Carl von Rantzau
Carl von Rantzau , completely Carl Detlof Friedrich Wilhelm von Rantzau (born June 24, 1782 in Ludwigslust , † March 28, 1851 in Schwerin , buried in Ludwigslust) was a Mecklenburg court official.
Life
Carl von Rantzau came from the Mecklenburg, non-counts branch ( House Pancker and Trahlau ) of the Schleswig-Holstein nobility family ( Equites Originarii ) von Rantzau . He was a son of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Chamberlain and Chief Stable Master Friedrich Franz Melchior von Rantzau (1756–1831) and his wife Marianne, born. von Lützow (1761-1821).
His father had lost all his goods (Greß, Blücher ( possession (Mecklenburg) ), Ragut, Neese , Renzow and Marienhof) in the turmoil of the Napoleonic era . Therefore, there was only one career left in military, forest or farm service. While his brother Adolf Johann Karl von Rantzau (1786–1861), the father of Marianne von Rantzau and Hermann von Rantzau, went into forestry, Carl initially became an officer and fought in the wars of liberation . As a staff officer he was adjutant to the commander of the Mecklenburg volunteer hunters, Colonel von Müller. He then entered the court service and, like his father, became a chamberlain and grand-ducal vice-chief stable master. In 1836 he became court marshal of the widow of Hereditary Grand Duke Friedrich Ludwig of Mecklenburg , Auguste and her stepdaughter, Duchess Helene .
He was negotiator in the negotiations that led to the marriage of Helene to Ferdinand Philippe d'Orléans, duc de Chartres , accompanied her mother and she as a travel marshal to Fontainebleau Palace and was one of the best witnesses at the wedding on May 30, 1837.
When Auguste later moved to Rudolstadt to live with her sister Karoline , he also managed her household there until his death.
He was married to Eleonore, geb. Countess von der Goltz (January 6, 1798 - November 28, 1861) from the Heinrichsdorf family , the daughter of Leopold Heinrich von der Goltz and Eleonore Juliane, born. by Maltzahn . The daughter Helene Auguste Bernhardine (* 1829) married the chamberlain Gustav von Blücher (1822-1892) auf Kuppentin und Neuhof, a son of the district administrator Ernst von Blücher .
Awards
- Mecklenburg Military Merit Medal (1814) in gold
- Mecklenburg war memorial for the campaigns 1808–1815 (1841)
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Russian Order of Saint Anne , 1st class -
, Legion of Honor , Grand Officer
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Royal Prussian Order of St. John
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Order of the sword , knight -
House Order of the White Falcon , Grand Cross
literature
- The Rantzau House: A Family Chronicle. Celle: JG Müller 1865, p. 214
Individual evidence
- ↑ Full name and place of death according to the burial register of the Stadtkirche / Hofkirche Ludwigslust , accessed via ancestry.com on July 17, 2017
- ↑ August Lewald (ed.): The new Europe: Chronicle of the educated world. Karlsruhe 1846, p. 104
- ↑ Orders and decorations and their order according to Mecklenburg-Schwerinsches Staatshandbuch 1850, p. 19
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rantzau, Carl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rantzau, Carl Detlof Friedrich Wilhelm von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mecklenburg court official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1782 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigslust |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1851 |
| Place of death | Schwerin |