Carl Christian Clauswitz

Carl Christian Clauswitz (also Clausewitz; * December 20, 1734 ; † May 29, 1795 in Copenhagen ) was a German-Danish civil servant who belonged to the Hainbund in Göttingen .

Clauswitz, son of the theology professor Benedikt Gottlieb Clauswitz from Halle , was court master of Count Stolberg from 1756 , who interested him in ancient and contemporary German literature. When Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg and his brother Count Christian zu Stolberg-Stolberg were studying in Göttingen , he was accepted with them on December 19, 1772 as a member of the Hainbund founded a few months earlier . He left Göttingen at the end of 1773 and became secretary in the Foreign Office in Copenhagen , and in 1774 became a chancellery. In 1780 he resigned and in 1781 became an administrator in Segeberg and a judiciary. From 1784 he was again active at the Foreign Office in Copenhagen, 1790 as a budget adviser.