Carl von Massow

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Carl von Massow (born October 17, 1735 in Frankfurt / Oder ; † March 8, 1807 in Danzig ) was a Prussian district administrator and state director . From 1777 to 1795 he headed the Randow circle , from 1787 to 1800 he was regional director of Western Pomerania.

Life

He came from the noble Pomeranian family Massow . His father Joachim Ewald von Massow (1697–1769) was the conducting minister in Silesia. His mother Elisabeth Sophia (1707–1778) was also born von Massow.

Carl von Massow joined the Prussian army in 1750 . He became a flagjunker in the "Graf Dohna" infantry regiment , then ensign in 1755 and finally quartermaster- lieutenant . With the regiment he took part in the Seven Years War .

In 1767 he took his leave. A relative ceded the Hohenselchow estate in the Pomeranian district of Randow to him on August 1, 1767 . He also owned the Heinrichshof and Friedrichsthal estates. In 1768 his father transferred the Zezenow and Dargeröse estates in the Stolpescher Kreis in Western Pomerania to him while he was still alive . He sold Zezenow and Dargeröse in 1777 to Moritz Heinrich von Weiher , who later became the district administrator of the Lauenburg-Bütow district.

In 1777 he was elected as the successor to Carl Bogislav von Ramin as district administrator of the Randow district and appointed by the king. As a district administrator he had his seat on Hohenselchow. In 1781 he was a part-time landscape councilor for the newly founded Pomeranian landscape . In 1787 he succeeded the late Peter von Glasenapp as regional director of Western Pomerania. He resigned his office as district administrator in 1795, followed by Karl Georg Wilhelm von Krause . He resigned from his position as regional director in Western Pomerania in 1800, followed by Heinrich Peter von Podewils .

During the French period he retired to Danzig in the autumn of 1806 , where he died the following year.

In 1767 he married Esther Wilhelmine (1739–1798), a born von Hoym and sister of the later Minister Karl Georg von Hoym . His daughter Henriette Wilhelmine (* 1768) married District Administrator Moritz von Schaetzel . His son Carl Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig (* 1777) became a Prussian officer.

literature

  • 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. 622 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Footnotes

  1. ^ New Prussian Nobility Lexicon . Volume 2. Leipzig 1836, p. 315 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part I. Stettin 1779, p. CXXXI ( online ).
  3. ↑ a b Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann: Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2. Stettin 1784, p. 1021 f. ( Online ).
  4. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann: Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part I. Stettin 1779, S. CCCX ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Massow, Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator and state director
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt / Oder
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1807
Place of death Danzig