Bernhard Friedrich von Bassewitz

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Bernhard Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz (born June 24, 1756 in Schwerin ; † May 22, 1816 there ) was Mecklenburg-Schwerin's secret council president (prime minister).

family

He came from the old Mecklenburg family von Bassewitz . He was married to Charlotte Marie von Koppelow . He was closely related to some of the politically influential people of the time. His parents were Carl Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz and Marie Elisabeth von Lützow , widowed von Dorne . His grandfather was Henning Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz . His (half) sister Louise von Dorne was the mother of Karl Albert Freiherr von Kamptz , his sister Elisabeth Marianne Countess von Bassewitz was dominatrix of the Dobbertin monastery from 1818 to 1821 . He was the grandfather of Henning Graf von Bassewitz .

Live and act

The Mecklenburg estates of Prebberede , Jahmen, Grieve, Dalwitz , Stierow, Stechow, Wardow , Wozeten, Spotendorf, Perlin , Söhring and Holz Lübchin belonged to his property . After his legal training, for which he enrolled at the University of Bützow together with his brother Henning Friedrich (1755-1830) in 1773 , he entered the ducal service.

In 1791 he obtained the prebende at Lübeck Cathedral , which had become vacant with the death of his uncle, the dean Joachim Otto Adolph von Bassewitz , which he renounced in 1795 in favor of his then eight-year-old son Adolph Christian Ulrich von Bassewitz .

In 1795 he became Privy Councilor, then in 1800 Mecklenburg-Schwerin's Privy Council President. In 1808 he resigned from office. He took part in the Rastatt Congress as envoy. His policies, like those of his father, are described as "pro-Austria". He lived in Schwerin and only stayed in Prebberede for summer stays. He was awarded the Imperial Russian Alexander Nevsky Order and the Order of Anne .

Works

Title page of Bassewitz's statement on making the Elde navigable
  • The probabilities, the most probable probability, that by taking shares to make the Elde navigable there is little to be earned. Bärensprung, Schwerin 1792
    Digital version of the copy from the Göttingen University Library ( VD 18 digital)
  • Thoughts on the grain export from Mecklenburg: as a patriotic contribution to the matter of making the Elde navigable. Bear jump, Schwerin 1792

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Count's houses. 1958, p. 5.
  2. ↑ a b Adolph Graf von Bassewitz: From the life of Count Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz with some news about the Bassewitz family of the Wendish line. cit. 1859, pp. 55-56.
  3. ↑ Adolph Graf von Bassewitz: From the life of Count Henning Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz with some news about the Bassewitz family. o. O., 1859, p. 49.
  4. ↑ Peter Baumgart:  Kamptz, Karl von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , pp. 95-97 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Adolph Graf von Bassewitz: From the life of Count Henning Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz with some news about the Bassewitz family. cit. 1859, p. 58.
  6. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Count's houses. 1958, p. 5.
  7. ↑ Adolph Graf von Bassewitz: From the life of Count Henning Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz with some news about the Bassewitz family. cit. 1859, p. 58.
  8. ↑ See the entry of Bernhard Friedrich von Bassewitz's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  9. ^ Wolfgang Prange : Directory of the Canon. In: Ders .: Bishop and Cathedral Chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, Principality and Region 1160–1937. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 420, no. 421
  10. ^ Friedrich Johann Christoph Cleemann : Chronicle and documents of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin front town Parchim . Parchim 1825, p. 426 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  11. ↑ Édouard-Marie Oettinger: Moniteur des Dates. Dresden 1866, p. 62.
  12. ^ Carl Eduard Vehse: History of the small German courts . Hamburg 1856, p. 104 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
Dataset on and literature on Bernhard Friedrich von Bassewitz in the state bibliography MV - No hit, 13 February 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Bassewitz, Bernhard Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bassewitz, Bernhard-Friedrich Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mecklenburg-Schwerin President of the Privy Council (Prime Minister)
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1816
Place of death Schwerin