Detlev von Reventlow (1712–1783)

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Detlev von Reventlow

Detlev (or in Danish Ditlev ) von Reventlow (born October 28, 1712 at Gut Altenhof ; † December 5, 1783 in Kiel ) was a Schleswig-Holstein knight , Danish count and statesman and curator of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

origin

Detlev von Reventlow was the eldest son of Cay Friedrich von Reventlow (1685–1762) and his wife Hedwig Ida nee. v. Buchwaldt (1690–1761).

Life

In 1730 he began studying political science at the University of Kiel, which he continued in Frankfurt (Oder) and Leipzig . In 1735 he completed his studies with the dissertation De nexu foederum inter imperium Romano-Germanicum et regnum Daniae .

After completing his studies, in 1736 he became a chamberlain to Sophie Magdalena , Christian VI's wife . from Denmark . 1746 it appointed Frederick V for Chamberlain , 1749 the Provincial President of Altona . From 1751 to 1754 he was the Danish envoy in Paris . After his recall, he was entrusted with the education of the Crown Prince, who later became King Christian VII , as Hofmeister . In 1759 he became a secret conference councilor, in 1763 chief steward of the crown prince and member of the council, the actual government, in 1764 first deputy of the pension chamber, the West Indian-Guinean pension and general customs chamber, and also a member of the chief tax office. He was instrumental in the preparation of the exchange negotiations with Russia for the acquisition of the Gottorf stake from Holstein .

As the prince's educator, he showed excessive harshness towards the motherless child. After the death of Frederick V, Christian VII removed him from all of his offices in January 1766. Reventlow, however, was rewarded with the elephant order in recognition of his services rendered so far in 1766 and on December 14, 1767 raised to the Danish feudal state . Shortly afterwards he was called back to the council by Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff and appointed Lord Chamberlain in 1766 and Deputy in the Economics and Commerce College in 1767. But when Johann Friedrich Struensee dissolved the council in 1770, Reventlow lost all his offices and retired to his estates.

After Struensee's fall in 1773 he became Principal-Commissarius for the conclusion of the Treaty of Tsarskoye Selo , with which the entire Danish state was established. In 1775 Andreas Peter Bernstorff appointed him curator of the University of Kiel, which he stayed until the end of his life. Under his curature, the Indigenous Law was passed in 1776, which stipulated that future civil servants of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein had to have studied in Kiel for at least two years. This law gave the university a great boost.

Detlef Reventlow inherited the Altenhof and Glasau estates from his father. In 1764 he bought Gut Emkendorf from Jean Henri Desmercières , in 1767 from Detlef von Reventlow Gut Wittenberg and in 1782 the neighboring Gut Aschau estate .

family

In 1745 Detlev von Reventlow married Margarethe von Raben , (* December 8, 1726, † September 13, 1794), a daughter of the privy councilor Friedrich von Raben (1693–1773) on Aalholm and born Bertha. von Plessen (1707–1786), with whom he had the following children:

  1. Cay Friedrich von Reventlow (1753–1834)
  2. Friedrich Karl von Reventlow (1755–1828) ∞ Friederike Juliane von Reventlow (1762–1816)
  3. Christian von Reventlow (born January 9, 1759 Copenhagen, † November 27, 1816, at Gut Wittenberg), Danish major general, unmarried
  4. Hedwig Ida von Reventlow (born December 1, 1760 Copenhagen, † April 4, 1837), canoness in Preetz .
  5. Bertha von Reventlow (born February 20, 1762 Copenhagen, † September 15, 1818 Preetz), canon in Preetz.
  6. Heinrich von Reventlow (born September 30, 1763 Copenhagen, † January 31, 1848 Kiel), Danish major general, owner of Wittenberg, Kaltenhof , Aakaer (Åkær / Jutland) and Falkenberg ∞ Sophie Anna von Baudissin (born December 20, 1778 Copenhagen, † December 22, 1853 Kiel), a daughter of Heinrich Friedrich von Baudissin . Sons of this marriage were Ernst Christian von Reventlow , Friedrich von Reventlou , Christian Andreas Julius Reventlow and Heinrich von Reventlow
  7. Sophie Magdalene von Reventlow (born May 30, 1765 Copenhagen, † January 29, 1848 in Preetz), canoness in Preetz.
  8. Caroline Mathilde von Reventlow (born January 3, 1767 Copenhagen, † September 21, 1834 Itzehoe), canoness in Itzehoe .

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ digitized version
  2. ↑ 279th award, JHF Berlien: The Elephant Order and its knights . Copenhagen 1846 ( digitized ). , P. 104
personal data
SURNAME Reventlow, Detlev von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reventlow, Ditlev of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Schleswig-Holstein knight, Danish count and statesman and curator of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1712
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Altenhof
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1783
Place of death Kiel