Friedrich Christian Kielman from Kielmansegg

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Friedrich Christian Kielman of Kielmansegg (1665)

Friedrich Christian Kielman von Kielmansegg (born February 1, 1639 in Schleswig , † September 25, 1714 in Hamburg ) was a diplomat in the ducal Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorfschen and royal Danish services, provost in Hamburg and canon in Lübeck .

Life

Kielman von Kielmansegg was the second son of Johann Adolph Kielmann von Kielmannsegg . In 1651 he and his two brothers enrolled at the University of Rostock . Together with his older brother Hans Heinrich and the court master Benssen, he undertook a cavalier tour in 1655 that took him to Venice, Rome and Naples. In 1652 he became canon in Lübeck, then ducal vice-court master and chamberlain to Prince-Bishop August Friedrich .

Duke Friedrich III. appointed him chamber and district councilor , and under his successor Christian Albrecht , Friedrich Christian became a close associate in the ducal government at the side of his father, for example when the University of Kiel was founded in 1665. In 1662 he accompanied Christian Albrecht on his trip to Sweden and traveled 1666 on a diplomatic mission to the electoral Brandenburg court in Kleve .

At the negotiation of the settlement between Denmark and Duke Joachim Ernst of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön because of his inheritance claims to the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst in February 1671, Kielman represented Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf as an agent. However, he did not succeed in asserting the Duke of Gottorf's inheritance claims.

In 1672 he was able to acquire Gut Ludwigsburg , where he had the colorful chamber set up. At the beginning of 1676 he was vice-president of the Holstein government and official of the ducal offices of Trittau , Reinbek and Mohrkirch . However, along with his father and brothers, he was captured by the Danes in the spring and taken to Copenhagen , where his father died in prison in July. Friedrich Christian and his brothers were released in 1677 for a large ransom.

Friedrich Christian moved to Hamburg, where he initially again enjoyed the favor of Duke Christian Albrecht, who lived there in exile. A little later, however, the brothers fell out of favor, so that they submitted to imperial and royal Danish protection. Emperor Leopold I appointed Friedrich Christian imperial advice and raised him and his brothers in 1679 in the imperial baron . In the same year Kielman acquired Gut und Schloss Wandsbek , which he sold to his son-in-law Joachim von Ahlefeldt in 1705. In 1701 he was appointed Danish privy councilor by King Christian V. In 1705 he became senior of the cathedral chapter in Lübeck. In the election of bishops after the death of Prince-Bishop August Friedrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf in 1705, which was accompanied by a military conflict and at Christmas 1705 by the siege and occupation of Eutin Castle by the Danes, the Kielmansegg brothers belonged to the ultimately defeated party in the Chapter that supported the Danish coadjutor , Prince Carl of Denmark (born October 26, 1680 - † August 8, 1729), a younger brother of the Danish King Frederick IV . However, through diplomatic intervention by the English Queen Anne and the States General and after the assurance of a pension, the latter was forced to give up his claim, so that Christian August von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, the candidate of the Godfathers and Sweden- allied party , could succeed. The dispute was finally settled only after the conclusion of the Altranstädter Convention , when Christian August was enfeoffed with the Lübeck Monastery by the Emperor in 1709 .

In the last years of his life he engaged in scholarly studies and as the author of numerous writings. He suffered badly from Podagra ( gout ) and died of it in 1714. He was buried in the family grave chapel at Hamburg Cathedral . After being reburied two times, his grave is now in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery department .

family

Friedrich Christian Freiherr von Kielmansegg , collective grave slab cathedral chapter and nobility ,
Ohlsdorf cemetery

Since 1666 he was married to Marie Elisabeth (* 1643; † 23 September 1709), a daughter of the royal Danish field marshal Nikolaus von Ahlefeld on Gelting and Fresenhagen and his wife Anna Hedwig, born. from Rantzau . The couple had eleven children:

  • Christian August (born April 19, 1667; † 1734), died of mental derangement on Gut Muggesfelde ( Nehms )
  • Johann Adolph (born September 30, 1668; † 1717), court official in Hanover and London, married to Sophia Charlotte von Platen-Hallermund
  • Nikolaus Friedrich (born June 25, 1671; † June 17, 1701), Braunschweig-Lüneburg officer
  • Friederike Marie (born January 23, 1673; † 1729), married to Joachim von Ahlefeldt (1670–1744), heir of Gut Westensee
  • Hedwig Margarethe (born July 19, 1674 - † October 9, 1753), married to Konrad von Jessen (1664–1704)
  • Marie Elisabeth (September 13, 1675 - September 16, 1676)
  • Christian (December 28, 1676 - December 1, 1677)
  • Christian Friedrich (born January 30, 1678; † November 1680)
  • Hans Heinrich (born September 13, 1679; † 1724)
  • Friedrich Christian (born November 5, 1680 - † September 21, 1681)
  • Marie Elisabeth (October 13, 1681 - January 31, 1683)

Library

Friedrich Christian Kielman von Kielmannsegg left behind a library of over 50,000 volumes, the foundation of which was laid by his father, but which he himself had greatly enlarged. The library was inherited by his son Johann Adolph and was sold from 1718 after his early death in 1717. A printed four-volume catalog was also published. According to research by the Swedish librarian Otto Walde, books from it can now be found in Hamburg, in Hanover and Göttingen as well as in the Royal Library in Copenhagen and the University Library in Oslo . Most of his books have his initials FCKvK or FCBdK at the bottom of the title page .

literature

Estate catalog

  • Bibliothecae Kielmans-Eggianae Pars 1-4 , 4 volumes, Christian Liebezeit, Hamburg 1718–1721

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Christian Kielman von Kielmansegg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Peter von Kobbe : Schleswig-Holstein history from the death of Duke Christian Albrecht to the death of King Christian VII (1694 to 1808). Altona: Hammerich 1834, p. 42
  3. ^ Eduard Vehse: History of the small German courts since the Reformation. Part 14: The spiritual courts , Volume 4, Hamburg: Hoffmann & Campe 1860, p. 85
  4. ↑ CR Rasmussen, E. Imberger, D. Lohmeier, I. Mommsen: The princes of the country - dukes and counts of Schleswig-Holstein and Lauenburg . Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2008., p. 195.
  5. ^ Ohlsdorf cemetery
  6. ^ Otto Walde: Research on the history of books and libraries in foreign libraries. In: Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och biblioteksväsen 17 (1930), pp. 75–148, p. 91; Otto Walde in the Swedish Wikipedia


personal data
SURNAME Kielmansegg, Friedrich Christian Kielman from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Diplomat in ducal Holstein-Gottorf and royal Danish services, provost in Hamburg and canon in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1639
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1714
Place of death Hamburg