Eugene von Reventlow

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Eugen Reventlow as legation secretary in St. Petersburg in the mid-1820s

Eugen Graf von Reventlow (born November 27, 1798 in Copenhagen , † November 16, 1885 in Altenhof ) was a German landowner and Danish diplomat.

Life

Gottfried, Eugen, Theodor von Reventlow

Eugen von Reventlow came from the Altenhof family of the Schleswig-Holstein nobility family ( Equites Originarii ) Reventlow and was the eldest son of Cay Friedrich von Reventlow from his second marriage to Emilie Louise Henriette Countess von Bernstorff (* October 7, 1776 in Copenhagen; † 26 November 1855 in Preetz), daughter of the Danish Minister of State Andreas Peter von Bernstorff . Gottfried von Reventlow and Theodor von Reventlow on Jersbek were his younger brothers.

After his father left the Danish civil service, he grew up on Altenhof and in Kiel from 1802. In 1816 he began studying law at Christian Albrechts University .

After completing his triennium , he entered the Danish diplomatic service in 1819 and became legation secretary , first with his uncle Fritz von Reventlow in Berlin , then in 1823 in Saint Petersburg . In 1828 he succeeded his uncle in Berlin. In the 1820s, the Berlin legation was firmly in the hands of the family. Eugen von Reventlow's successor as secretary in 1823 was his cousin Heinrich von Reventlow , and at the same time his brother Ernst Christian von Reventlow (later on Gut Farve ) was attaché to the embassy.

With the death of his father in 1834 he inherited Altenhof with Aschau and Glasau, and in 1839 he acquired Gut Hoffnungsthal ( Goosefeld ), but remained an envoy in Berlin.

In protest against the open letter of July 8, 1846, with which the Danish King Christian VIII tried to repeal the order of succession and thus solve the Schleswig-Holstein question , he resigned from the Danish civil service.

In 1847, as part of the ongoing deputation of the Schleswig-Holstein knighthood, he signed a petition for the preservation of state rights to the king, he was elected as a deputy for noble and larger estates in the Schleswig State Assembly and was a member of the United States Assembly in 1848 . In the following years he took a pro-Prussian stance and in the German-Danish War of 1864 he belonged to the group of Schleswig-Holstein nobles who spoke out in favor of the annexation of the duchies by Prussia. Together with Carl von Scheel-Plessen , he initiated the address of 19 members of the knighthood to Otto von Bismarck on January 23, 1866. In the course of the negotiations he succeeded in handing over his manor district Glasau from the Prussian planned handover with the office of Ahrensbök to the principality To take out Lübeck .

After Schleswig-Holstein was incorporated into Prussia, von Reventlow became a member of the Prussian mansion for life on November 16, 1867 by personal appointment .

He was married twice, first to his cousin Clara Charlotte Gerhardine (* April 22, 1811; † October 13, 1832), a daughter of Christian Günther von Bernstorff . In his second marriage he married Elisabeth, geb. Countess von Voss (born August 3, 1812 - † January 6, 1876). Both marriages remained childless. Gut Altenhof came by inheritance to his great-nephew Theodor Graf von Reventlow (1870–1938).

He was buried in the Sarau church , over which he held the church patronage as landlord of Glasau and which he had renovated in 1865.

Awards

Fonts

Digital copy , Bavarian State Library

literature

  • Eugene von Reventlow . In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Volume 7, p. 224
  • Peter Vedel: Reventlow, Eugen . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 14 : Resen – Saxtrup . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1900, p. 53-54 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  • Danmarks Adels Aarbog , 1893, p. 383.
  • Journal of the Society for the History of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg , XXII, 80 f.
  • Bussche-Kessell: Countess Elise v. Bernstorff , II, 3 f. 151 167, 201, 238.

Web links

Commons : Eugen von Reventlow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hubertus Neuschäffer: Castles and mansions in South Holstein. Würzburg: Weidlich 1984 ISBN 3-8035-1238-7 , p. 91
personal data
SURNAME Reventlow, Eugen von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowner and Danish diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1885
Place of death Altenhof