Ernst von Hedemann

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Ernst Friedrich von Hedemann (* 10. October 1800 in Hannover ; † 14. February 1864 in Celle ) was a Hanoverian Major General and Marshal until 1862 because of embezzlement and misappropriation was deposed and convicted.

Life

Ernst von Hedemann came from the Hanoverian branch of the von Hedemann family and was the youngest son of Major General Hartwig Johann Christoph von Hedemann and his first wife Helene Friederike Luise Ludmilla, née. von Mutio (born May 12, 1765 in Stade , † January 21, 1804 in Hanover ). In his second marriage, his father married Sophie Wilhelmine von Ahlefeldt in Celle in 1804 (born February 12, 1769 in Ratzeburg , † March 13, 1846 in Hanover), daughter of General Siegfried Ernst von Ahlefeldt .

In 1816 he appeared as a cornet in the Hanover body - Cuirassier regiment and became 1817 second lieutenant . It was not until 1831 that he was promoted to Prime Lieutenant and in 1832 to Rittmeister . In 1834 he was aggregated to the Hanoverian Garde du Corps . In 1838 he came to the court in Hanover as adjutant to the crown prince. Major since 1848 , he was appointed castle captain in 1852. In the Oberhofmarschallamt under Oberhofmarschall Ernst von Malortie , he took over the position of travel marshal for the court of King George V. Further promotions were made in 1853 to lieutenant colonel , in 1857 to colonel and in 1860 to major general.

In 1862 he took leave of absence for health reasons. Shortly afterwards, considerable embezzlement by Hedemann to the detriment of the royal hand and box treasury was discovered. The amount he had gained through embezzlement, fraud and forgery was estimated at around 135,000 thalers . They served to cover his immense gambling debts . He initially fled north, breaking his word of honor not to leave the residence, but was picked up in Blankenese . A suicide attempt in which he threw himself into the Elbe failed. He was returned to Hanover, dishonorably discharged from the court service, war law to 25 years in prison sentenced in March 1863 in the prison Celle brought, where he died in early 1864th

He was married to Caroline, b. Eichhorn (born December 28, 1817 in Göttingen , † March 25, 1903 in Hameln ), daughter of the legal scholar and Prussian State Councilor Karl Friedrich Eichhorn . The couple had two daughters and three sons. The son Ernst Adolph Otto von Hedemann (* 1846) fell as a Hanoverian lieutenant in 1866 in the battle of Langensalza ; his son Georg Ernst August (* 1852) was seriously wounded as a Prussian lieutenant in 1870 in the battle of Mars-la-Tour and died shortly afterwards on September 6, 1870.

Awards

All orders were stripped from him in 1863 as a result of his conviction.

literature

  • Danmarks adels aarbog 15 (1898), p. 165
  • Wilhelm Rothert : Hedemann, Ernst in: Allgemeine Hannoversche Biographie , second volume: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 , Sponholtz, Hanover 1914, p. 541
  • Cornelia Roolfs: The Hanoverian court from 1814 to 1866: court and court society. (= Sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony 124). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2005, esp.p. 82ff

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 19, 1862
  2. ↑ Mentioned in the short biography by Wilhelm Rothert. Files as part of the estate in the Schleswig-Holstein State Archives .
  3. ^ W. von Hassell : History of the Kingdom of Hanover. Volume 1: From 1849 to 1862. Leipzig: Heinsius 1899, p. 491
  4. ^ Johann Friedrich von Schulte : Karl Friedrich Eichhorn. His life and work according to his records, letters, communications from relatives, writings. Enke, Stuttgart 188, p. 94
  5. ^ Awards and their order according to the Court and State Manual for the Kingdom of Hanover 1860, p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Hedemann, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hedemann, Ernst Friedrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanover major general and court marshal
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1864
Place of death Celle