Christian zu Rantzau (governor)

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Imperial Count Christian Andreas Friedrich zu Rantzau (born February 5, 1796 in Kiel , † April 26, 1857 in Rastorf ) was a German administrative lawyer in the Danish service and governor and Landdrost of the Duchy of Lauenburg.

Life

Manor house of Gut Rastorf

Christian zu Rantzau came from the Rastorf house of the Holstein nobility ( Equites Originarii ) Rantzau . He was a son of the secret conference councilor Count Carl Emil zu Rantzau on Rastorf (1775–1857) and his wife Emilie, née. Countess von Bernstorff (1777–1811), a daughter of Andreas Peter von Bernstorff . Of his two sisters, Agnes Louise Ferdinandine (1803-1884) married Ernst zu Rantzau and Julia Luise Friederike (1808-) first Heinrich von Reventlow († 1841) and then Otto von Rantzau .

Together with Heinrich von Reventlow , who was of the same age , he attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until Michaelis in 1814 and studied law, including from May 5, 1816 at the University of Göttingen . In 1819 he passed his legal exam before the Holstein High Court in Glückstadt . In 1823 he was chamberlain to Caroline Amalie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg and became marshal in 1824 and court marshal in 1825 with her husband, Crown Prince Christian Frederik .

In 1829 he left court service and, as a bitter, became the legal representative of the noble monastery in Itzehoe .

In 1838 King Friedrich VI appointed him . as governor and Landdrost in the Duchy of Lauenburg , which has been ruled by Denmark in personal union since 1815 .

When the Schleswig-Holstein uprising broke out in 1848, Rantzau found himself in a difficult position as a man loyal to the king, especially since the effects of the March Revolution (Denmark) and the German Revolution of 1848/1849 were also felt in the duchy. He succeeded in preventing the establishment of a provisional government like the one in Kiel , but when he was cut off from any aid from Denmark, he asked for military help from Hanover . When no agreement could be reached between Rantzau and the Lauenburg regional assembly and on July 10, 1848 Carl Theodor Welcker was sent as Reich Commissioner by the provisional central authority of the German Confederation to set up an interim administration , Rantzau was de facto removed. Only after the restoration of Danish rule was Friedrich von Pechlin his successor as governor and Landdrost.

Christian zu Rantzau retired to his father's estate Rastorf and the Seeburg house in Kiel, where he died before his father; he was buried in Preetz .

He was married twice, first since October 12, 1820 with Anna Louise Nancy zu Rantzau from the house of Oppendorf (born August 4, 1798 in Christiansholm; † October 7, 1843 in Ratzeburg ), a daughter of Christian Detlev Karl, the chief president of Kiel zu Rantzau (1772–1812) and Charlotte Ernestine, b. Freiin Diede zum Fürstenstein (1773–1846). After her death, he married a second marriage on August 15, 1846 in Plön Marie, b. von Witzleben (born April 16, 1801 in Plön; † January 30, 1875 in Schleswig ), a daughter of Chamberlain Major Christoph Henning von Witzleben (1759-1838) and Countess Friederike Juliane Marie Charlotte Louise von Stolberg (1759-1847). Emil zu Rantzau was his son from his first marriage. In 1857 he inherited the majority of Rastorf. The daughter from his first marriage Fanny (1824–1866) married Friedrich Adamson von Moltke .

Awards

literature

  • HR Hiort-Lorenzen Christian Rantzau in: CF Bricka (ed.): Dansk Biografisk Leksikon. København: Gyldendal 1887-1905.
  • Bernhard Ebneth:  Rantzau. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , pp. 146-149 ( digitized version ). (Family item)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized version ), no. 50


personal data
SURNAME Rantzau, Christian too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rantzau, Christian Andreas Friedrich zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer in the Danish service and governor and Landdrost of the Duchy of Lauenburg
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1857
Place of death Rastorf