • Johannnetta Dorothea von Wüllen (* 1714) ⚭ 1730 Johann Jakob Haccius (* 1700), pastor in Ratzeburg , 13 children
  • Marie Elisabeth von Wüllen (* 1715) ⚭ 1734 Johann Conrad Heidelmann (* 1707), bailiff in Grohnde
  • Wilhelm Christian Ernst von Wüllen (* 1716), bailiff in Ilfeld ⚭ 1747 Anne Margarethe von Reiche (* 1731)
  • Henriette Charlotte von Wüllen (* 1718) ⚭ 1741 Christoph Philip Heppe (* 1688), councilor in Kassel , three children
  • Georg Ludwig Friedrich von Wüllen (* 1720), bailiff of Neustadt am Rübenberge ⚭ with the daughter of the commission councilor Georg Nanne.
  • Felicitas Sophie Marie von Wüllen (1723–1743) ⚭ 1739 Ernst Albrecht Friedrich Culemann (* 1712), committee and war councilor in Minden, three children
  • Sophie Justine Louise von Wüllen (* 1725) ⚭ 1743 after the death of her sister, the Commission and War Councilor Culemann
  • Friedrich Georg von Wüllen (* 1728), clerk in Winsen (Aller) , married twice 1. with a daughter of Christoph Philip Heppe, 2. with a daughter of the personal physician Ernst Christoph Ebell (1690–1761).

Von Wüllen married Gertrud Klara Henriette Philippine Alemann (1725–1744), daughter of the royal Prussian court advisor Albert Engelhard Alemann and his wife Clara Henrietta Boetticher in Berlin on November 6, 1742 . His first wife was a sister of the mayor Wilhelm August Alemann . This marriage remained childless. After the death of his first wife von Wüllen married on February 18, 1745 Katharina Margaretha von Hugo (* 1725), daughter of the British court counselor and personal medicus August Johann von Hugo (1686-1760). From this marriage there were three children:

Life

After attending school and serving in the Hanoverian army, von Wüllen moved to the new University of Göttingen in the summer semester of 1737 and studied law . In 1742 he became treasure secretary of the Calenberg-Grubenhagenschen landscape , 1743 land rent master of the principality of Calenberg, 1746 assessor at the electoral court and finally in 1751 Calenberg state counsel. In March 1761 von Wüllen was appointed full professor at the court in Hanover.

Von Wüllen became known as the founder of several companies and manufactories . The establishment of the Landschaftliche Brandkasse , a fire insurance company that has been preserved in Lower Saxony to this day, together with the abbot of the Loccum monastery, Georg Wilhelm Ebell, was successful in 1750 . Von Wüllen signed documents with the name Albert Christoph.

In the same year von Wüllen founded the Hanover Intelligence Comptoir and thus became one of the decisive publishers in Hanover during the Enlightenment. The foundation was based on a privilege granted by King George II of Great Britain and Ireland to the Calenberg countryside on March 6, 1750. In intelligence Comptoir which appeared from 1750 Hanover ads , by Heinrich Ernst Christoph Schlüter (1718-1788) in the Landschaftlicher printing were printed. From 1763 onwards, the Hanoverian advertisements contained the Hanoverian magazine as a supplement .

The Landrentmeister acquired the first grave vault of the first garden church in front of Hanover, in which he had his daughter, who died shortly after birth, buried on May 17, 1749.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hugo Thielen: Wüllen, Albrecht Christoph von , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 369
  2. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ Erich Donnert, Helmut Reinalter: Society and culture of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the 18th and early 19th centuries: Festschrift for Erich Donnert on his 65th birthday , P. Lang Verlag, 1994, snippet view on Google Books, p 169
  4. ↑ Götz von Selle: An academic order in Göttingen around 1770 , printed by Gebr. Wurm, gmbh, 1927, snippet view on Google Books, p. 30
  5. ^ Heinrich Ahrens : History of the garden community in the Königl. Residence city of Hanover. For the good of the St. Pauluskirche in Hanover , Hanover: Schlütersche Buchdruckerei, 1883, p. 12
personal data
SURNAME Wüllen, Albrecht Christoph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wüllen, Albert Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION State Syndic and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1713
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1789
Place of death Hanover