Friedrich von Kleist (District Director)

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Friedrich von Kleist (born October 5, 1746 in Potsdam , † February 9, 1820 in Rammenau ) was the Prussian cavalry master and Saxon district director of the Querfurt district. Among other things, he was responsible for the two Saxon offices of Dahme and Jüterbog . Since July 4th, 1800 he was a knight of the Order of St. John .

Life

Baroque Rammenau Castle - owned by Friedrich von Kleist from 1794 to 1820

Friedrich von Kleist came from the old Pomeranian noble family von Kleist . He was the son of the Prussian Colonel of the Guard and Knight of the Order Pour le Mérite, Karl Wilhelm von Kleist (1707–1766), and Eva Eleonora Louise, born von Schlomach (1726–1813), and was on October 13, 1746 in the royal Court and garrison church in Potsdam baptized Protestant. His baptismal witnesses were King Friedrich II of Prussia , the two Princes Heinrich and Ferdinand of Prussia, the Duke of Holstein, Prince Ferdinand of Braunschweig, Count Rothenburg and General von Borck and von Winterfeld.

He first became a Prussian officer. On November 3, 1774 he took his leave as Rittmeister and administered one of his mother's estates. In 1783 he married Friederike Theresia Amalie Countess von Hoffmannsegg. Through the marriage he came into possession of the goods Cunnersdorf, Friedrichsfelde and Schaudorf in the Kingdom of Saxony. After the death of his father-in-law at the beginning of 1780, his son Johann Centurius inherited Reichsgraf von Hoffmannsegg in 1788 Rammenau Castle . Due to financial worries, Rammenau was unable to hold onto it, so he sold the castle to his brother-in-law Friedrich von Kleist in 1794. Rammenau kept this until 1820 and had the interior of this baroque palace changed in the classicistic style and the baroque palace garden transformed into an English landscape park.

After his mother's death in 1813, he inherited further possessions from her extensive estate in a will. Shortly before his death, he sold Rammenau back to his brother-in-law and made him his sole heir. His daughter, Auguste (1784-1858), he put on the compulsory portion.

literature

  • Royal Saxon Court and State Calendar , 1809.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As such, he followed in the footsteps of his father-in-law Ernst Friedrich von Schlomach .
  2. ^ Certificate from the field provost and consistorial councilor in Potsdam dated October 8, 1814.
  3. ↑ Description of some of the celebrations that took place at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in various localities in Lusatia , In: Neue Lausizische Monatsschrift 1801, page 241
personal data
SURNAME Kleist, Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian cavalry master and Saxon district director
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1820
Place of death Rammenau