Carl of Holstein

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Sepulcher chapel in the Aegidienkirche in Lübeck

Carl von Holstein (born February 16, 1700 in Oldenburg , † February 6, 1763 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish statesman .

Life

Origin and family

Carl von Holstein was a member of a Danish branch of the north German noble family Holstein . His parents were the Danish Geheime Rat and Oberlanddrost Johann Georg von Holstein (1662-1730) and Ida Frederikke Joachime, née von Bülow (1677-1725).

The Danish Chancellor Johan Ludvig von Holstein (1694–1763) and the two Danish officials Frederik Vilhelm von Holstein (1703–1767) and Georg Frederik von Holstein (1717–1772) were his brothers.

He married Hedevig Benedicte Christine von Ahlefeldt (1708–1741) in 1735 and once more in 1748 with Dorothea Anna Margrethe, née von Ahlefeldt († 1759), widowed Carl Ludwig Pincier Freiherr von Königstein (1701–1742). The son Christian Friedrich von Holstein (1741–1798), Danish chamberlain and heir to Fauerwraa and Perdöl, comes from the first marriage .

Career

Holstein studied in Heidelberg from 1717 to 1718 . In 1719 he became a chamberlain to Prince Carl . After enrolling in Leyden and studying in Paris , he became chamberlain to King Friedrich IV in 1722. In 1730 he was promoted to chamberlain and in 1731 became district administrator and supreme councilor of Gottorp . In 1735, Hostein was the first deputy of the Schleswig-Holstein Chamber of Rent and became White Knight of the Dannebrog Order in the same year . In 1741 he was appointed privy councilor. Between 1742 and 1745 he had a burial chapel built in the Aegidienkirche in Lübeck. From 1744 to 1746 he was envoy extraordinary to St. Petersburg , where he concluded the treaty of alliance between Russia and Denmark on June 10, 1746 . After his return he was appointed bailiff in Stapelholm and Mårkjær in Gottorp in 1746 . Holstein was Chief War Secretary for the naval forces from 1746 to 1763 and from 1747 also President of the College of the Admiralty, finally receiving the Orden de l'Union parfaite in the same year. In 1752 he became a Blue Knight and from 1752 to 1760 was the owner of the country house "Retraite" in Skodsborg .

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  1. ↑ Hans Georg Garde: Efterrentninger om den danske og norske søemagt , Volume 3, Copenhagen 1833, p. 336.
personal data
SURNAME Holstein, Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish statesman
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1700
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1763
Place of death Copenhagen