August Ferdinand von Zech

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August Ferdinand Edler Herr von Zech , from 1729 Baron von Zech , from 1745 Count von Zech (born September 8, 1719 in Dresden , † April 1, 1793 in Merseburg ) was a German Privy Councilor , Chamber Director of the Merseburg Monastery and owner of the manor .

Life

He was a son of Bernhard Zech, who was raised to the nobility in 1716, and his wife Johanna Susanna geb. Job († 1727). August Ferdinand attended the Princely School of St. Afra in Meissen from 1733 , after which he embarked on an administrative career and studied at the University of Leipzig from 1737 . He became court and judicial councilor and was most recently Privy Councilor and Chamber Director of the Merseburg Monastery. He was also elected provost in Wurzen and cathedral dean in Zeitz. Since 1770 he was also a knight of the Electoral Palatinate Order of Lions.

August Ferdinand Graf von Zech owned several manors, including Schmorkau and until 1764 Klingenberg and from 1774 the Rudelsburg with the associated Vorwerk Kreipitzsch and the vineyard near Lengefeld near Naumburg (Saale) . In contrast to Rudelsburg and Lengefeld, which belonged to the Electoral Saxon Eckartsberga office from the middle of the 16th century , the Kreipitzsch estate as a fief of the Naumburg-Zeitz monastery until 1815 was part of the free float of the Naumburg Office, which was established in 1544 .

family

His first marriage to Carolina Wilhelmina Johanna Sigmunda geb. Von Pflugk divorced the Strehla line in 1765. From this marriage the son Bernhard August Ludwig Graf von Zech (1750-1805) emerged, who due to debts had to sell a large part of his father's inheritance and left the Electorate of Saxony .

In his second marriage, August Ferdinand Graf von Zech married his niece Louisa Christiana Dorothea Freiin von Zech in 1766.

literature

  • Eduard Maria Oettinger: Monitor of the date. Biographical-genealogical-historical world , Volume 2, 1867, p. 29
  • Genealogy of the Zech family, the noble gentlemen, barons and counts of Zech and the counts of Zech-Burkersroda , 2016, pp. 9–11.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Rudelsburg with Lengefeld in the book Geography of all Stands, Volume 1, p. 389
  2. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; Office Naumburg on p. 86f.
  3. ^ Genealogy of the Zech family, the noble gentlemen, barons and counts of Zech and the counts of Zech-Burkersroda, 2016, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Zech, August Ferdinand von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German secret council, chamber director of the Merseburg monastery and manor owner
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1793
Place of death Merseburg