Friedrich August von Toren

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Friedrich August von Qualen (born May 23, 1747 , † March 20, 1805 in Rostock ) was landlord on Westensee and Eschelsmark in Schleswig-Holstein as well as on Brunsdorf and Kanneberg near Marlow in Mecklenburg and a royal Danish district administrator.

Life

Friedrich August von Qualen was the son of the royal Danish lieutenant colonel Johann Rudolf von Qualen (1714–1783) from the ancient Holstein family Qualen and Rebecca Elisabeth (1710–1779), née. from Kuhlmann.

After military training in the royal Danish body regiment Dragoons , he studied law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel in 1764 and moved to the University of Jena in 1767 . Through his marriage to Magdalena Wilhelmina Karoline von Rumohr on March 6, 1770, who inherited the Westensee estate from her half-brother Otto von Rumohr, who drowned in 1768, Qualen became the lord of the manor and patron saint of Westensee and in the same year King Christian VII became the district administrator called.

After the resignation of the Danish foreign minister and director of the German chancellery Andreas Peter von Bernstorff and the seizure of power by Ove Høegh-Guldberg for the insane king in 1780, troubled times began in Copenhagen in which Qualen decided to sell his Westensee estate to Georg Friedrich Pauly in 1783, Selling the father of the administrative lawyer Friedrich Seestern-Pauly and giving up the district office. In 1786 he acquired Gut Eschelsmark. But already in 1792 he finally turned his back on the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, Gut Eschelsmark was parceled out and Qualen settled in Mecklenburg, where he lived as heir on Brunsdorf and Kanneberg until his death in 1805.

family

His first marriage to Magdalena von Rumohr had two sons: Johann Detlev (1775–1824), who became lieutenant colonel and chief of the 1st Danish battalion and with the younger sister of Friedrich Seestern-Pauly, Juliane Auguste von Seestern-Pauly (1793– 1880) was married, and the Danish minister and envoy Rudolf Anton Ludwig von Qualen (1778–1830). However, Friedrich's marriage was divorced in 1794 and in the same year he married Elisabeth von Freiburg, from whom his daughter Margarethe emerged in 1803.

See also: torments (noble family)

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SURNAME Qualen, Friedrich August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Torment, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Holstein District Administrator
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1747
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1805
Place of death Rostock