Andreas Schumacher (diplomat)

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Andreas Schumacher (born August 26, 1726 in Copenhagen ; died January 2, 1790 in Segeberg ) was a Danish civil servant and diplomat.

Life

Andreas Schumacher came from a German-Danish civil servant family, which also includes the Danish civil servant Peder Schumacher Griffenfeld . He was a son of the accountant Poul Gerhard Schumacher. The astronomer Heinrich Christian Schumacher was a grandson .

In 1757 Schumacher became secretary in the German Chancellery under Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff , who sent him to St. Petersburg as Danish legation secretary and legation counselor at the court of the Russian tsar . Behind the back of the Danish ambassador Adolph Sigfried von der Osten , with whom he was supposed to work, he exchanged letters with Bernstorff and thus played a decisive role in the alliance between Denmark and Tsarina Katharina II . However, the discovery of the correspondence by von Osten led to Schumacher being recalled from Russia in 1765.

After that, back at the Danish court, Caspar von Saldern made Reverdil's successor as the king's cabinet secretary in 1767 . He held this post until 1771. At the same time he was a member of the then newly established Land Commission. During this time he became a budget councilor and in 1769 a conference councilor. He was in the wake of Christian VII on his trip to Europe and received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University . During the reorganization of the administration under Johann Friedrich Struensee , whose reform ideas he shared, he kept his position in the Land Commission and from May 1, 1771 headed the Department of the Land Commission in Jutland , Lolland-Falster and Langeland.

After Struensee's fall, Schumacher was reinstated as the king's cabinet secretary thanks to his good contacts with Bernstorff and von Saldern. However, as early as January 1773 he was appointed as bailiff for Segeberg deported. Schumacher was made a knight of the Dannebrogden in 1783 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Scholarly men wrote letters to the kings in Dannemark from 1552–1663. Promoted to print by Andreas Schumacher. 3 volumes. Copenhagen, 1758-1759
  • Book collection of Blessed Mr. Andr. Schumacher, Conference No., bailiff zu Segeberg . 1791.
  • Johannes Schumacher (Ed.): History of the deposition and death of Peter the Third . Preface with biographical information. Hamburg: P. Salomon, 1858.

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SURNAME Schumacher, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish civil servant and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1790
Place of death Bad Segeberg