Benjamin Friedrich von Reichenbach

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Benjamin Friedrich von Reichenbach (* 1697 in Calbe ; † May 4, 1750 ) was a Prussian privy councilor , president of all spiritual matters as well as the directorate for the poor and director of Mons Pietatis .

He enrolled on October 11, 1715 at the University of Halle to study law. As early as 1717 he finished with a dissertation. On November 21, 1717 he received his confirmation of nobility. He went into the foreign service of the Prussian Ministry and became legation counselor and resident at the court of St. James in London. In 1730 he was transferred to the Principality of Minden as a Privy Councilor . Then he received assignments in Berlin and in 1736 became chief curator of the Prussian universities as well as Prussian privy councilor and chief consistorial president of the French upper consistory and the Kurmärkische consistory. He became known when he made a general visit to all preachers and school servants in the country in 1737 on the orders of Friedrich Wilhelm .

He died on May 4, 1750 in Berlin at the age of 54 of a breast disease.

family

In 1739 he married Caroline Wilhelmine Henriette von Viebahn († 1748), only daughter of State Minister Johann Moritz von Viebahn . After her death, he fell into a deep depression that almost cost him his life. The couple had several children including:

  • Viktor Friedrich August Moritz (1742–1831), Herr von Herzborn, Rechine and Kunkendorf ∞ Auguste Wilhelmine von Schmettau († 1838)
  • Karoline Wilhelmine (1744–1787) ∞ NN von Sydow, ∞ NN von Hoffmann
  • Leopold Friedrich (* August 4, 1745; † September 9, 1831), district administrator in the Oberbarnim district ∞ Elisabeth Henriette Philippine von Kowalski (* 1756), daughter of General Georg Lorenz von Kowalski (1717–1796)

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Seyfart , life and government history of Friedrich the other king in Prussia , Volume 2, p.130
  • 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. 789 ( limited preview in the Google book search - Leopold Friedrich von Reichenbach (son)).
  • Berlin News, 7 May 1750
  • Friedrich Leberecht Supprian, Philosophical Thoughts on the State of the Soul in Eternity when the late Friedrich von Reichenbach entered , digitized
  • Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 1909 p.622f

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Friedrich-Christoph Förster, Friedrich Wilhelm I. King of Prussia, p.233 he was still in London in 1731 and 1732 and took Austrian money there
predecessor Office successor
Johann Christoph Julius Ernst von Wallenrodt Prussian envoy to the United Kingdom
1726–1730 		Christoph Martin von Degenfeld-Schonburg
personal data
SURNAME Reichenbach, Benjamin Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Privy councilor, president of all spiritual matters as well as the directorate of the poor and director of Mons Pietatis, minister of justice
DATE OF BIRTH 1697
PLACE OF BIRTH Calbe
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1750