Carl Philipp von Kropff

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Carl Philipp von Kropff , modernized Karl Philipp von Kropff , (born June 17, 1748 in Cattenstedt , Duchy of Braunschweig , † May 17, 1820 in Berlin ) was a German forester and manor owner. He earned services to the Kurmärkischen forests.

Life

He was the son of the captain of the Principality of Blankenburg in the Harz , Heinrich Sigismund von Kropff (1711–1782). His father was the heir to Cattenstedt and Gröningen and his mother Wilhelmine Charlotte was born in Ingersleben . His family was traditionally closely associated with forestry , while his sister became the abbess of Marienborn Abbey .

Since his grandfather was already working as a forest master, Carl Philipp von Kropff also embarked on a forest career. From 1763 he learned forestry and hunting from the Anhalt-Bernburg game master Karl Rudolf Döbel in Gernrode and Ballenstedt , then in the principality of Blankenburg from the chief forester Johann Karl Thiemann in Wienrode and finally from the chief forester Hans Dietrich von Zanthier in Ilsenburg ( Resin) .

On November 17, 1767, Carl Philipp von Kropff got his first job in the Prussian forest service. He was sent as a commissioner to Grafschaft Mark to measure the joint logging there, to estimate its yield and to distribute it among the individual interested parties. Later he was given the direction of forestry in the county of Mark and at the same time the report on the domain affairs of the four offices of Iserlohn, Altena, Neuenrode and Plettenberg, as well as the building industry at the chamber. In May 1768 he was officially appointed as war and domain council in Hamm and was responsible for forestry and construction in the local war and domain chamber. A requested transfer to the immediate forest area was refused in 1774. His application for the position of forester in Halberstadt in 1777 was also negative .

In 1778, after the departure of CW Koch, he was appointed to the forest department council of the Kurmärkischen War and Domain Chamber in Berlin , where he was also assigned the overall management of the economy in the royal and urban forests near Berlin, Potsdam, Spandau and Köpenick. Between 1780 and 1786, while maintaining this management, he worked as a technical advisor to the Forest Department for the provinces of Kurmark and Altmark, Prussia and Lithuania with the title of Privy Council conferred in 1783 . In addition, he was in charge of forest surveying and taxation throughout the Prussian state (with the exception of Silesia).

In the autumn of 1786 he was appointed the first head forester in the Kurmark. He succeeded the AWF von Krosigk. Until his death in Berlin, he had a tense relationship with the Prussian forest master Friedrich August Ludwig von Burgsdorff (1747-1802). In his 1807 publication System and Principles of the Königl. Prussian Churmärkschen first chief forester Carl Philipp von Kropff, for the surveying, division, appraisal, management and cultivation of the forests , he added the appendix, along with occasional corrections of various teachings contained in the forestry handbooks of the chief forester FAL von Burgsdorf. at, in which he corrected the late Burgsdorff extensively.

In 1809 he was appointed a member of the Kurmark government.

In his home country he took over his father's estate in Gröningen after his father's death.

family

Carl Philipp von Kropff was married to Charlotte Philippine von Lüderitz . In his second marriage he married Caroline Henriette nee Schenck von Flechtingen († March 13, 1820), the marriage was divorced and she married a Colonel von Below . But the couple had at least one son:

⚭ October 12, 1820 (divorced December 11, 1852) Bertha Philippine Karoline von Alvensleben (* June 6, 1801; † June 14, 1892)
⚭ April 8, 1856 Countess Angnes Ernestine Ludowika Alexandrine Prebentow von Przebendowski (* November 15, 1834; † August 11, 1902)

His third wife was Charlotte Dorothea Sophie von Lüderitz.

plant

He wrote u. a. 1807 the monograph System and Principles for Surveying, Division, Assessment, Management and Cultivation of Forests. In addition to an incidental correction of various teachings contained in the forest handbooks of the chief forest master FAL von Burgsdorf .

Honors

  • Knight of the Red Eagle Order
  • He earned merits a. a. in relation to the cultivation of sand clods in the Kurmark. Up to 1807, Carl Philipp von Kropff cultivated over 6000 acres of unproductive sand clods inside and outside the forests in such a professional manner and at such low cost that special letters of commendation were issued for him in 1804 and 1806 on special orders from King Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia are.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 533 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses , first year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1901, p. 19.
  3. ↑ Entry in the ADB .
personal data
SURNAME Kropff, Carl Philipp von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kropff, Karl Philipp von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Cattenstedt , Duchy of Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1820
Place of death Berlin