Carl von Scheel-Plessen

Carl Theodor August Graf von Scheel-Plessen.

Carl Theodor August Graf von Scheel-Plessen (born March 18, 1811 on Gut Sierhagen near Neustadt in Holstein , † July 7, 1892 in Varese , Italy) was a Holstein politician. From 1852 he was allowed to use the name and title Baron von Scheel-Plessen (previously Baron von Plessen ). In the three emperor year he was raised to the hereditary Prussian count status.

Life

Carl Scheel-Plessen inherited the Selsoe estates on Zealand (Denmark) with Lindholm and Bognaes (near Roskilde ), Saltoe and Harrested. After visiting the Katharineum in Lübeck until Easter 1829, he studied law in Berlin, Kiel, Göttingen and Munich. During this time he was active in the Corps Holsatia Göttingen and the Corps Holsatia Kiel . After the exams he was bailiff in Sønderborg and Ærø from 1843 to 1846, and in 1845 also Danish chamberlain. In 1846 he became a deputy in the Danish Pension Chamber. In 1848 he was briefly interim minister for the (Danish) duchies of Schleswig and Holstein . After the Schleswig-Holstein War , he was interim head of the Holstein government in 1852 and senior president in Altona from 1853–56 .

He was President of the Holsteiner Estates Assembly and a member of the Danish Imperial Council . After the German-Danish War and the Prussian annexation of Schleswig-Holstein, Scheel-Plessen was the first Upper President of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein from 1866 to 1879 . The Crown of Prussia appointed him to the Prussian mansion for life .

family

Carl von Scheel-Plessen is the second son of the Royal Danish Secret Conference Councilor Mogens Joachim Lehensgraf von Scheel-Plessen. The Danish diplomats Wulff Scheel-Plessen and Otto von Plessen and the Prussian secret government councilor Hugo von Plessen were his brothers. He was married to Henriette Schreiber von Cronstern, who brought in Fideikommiss Nehmten, Marutendorf and Hohenschulen , located in Holstein . His second son Ludwig was granted the name of Plessen-Cronstern after he was raised to the Prussian count . Carl von Scheel-Plessen's grandson was the explorer Victor Baron von Plessen ; his great-great-grandchildren include the writer Elisabeth Plessen and the cultural historian Marie-Louise von Plessen .

Awards

Dr. iur. hc from Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
Commander of the Danebrog Order
Grand Cross of the Red Eagle Order

literature

Otto Kähler : On the history of the Chief President, Count Carl Scheel-Plessen . In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History . tape 67 , 1939, ISSN 0072-4254 , pp. 416-421 ( uni-hamburg.de [accessed March 17, 2017]).

Individual evidence

^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907), No. 248
^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 78 , 67; 134 , 126
↑ M. Naumann, Die Plessen - ancestry from XIII. to XX. Century, 2nd edition CA Starke Verlag Limburg (Lahn) 1971, p. 134 ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Scheel-Plessen, Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Scheel-Plessen, Carl Theodor August Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sierhagen estate near Neustadt in Holstein
DATE OF DEATH	July 7, 1892
Place of death	Varese , Italy

[1] Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907), No. 248

[2] Kösener corps lists 1910, 78 , 67; 134 , 126

[3] M. Naumann, Die Plessen - ancestry from XIII. to XX. Century, 2nd edition CA Starke Verlag Limburg (Lahn) 1971, p. 134 ff.