August to Rantzau

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August Graf zu Rantzau , complete August Wilhelm Franz Graf zu Rantzau (* May 27, 1768 in Breitenburg ; † September 17, 1849 there ) was a Schleswig-Holstein landowner, bailiff and one of the last Lübeck canons.

Life

August zu Rantzau came from the (younger) Breitenburg family of the Schleswig-Holstein Equites Originarii family Rantzau . He was the son of Friedrich Graf zu Rantzau (1729-1806) and his wife Louise Amoene von Castell-Remlingen (1732-1802), through whom the Breitenburg family returned to the Rantzau family. The Danish Minister of State Conrad zu Rantzau (1773-1845) was his youngest brother and Hans zu Rantzau , Danish General War Commissioner, his older brother. His sister Friederike Christiane Marie (1762–1831) was married to Heinrich von Holstein-Holsteinborg (1748–1796) on Gut Waterneverstorf and was the mother of Heinrich Christoph von Holstein .

On March 15, 1784, through the presentation of the cathedral dean Joachim Otto Adolph von Bassewitz, he obtained a preamble in the Lübeck cathedral chapter , which Wolf von Blome (1728–1784) had previously held, and thus became canon . Even after the secularization of the bishopric through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, he retained his privileges and income as a canon for life. In addition, he was the grand ducal Chamberlain of Oldenburg .

From October 1786 he studied law at the University of Göttingen . He entered the service of the prince-bishopric of Lübeck , and in 1800 prince-bishop Peter Friedrich Ludwig appointed him episcopal councilor in Eutin . After the secularization of the prince-bishopric, Rantzau became bailiff for the Kaltenhof office with its seat in Bad Schwartau and in 1843, after it was merged with the Großvogtei office, the first bailiff for the new Schwartau office .

At the end of 1847 he inherited Breitenburg from his brother Carl (1769–1847) and thus became the 5th Fideikommissherr .

Since September 6, 1794 he was married to Sophie, b. Countess von Bothmer (born March 19, 1771 in Traventhal , † July 1846 in Bad Kissingen ). The couple had two sons: Friedrich August (1799–1871), 6th Fideikommisherr on Breitenburg, and Kuno zu Rantzau-Breitenburg (1805–1882).

literature

  • Wolfgang Prange : Directory of the canons. In: Ders .: Bishop and Cathedral Chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, Principality and Region 1160–1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 418 No. 409

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See on the Iris Carstensen family: Friedrich Reichsgraf zu Rantzau auf Breitenburg (1729-1806): on the self-thematization of a Holstein nobleman in his diaries. (= Kiel Studies in Folklore and Cultural History 6) Münster; New York; Munich; Berlin: Waxmann 2006 ISBN 978-3-8309-1741-0 , zugl. Kiel, Univ., Diss., 2004
  2. ^ Pütter / Saalfeld: Attempt at an academic scholarly history of the University of Göttingen. Hanover 1820, p. 24
  3. ^ Henning Oldekop: Topography of the Duchy of Holstein. Volume 2, Kiel: Mühlau 1908, p. 34
personal data
SURNAME Rantzau, to August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rantzau, August Graf zu (full name); Rantzau, August Wilhelm Franz Graf zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Schleswig-Holstein landowner, bailiff and one of the last Lübeck canons
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Breitenburg
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1849
Place of death Breitenburg