Christoph Dietrich von Keller
Christoph Dietrich Keller , von Keller from 1737 , Baron von Keller from 1738 ; (Born November 25, 1699 in Tübingen ; † April 21, 1766 in Stedten an der Gera ) was a politician and diplomat in the service of the Dukes of Württemberg , the Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and the King of Prussia .
Life
He came from the respected Swabian Keller family , from which some members had already distinguished themselves as capable administrative officials in the Middle Ages. As the seventh child of the ducal war council Friedrich Heinrich Keller , he grew up in Tübingen and had 16 siblings. After attending school and studying law at the Tübingen monastery , he joined the diplomatic service of the Duchy of Württemberg . There he became the secret secretary, government councilor and secret councilor of Duke Karl Eugen .
In 1735 he acquired Gut Stedten near Erfurt from the Bechtolsheim family and had a baroque palace built here in place of an older moated castle from 1737 .
On September 14, 1737 he received in Vienna, as the ducal Wuerttemberg ambassador and Privy Councilor, by Emperor Charles VI. awarded the knightly imperial nobility . This increase in status was accompanied by an increase in the coat of arms . But already on September 30, 1738, a further increase was made when the emperor granted him and his brother, the ducal Württemberg Privy Councilor Johann David Keller, the old imperial nobility . This act was also associated with an increase in the coat of arms (second helmet ). At the same time he was appointed Imperial Court Councilor. Since then he has called himself Freiherr von Keller.
In 1747 he was appointed the Duke of Württemberg's ambassador in Paris. However, there he fell out of favor with the duke because of his negotiations over the county of Mömpelgard .
In 1750 he married Auguste Louise Eleonore Freiin von Mauchenheim, called von Bechtolsheim. The family finally moved to his estate in Stedten, on whose income he was dependent. The couple had ten children.
In 1751 he switched to the service of the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg , where he became court marshal and minister of state.
Even Frederick the Great had estimated it and variously used as a diplomat.
In 1766 he died as heir, feudal lord and court lord in Stedten. His son, Dorotheus Ludwig Christoph Graf von Keller, inherited the property .
estate
2016 could Gotha Research Library of the University of Erfurt on Friedenstein Castle acquire a partial estate of Christopher Dietrich von Keller from private collections. The partial estate consists of a handwritten collection of almost 1,000 sheets on Gotha court culture in the 18th century, mainly correspondence between Kellers and Duchess Luise Dorothea .
Fonts
- Legal and Actual consideration of the matter of the Roman king election. 1751 ( digitized version )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ RJ Hartmann: Das Tübinger Stift, Stuttgart 1918.
- ^ GHdA , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Limburg ad Lahn 1987, pp. 166–167.
- ^ Carl FA Freiherr von Keller: Notes , in: G. Keller, Major General z. D. (Editor): History of the Keller family. Printed by the Stuttgarter Buchdruckereigesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart 1922 (cellar book), p. 201.
- ↑ University of Erfurt presents major new acquisitions in Gotha , press release of May 18, 2016, accessed on May 20, 2016.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Johann Heinrich Schütz von Pflimmern (until 1732) |
herzogl. Wuerttemberg envoy to Austria 1737–1747 |
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herzogl. Wuerttemberg envoy to France 1747–1750 |
Ludwig von Taube (from 1804) |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Keller, Christoph Dietrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Keller, Christoph Dietrich Freiherr von (full name); Keller, Christoph Dietrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1699 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tübingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1766 |
| Place of death | Stedten on the Gera |