Ewald Joachim von Kleist

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Ewald Joachim von Kleist (* 1657 in Vietzow ; † 1716 ibid ) was a Pomeranian district administrator and diplomat in the service of Kurbrandenburg .

Life

origin

Ewald von Kleist Joachim came from the influential Pomeranian dynasty of Kleist , which since the 17th century over Pomerania developed also one of the leading Prussian officers and officials families until the 20th century always high positions in the administration and army held . He was the second son of Ewald Georg von Kleist († 1681), heir to Vietzow and Drenow , and Maria Agnisa von Massow († July 21, 1675).

Career

Ewald Joachim von Kleist studied law at the University of Frankfurt an der Oder and the University of Jena in order to acquire the prerequisites for higher administrative service there. After completing his studies, he entered the Pomeranian administrative service and remained in it, even though he inherited the Vietzow and Wutzow estates when his father died in 1681 . In 1689 he belonged to the Brandenburg Elector Friedrich III. Commission set up in his capacity as Duke of Pomerania to determine the quotas of horse services and feudal horses to be provided by the Kleist family . In 1691 the elector appointed him District Administrator for the Belgarder Kreis . During this time there were with Sweden , which owned Western Pomerania , different views about the border and the sovereignty over the duchy. The delegation of negotiations on the disputed questions included Ewald Joachim von Kleist on the Brandenburg-Pomeranian side, who for the Pomeranian estates on November 1, 1699 their reversals to King Karl XII. signed by Sweden after the eventual homage granted to him by Brandenburg had been paid on October 5 for the Neumark and on October 9, 1699 for Western Pomerania . The Swedish-Brandenburg border disputes between Swedish-Western Pomerania and Western Pomerania after the main settlement in Stockholm of December 2, 1698 and the Berlin subsidiary trial of February 13, 1698 were finally settled.

Ewald Joachim von Kleist kept his district office for over 20 years and ran it with loyalty and conscientiousness. The fact that he was named the head of the von Kleist tribe in a document in 1706 also testifies to his reputation .

Over the years, the district administrator acquired significant real estate. In 1690 he bought Gut Klein-Krössin in addition to the inherited goods Vietzow and Wutzow, in 1708 the so-called Zadtkowschen Holzgrund with Vorwerk and in 1713 the Gut Warnin . In addition, he inherited the Muttrin estate from his brother Rüdiger in 1712 . He then died in 1716 and was buried in Vietzow.

family

He was married to Hedwig Magdalena von Blanckenburg since November 5, 1690 , with whom he had four sons and seven daughters.

Ewald Joachim's second son was Ewald Georg (Jürgen) von Kleist (1700–1748), who was famous as a scientist and who was the inventor of Kleist's bottle , also known as the Leiden bottle , who was also a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Ewald Joachim's eldest daughter Maria Agnisa married the commissioner and later district administrator Hans Joachim von Kleist .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gustav Kratz : The history of the von Kleist family , Volume III, No. 176, p. 217.
  2. ^ Gustav Kratz: The history of the von Kleist sex , Volume III, p. 21.
  3. ^ Gustav Kratz: The history of the von Kleist sex , Volume III, p. 218.
  4. ^ Christian Wilhelm Haken : History of the City of Cöslin , Lemgo 1765, p. 129 .
  5. ↑ Gustav Kratz: The history of the von Kleist family , Volume III, No. 350, p. 220.
personal data
SURNAME Kleist, Ewald Joachim von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pomeranian district administrator and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1657
PLACE OF BIRTH Vietzow
DATE OF DEATH 1716
Place of death Vietzow