Carl Albert von Kamptz (envoy)

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Carl Ludwig Georg Friedrich Ernst Albert von Kamptz , initially Carl von Kamptz , sometimes also Carl Ludwig von Kamptz (born October 21, 1808 in Neustrelitz , † June 15, 1870 in Hirschberg ) was a German administrative lawyer and Prussian diplomat.

Life

Carl Albert von Kamptz (No. 253 of the sex census ) came from the original noble family von Kamptz from Mecklenburg. He was the eldest son of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz Chamberlain and later Oberlanddrost of the Stargard Domain Office , Bernhard von Kamptz (1781–1855), and his first wife Charlotte Christiane, nee. von Bose (1780–1832), a lady-in-waiting of Maria Luise Albertine zu Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg in Neustrelitz . Karl Albert von Kamptz was his uncle.

Kamptz attended the large city school in Neubrandenburg , where the future mayor Wilhelm Ahlers (1810–1889) was his classmate. Kamptz studied law at the universities of Berlin , Göttingen and Rostock from 1826 to 1829 , where he became a member of the Corps Vandalia Göttingen in 1826 and a member of the Corps Vandalia Rostock in 1828 . After completing his studies, he entered the Prussian civil service and became a trainee lawyer in Minden . In October 1832 he briefly returned to Neustrelitz as a chamberlain and auditor , but again became Prussian city court auscultator in Berlin in 1833 and government assessor in Minden in 1834. In 1836 he became a councilor in Cologne and in 1837 in Stettin and then in Breslau .

In 1840 he joined the Prussian Ministry of Finance as an auxiliary worker . In 1842 he was appointed customs commissioner in Braunschweig . In May 1849 he became a Prussian chargé d'affaires in Frankfurt am Main . As early as the summer of 1849 he was transferred to Hamburg as a secret legation councilor and ministerial resident, where, as the Prussian envoy, he was responsible for the three Hanseatic cities as well as for both Mecklenburg. In February 1859 he became the extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister of Prussia in Switzerland and in the summer of 1867 again envoy in Hamburg and Mecklenburg. As a representative of Prussia, he negotiated the friendship, trade and shipping treaty between the North German Confederation and the Republic of Liberia in autumn 1867 . In September 1869 he asked for his retirement and moved to Hirschberg.

In his first marriage he was with Antoinette, born on August 2, 1838. von Weiler (1818–1842), married, a daughter of the Prussian Privy Council of Justice and Senate President of the Court of Appeal in Cologne Friedrich Heinrich Robert von Weiler . From this marriage came the daughter Louise (Bernardine Caroline Adolphine) (* 1841), married to Carl Wilhelm von Zehender . In his second marriage on April 29, 1845 he married Helene (Wilhelmine Friderike), b. Freiin von Schleinitz (* 1824), daughter of Wilhelm von Schleinitz . The second marriage had four sons and four daughters.

Awards

Works

  • The trade and shipping contracts of the customs union with regard to foreign country legislation. Brunswick 1845
  • Statutory comments on the Royal Danish Open Letter of July 8th, 1846, concerning the succession in the Duchies. Berlin 1847 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Carl Gustav Immanuel von Kamptz: The family von Kamptz. Bärensprungsche Hofdruckerei, Schwerin 1871. ( digitized version), pp. 345–347
  • Marko Kreutzmann: The higher officials of the German Customs Union: a bureaucratic functional elite between national interests and interstate integration (1834-1871). (Series of publications by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences 86 ISSN  0568-4323 ) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012 ISBN 978-3-525-36005-7 , pp. 264f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Self-used and preferred form of name since the death of his uncle Karl Albert von Kamptz of the same name .
  2. ↑ Year of Abitur due to lack of sources, not verifiable
  3. ↑ He, Carl v. Ahlers remembers decades later that Kamptz entertained the entire class "with his humorous, harmless, jovial round songs and poems, which concerned our teachers and the crowd of the young women who were blooming here at the time ." [See. Wilhelm Ahlers: Historical-topographical sketches from the prehistory of the Vorderstadt Neubrandenburg. Neubrandenburg, 1876. p. 133.]
  4. ↑ There is no evidence of matriculation in Rostock in the Rostock matriculation portal
  5. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910 , 87 , 169.
  6. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 122 , 103.
  7. ^ S: Friendship, trade and shipping agreement between the North German Confederation and the Republic of Liberia

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personal data
SURNAME Kamptz, Carl Albert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kamptz, Carl Ludwig von; Kamptz, Carl von (earlier form of name); Kamptz, Carl Ludwig Georg Friedrich Ernst Albert von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and Prussian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1870
Place of death Hirschberg