Friedrich Christian von Wedderkop

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Friedrich Christian von Wedderkop , formerly also Wedderkopp , (born September 11, 1697 in Tremsbüttel ; † June 12, 1756 in Hamburg ) was a Holstein-Gottorf minister , postmaster general , bailiff of Tremsbüttel, cathedral dean of Lübeck and knight of the Alexander Nevsky Order .

Life

He was the son of Magnus von Wedderkop and his wife Margaretha Elisabeth von Pincier († 1731). Together with Benedikt von Ahlefeldt , Count Otto Karl von Kallenberg, Cyrill Johnsson von Wich (whose brother-in-law he became after von Wich's marriage to Anna Catharina von Wedderkop) and Jean Henri Desmercières , von Wedderkop took over the management and leasing of the from Easter 1722 for six years retrospectively Hamburg Opera am Gänsemarkt, previously directed by the Mecklenburg court councilor Johann Georg Gumprecht . However, at Easter 1724 von Wedderkop resigned from this office.

In 1742 the Lübeck Cathedral Chapter elected him as the successor to the late Hans von Thienen as dean of the cathedral .

Von Wedderkop gave the church clock to the Bargteheide church together with his brother, the royal Danish district administrator Gottfried von Wedderkop , and the church lawyer Joachim Filter .

Wedderkop Chapel in Lübeck Cathedral

In 1748 he initiated the design of the Wedderkop Chapel in Lübeck Cathedral . A sandstone slab with a Latin inscription on the east wall of the chapel reminds us that he put "this monument" on his parents.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Friedrich Jugler's , Contributions to the legal biography or more precise literary and critical reports on the life and writings of deceased legal scholars, including statesmen: who have made themselves famous in Europe, Volume 2, Leipzig 1777, p. 198.
  2. ^ Feodor von Wehl : Hamburgs literary life in the eighteenth century . Leipzig 1856, p. 46.
  3. ↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, p. 74 ff. (P. 76) Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
personal data
SURNAME Wedderkop, Friedrich Christian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wedderkopp, Friedrich Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION holstein-gottorfischer minister, postmaster general, bailiff of Tremsbüttel, opera director and knight of the Alexandrian order
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1697
PLACE OF BIRTH Tremsbüttel
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1756
Place of death Hamburg