Christoph Caspar von Blumenthal

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Christoph Caspar Freiherr von Blumenthal (born October 8, 1638 in Berlin , † September 16, 1689 in Stavenow ) was a Brandenburg diplomat .

Life

Origin and family

Christoph Caspar von Blumenthal was a member of the 1646 in the realm baron raised house Pröttlin of the noble family from the Prignitz from Blumenthal . His parents were the Brandenburg statesman Joachim Friedrich von Blumenthal (1607–1657) and Catherine von Klitzing (1613–1638). In 1660 he married Louisa Hedwig von Schwerin (1644–1700), a daughter of the Brandenburg statesman Otto Freiherr von Schwerin (1616–1679). The marriage resulted in four sons and one daughter. Three of his sons remained in the field .

Career

Blumenthal studied law and political science in Leipzig and Helmstedt . An extensive Grand Tour through Italy , Spain and France followed.

He was also Hofrat Chamberlain of Brandenburg , first (1652) Knight of the Order of St. John , then (1658) Commendator to Suplingenburg , Privy Chamber Councilor and finally War Commissarius. At the time of his introduction as Komtur zu Suplingenburg he was provost of the cathedral in Brandenburg an der Havel and held the title of secret state and war minister.

In his almost exclusive employment in the diplomatic service, however, he unfolds his real passion and was thus one of the first Brandenburg professional diplomats. As a legation counselor, he negotiated successfully with French King Louis XIV and the Spanish King Philip IV as early as 1660 on behalf of his elector . In 1662 he represented Brandenburg at the Reichstag in Regensburg and was again on a diplomatic mission in Paris from 1663 to 1664 , where he spoke to Brandenburg -French Alliance concluded. He also represented the interests of his employer in Vienna in 1666, repeatedly in France from 1666 to 1669, in Copenhagen in 1670 and in Dresden from 1673 to 1679 .

Due to his special merits, Blumenthal received from the Saxon Elector Johann Georg III in 1689 . for life a seat on the table of gentlemen in the Lusatian state parliament, although he had no rule in Lower Lusatia ; a unique event in the history of Niederlausitz.

Although he studied law, his acceptance into the government did not come from the usual station of the higher court but from his diplomatic position. On March 1, 1661, he received his appointment with the rise to the Real Secret Council .

He was still captain to Lehnin from 1679 and from 1657 heir to Deibow (part of the community Milow (near Grabow) in Mecklenburg ), Neuendorf (near Halberstadt ; no longer exists), Paretz (part of the city of Ketzin / Havel ), Pretschen and through subsequent reacquisition of Wittmannsdorf (both districts of the municipality of Märkische Heide ), Pröttlin and Stavenow (both of Prignitz) and Trechwitz (district of the municipality of Kloster Lehnin ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b 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. 361, no. 70.
  2. ↑ Adolf von Winterfeld : History of the Knightly Order of St. Johannis from the Hospital in Jerusalem: with special consideration of the Brandenburg Balli or the Herrenmeisterthums Sonnenburg. Berlin 1859, p. 782.
  3. ↑ Hermann Keipp (Ed.): Berliner Revue , Volume 11, p. 408, No. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Blumenthal, Christoph Caspar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blumenthal, Christoph Caspar Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brandenburg diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1638
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1689
Place of death Stavenow