Bernhard Hartwig von Plessen

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Bernhard Hartwig von Plessen , also Bernd Hartwig von Plessen , Bernt Hartvig von Plessen (born November 5, 1709 , † August 28, 1767 in Schleswig ) was a German administrative lawyer in the Danish service.

Life

Bernd Hartwig von Plessen was a son of Bernt Hartwig von Plessen (1659–1738) on Retgendorf, Flessenow (both now districts of Dobin am See ) and a gift of God and his wife Sophie Agnes, née. from Plessen. He studied law at the universities of Heidelberg, Duisburg and Halle. After a cavalier tour through Germany, France and the Netherlands, he entered the judicial and administrative service in the Duchy of Schleswig and in 1731 became a chancellery at the Gottorf Higher Court . In 1733 he was appointed judicial officer and in 1738 district administrator in the Duchy of Holstein .

In 1745 he was appointed conference councilor and the following year he was appointed bailiff for the Gottorf office and the Stapelholm region . In 1747 he became 1st councilor and in 1756 chancellor of the higher court.

In his first marriage he was married to Juliane Marie, geb. von Staffeldt (1728–1751), daughter of Major General Adolph Friedrich von Staffeldt and Cathrine Maria, b. from the Lühe . In 1752 he married Sophie Dorothea, b. von Drieberg , who in 1764 became a nun of the Ordens de l'union parfaite . After his death she married Christian Friedrich von Heespen († 1776).

Hartwig von Plessen's body was transferred to the Breitenausche grave chapel in Lübeck's Aegidienkirche in 1776 and buried there.

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Individual evidence

  1. Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Publishing house by Bernhard Nöhring: Lübeck 1920, pp. 470–471. Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9