Georg Ernst von Wedel-Jarlsberg
Georg Ernst Graf von Wedel-Jarlsberg , also Jürgen Ernst Graf von Wedel-Jarlsberg (born May 23, 1666 in Butow , Neumark , † January 30, 1717 in Bremen ) was a Danish governor .
Georg Ernst Graf von Wedel -Jarlsberg was the eldest son of the Danish field marshal and governor of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst Gustav Wilhelm von Wedel and Marie von Ehrentreuter.
He grew up in Denmark and went on a cavalier tour of England, France and Italy. At the age of twenty-one he was appointed chamberlain and sent by the Danish king as envoy extraordinary to Vienna and Berlin. When Privy he received in 1697 the appointment to the upper country Drosten the counties Odenburg and Delmenhorst , succeeding his brother-in 1694 resigned Anton Wolf von Haxthausen . In 1698 he was awarded the Dannebrogden . In 1703 he succeeded his father as governor of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst.
Wedel was with Wilhelmina Juliane Countess of Aldenburg (1665–1746), the youngest daughter of Count Anton I of Aldenburg , governor of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst, and Johanna von Sayn-Wittgenstein, a daughter of Count Johann VIII of Sayn , since 1689 -Wittgenstein-Hohenstein , married. The two had five children, including Friedrich Anton von Wedel-Jarlsberg , who rose in the Danish army to major general and head of the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment.
literature
- Inger Gorny: Wedel-Jarlsberg, Georg (Jürgen) Ernst Graf von. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 783 ( online ).
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| SURNAME | Wedel-Jarlsberg, Georg Ernst von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wedel-Jarlsberg, Georg Ernst Graf von; Wedel-Jarlsberg, Jürgen Ernst Graf von; Wedel-Jarlsberg, Jürgen Ernst from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish governor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1666 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Butow , Neumark |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1717 |
| Place of death | Bremen |