Friedrich Heinrich von Krassow
Baron , since 1840 Count Friedrich Heinrich von Krassow (born June 12, 1775 in Stralsund ; † March 14, 1844 ibid) was a Pomeranian landowner, Swedish cavalry officer and chamberlain as well as a Prussian provincial parliament member.
Life
Friedrich Heinrich von Krassow came from the baronial line of the Rügischen noble family von Krassow . He was a son of Carl Georg von Krassow (1740–1779), Royal Swedish Court Marshal , and Jeanette Christiana von Essen (1754–1825), daughter of Chamberlain Friedrich Ulrich von Essen. Carl von Krassow was his older brother. After his father's early death, he was raised in his mother's house. In 1790 he followed his older brothers to the University of Göttingen . With these he went to Lausanne and after a trip through Switzerland and Northern Italy returned in 1792 via Vienna to Swedish Pomerania . He entered the Swedish military service, had already been made lieutenant in the Svea Guard Regiment in 1791 and was transferred to the Royal Life Guard on horseback in Stockholm in 1793 . In 1800 he was promoted to Rittmeister . When a Landwehr was set up in Swedish Pomerania, King Gustav IV Adolf promoted him to major and battalion commander in 1806. In 1807 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and took his leave in the same year.
The knighthood of the Franzburg - Barther district elected him in 1808 as their representative. In the same year he took part in the Erfurt Prince Congress with other Swedish-Pomeranian MPs . In 1809 he accompanied his uncle Hans Heinrich von Essen to peace negotiations in Paris . In the following year, as a courier, he delivered the peace treaty between France and Sweden to Stockholm. He was appointed Swedish Chamberlain and member of the Order of the Sword . During the occupation of Swedish Pomerania by French troops in 1812, he was a member of the main commission set up by the estates to regulate the demands of the occupying forces. In recognition of his services rendered there, he received the Commander's Cross of the Wasa Order in 1813 . In 1814 he went to Sweden with his family. He accompanied his uncle Hans Heinrich von Essen, who had been appointed Governor General of Norway , to Kristiania .
During the transition from Swedish Pomerania to Prussia, he was a member of a commission that represented the estates in the negotiations between Sweden and Prussia. In 1817 he received the Grand Cross of the Wasa Order from the Swedish King in Stockholm. In 1823 he was elected by the knighthood of the Franzburg-Barth district as a member of the provincial parliament of the Pomerania province . In 1827 he was made a knight of the Order of St. John . In 1839 Friedrich Wilhelm III awarded him . the Order of the Red Eagle 2nd class.
On the occasion of Friedrich Wilhelm IV's accession to the throne , he was raised to the rank of Count in Prussia in 1840. In the following year he founded a family entrepre- neurship consisting of the manors Divitz , Spoldershagen, Frauendorf, Wobbelkow, Gäthkenhagen and Martinshagen. Established as a majorate , the title of count belonged to the head of entails.
family
Friedrich Heinrich von Krassow had been married to his cousin Jaquette Gustav Freiin von Essen (* 1793), a daughter of Reinhold Jakob von Essen, since 1811. Their son was the later district president Carl Reinhold von Krassow (1812-1892).
literature
- Julius von Bohlen : History of the noble, baronial and counts of Krassow. Vol. 1, Berlin 1853, p. 136f ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1864, p. 269 ( Google books ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krassow, Friedrich Heinrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krassow, Friedrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Landowner, cavalry officer, member of the provincial parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1775 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stralsund |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1844 |
| Place of death | Stralsund |