Christian Friedrich von Heespen
Christian Friedrich von Heespen (born April 24, 1717 in Lübeck ; † May 18, 1776 in Schleswig ) was a German lawyer, administrative officer and landowner.
Live and act
Christian Friedrich von Heespen was a son of Alexander Tilemann von Heespen (* April 7, 1673; † December 26, 1738) and his wife Catharina Elisabeth, née Gensch († October 2, 1717). The father worked since 1718 as a councilor at the Gottorf High Court . His grandfather was the Oldenburg chancellery director Wilhelm Heespen (1625–1686), who had had an imperial nobility diploma since 1686 .
Christoph Gensch von Breitenau , who was an uncle Christian Friedrich von Heespens, appointed his nephew as his heir at the age of five. After the death of his uncle, von Heespen sold the inherited library with 14,000 volumes around 1750. He moved the extensive archive, which he also inherited, to Gut Deutsch-Nienhof .
Von Heespen studied at universities in Halle and Utrecht . From 1741 he worked as a councilor at the Gottorf High Court. In 1768 he also took over the chairmanship of the Schleswig-Holstein Land Commission. This had the task of implementing an agrarian reform in the offices and regions of the king of the duchies.
After the death of his father, he inherited two estates in Oldenburg and the Hemmelmark estate . In 1743 he acquired the Deutsch-Nienhof and Pohlsee estates .
He himself stayed in Schleswig on his Heespenhof , built on Lollfuß in 1753 , from where he managed the other estates seriously and successfully. He sold the Hemmelmark estate to Georg von Hedemann in 1751 .
On November 24th, 1768 von Heespen married Sophie Dorothea, geb. von Drieberg (* 1730; † April 7, 1771), the widow of chamberlain Bernhard Hartwig von Plessen († 1767; ▭ in Lübeck 1776), and thus became brother-in-law of Georg von Hedemann. In his will, he stipulated that his godchild, Christian Friedrich von Hedemann-Heespen , should inherit the family affidavit of Deutsch-Nienhof and Pohlsee.
He found his final resting place in the Breitenau chapel in the Lübeck Aegidienkirche .
literature
- Wilhelm Klüver : Heespen, Christian Friedrich von . In: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 3. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1974, p. 145
Web links
- Publications by and about Christian Friedrich von Heespen in VD 18 . (No entries on February 27, 2018)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Publishing house by Bernhard Nöhring: Lübeck 1920, pp. 470–471. Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heespen, Christian Friedrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, administrative officer and landowner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1717 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 1776 |
| Place of death | Schleswig |