Friedrich Adolph Gottlieb von Eyben

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Friedrich Adolph Gottlieb Graf von Eyben also Fritz Graf von Eyben (born May 28, 1805 in Regensburg ; † September 1, 1889 in Schönberg (Mecklenburg) ) was a Mecklenburg administrative and court official.

Life

Fritz von Eyben was the only son of the Mecklenburg landowner and royal Danish ambassador to the Prussian court in Berlin (until 1816) and from 1815 to the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main Friedrich von Eyben (1770-1825) and his wife Dorothea Caroline Elisabeth born. von Veltheim (1776–1811). His father was raised to the rank of Danish liege count in 1817 . After attending the Joachimthalschen Gymnasium in Berlin, he studied in Göttingen and from November 1, 1826 in Kiel, where he met his future wife.

In 1830 he acquired the small Ruhetal farm near Wittenburg , which his father had already acquired in 1815, as well as the allodial property Setzin and thus became eligible for the state parliament in Mecklenburg . In 1840 he became a royal Danish and also Mecklenburg-Strelitzscher chamberlain . In 1842 he was appointed district administrator for the Duchy of Schwerin. At the end of 1853 he sold Setzin to the bailiff of Cismar , Heinrich Ernst August Ferdinand von Döring (1805-1880), the son of Ernst August von Döring . Thereupon he was released from his office as district administrator by the Grand Duke in March 1854, since his ability to state parliament was linked to the possession of Setzin. At the end of 1854 he also sold Ruhetal to Döring.

At Easter 1854 he joined as a top Landdrost of the enclave to Mecklenburg-Strelitz belonging Principality Ratzeburg with the official seat in Schonberg in the service of this Grand Duchy. During his tenure as head of the district bailiff in Schönberg, the state treaty and the corresponding agreements with the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck for the construction of the Lübeck – Bad Kleinen railway line , which von Eyben as representative of Mecklenburg-Strelitz together with the head of the judicial office of the bailiff Carl Ludwig , fall von Oertzen negotiated and then signed for the country. He represented the grand ducal house on several diplomatic missions. In 1860 he was commissioned to report the death of Grand Duke Georg and the assumption of government of Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm II to Tsar Alexander II , who was then in Warsaw . When paying homage to the estates of the Duchy of Lauenburg on September 26, 1865 in Ratzeburg , he welcomed their new sovereign, the Prussian King Wilhelm, on behalf of the Grand Duke, who also owned the Ratzeburg cathedral courtyard .

family

In 1830 or 1831 he married Adolphine Caroline Clementine Marie Schubert (1803–1855), who was married to Carl August Heinrich Zwicker , the Hanoverian poet lawyer and titular bailiff in Leer . Eyben adopted the daughter from this first marriage Julia Dorothea Zwicker (1824–1886); she married Klaus von Reden (1809-1880) in 1843 . The two had a daughter, Countess Agnes Maria (1839–1899), who remained unmarried and received a pension from the Dobbertin monastery as a grand ducal pensioner , and their son, Adolf Friedrich Graf von Eyben (* 1834), the officer in the grand ducal Mecklenburg-Schweriner Dragoon Regiment was. The latter died on May 9, 1878 on a trip to Assiut in Egypt. With these two children, the count's branch of those of Eyben died out.

His only sister Adelheid Henriette Louise Caroline von Eyben (1808–1882) married the Danish diplomat Friedrich Christian Ferdinand von Pechlin ; after his death she became chief steward of the Hereditary Princess Caroline of Denmark .

Awards

literature

  • HR Hiort-Lorenzen, Anders Thiset : von Eyben. In: Danmarks Adels Aarbog. 22nd year 1905, pp. 116–124 (pp. 119 ff.)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the obituary in the weekly advertisements for the Principality of Ratzeburg on September 3, 1889 ; the funeral took place in Schönberg on September 6, 1889, report in the weekly advertisements for the Principality of Ratzeburg on September 10, 1889 ; the statement August 5, which can also be found in the literature , is obviously incorrect.
  2. ^ Franz Gundlach: The album of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel 1665-1865. No. 8971 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin. 1854, p. 76.
  4. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin. 1854, p. 252.
  5. Government sheet for Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1868, pp 540-544; Collection of the Lübeck Ordinances and Announcements 36 (1869), pp. 35–39.
  6. ^ NPZ: Obituary in: Weekly advertisements for the Principality of Ratzeburg. September 20, 1889, p. 2.
  7. Eyben. In: J. Perthes (Hrsg.): Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the German count's houses  - Internet Archive 1891, p. 303.
  8. ^ New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 5, pp. 178-179.
  9. ^ According to government gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin. 1866, p. 28.
  10. Court and State Manual of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy for the year 1857. P. 73.
  11. Großherzoglich Mecklenburg-Strelitzischer official Anzeiger 1869, p. 252.
  12. ^ Royal Prussian State Gazette. 1865, p. 2665.