Ernst Carl von Ahlefeldt

Ernst Carl von Ahlefeldt (born January 13, 1785 on Saxdorf ; † May 10, 1877 on Gut Olpenitz ) was the lord of the noble estates of Oehe and Rögen.

Life

Ernst Carl von Ahlefeldt was the son of the noble landlord, chamberlain and district administrator Detlev von Ahlefeldt (1747–1796) and his second wife Georgine Juliane von Ahlefeldt (1764–1821), daughter of Siegfried Ernst von Ahlefeldt (1721–1792), Mr. Lindau . His wife was Wilhelmine Sophie Henriette von Wense , daughter of the Hanoverian Justice Minister Georg Friedrich August von der Wense, whom he married on July 1, 1808 at Gut Eldingen near Hanover.

He enjoyed an excellent legal education and passed his exam with distinction. Later he became district administrator and member of the Schleswig district court. When tensions broke out within the entire Danish state , von Ahlefeldt was one of the 70 enlightened men from the duchies who belonged to the advisory staff of the Danish king. In 1853 he became a member of the Estates Assembly and a year later a deputy of the Schleswig-Holstein Knighthood , to which he belonged well into old age. In 1848 he stood on the side of the Schleswig-Holstein movement in the Schleswig-Holstein War (1848-1851) and was expelled from the country with his son August von Ahlefeld after the end of the war . During the uprising of the duchies against Denmark in 1848, he was in charge of catering for the German Imperial Army of the Prussian troops in Jutland. He was given amnesty on October 9, 1856 . Ernst Carl von Ahlefeld died on May 10, 1877 at the age of 92 at Gut Olpenitz and was buried in the churchyard in Karby .

literature

• Johann Friedrich Hansen: More complete description of the state of the Duchy of Schleswig , Part One, page 527 (Flensburg 1770)
• Schleswig-Holstein Knighthood : Contribution to the Nobility History of Germany and Denmark , page 29 (Schleswig 1869)