Ernst Christian von Reventlow

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Ernst Christian Graf von Reventlow , also with the property name Reventlow-Farve (born July 26, 1799 in Schleswig ; † February 12, 1873 on Gut Farve , today municipality of Wangels ) was a German landowner and politician.

Life

Heinrich von Reventlow came from the older house of the Schleswig-Holstein nobility family ( Equites Originarii ) von Reventlow . He was the third son of the royal Danish chamberlain and major general Count Heinrich von Reventlow (1763–1848), landlord on Falkenberg , heir to Wittenberg ( Martensrade ) and Kaltenhof, and his wife Anna Sophia, née. Countess von Baudissin (1778-1853). Christian Andreas Julius , Heinrich and Friedrich von Reventlou were his brothers.

He attended the Ernestinum Gotha , began studying law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel in 1818 and moved to the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg in 1819 .

In 1822 he passed his legal exam before the Schleswig Higher Court at Gottorf Castle . He entered the Danish diplomatic service and was attaché to the Danish embassy in Berlin from 1823 to 1826 , when his uncle Friedrich Karl von Reventlow was envoy.

From 1827 von Reventlow was a landlord on Farve, which his wife had acquired for him and which he gave to him in 1834. In 1837 the couple had the manor house on Farve, which was still medieval at its core, redesigned according to plans by Joseph Eduard Mose and their own ideas in the English-influenced castle style of the romantic neo-Gothic , which is reminiscent of a Latin inscription.

  • Farve mansion, courtyard side with inscription

  • Farve mansion, garden side

From 1842 to 1851 he also managed the Wittenberg estate . He was a deputy of the Oldenburg property district in the Holstein assembly of estates .

Like his brother Friedrich, Reventlow became active on the Schleswig-Holstein question and supported him and the Provisional Government . In 1848 he traveled on a diplomatic mission to Vienna and several times to Copenhagen on behalf of the Provisional Government . In December 1850, the governorship sent him to Dresden to represent their interests at the Dresden Conferences in 1850/1851 . The mission, however, was doomed to failure in view of the agreements already reached between Prussia and Austria.

In 1855 he became a Holstein member of the Danish Reichsrat, which was newly formed with the entire state constitution . From 1863 he was bitter (legal representative) of the noble monastery Itzehoe .

After the incorporation of Schleswig-Holstein into the Kingdom of Prussia and the formation of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein in 1867, the Prussian King Wilhelm I appointed him a member of the Prussian mansion for life and in 1868 he was appointed marshal of the Provincial Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein .

Despite numerous diplomatic missions, Ernst von Reventlow saw himself primarily as a landlord and farmer. He wrote numerous treatises on agricultural issues. From 1843 he was director of the Wagrischen Agricultural Association . He was a regular participant in the meeting of German farmers and foresters and organized the 11th meeting in Kiel in 1847.

Since October 28, 1825 he was married to Sophie Adelaide, b. von Buchwaldt (born August 9, 1802; † February 23, 1882), a daughter of Wolf von Buchwaldt (1764–1820) on Neudorf ( Hohwacht (Baltic Sea) ) and Benedicte Charlotte, born. Blome (1772–1802) from the house of Hagen .

The couple had six children: two sons, Wolf (1831–1861) and Cay (* 1840, died early) and four daughters, Maria (1838–1910), Bertha (1835–1869), Charlotte (1838–) and Sophie ( 1842-). Bertha married Alfred Franz Carl von Reventlow-Criminil in 1860 , the son of the temporary Danish Foreign Minister Heinrich von Reventlow-Criminil . After her death, he married her second sister Maria.

Awards

Fonts

  • Denmark and its kings until the arrival of the Oldenburg house. 2 volumes, Kiel: Schwers 1842
Digitized from volume 1
Digitized from volume 2
  • Declaration for the members of the eleventh assembly of German farmers and foresters: Contributions to the agricultural and forestry statistics of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. Altona 1847
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  • The worker and the employer. Oldenburg: Fränckel 1848

literature

  • Eduard Alberti : Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866 . Volume 2, p. 262 No. 1755
  • Eduard Alberti: Lexicon of the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburgischen and Eutinian writers from 1866-1882. Volume 2, p. 171 (addendum)
  • Danmarks nobility Aarbog 1939

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig zu Reventlow: The Reventlow family. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 22 (1892), pp. 1–158, here p. 84
  2. ^ F. Möller: Biographical notes on the officers, military doctors and officials of the former Schleswig-Holstein army and navy. Kiel: Universitäts-Buchhandlung 1885, p. 14
  3. ↑ Alexa Geisthövel: peculiarity and power: German nationalism 1830-1851; the case of Schleswig-Holstein. Stuttgart: Steiner 2003, zugl .: Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Diss., 1999 ISBN 3-515-08090-2 (Historical Communications / Supplement 50), p. 65
  4. ↑ See his bibliography in Alberti (lit.)
personal data
SURNAME Reventlow, Ernst Christian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reventlow, Ernst Christian Graf von (full name); Reventlow-Farve, Ernst von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowners and politicians
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1873
Place of death on Gut Farve , today the municipality of Wangels