Carl Emil zu Rantzau

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Carl Emil zu Rantzau, portrait by Friedrich Carl Gröger

Imperial Count Carl Emil zu Rantzau (-Rastorf), also Carl Æmilius Rantzau (born February 17, 1775 in Rastorf ; † October 25, 1857 ibid) was a Holstein landowner and member of the Holstein assembly of estates .

Life

Carl Emil zu Rantzau came from the Holstein nobility ( Equites Originarii ) Rantzau . He was the second son of Christian Emil zu Rantzau († 1777) on Gut Rastorf , who in 1774 acquired Gut Ascheberg from Schack Carl von Rantzau . Christian Detlev Karl zu Rantzau , the founder of the Oppendorfer line, was his older brother.

Rastorf manor house

From 1788 he studied at the University of Kiel and from April 1790, together with his brother, at the University of Göttingen . In 1792 he became the squire and appointed second lieutenant in the Danish Leibregiment Light Dragoons. In 1793 he became prime lieutenant ; In 1799 he resigned from the army. From 1801 he took care of the management of Gut Rastorf and Rethwisch ( Lehmkuhlen ). From 1802 he had the Rastorf manor house replaced by an early classicist building. The Danish architect Christian Frederik Hansen , who built the new mansion from 1803 to 1806, was responsible for the planning and instructions .

In 1808 King Friedrich VI appointed him . to the chamberlain .

From its constitution in 1835 to 1843 he was a member of the Holstein Estates Assembly as a deputy of the aristocratic larger estates.

Emilie zu Rantzau, portrait by Friedrich Carl Gröger

On September 22, 1794 in Copenhagen he had Emilie Hedevig Caroline, b. Countess Bernstorff (born November 7, 1777 in Copenhagen; † May 12, 1811 in Rastorf) married, a daughter of Andreas Peter von Bernstorff . In his second marriage in 1813 he married Luise, geb. von Witzleben (1784–).

Of his daughters, Agnes Louise Ferdinandine (1803-1884) married Ernst zu Rantzau and Julia Luise Friederike (1808-) first Heinrich von Reventlow († 1841) and then Otto von Rantzau . He survived his son Christian , and so his grandson Emil zu Rantzau inherited Rastorf.

Awards

  • Dannebrogorden
    • 1817 commander
    • 1826 Dannebrogsmann
    • 1829 Grand Cross
  • Title Secret Conference Council (1828)

literature

  • Danmarks nobility Aarbog 1930

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pütter / Saalfeld: Attempt on an academic scholarly history of the University of Göttingen, second volume, Hannover 1820, p. 24
personal data
SURNAME Rantzau, Carl Emil too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rantzau, Carl Æmilius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Holstein landowner, member of the Holstein Assembly of Estates
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastorf
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1857
Place of death Rastorf