Axel Albrecht von Maltzahn

Axel Albrecht von Maltzahn , also Moltzahn (born March 3, 1693 in Wolde , † April 26, 1781 in Kummerow (am See) ) was a Prussian district administrator and Pomeranian hereditary marshal in Stettin .

Life

Axel Albrecht (II.) Was the third son of Hans Jacob von Maltzahn (1650-1719), heir to Wolde and Kummerow, and Dorothea Tugendreich, a daughter of the Swedish-Pomeranian Chancellor Hermann von Wolffradt . He attended the cathedral school in Güstrow , where he gave a speech in Latin in 1707 on the occasion of the restoration of the building. From September 1709 he was matriculated at the University of Greifswald . In early 1712 he went to the University of Rostock and in September 1714 to the University of Leiden . He then went on a grand tour to France .

After his return he supported his father in managing the estates. After the father's death in 1719, his eldest brother Albrecht Joachim became the hereditary land marshal in Western Pomerania. However, he resigned from office for health reasons. Since his second brother, Hans Bernd, did not want to take office because he was in Swedish military service, Axel Albrecht became hereditary marshal. In this function he took over the homage to the new sovereign King Friedrich Wilhelm I in 1720 after the transition from Swedish Pomerania to the Peene an Prussia .

Soon afterwards he traveled to Sweden, where he sold from Gothenburg the farms in Halland , which belonged to his mother's bridal treasure . When the family property was divided up in November 1720, he received the goods Kummerow, Sommersdorf and Gnevezow and a share in Hohenbollentin . He also inherited more than 17,700 thalers in debt. After the death of his brother Joachim Hermann († 1722), the Leuschentin estate and shares in Duckow , Zettemin and Rottmannshagen came into his possession.

In 1723 he was given the office of the late Kaspar Mathias von Lepel as district administrator and district director in the Prussian district of Usedom and Wollin . On January 10, 1724 he was officially appointed district administrator and sworn in on April 24 of the same year in Stettin. When he refused to take up residence in his district in accordance with the order issued in 1725, a captain von Sydow was appointed district administrator in his place. However, the district estates obtained his reinstatement as district administrator with a petition to the king.

At the end of 1724 he and his brother Hans Bernd reached a settlement in Stettin with their cousins ​​from the Tützpatzer and the Teschower line in which their claims to Kummerow were settled with the payment of a total of 4,400 thalers. Furthermore, an agreement was reached on the Hereditary Marshal's Office in Stettin.

Kummerow Castle

On November 10, 1725, his courtyard in Kummerow, which was located near the church , burned down . He had a new baroque manor house built closer to the shore of the Kummerower See with Kummerow Castle . During this time he lived first in Ivenack and then in Leuschentin. Axel Albrecht was also the builder of the manor house in Rottmannshagen . In 1731 he and his brother ceded their reluctance rights to the Sarow estates for 4,000 thalers to the Teschow line. In 1735 he bought Pinnow and his shares in Duckow, Zettemin and Rottmannshagen from his brother for 4,000 thalers .

He turned down the post of West Pomerania regional director, which he had been offered in 1739. In 1740, as hereditary marshal, he took the oath of loyalty to the newly crowned King Friedrich II for the knighthood of Western Pomerania. Together with his brother Hans Bernd auf Wolde and his cousin Albrecht Hermann auf Tützpatz, he received the first Prussian fiefdom on June 10, 1741 about the Maltzahn estates. After the death of Albrecht Hermann in 1742 and a subsequent settlement about the inheritance, he received validz at the end of 1743 . Around 1745 he resigned his position as district administrator to Erdmann Friedrich von Schwerin .

In 1754 he acquired the village of Prützen in exchange for Gnevezow and shares in Kaslin . There he settled ten farmers and had a new church built.

He died in Kummerow in 1781 and was buried there.

Family and offspring

Axel Albrecht von Maltzahn had been married to Elisabeth Magdalene von Plessen (born June 27, 1701 in Kambs; March 28, 1779 in Kummerow), a daughter of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin government council and chamber president Dietrich Joachim von Plessen auf Kambs , since 1724 . The two had three daughters and three sons:

• Hans Dietrich (* 1725; † 1757), Prussian envoy to Poland and Electoral Saxony
• Eleonore Dorothea (* 1727; † 1727)
• Helmuth Burchard Hartwig (* 1729; † 1797), Prussian envoy to Sweden, inherited the Ivenack estate of the Plessen
• Eleonore Juliane (* 1730; † 1753)
• Dorothea Barbara Elisabeth (* 1732; † 1801)
• Gustav Friedrich (* 1733; † 1792), hereditary land marshal

literature

• Berthold Schmidt : History of the family of Maltzan and Maltzahn. 2nd section, 3rd volume: From the 17th to 19th centuries. Schleiz 1920, p. 178ff.
• Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 611 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ^ Berthold Schmidt: History of the family von Maltzan and von Maltzahn. 2nd section, 3rd volume: From the 17th to 19th centuries. Schleiz 1920, p. 123.