Andreas Ernst von Stambke

Andreas Ernst Baron von Stambke (* 1670 in Braunschweig ; † September 19, 1739 in Neustadt in Holstein ) was a German civil servant, envoy and diplomat.

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Andreas Ernst von Stambke came from a large family in Lower Saxony. He was a son of the Brunswick merchant and councilor Heinrich Stambke (baptized on January 8, 1626 in Braunschweig) and his wife Katharina, née Heidenreich Rörich. His nephew Gottlieb Georg Heinrich von Stambke worked as a civil servant, envoy and diplomat.

Von Stambke initially worked in Hanover. Baron Georg Heinrich von Görtz referred him to the ducal-Holstein court. From 1710 to 1713 he worked as a secret chamber secretary and, in 1713, during negotiations by the House of Gottorf, brought instructions from Duke Karl Friedrich to the commandant of the besieged Tönning fortress .

In 1716/17 von Stambke and Baron von Görtz traveled to Great Britain for the Lübeck prince-bishop Christian August von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf . On their return journey, at the request of the London court, they were arrested in Holland in March 1717, from which they were released four months later. Then von Stambke was declared a State Councilor. From 1719 to 1720 he worked as envoy extraordinary at the court of Peter the Great . Catherine of Russia appointed him a Russian baron in 1721. In 1723/24 he stayed again at the Petersburg court. Recalled from there, he worked as court chancellor.

In 1725 von Stambke was made a Knight of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky , and in 1727 as a Privy Councilor. He also entered the Secret Government Council. From 1727 to August 1729 he stayed again at the court in Petersburg. He then took on a diplomatic assignment in Paris for a few months .

After his return, von Stambke had problems with the Gottorfer Hof in connection with the overthrow of Prime Minister Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz . Von Stambke was supposed to be responsible for ensuring that the Russians got copies of the Paris treaties. From 1731 to 1733 he was therefore only active as a bailiff of Reinbek and Trittau. He should only attend meetings of the Secret Government Council if his official business did not stand in the way or at the express request of the Duke.

In 1733 von Stambke asked the ducal pension chamber to pay him outstanding salaries. The reason he gave for this was that he had put aside stately documents. Because of this request, he was arrested on March 29, 1735. The law firm imposed a life sentence. Von Stambke tried unsuccessfully to show the Duke his innocence. Even the advocacy of the Hanoverian court did not help him.

Von Stambke died in a prison in Neustadt in 1739.

literature

• Joachim Stambke: Stambke, Andreas Ernst, Baron von . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 3. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1974, pp. 252-253
• Christian Steppan: Actors at the Foreign Court: Political Communication and Representation of Imperial Envoys in the Decade of Change at the Russian Court (1720–1730) , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015