Cay Lorenz von Brockdorff (politician)

Cay Lorenz von Brockdorff

Oath of office as president of the court 1834

Cay Lorenz (since 1838) Count von Brockdorff (born January 26, 1766 on the Klein Nordsee manor ; † May 18, 1840 in Hamburg ) was a Danish-Schleswig-Holstein lawyer and statesman. He was the last Danish chancellor in Schleswig-Holstein and in some cases also president of the higher courts in this country.

Life

Cay Lorenz Graf von Brockdorff came from the Brockdorff family , one of the old noble families of Holstein , which has been documented there since the 14th century. He studied law at a very young age at the Universities of Kiel and Göttingen and absorbed influences from both Adolf Friedrich Trendelenburg in Kiel and from the Göttingen constitutional lawyer Johann Stephan Pütter . After completing his studies, he became an auscultant at the higher court for Schleswig in Gottorf . At this time he published the Corpus Statutorum Slesvicensium together with Christian von Eggers, who later became President of Kiel , a collection of valid, but also historical, legal bases and laws of the Duchy of Schleswig . In 1789 he became a councilor at the higher court in Schleswig and in 1795 a member of the German chancellery in Copenhagen . Brockdorff was named Chancellor for Schleswig-Holstein as early as 1802 . He presided over the law firm in Glückstadt and the higher court there for Schleswig-Holstein for 32 years. The Brockdorff-Palais there still reminds of this time. From 1819 to 1834 he was a curator at the University of Kiel . With the establishment of the Higher Appeal Court for the Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg in 1834 in Kiel , he became its first president.

On March 30, 1838 Cay Lorenz von Brockdorff was raised to the hereditary Danish count status in Copenhagen . In 1839 he became a Knight of the Elephant Order .

children

His marriage to Bertha von Raben on May 15, 1800 in Copenhagen resulted in the following children:

1. Charlotta Dorothea (born July 22, 1801 Copenhagen), conventual in Preetz
2. Ernestine Sophie Friederike (born May 26, 1803 Glückstadt; † 1872), conventual in Preetz
3. Hans Adolf Graf von Brockdorff (born April 7, 1805 Glückstadt; † July 1, 1870), Danish chamberlain and district administrator
4. Georgine Louisa (born November 27, 1807 in Glückstadt)
5. Eleonora Maria (born July 15, 1810 Borstel), canon of Itzehoe Monastery
6. Carolina Amalia (March 10, 1815 - March 13, 1831)
7. Conrad Friedrich Gottlieb Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt (* July 17, 1823 Borstel; † May 15, 1909 Ascheberg), was adopted by the Count von Ahlefeldt in 1837

literature

• Heinrich Rudolph Brinkmann : For the fiftieth official celebration of His Excellency, Mr. Kai Lorenz Count von Brockdorff ...: An overview of his life: Kiel on November 13th 1839 .
• Louis von Ahlefeldt, Andreas Ludwig Jakob Michelsen:  Brockdorff, Kai Lorenz, Count of . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 336.
• Kurt Jürgensen: The higher regional court in the Schleswig-Holstein state order. In: Schleswig-Holstein advertisements : 150 years of higher jurisdiction in Schleswig-Holstein - ceremony on October 1, 1984. Part A, special issue, issued in December 1984, p. 197 ff.
• Cay Lorenz von Brockdorff . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 3 : Brandt – Clavus . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1889, p. 98 (Danish, runeberg.org ).

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