Carl Friedrich von Clausenheim

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Carl Friedrich von Clausenheim , Danish form of the name Carl Frederik Clausenheim (baptized on August 5, 1719 in Hamburg ; † April 21, 1765 in Lübeck ) was a German canon and Danish diplomat.

Life

Carl Friedrich von Clausenheim comes from the family (Clausen) von Clausenheim who was raised to the nobility in 1702 . He was the second son of the Gottorfische land rentmaster and privy councilor Matthias von Clausenheim (the elder) (~ 1685–1744), who during the absence of Duke Karl Friedrich and his privy council president Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz ((married to the cousin of Matthias von Clausenheim) ) in the 1720s as head of the General State Commission from Hamburg , and his wife Margarethe Lucia (1689–1760), b. Redeker, a granddaughter of Heinrich Rudolph Redeker . Johann Heinrich von Clausenheim was his older brother. He grew up on the family estates in Mecklenburg.

As a child, on November 14, 1727, he received the possession of a prebender as a canon in the Lübeck cathedral chapter , which has been predominantly Lutheran since the Reformation , which Benedikt Wilhelm von Ahlefeldt had waived in his favor in return for the payment of 4,400 Reichstalers plus expenses.

He studied law , including in 1740 at the University of Strasbourg .

After his studies, he entered the Danish service and rose to the budget council. From 1757 until his death he was Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark in Lübeck. Johann Rudolph Becker was his secretary from 1759. Clausenheim's appointment fell at the critical time of the Seven Years' War . According to the Convention of Kloster Zeven , Denmark and Lübeck were concerned with preventing the war from spreading to northern Elbe areas. The death of the Russian Tsarina Elisabeth in 1762, the change of the throne to Peter III. (Karl Peter Ulrich von Holstein-Gottorf ) and the peace of Saint Petersburg between Russia and Prussia further destabilized the situation in Schleswig-Holstein . Relations with Denmark only relaxed under Catherine II ; Ten years later, a solution was found in the Treaty of Tsarskoye Selo .

Carl Friedrich von Clausenheim died without descendants in 1765. His prebend went to Cai Friedrich von Rumohr .

literature

  • Wolfgang Prange : Directory of the canons. In: Ders .: Bishop and Cathedral Chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, Principality and Region 1160–1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 408 No. 346

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hildegard von Marchtaler : Nobles and notables of the Nordic empires, in particular of the entire Danish state, in Hamburg church registers. In: Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift 71 (1950), pp. 98–112 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ The family v. Clausenheim. In: New Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg Provincial Reports 15 (1826), pp. 77–79 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Wolfgang Prange : Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, Principality and part of the country 1160–1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 335
  4. ↑ Carolus Fridericus de Clausenheim, Eques Mecklenburgensis , Gustav C. Knod: The old matriculations of the University of Strasbourg 1621 to 1793. Strasbourg 1897, p. 27 No. 358
  5. ^ Lothar Gross, F. Hausmann: Repertory of the diplomatic representatives of all countries since the Peace of Westphalia. Volume 1 (1648-1715), Sänding, 1976, p. 48
  6. ↑ For a contemporary presentation see the autobiography of the Danish engineering officer Christian Carl Pflueg, in Louis Bobe, Carl Dumreicher (ed.): Gemt og Glemt: Minder fra gamle Dage. Volume 3, Copenhagen: Hagerup 1915 ( digitized version), p. 70f
personal data
SURNAME Clausenheim, Carl Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clausenheim, Carl Frederik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Canon and Danish diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH baptized August 5, 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1765
Place of death Lübeck