Christiane von der Osten-Sacken

Christiane Charlotte Sophie Princess von der Osten-Sacken (born November 20, 1733 in Trebsen , † July 6, 1811 in Berlin ) is one of the few early capitalist entrepreneurs.

Life

She was born as Christiane Charlotte Sophie von Dieskau , daughter of Johann Adolph von Dieskau († 1742) and his wife Christiane Dorothea Magdalene von Ponickau (1714–1785). On October 7, 1754 she married Julius Gebhard Graf von Hoym (1721–1769). The couple had their daughter Amalia Charlotte Louise Marianne Christiane Countess von Hoym (1763-1840), later Princess von Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen . After the death of Count von Hoym, Christiane Charlotte married the Imperial Count (from 1786 Prince) Carl von der Osten-Sacken in 1771 . He died on December 31, 1795 on his estate in Dondangen .

Christiane Fürstin von der Osten-Sacken, who lived in a palace at Wilhelmstrasse 73 in Berlin from 1777 onwards , was one of the few female aristocrats able to assert herself as an entrepreneur in a world dominated by men. She even used legal means to oppose the Russian Tsarina Catherine II , who wanted to appropriate her estates in the Baltic States .

In her entrepreneurial endeavors, the Princess von der Osten-Sacken was particularly keen to secure the inheritance for her daughter Marianne, who was married to Prince Friedrich zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1746-1818). She had to assert herself against Napoleon during the war . In this way, despite Napoleon and the Russian expansions in Latvia , Estonia and Lithuania , she managed to hold and manage her goods in Courland , Saxony and Upper Silesia from Berlin with legal processes and great persistence . In doing so, she established the wealth of the Hohenlohe family throughout the 19th century.

In 1737 the favorite of the Russian tsarina Anna Ivanovna (1693–1740) Ernst Johann Imperial Count von Biron was appointed Duke of Courland . After a few weeks he was overthrown and only reinstated as duke in 1762 by the Russian tsarina Catherine II. In 1769 he left the rule to his son Peter von Biron . This last ruling Duke, Peter von Kurland, had renounced the Duchy of Courland in 1795 in exchange for enormous financial compensation he received from Catherine II and withdrew to the Silesian Sagan .

Princess Sacken, on the other hand, did not intend to give up her property or rights of use to the Bathen, Pilten and Dondangen estates in Courland, despite lively legal disputes with the Russian Tsarina. Because although her Courland possessions were further away from her residence in Berlin than her Saxon or Upper Silesian goods, the Courland possessions were of great importance with regard to the supply of natural produce and the income from there.

Her property in Courland and Pilten had been in liens with the princess' family for 220 years. Your general representative , Peter Bienemann von Bienenstamm, defended the goods against the desires of the Russian empress with all legal means.

literature

• Gerlinde Kraus: Christiane Fürstin von der Osten-Sacken: An early capitalist entrepreneur and her heirs during the early industrialization in the 18th and 19th centuries. Century. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-515-07721-7 limited preview

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Archives. Retrieved April 10, 2018 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Gerlinde Kraus: Christiane Fürstin von der Osten-Sacken: an early capitalist entrepreneur and her heirs during the early industrialization in the 18th and 19th centuries. Century . Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-515-07721-7 ( google.de [accessed April 10, 2018]).