Carl Emil von Kardorff
Carl Emil von Kardorff (born November 11, 1795 in Böhlendorf , † 1864 in Ratzeburg ) was a German administrative lawyer in the Danish service and the last Danish country drost in the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg .
Life
Carl Emil von Kardorff was the third son of the Danish officer August Nicolaus Carl von Kardorff . Wilhelm von Kardorff was his nephew.
He studied law at the Universities of Kiel, Heidelberg and Göttingen. During his studies he became a member of the Holsatia Kiel fraternity in 1814 and of the Old Kiel fraternity in 1815 . He passed his legal exam before the Gottorf Higher Court . He first became an auscultant at the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburgische Canzlei in Copenhagen . After the early death of his uncle Wilhelm von Kardorff, he took over his position as bailiff in the office of Cismar in 1827 . In 1829 his mother died and he left the Böhlendorf estate to his older brother Friedrich Ernst von Kardorff in return for his share.
Then he was bailiff of the office Steinburg with seat in Itzehoe . In 1856 he became President of the Danish Government with the title Landdrost for the Duchy of Lauenburg, which has been in personal union with Denmark since 1815, with its seat in Ratzeburg. He was also president of the Lauenburg-Ratzeburg Biblical Society . Kardorff died shortly before the German-Danish War , as a result of which the Duchy of Lauenburg became Prussian. His successor and first Prussian district president was Ludwig Ferdinand Graf von Kielmannsegg .
Kardorff remained unmarried.
Awards
- 1840: Royal Danish Chamberlain
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Dannebrogorden : 1843 knight, 1846 commander
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , p. 66.
- Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch : History and documents of the von Kardorff family. Stiller in Comm., Schwerin 1850 ( digitized version ), p. 273
Individual evidence
- ↑ Masch (lit.), p. 271
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kardorff, Carl Emil von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kardorff, Karl Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer in the Danish service and the last Danish Landdrost in the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1795 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Böhlendorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1864 |
| Place of death | Ratzeburg |