Casimir Wilhelm von Scholten

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Casimir Wilhelm von Scholten

Casimir Wilhelm von Scholten (born September 19, 1752 in Copenhagen , † May 13, 1810 in Charlotte Amalie , Saint Thomas , Danish West Indies ) was a royal Danish major general of German descent and governor in the Danish West Indies.

biography

family

He was the third of eleven children of the royal Danish major general Jobst Gerhard von Scholten (1723–1786) and the Adelgunde Elisabeth Amalie von Kleist (1728–1778). He was also the great-grandson of Jobst Scholten (1644-1721).

On May 11, 1782 he married in Viborg Katherina Elisabeth de Moldrup, also Møldrup (* February 5, 1764 on the royal monastery Vestervig near Thisted , † March 23, 1804 in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas), the daughter of the royal chamberlain Peder de Moldrup (1735–1787), lord of the Vestervig estate and Ørum Castle, and Metti Marie de Mouldrup (1738–1776), and had nine children with her; the oldest was the later governor general Peter von Scholten (1784–1849). Katharina Elisabeth was buried in Charlotte Amalie's cemetery. The following Danish inscription can still be read on her tombstone: “Herunder ligger det Forgjængelige af Catherine Elisabeth en Datter af Kammerherre Peder De Moldrup Ejer af Stamhuset Vestervig Closter og Ørum Slot fød d. 5th February 1764 and med sin elskede Mand ... ... me Will ... nant and Commandant paa St. Thomas d. 17 Marts 17 ... død d. ? November .... “
The daughter Adelgunde Elisabeth Amalie (1787–1859) married the Bremen merchant and shipowner August Wilhelm Gruner (1778–1859)

job

Scholten was at the time of his marriage (1782) captain in the regiment of Prince Frederik in Hovedgård, northeast of Horsens . In April 1799 he was major, on June 10, 1803 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the West Indian Army and on December 22, 1808 to colonel . Most recently he had the rank of major general.

Scholten became governor of the two islands of Saint Thomas and Saint John for the first time from January 4, 1800 to March 28, 1801, and the second time from February 16, 1803 to December 21, 1807.

Memberships

Scholten was a member of the Danish Masonic Lodge St. Thomas til Enigheden on St. Thomas and temporarily its master of the chair . He was also placed in the English Lodge Peace, Joy and brotherly Love No. 361 taken at Penryn in Cornwall .

Honors

On the island of St. Thomas in the capital Charlotte Amalie, the market square at the eastern end of Dronningens gade (Königinnenstraße) was later renamed Casimir Square .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Årbog , Handels- og søfartsmuseet på Kronborg, 1993, p. 79 ( excerpt ) - These and other sources claim that he only died in 1844 on Saint Thomas (Danish West Indies).
  2. ↑ Jobst Scholten , whose father had emigrated from the county of Tecklenburg to Amsterdam, had gone to Denmark with his Amsterdam teacher, the engineer officer Henrik Ruse , and later became commander in chief of the Danish army as well as the second and last Danish governor general of Western Pomerania and Rügen . - The family «von Scholten» carried the nobility predicate «von» since the 17th century. - Source: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIII, p. 70, Volume 128 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2002, ISBN 3-7980-0828-2 .
  3. ↑ personal data
  4. ↑ Family details  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / phpgedview.ftb-forum.dk  
  5. ↑ Biographical information
  6. ↑ Governors of St. Thomas and St. John
  7. ^ KJ Bugge: Det danske frimureries historie , Volume 2, 1927, page 263 u. 265ff.
personal data
SURNAME Scholten, Casimir Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish Major General and Governor
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1810
Place of death Charlotte Amalie , Saint Thomas , Danish West Indies