Fabian Abraham of Braxein

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Fabian Abraham von Braxein (born July 29, 1722 in Banners near Liebstadt i. Ostpr. , Mohrungen district ; † March 12, 1798 in Tharau , Prussian Eylau district ) was a Prussian state and war minister and a member of the Royal Prussian government.

Life

origin

Fabian Abraham von Braxein was the son of the Prussian Captain Friedrich Wilhelm von Braxein (1687–1751) on Banners and the Euphrosine Beate von der Groeben († 1754), a daughter of the Polish major Johann Friedrich von der Groeben on Karschau and niece of Otto Friedrich from the Groeben .

Career

In April 1763 Braxein was appointed Minister of the Budget and War and President of the Pupil College in Königsberg i. Pr. Appointed. In addition, from July 1763 he was also President of the Königsberg Tribunal . He was among other hereditary lord of the manors Tharaw and Wernsdorf. Braxein owned one of the largest private libraries in East Prussia with over 10,000 volumes , which he inherited from his uncle Wilhelm Ludwig von der Groeben . On his Tharaue estates he founded seven new farms by draining and clearing, including Braxeinswalde and Braxeinshof. In 1790 he was the first East Prussian landowner to lift his peasants' subjection to inheritance .

family

On May 17, 1755 von Braxein married Albertine Louise von Kreytzen (1736-1817), daughter of Achatz Ernst von Kreytzen auf Silginnen and Maria Barbara Countess Finck von Finckenstein .

literature

  • Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 130–131 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 130 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Georg Christoph Hamberger : The learned Teutschland or Lexicon of the German writers living now , Volume 1, p. 419. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  3. ↑ August Wilhelm Bernhardt von Uechtritz : Diplomatic messages regarding noble families , Volume 3, Leipzig 1792, p. 51
  4. ↑ August Wilhelm Bernhardt von Uechtritz : Diplomatic messages regarding noble families , Volume 3, Leipzig 1792, pp. 55–56
  5. ^ Friedrich Mager : The forest in Old Prussia as an economic area , Volume 1, Böhlau, Cologne 1960, p. 40
  6. ↑ Horst Hüttenbach: The old church was a connecting element in Tharau . In: Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung - Das Ostpreußenblatt of April 22, 2006, p. 15
  7. ↑ August Wilhelm Bernhardt von Uechtritz : Diplomatic messages regarding noble families , Volume 3, Leipzig 1792, p. 49
personal data
SURNAME Braxein, Fabian Abraham from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian state and war minister and member of the Royal Prussian government
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Banners at Liebstadt i. Ostpr. , District of Mohrungen
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1798
Place of death Tharau , Prussian Eylau district