Detlef Reventlow

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Detlev Reventlow (* on April 4 or 27, 1600 in Ziesendorf ; † August 13, 1664 in Futterkamp , buried in Schleswig Cathedral ) was a chancellor.

education

Detlev Reventlow came from the noble family Reventlow, which branched out in Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg and Denmark and was a son of Henning (Hennecke) Reventlow (* 1551 - 3 March 1624) and his second wife Sophie, née von Sperling (* 1578 - 25 March 1636). The father was the landlord of Ziesendorf , Brockhusen and Reetz and was in Danish service from 1573 to 1606. The ancestors on his mother's side were Cord von Sperling and his wife Mette, née von Stralendorff .

Reventlow initially received lessons from a tutor. In 1611 he attended the Latin school in Neubrandenburg . In the same year he enrolled at the University of Greifswald. From 1615 he studied for three years at the University of Rostock. In 1618 he moved to Strasbourg to study for three years. The following study trip through Europe ended in 1624 due to the death of his father, which forced him to return home. In the same year he became a squire in the service of Duke Adolf Friedrich I.

A few years later, Reventlow moved to Archbishop Johann Friedrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , for whom he carried out several diplomatic assignments: in 1627 he visited the Elector of Saxony in Dresden and the king's court in Vienna . In 1628 he met the generals Tilly and Wallenstein , in 1630 he took part in the Electoral Congress in Regensburg .

Working in the Danish service

At the end of 1632, King Christian IV signed Reventlow as Privy Councilor and German Chancellor, who was to take on foreign policy in particular. Reventlow took on numerous important negotiations with German rulers in the period that followed. In December 1632 he traveled from Lübeck to Dresden . Here he wanted to convince the Elector of Saxony that he should end the alliance with Sweden and conclude a separate peace with the emperor. He then contacted Elector Maximilian of Bavaria and Wallenstein on this subject . A few months after the end of the negotiations, he had to travel to Dresden again. Here he negotiated the engagement of the Danish Crown Prince Christian V with Magdalena Sibylle of Saxony .

At the end of 1634 Revetlow traveled with Friedrich III. , the second son of Christian IV., to the Archdiocese of Bremen , where the bishop died. Reventlow negotiated with the Swedish representation who voted for Friedrich III. to the new archbishop. In the following years Reventlow lived mainly in Glückstadt. From here he negotiated the peace treaty between the Danes and representatives of the emperor in Hamburg between 1639 and 1642 . In 1643 he and Christian von Pentz tried to find a comparison with Hamburg regarding the Elbe tariff , but remained unsuccessful. When the Torstensson War broke out , Reventlow moved from Glückstadt to Copenhagen, where he again headed the German law firm .

In 1644 Reventlow conducted talks with envoys from the Netherlands , France and the emperor who had come to Copenhagen due to the war. In 1646 he reached an agreement that the succession of the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst passed to the Danish king. In 1647 he traveled to Saxony for the last time, from where he transported the body of the deceased heir to the throne, Prince Christian, to Denmark.

Reventlow enjoyed a high reputation as a diligent negotiator with Christian IV. The latter contacted him frequently and tried to reward him appropriately. In 1639 he gave him the Norwegian office of Romsdal as a fief, which he took over until 1646. In 1642 Reventlow became bailiff of Hadersleben . Since Reventlow did not have a residence in the duchies, he was not entitled to such a privilege at the time. This is why the Schleswig-Holstein knights protested, but also because Reventlow resolutely represented the interests of the monarchs. Christian VI. nevertheless did not revise his decision.

After the death of Christian VI. and the assumption of office by Duke Friedrich wanted to settle these conflicts with the knights. He immediately dismissed Reventlow from office. Since Reventlow also had enemies in Copenhagen, his time as Chancellor ended immediately. An attempt to make him chancellor again in February 1649 failed. In the same year he showed himself ready to take up service in Sweden, but was not given a corresponding position.

Reventlow lived relatively secluded on his property until the end of his life. He had inherited the Reetz estate in Mecklenburg; In 1642 Christian IV had given him the Neuhof estate as a gift, probably in relation to the promotion to bailiff. He had bought the neighboring Futterkamp in 1648.

Political classification

Reventlow was considered talented, educated and with integrity among contemporaries. At that time, aristocrats of his type were relatively rare in Denmark. So he placed himself as a competent official in the service of a prince, but developed no ambition to become politically active himself. He thus consolidated the rule of his prince. Since the Schleswig-Holstein knighthood wanted to maintain the power of the estates, it is not surprising that they took action against Reventlow's appointment as bailiff, which contradicted the applicable privileges. Reventlow stayed in the duchies anyway. The fact that he married a member of the Rantzau family and the spouses of his children are signs of rapid social integration in the region.

family

Detlev Reventlow married Christine Rantzau (* 1618; † May 2, 1688) in Neuhaus on October 4, 1636 . She was a daughter of Heinrich Rantzau (~ 1570-1620) and his wife Catharina, née Rantzau (1590-1655). In her second marriage she married Wulf von Buchwaldt (1588–1637) on Pronstorf .

Detlev Reventlow had four daughters and eight sons. These included:

  • Henning Reventlow (June 24, 1640 - January 30, 1705). He worked as lord of Hemmelmark , Glasau and Altenhof and as bailiff took over several royal offices in the duchies. He was Detlev von Reventlow's grandfather .
  • Conrad Graf zu Reventlow
  • Detlev Reventlow
  • Friedrich Reventlow (born September 10, 1649 - † October 29, 1728). He was a Danish officer, from 1684 to 1689 bailiff of Husum , from 1704 to 1725 provost of the monastery of Uetersen and bitterness of the monastery of Itzehoe.
  • Dorothea (born January 22, 1657 - † July 1, 1697). She married the Gottorf Privy Councilor Hans Heinrich Freiherr Kielmann von Kielmannsegg (1636–1686) in her first marriage. In her second marriage, she married the Privy Councilor Cai Rantzau (1605–1704) on Neuhaus.

literature

  • Dieter Lohmeier: Reventlow, Detlev . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, pp. 212-214.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Reventlow, Detlev . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, p. 212.
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Reventlow, Detlev . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, p. 213.
  4. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Reventlow, Detlev . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, p. 213.
  5. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Reventlow, Detlev . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, p. 213.
  6. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Reventlow, Detlev . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, p. 213.
  7. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Reventlow, Detlev . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, p. 213.
  8. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Reventlow, Detlev . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, pp. 213-214.
  9. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Reventlow, Detlev . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, p. 214.
  10. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Reventlow, Detlev . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, p. 214.
  11. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Reventlow, Detlev . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, p. 214.
  12. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Reventlow, Detlev . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, p. 212.
  13. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Reventlow, Detlev . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, p. 212.
personal data
SURNAME Reventlow, Detlef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reventlow, Detlev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1600 or April 27, 1600
PLACE OF BIRTH Ziesendorf
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1664
Place of death Feed camp