Christian von Nettelbladt

Christian von Nettelbladt as chapter master

Christian Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Nettelbladt (born February 15, 1779 in Rostock ; † June 9, 1843 ibid) was a German judge and freemason .

Life

Christian von Nettelbladt was the youngest son of the office director Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Nettelbladt (1749-1818) in Rostock. His mother Friedrike Wilhelmine geb. Prehn (1752–1779) died just a few weeks after his birth. His father married her sister Christiane Eberhardine geb. Prehn (1756-1796). Christian Erhard von Nettelbladt (1792–1863) was his half-brother.

He attended the Knight Academy (Lüneburg) from 1794 and studied law at the University of Rostock from 1796 and then until 1800 at the Philipps University of Marburg . From 1800 he was an auditor in the Rostock law office under his father. There he was promoted to the chancellery in 1801 and was soon afterwards judicial and consistorial advisor. In 1813 he was appointed assessor at the court and regional court in Güstrow . In 1818, the Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I (Mecklenburg) was appointed Chief Appeal Council at the Supreme Court in Parchim .

He was married four times. The marriage with his first wife, who died early, remained childless. With his second wife (from 1805) Johanna Caroline geb. von Stein (1784–1812) had two children, including Albert von Nettelbladt ; with the third wife (from 1813) Eva Wilhelmine Elisabeth Hedwig geb. von Pressentin (1793–1831) had three children, including Rudolf von Nettelbladt . The fourth marriage was childless. All of his wives died prematurely. Nettelbladt himself suffered from a breast disease for a long time and suffered two strokes at an advanced age, but survived.

Freemasonry

Already Nettelbladt's father Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (born May 4, 1747 in Rostock † June 30, 1818 ibid) was admitted to the Masonic Lodge Zu den drey Löwen in Marburg in 1766 and later became a member of the Great State Lodge of the Freemasons of Germany . Christian Nettelbladt joined the lodge Zum Tempel der Truth in Rostock on March 1, 1803 , was promoted to journeyman on November 1 of the same year and was promoted to the master's degree on January 2, 1804. Also in 1804 he was accepted into the Andreasloge Quattuor Elementa in Stralsund, where he was promoted to the sixth degree of the Swedish system in 1805 .

On February 9, 1810, he was included in the chapter On the Phoenix in St. Petersburg , which did not belong to the Grand National Lodge, but also worked according to the Swedish system. On March 24, 1812, he was accepted in the religious chapter in Berlin in this degree.

From 1807 to 1811 he was a deputy lodge master of the Johannisloge Zum Tempel der Truth and subsequently became its lodge master. After his transfer to Parchim , he and others founded the Friderica Ludovica St. John's Lodge , which he chaired for 22 years. In 1812 he was a co-founder of the Andreasloge Lucens in Rostock.

The Grand State Lodge sent him to Stralsund in 1817 in order to transfer the Swedish lodges there to the Grand State Lodge after consultation with the Swedish Freemasons. In 1818 he headed an embassy from the Grand Lodge to Sweden to supplement the German rituals of the Swedish system, which were previously incomplete. For professional reasons, he could not travel with the embassy himself, but he prepared it and then used the documents he had brought with him for an extensive ritual reform that lasted until 1836. His work was almost completely approved and taken over by the Grand National Lodge and is considered the most significant reform of the Swedish system in Germany.

“Like the first 50 year period BC Zinnendorf given the signature, so gave the second 50-year period v. Nettelbladt her signature, the highly deserved Rostock Capitelmeister, a great mason genius, a man of extensive historical knowledge, filled with a living and profound Christianity, but he too was not entirely free from the above-described trajectory towards the mysterious "

On July 30, 1818, Nettelbladt was appointed second architect of the Order of Freemasons to lead the successful delegation to Sweden. According to an anti-Masonic article from 1874, he was to receive the Order of Charles XIII in 1819 together with Johann Friedrich Basilius Wehber-Schuldt . have been awarded; However, it is not recorded in the order's membership register.

From some letters with other Freemasons it emerges that Nettelbladt was probably a member of the clerical system of August Wilhelm Starck under the religious name Carolus a nexu longinquo .

Many of Nettelbladt's documents have been irretrievably lost because his daughter is said to have used parts of his library for heating after his death.

Foundations

Nettelbladt founded a hospital for the destitute in Heiligendamm and several Sunday schools for apprentices and journeymen.

literature

• Ferdinand Runkel: History of Freemasonry . Reprint from 1932. Edition Lempertz, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-933070-96-1 .
• GLLFvD (Ed.): The first 150 years of the Great Order Chapter INDISSOLUBILIS . Self-published, Berlin 1926.
• Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner: International Freemason Lexicon . Reprint from 1932. Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna / Munich 1980, ISBN 3-85002-038-X .
• Wolfgang Kaelcke: Parchim personalities . Part 3. From the series of publications by the Parchim City Museum. Parchim 1997, pp. 14-18.

Web links

• Literature about Christian von Nettelbladt in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ↑ Indissolubilis p. 346
3. ↑ Indissolubilis p. 97
4. ^ Periodicals for the scientific discussion of the great religious questions of the present day. 3 (1874), p. 119
5. ^ Anton Frans Karl Anjou: Riddare af Konung Carl XIII: s orden 1811-1900. Biografiska anteckningar. Eskjö 1900
6. ↑ Runkel, Volume 3, pp. 216-218
7. ↑ However, it is not unlikely that the documents that Eduard von Glöden boasted about from 1843 onwards were from the Nettelbladt estate.
8. ↑ Lennhoff / Posner p. 1103