David Reinhold von Sievers

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David Reinhold von Sievers (born April 14, 1732 in Sastama , today: Saastna , in Estonia , † January 31, 1814 in Preetz ) was a German officer in the Russian service and grand princely district administrator , bailiff for Cismar and Oldenburg and president of the cities of Neustadt in Holstein and Oldenburg.

Life

David Reinhold von Sievers came from the noble officer family Sievers , who immigrated to the Russian Empire via Holstein and Finland . He was a son of the Swedish militia captain Joachim Johann von Sievers (1674–1753), who was admitted to the Russian nobility in 1725, and his second wife Anna Helene Dorothea Björneberg (1695–1792) and a younger half-brother of the later Count Karl von Sievers . He began his professional career in Russian military service. His influential brother Karl von Sievers arranged the wedding with Friederike Karoline Carols (* December 6, 1731, † August 6, 1804). Friederike Karoline was the illegitimate but recognized daughter of Duke Karl Friedrich of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf and thus half-sister of the future Russian Tsar Peter III. In 1762 Grand Duke Peter became Tsar Peter III in St. Petersburg. proclaimed, but in the same year deposed by his wife Catherine the Great and murdered in captivity. David Reinhold von Sievers witnessed these events as a colonel and commander of a Schleswig-Holstein dragoons regiment in Saint Petersburg . Then he left the army and was appointed by Katharina as a bailiff in the office of Cismar in Holstein. His wife initially lived with their children in Kiel Castle . Because the Kiel family had to move to solitude in Cismar, the bailiff's apartment was built into the vacant monastery church for them in 1767-69 . Von Sievers had received an above-average annual salary from Tsarina Katharina, so he was able to buy the “Grömitzer Hof” and build the Landhaus am Markt (now Landhaus Gosch) as a farmhouse, where his son Paul von Sievers lived for several years. David Reinhold von Sievers is considered to be the founder of the "Holstein line" of the knights and counts of Sievers.

progeny

  • Katharina (1758–1809), godchild of the future Tsarina Katharina II.
  • Peter (1759–1839), godchild of the later Tsar Peter III, Danish chamberlain and bailiff at Neumünster
  • Helena Dorothea (1760–1812), ∞ with Nikolai Freiherr v. Ehrenstein
  • Karl Friedrich (1761–1823), Danish and later Russian civil servant
  • Friedrich August (1763–1786), Danish Chamberlain, Livonian Higher Regional Court Secretary
  • Joachim Johann (1766–1773)
  • Paul (1769–1826), Danish cavalry master and landlord of Grömitz and Rosenhof
  • Karl Benedikt (1773–1800), Danish officer

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Lobedanz: Notes of the Holstein bailiff David Reinhold von Sievers . In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History . Volume 37, Leipzig 1907, supplement after p. 220. ( digitized version )
  2. ^ A b Emil Lobedanz: Notes of the Holstein bailiff David Reinhold von Sievers . In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History . Volume 37, Leipzig 1907, p. 196. ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Sievers, David Reinhold von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian officer
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Sastama , today Saastna, Estonia
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1814
Place of death Preetz