Friedrich Otto von Dernath

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Friedrich Otto Graf von Dernath (born August 12, 1734 in Kiel , † January 18, 1805 in Wismar ) was a German canon, landowner and entrepreneur.

Life

Friedrich Otto Graf von Dernath came from the Holstein line of the Counts of Dernath and was the eldest son of Gerhard Graf von Dernath (* 1700; † 1759) and his wife Sophie Louise Charlotte, nee. von Bassewitz († 1786).

On May 23, 1753, at the first request of Prince-Bishop Friedrich August , he received a prebend in the Lübeck cathedral chapter , which Hinrich von Buchwald († 1753) had previously held. In 1762 he renounced the prebend in favor of his brother Carl Graf von Dernath (* 1750), who died as a student in Leipzig in 1766.

Gatehouse Hasselburg

In 1759 he inherited the Hasselburg family estate and had the large gatehouse built here in 1763 according to Georg Greggenhofer's designs .

From 1773 he was a partner in the Oldesloe salt works and from 1783 sole owner. Despite major investments in a graduation tower and increased production, he did not succeed in making the salt works profitable. In 1794, for example, he sold the salt works, now known as Travensalze , to Count Georg von Münster-Meinhövel in exchange for the Åkær and Dybvad goods in Jutland, which he had only acquired in 1793 . He sold Dybvad in 1798 and Åkær in 1802. His financial situation continued to deteriorate, so that in 1803 his son Magnus had to lease Hasselburg. Friedrich Otto von Dernath then moved first to Lübeck and then to Wismar, where he died.

He was married three times:

  1. from October 6, 1762 with Elisabeth Christine, a daughter of the Danish master of ceremonies Mogens von Plessen (* December 3, 1744; † April 3, 1770)
  2. from March 4, 1772 with Sophie Magdalene, a daughter of the Danish Privy Councilor Wilhelm von Holnstein (* December 26, 1739; † February 7, 1783)
  3. from February 8, 1788 Maria Augusta Theresie, a daughter of the Hessian Colonel Baron Alexander Franz von Keller (* October 16, 1748 - † March 6, 1801)

Of the children, only the son and heir of Hasselburg Magnus (1765-1828) and the daughter Sophie Lucie Charlotte (* 1764; †?), Who in 1785 married Carl Ludwig von Baudissin , survived .

In 2004 a play in Bad Oldesloe focused on the life of salt count Friedrich Otto von Dernath.

Awards

literature

  • Friedrich Bangert: History of the city and the parish of Oldesloe. Bad Oldesloe 1925
  • Wolfgang Prange : Directory of the canons. In: Ders .: Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, principality and part of the country 1160-1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , No. 372

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bad Oldesloe macht Theater , accessed on November 19, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Dernath, Friedrich Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dernath, Friedrich Otto Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German canon, landowner and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1734
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1805
Place of death Wismar