Georg Christoph von Lüdinghausen-Wolff

Family coat of arms of those von Lüdinghausen called Wolff

Georg Christoph von Lüdinghausen-Wolff

Georg Christoph von Lüdinghausen-Wolff (also Georg Christoph von Lüdinghausen called Wolff or Lüdinghausen Wolff ; * August 4, 1751 in Sonnaxt , Courland ; † May 10, 1807 in Jungfernhof , Estonia ) was the last chancellor of the Duchy of Courland and Semgallia , the first Chancellor of the Courland Governorate and his land steward .

Career

Georg Christoph (Junior) came from the German-Baltic noble family of the von Lüdinghausen-Wolff . He was first taught on the domestic estate and then attended the city ​​school in Mitau , which was headed by Professor Matthias Friedrich Watson (1732-1805). After finishing school, he joined the rank of flags Junkers 1768 in the Imperial Russian army one. In 1774 he was a participant in the Russo-Turkish War , after which he left the Imperial-Russian armed forces with the rank of major . A longer study trip followed , which took him to Poland, Germany, France and England.

After his return he was Kurland deputy to several state parliaments, 1790-1791 state delegate to the Reichstag in Warsaw and 1791 in Berlin . He was an opponent of the citizens' union. From 1793 to 1794 he was appointed country messenger marshal. As the last ducal country messenger marshal, he gave a speech at the end of the Relazionslandtag ( Relation ) on February 5, 1794, with which he resigned the office of country messenger marshal. In 1794/95 he became the last chancellor in the Duchy of Courland and Zemgale and from 1795/96 the first chancellor of the Governorate of Courland, one of the three Russian Baltic Governments in the Baltic States. He accompanied Duke Peter von Biron (1724-1800) in 1795 to his abdication in Saint Petersburg and in 1797 was appointed Russian privy councilor. From 1797 he was authorized representative of the Courland and Pilch knights and led the delegation to the coronation ceremonies of Tsar Paul I in Moscow . From 1797 to 1801 he was reappointed Chancellor of Courland and was then Chief of Justice of the Courland High Court in Mitau until 1807, in which office he was decorated with the Russian Order of St. Anne .

He was a landowner and from 1806 entails of Jungfernhof and Sonnaxt, Neu-Bergfried in Kurland, Brunowischek and Poniemon in Lithuania . At his instigation, a school and auditorium was built in Sonnaxt .

family

His parents were Georg Christoph von Lüdinghausen-Wolff (1726–1770) and Anna Gertrude geb. von Witten (1730–1794). Georg Christoph Jr. married Wilhelmine von Witten from Domnau in Prussia in Königsberg in 1781 . They had two sons and a daughter:

• Christoph Wilhelm Ludwig von Lüdinghausen-Wolff (* March 18, 1783; † October 23, 1822), married to Emilia von Zoege von Manteuffel (* 1796), was the heir to the Jungfernhof in Courland. He enjoyed his upbringing and schooling in the private sphere of his grandparents at Domnau Castle in Prussia. He then worked in Saint Petersburg at the Abbé Nicolle's institute until 1802 and then went to Paris as a translator and interpreter at the Imperial Russian legation. He returned to Courland in 1804, became a knight of the Order of Malta and lived as a private citizen for a while. He was then authorized representative of the head of team and with the Order of St. Vladimir decorated . In 1817 he was appointed to the council of the Courland government and in 1818 he was appointed college assessor. While still on his deathbed , he converted to the Roman Catholic faith.
• Anna Ludowika (1788–1824), married to Wincenty Raczynski (1771–1857)
• Leopold Baron von Lüdenhausen (1792–1863), married to Ida Eleonora von Buddenbrock (1795–1873)

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Georg Christoph von Lüdinghausen-Wolff. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Johann Friedrich von Recke, Theodor Beise and Karl Eduard Napiersky, General writers and learned lexicon of the provinces of Livonia, Volume 4, Verlag JF Steffenhagen und sohn., 1832, original from Princeton University, digitized May 20, 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sunākste (sun ax). On: Tournet.LV www.tournet.lv
2. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Matthias Friedrich Watson. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
3. ↑ "... The supporters of the citizens' union demanded expansion of the previous rights of the citizenship and participation in the political rights, which until now had only been possessed and exercised by the nobility ..." In: Deutsche Biographie, Tiling, Johann Nicolaus www.deutsche-biographie.de
4. ↑ From the messenger marshal . In: Provincial Law of the Baltic Sea Governments , compiled on the orders of the Lord and Emperor Nikolai Pawlowitsch : Translated from the Russian originals in the 2nd Department of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery, Volume 2, Verlag In der Buchdruckerei of the 2nd derivation of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery, 1845 , Original from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek , digitized July 23, 2010 [1]
5. ↑ Speech by the Landbotenmarschall Baron von Lüdinghausen-Wolff, held at the end of the Relazionslandtag: February 5, 1794 Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. University of Tartu 
6. ↑ General lexicon of writers and scholars of the provinces of Livonia, Volume 4, cf. Weblinks books.google.de
7. ^ Article in the Polish Wikipedia: Wincenty Raczyński