Curt Alexander von Schönberg
Curt Alexander von Schönberg (born May 5, 1703 in Dresden , † June 10, 1761 in Freiberg ) was chamberlain from the Electoral Saxony , chief miner and Russian general miner director.
Life
Alexander von Schönberg came from the Saxon noble family von Schönberg and was the son of Adam Friedrich von Schönberg (1654–1707) . He was the master of Oberschöna, Linda and Naundorf. On November 11, 1732 he was appointed miner of the Electorate of Saxony. As a successor to Carl Christian von Tettau, who retired on March 24, 1733 because of illness, Curt Alexander von Schönberg was appointed chief miner on January 26, 1734. In 1736 von Schönberg was sent to work for the Russian Tsarina Anna Ivanovna as general mining director and traveled to Saint Petersburg with a group of miners from Electoral Saxony. Von Schönberg lost his fortune through a failed mining company in Lapland; he also fell out of favor with the new Tsarina Elisabeth and was imprisoned for two years. Until his release from Russian imprisonment in 1745, the mining captain Hans Carl von Kirchbach and, from 1742, the chief mining authority director Caspar Siegmund von Berbisdorff managed the chief miner 's affairs.
literature
- Albert Fraustadt : History of the Schoenberg family Meissnischen tribe , Leipzig, 1869.
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| SURNAME | Schoenberg, Curt Alexander von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carl Alexander of |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Electoral Chamberlain and Chief Miner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1703 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 1761 |
| Place of death | Freiberg |