Christian Ulrich von Hardenberg

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Christian Ulrich von Hardenberg (also: Christianus Ulricus from Hardenberg ; * 1663 in Hoya ; † May 6, 1735 in Hanover ) was a Hanoverian palace captain and court marshal . His letter to the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is now part of the world cultural heritage of UNESCO .

Life

Christian Ulrich von Hardenberg came from the Lower Saxon noble family von Hardenberg . He was born in 1663 as the son of the later electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg major and heir to Geismar Christian Ulrich von Hardenberg (* May 20, 1628 - March 18, 1963 in Hoya) and the Konkordia Sibylla von Lamminger (buried April 11, 1697 in Hoya ), Widow of the officer in the imperial service Conrad Heinrich von Staffhorst (1623–1657), who was married on September 19, 1642 , born.

Von Hardenberg studied at the University of Rinteln in 1683 . At times he also worked as a respondent at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

From 1691 he was initially in the service of the state government of Saxony-Gotha before he switched to the diplomatic service for the courts in Hanover and Celle . In 1696 he was appointed Legation Councilor. In 1701 von Hardenberg took over the duties of the castle captain in Hanover. A few years later, in 1707, he was appointed court marshal and councilor .

During the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover, von Hardenberg worked in London from 1722 to 1727 . During this period he headed the German law firm there and was given the title of Real Secret Council in 1725 .

Back in Hanover, von Hardenberg took over as President of the Chamber of Hanover in 1731 .

Christian Ulrich von Hardenberg was hereditary lord on Heinsen and co-leaned on the estates of Geismar and Levershagen .

family

Christian Ulrich von Hardenberg married on April 15, 1694 the princely Wolfenbüttelsche chambermaid Augusta von Hardenberg, daughter of the heir to Hardenberg Hildebrand Christoph von Hardenberg (1621–1682) and the Magdalena Christine von Sehestedt (married since November 13, 1661).

The couple had the son Christoph Friedrich von Hardenberg (* 1695, † June 2, 1752). This later became the heir to Heinsen and chamberlain. He married Charlotte von Donop on May 25, 1752. Heinsen inherited this in 1752 and in 1753 married Friedrich Engelbrecht August von Düring, who became the new heir to Heinsen.

Correspondence with Leibniz

On December 10, 1697, von Hardenberg wrote a handwritten letter to Leibniz that was sent from Bamberg and is now in public possession.

estate

A Hardenberg estate is recorded in the Central Estate Database (ZDN) for the period 1699–1727. Among other things, the activity as a mining captain is mentioned, while the table of contents reads: "Lease of customs on the Elbe , coinage in Hamburg , Bartenleben's disputes over the good Brome , political correspondence".

literature

  • Johann Wolf : 90. Christian Ulrich's son, also called Christian Ulrich , in ders .: History of the von Hardenberg family , Volume 2, Göttingen: printed by JC Baier, 1823, p. 188; Digitized via Google books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c o. V. Personal data record in the catalog of the German National Library [undated], last accessed on May 10, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g o. V .: Hardenberg, Christian Ulrich von (May 6, 1735) in the personal and correspondence database of the Leibniz Edition of the Georg-August University of Göttingen
  3. ↑ a b c d Joachim Lampe: v. Hardenberg, Christian Ulrich , in the other: aristocracy, court nobility and state patriciate in Kurhannover. The spheres of life of the higher civil servants at the Electoral Hanoverian central and court authorities 1714-1760 (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , Volume 24) (= Studies on the class history of Lower Saxony , Volume 2), Volume 2: Official lists and pedigree , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963, p. 236; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ Hardenberg, Christian Ulrich von (1663-1735) in the ZDN
personal data
SURNAME Hardenberg, Christian Ulrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hardenberg, Christianus Ulricus exits
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court official, Kurhannoverscher diplomat, castle captain and court marshal, real secret council and chamber president
DATE OF BIRTH 1663
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoya
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1735
Place of death Hanover