Friedrich von Eyben (1770–1825)

Friedrich von Eyben , from 1817 Count von Eyben (born April 24, 1770 in Meiningen , † November 6, 1825 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Mecklenburg landowner and diplomat in the Danish service.

life and work

Friedrich von Eyben came from a family of lawyers and diplomats. His father Adolf Gottlieb von Eyben was Chancellor in Glückstadt and the Danish envoy in Hamburg before he retired to the Lütgenhof estate, inherited from his uncle Friedrich von Eyben (1699–1787) .

Like his father, Friedrich entered the Danish service. He was first an envoy to the Rastatt Congress and to the Danish embassy to the Reichstag in Regensburg . In 1799 he was part of the commission that investigated the murder of the Rastatt ambassadors , and handed the report of the commission to Archduke Karl . After the dissolution of the Old Kingdom in 1806, Eyben was appointed envoy to the Prussian court in Berlin (until 1816) and from 1815 to the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main , where he represented the King of Denmark in his capacity as Duke of Holstein and Lauenburg .

In 1815 he had to sell his goods in the Klützer Winkel and acquired the much smaller Gut Ruhethal near Wittenburg (now part of Toddin ).

Since 1803 he was married to Dorothea Caroline Elisabeth von Veltheim (1776-1811). The couple had a son Fritz (1805-1889), who later became Oberlanddrost in Schönberg (Mecklenburg) , and a daughter, Adelheid Henriette Louise Caroline (1808-1882), who later married Friedrich Christian Pechlin von Löwenbach , her father's successor Envoy in Frankfurt and then governor of the Duchy of Lauenburg. On July 4th, 1808, Adelheid was entered under the number 867 in the registered book of the Dobbertin Monastery for acceptance as a conventual in the local aristocratic women's monastery .

Friedrich von Eyben's private archive (1791–1825) is now kept in the Imperial Archives in Copenhagen .

P. Vedel: v. Eyben, Frederik . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 4 : Clemens – Eynden . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1890, p. 644-645 (Danish, runeberg.org ).

predecessor	Office	successor
	Danish envoy to Prussia 1808–1815	Christian Günther von Bernstorff
Office newly created	Danish envoy to the German Confederation 1816–1825	Friedrich Christian Ferdinand von Pechlin

personal data
SURNAME	Eyben, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Eyben, Count Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and diplomat in the Danish service
DATE OF BIRTH	April 24, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH	Meiningen
DATE OF DEATH	November 6, 1825
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main