Anton Günther von Heespen

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Anton Günther von Heespen (* around 1665; † 1723 in St. Petersburg ) was a German diplomat.

Life

Anton Günther von Heespen was a son of the oldenburg office director Wilhelm von Heespen (1625–1686) and his wife Anna Margaretha, born in 1686 . von Velstein (1648–1704), daughter of the council and district judge Anton Günther von Velstein. The landowner and Danish budget adviser Alexander Tilemann von Heespen (1673–1738) and the Oldenburg chancellery director in Esens Wilhelm von Heespen (1669–1742) were his brothers.

After studying law, Anton Günther von Heespen first worked in Holstein and then in Württemberg. In 1691 he became a councilor and in 1696 senior councilor. From 1704 he was the Wuerttemberg envoy in The Hague and in 1708 was appointed the Real Secret Legation Councilor.

He represented Württemberg in the negotiations on the Peace of Utrecht in 1712 and in the Peace of Baden in 1714.

In July 1715 he was imprisoned at the Hohentwiel fortress because of Dutch accounts . In 1717 he was rehabilitated. Von Heespen was appointed Reichshofrat and went to the Imperial Court in Vienna .

In connection with the Peace of Frederiksborg in 1720 he came back to Northern Germany and entered the service of Duke Karl Friedrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , mediated by Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz . He died on a diplomatic mission to Russia in preparation for the marriage of Karl Friedrich to Anna Petrovna . His widow Augusta Polyxena, b. von Essen and after their death (1755) their heir and nephew Christian Friedrich von Heespen claimed from Duke Carl Peter Ulrich, later Tsar Peter III. a pension .

estate

From Anton Günther von Heespen's written estate, nine volumes with reports from The Hague from 1703 to 1713 were transferred to the public archive of the Hedemann-Heespen family entourage at Gut Deutsch Nienhof.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heespe (n), Wilhelm , in: Biographisches Handbuch zur Geschichte des Landes Oldenburg , p. 290f Digitalisat ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lb-oldenburg.de
  2. ^ Robert Pries: The Secret Government Council in Holstein-Gottorf 1716-1773. (= Sources and research on the history of Schleswig-Holstein ISSN  0173-0940 32) Neumünster: Wachholtz 1955, p. 23
  3. ^ Paul von Hedemann-Heespen : Communications from the archive of Deutsch-Nienhof. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 24 (1892) pp. 153–192, here p. 184
  4. ↑ Archives in German-speaking countries. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-11-001955-8 , p. 196f.
personal data
SURNAME Heespen, Anton Günther von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH around 1665
DATE OF DEATH 1723
Place of death St. Petersburg