Friedrich Wilhelm von Danckelmann

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Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Danckelmann (* 1682 in Minden ; † June 12, 1746 ) was a Prussian state and war minister.

Life

Origin and family

Friedrich Wilhelm was a member of the barons von Dankelmann . His parents were the Secret Council , envoy and chancellor of the Principality of Minden Wilhelm Heinrich von Danckelmann (1654–1729) and Anna Julia von Derenthal. He married Hedwig Charlotte Freiin von Mardefeld († 1766). The marriage resulted in three daughters and two sons, one of whom died young.

Career

Danckelmann was enrolled at the University of Frankfurt in 1703 and is named there as a respondent in 1706, ibid. Alös 1706 .

began his legal career in 1722 as an assessor at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar . In 1736 he was a judge in Lingen . He was also the Swedish and Hesse-Kassel Privy Council, government and consitorial president.

Danckelmann entered Prussian service in 1744 and was electoral ambassador for the emperor election of Franz I in 1745. On January 15, 1746 he was promoted to the real secret minister of state and war, where he was given responsibility for judicial, border and imperial matters in the foreign department.

literature

  • Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The royal Prussian and electoral Brandenburg real secret Council of State on its 200-year foundation day January 5, 1805 , Berlin 1805, p. 423, no. 197.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses , 4th year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1854, pp. 101-102.
  2. ↑ Friherrliga ÄT Marderfelt nr 73 on adelsvapen.com (= Gustaf Elgenstierna : Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor , Stockholm 1925–1936; Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Danckelmann, Friedrich Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danckelmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von (full name with title)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Minister of State
DATE OF BIRTH 1682
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1746