Ernst to Rantzau

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Reichsgraf Ernst zu Rantzau (born March 28, 1802 in Oppendorf , † June 17, 1862 in Wiesbaden ) was a German administrative lawyer in the Danish service.

Life

Ernst Rantzau, child portrait by Friedrich Carl Gröger 1808

Ernst zu Rantzau came from the house of Oppendorf of the Schleswig-Holstein Equites Originarii family of Rantzau . He was a son of the Oberpräsident von Kiel and curator of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Christian Detlev Karl zu Rantzau and his wife Charlotte Ernestine, geb. Freiin Diede zum Fürstenstein . Otto von Rantzau was his youngest brother. Friedrich Carl Gröger created a child portrait of Ernst zu Rantzau in 1808.

From 1818 he studied law at the University of Kiel. In the winter semester of 1820, he moved to the University of Göttingen together with the brothers Theodor von Reventlow and Gottfried von Reventlow . Here he was involved as a cartel holder and planned second in the duel between Heinrich Heine and Wilhelm Wibel , which was demanded but then did not take place . For his participation in the preparations for the duel, he received a sentence of eight days in jail from the university court .

In 1822 he passed his legal exam before the Holstein court in Glückstadt . He entered the service of the Danish government of the duchies of Schleswig , Holstein and Lauenburg . In 1823 he began as an auscultant at the higher court in Schleswig. In 1826 he received the votum consultativum and in 1829 became district administrator in the government and court in Schleswig.

In 1830 he was appointed bailiff of Sønderborg Amt and Nordborg Amt . From 1843 he was bailiff for the offices in Plön and Ahrensbök and from 1859 bailiff for the offices in Reinbek , Trittau and Tremsbüttel and director of the royal estates in Wandsbek and Wellingsbüttel .

Agnes Rantzau, child portrait by Friedrich Carl Gröger 1806

Since February 17, 1823 he was married to his cousin Agnes Louise Ferdinandine Countess Rantzau (* January 28, 1803 - March 6, 1884), a daughter of Carl Emil zu Rantzau and Emilie Hedwig Caroline, a daughter of Andreas Peter von Bernstorff (1777-1811). He was both cousin and brother-in-law of Christian zu Rantzau (governor)

The couple had ten children: six sons, Otto (1827–1885), Andreas (1832–1885), Christian (1836–1871), Hermann (1840–1872), father of Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau , Carl (1841–1870 ) and Cuno (1843–) and four daughters Elise (1829–), Emilie (1834–1905), married to Ludwig Graf zu Reventlow , Mathilde (1838–) and Fanny (1840–).

He was Fanny Reventlow 's maternal grandfather .

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Heinrich Oesterley: History of the University of Göttingen in the period from 1820 to its first secular celebration in 1837. Göttingen 1838, p. 44
  2. ^ Protocols of the university court proceedings printed in Die Spinnstube , Sunday supplement of the Göttinger Zeitung No. 47 of November 29, 1925; also reproduced in Hans-Heinrich Himme: Key contributions to the history of Georgia Augusta in Göttingen , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen and Zurich 1987, Fig. 140
  3. ^ Gustav Karpeles : Biography , in: Heinrich Heine's all works. Volume 1, Hamburg: Hoffmann & Campe 1884, p. 246
personal data
SURNAME Rantzau, seriously too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer in the Danish service
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Oppendorf
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1862
Place of death Wiesbaden