Albrecht von Seckendorff

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Christoph Albrecht Freiherr von Seckendorff-Aberdar (born June 12, 1748 in Erlangen ; † September 5, 1834 in Wonfurt ) was a politician, diplomat and civil servant in the service of the two Franconian margravates of Brandenburg-Ansbach , the Duchy of Württemberg and the Electorate of Baden (later Grand Duchy of Baden ).

Origin and family

Seckendorff comes from the old Franconian noble family of the von Seckendorff – Aberdar . Seckendorff was one of 14 children of Wilhelm Johann Friedrich von Seckendorff-Aberdar and Sophia Friederica Henriette von Lüchau . The poet Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff was one of his brothers.

Seckendorff married Karoline Stiebar von Buttenheim on March 3, 1775 , with whom he had two daughters and three sons who reached adulthood:

  • Franz Karl Leopold (1775–1809)
  • Julie Karoline Henriette (1778–1837) ⚭ Karl Alexander Sigmund von Seckendorff – Aberdar
  • Maximilian Friedrich (1780–1841) ⚭ Julie Flora Leopoldine Maria von Delaing
  • Maria Anna Therese Sophie (1783–1838) ⚭ Karl Christian Ernst von Bentzel-Sternau
  • Ludwig Carl (1787–1834) ⚭ 1830 Leonore Sophie Charlotte Oertel (1803–1873)

Life

From 1768 to 1770 he completed his higher education with legal and cameralistic studies at the University of Strasbourg .

In the service of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

In 1770 he entered the service of Margrave Karl Alexander von Brandenburg-Ansbach , who appointed him a secret councilor in 1773. During a study trip to England he concluded a subsidy contract with the Kingdom of England for the margrave in 1776 . The margrave gave the English two regiments for a fee. The troops were used in the American Revolutionary War and suffered heavy losses - especially in the Battle of Yorktown .

Due to his knowledge of finance and camera affairs, he was appointed "lower-bourgeois" chamber and regional president in 1781 and in October 1786 the real secret minister with a seat and vote. He managed to put the country's broken finances in order.

After Elizabeth Craven had moved to the margrave in Ansbach as his mistress in 1787 , conflicts arose and Seckendorff was dismissed from the margrave's service. In her memoir, published in 1826, Craven accused Seckendorff of embezzling funds from the subsidy trade with England. Seckendorff initially retired to his Wonfurt estate, but looked for a job as a diplomat.

Wuerttemberg envoy in Regensburg

In April 1788 he entered the service of Duke Karl Eugen von Württemberg as Württemberg comitial envoy to the Reichstag in Regensburg until September 1803. Johann Karl Christoph von Seckendorff was the new Württemberg envoy . On March 2, 1790, he received the Elector of Württemberg Great Knights .

In Baden service

In December 1804 he returned to Regensburg as an ambassador from Baden, where he succeeded Johann Eustach von Görtz . Due to earlier anti-Austrian statements by Seckendorff, the Baden government first obtained the consent of the Austrian Foreign Minister Count Johann Ludwig von Cobenzl before his appointment .

He used his connections at court to get his son-in-law, Karl Christian Ernst von Bentzel-Sternau, a job in the Baden service.

In May 1806 Seckendorff was appointed to Karlsruhe to take over the management of the Ministry of Finance in place of Margrave Ludwig, who had fallen out of favor with Napoleon . However, due to resistance at court to his reform plans, he resigned from this office after a few weeks.

After the founding of the Rhine Confederation on August 1, 1806, Seckendorff signed the declaration of the Rhine Confederation states for Baden about their exit from the Reich, which was signed at the same time by the Reichstag envoy of the other Rhine Confederation states. and after the constitution of the Confederation of the Rhine he worked as a grand ducal envoy to the Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main and to the court of the Prince-Primate Karl Theodor von Dalberg . "A renewed invitation to join the Baden ministry, which he received in the crisis of spring 1809, he did not accept, but remained at his post in Frankfurt until the collapse of Napoleonic rule ..." In February 1814 he took over Grand Duke Karl wishes to take over the management of Baden's financial administration as Minister of State and Finance. Dissatisfied with the Grand Duke's treatment of his reform proposals, Seckendorff resigned in May 1815.

He retired to his estate in Wonfurt, where he died on September 5, 1834.

The Imperial Knight Captain

By owning the manor Wonfurt, Seckendorff belonged to the knight canton of Baunach of the Franconian knight circle of the imperial knighthood . From 1790 until its mediatization in 1806 he was the last knight captain. The Franconian knight circle with its six cantons declared its dissolution to the Reichstag in Regensburg on January 20, 1806 after Bavarian troops had occupied the knightly territories.

Works

  • The well-known conclusions of the French National Assembly: (Address to the Imperial Assembly) , Regensburg 1791 digitized

literature

  • Karl Obser:  Seckendorff-Aberdar, Christoph Albrecht Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 292-294.
  • Karl Obser : Political Correspondence of Karl Friedrich von Baden , Volume V, S. XXV and passim. - in the internet archive
  • Karl Obser: Letters from Frau Sophie von Schardt to Baron Christoph Albrecht von Seckendorff. In: Goethe-Jahrbuch, Volume XXV, pp. 68–81. in the internet archive
  • Karol Fryderyk Glave-Kolbielski: Germania in the year 1795. Sent down from the heavens the 6 Nivose of the year 4, and devotedly to his high-empire baroness excellence the well-bored, high-wise, high-skilled, high-experienced, high-self-indulgent, and high-democratic Mr. Christoph von Albrecht Secksfreiendorf Sugenheim ... digitized

Web links

  • Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition. Digital edition, http: //weber- Gesamtausgabe.de/A009724 (Version 3.1.0 from June 30, 2017) [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on ww-person.com
  2. ^ The old registers of the University of Strasbourg
  3. ↑ see Obser (ADB)
  4. ↑ Michael Puchta: Mediatization "with skin and hair, body and life": The submission of the imperial knights by Ansbach-Bayreuth (1792–1798) (=  series of the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Volume 85 ). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012, ISBN 978-3-647-36078-2 , p. 155 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Leo von Seckendorf: Korrespondenzen der Goethezeit , p. 16
  6. ↑ Memoirs of the margravine of Anspach , pp. 368-369 in the Internet Archive
  7. ↑ State Archives Baden-Württemberg, Department Main State Archives Stuttgart, A 205 II Bü 526
  8. ↑ Albert Raff: Award list: The knights of the ducal Württemberg knight order of the hunt (1702-1806) .
  9. ↑ see Obser: Politische Correspondenz Karl Friedrichs von Baden, p. 173
  10. ↑ Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition. Digital edition
  11. ↑ see Obser (ADB)
  12. ↑ Declaration by the Rhine Confederation states on their exit from the Reich , accessed on December 10, 2017
  13. ↑ Obser (ADB)
  14. ↑ see Obser: Politische Correspondenz Karl Friedrichs von Baden, p. XXV
personal data
SURNAME Seckendorff, Albrecht von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seckendorff-Aberdar, Christoph Albrecht Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Politician, diplomat and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH gain
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1834
Place of death Wonfurt