Christian von Brandt

Christian von Brandt (* 1684 in Neumark ; † March 9, 1749 in Berlin ) was a Prussian Minister of State.

Life

family

Christian von Brandt was a member of the Brandenburg noble family Brandt and a son of the Brandenburg-Prussian Major General Paul von Brandt (1650-1697) and Henriette Katharina von Somnitz from the House of Grumsdorf (1657-1712). Christian married Luise Wilhelmine von der Groeben (1699–1782) in 1717 . The sons Christian Ludwig von Brandt (1728–1786), stable master of the Prince of Prussia and Christoph Ernst von Brandt (1738–1792), Canonicus and hereditary lord of Lipke, emerged from the marriage.

Career

Brandt had been enrolled at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt since mid-November 1700 and responded in 1702. He then first went into the diplomatic service and was Envoyé in Denmark from 1717 to 1720 , from 1721 to 1723 envoy in Stockholm and from 1724 to 1732 with the title of a privy councilor at the imperial court in Vienna . Perhaps an embassy to Warsaw also joined in 1733 ? Since January 7th he was the Prussian Real Privy Councilor and Minister of State, Head of the Spiritual Department, i.e. Minister for Spiritual Affairs, First President of the Kurmark Consistory and Senior Curator of the Universities and Schools. From January 1738 he was also director of the French Consistory and the Conseil français.

Herr auf Ehrenberg in Pomerania and Wutzig and Hermsdorf in Neumark. He was buried in Hermdorf. His successor at the French senior management was Carl Ludolph von Danckelmann (1699–1764).

literature

Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 126 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Christian von Brandt in the German biography

Individual evidence

^ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses (1905) . Sixth year, p. 150.
↑ Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The king. Prussian and Churfürstl. Brandenburg Really Secret State Council on its bicentenary foundation day on January 5th, 1805. Berlin 1805, p. 417, no. 180.

personal data
SURNAME	Brandt, Christian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brand, Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian Minister of State
DATE OF BIRTH	1684
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neumark
DATE OF DEATH	March 9, 1749
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses (1905) . Sixth year, p. 150.

[2] Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The king. Prussian and Churfürstl. Brandenburg Really Secret State Council on its bicentenary foundation day on January 5th, 1805. Berlin 1805, p. 417, no. 180.