Georg Heinrich von Löwenstern
Baron Georg Heinrich von Löwenstern (born December 5, 1786 in Reval , † September 20, 1856 in Kiel ) was a German-Baltic landowner, as well as an officer in Russian and later as an officer and diplomat in Danish service.
origin
He came from the noble family of the Barons von Löwenstern and was one of ten children of the Estonian landowner Baron Hermann Ludwig von Löwenstern and his wife Hedwig, née Staël von Holstein . Woldemar Hermann von Löwenstern (landowner and major general d. R.) was his older brother, Eduard (landowner and as major general hetman of the Astrakhan Cossack army) the youngest. Among other things, he inherited the Jendel estate from the extensive parental estate .
Life
Georg Heinrich Baron von Löwenstern attended the Knight Academy in Reval and entered the Russian service as a guard officer. He took part in the Battle of Preussisch Eylau as a lieutenant, distinguished himself in the Battle of the Katzbach and was promoted to Colonel of the Guard during the coalition wars. In 1816 he took his leave from Russian service.
He had met the family of Count Christian Carl von Schimmelmann at Ahrensburg Castle during the wars of liberation in Hamburg and married his daughter, Countess Adelaide Tugendreich von Schimmelmann (1796–1876) on October 28, 1815. As the heir's daughter , she was a shareholder in the Schimmelmann family fideikommiss , which included plantations in the Danish West Indies , the Hellebæk and Ålsgårde estates on Zealand and the Wandsbek and Ahrensburg castles .
In 1820 he sold his goods in the Baltic States and moved with his wife and children to Denmark to the Schimmelmann manor at Hellebæk near Helsingör on Zealand and Villa Seelust near Klampenborg near Copenhagen. In 1827 he entered service in Denmark with the consent of the Tsar. He received the Danish aristocratic naturalization and approval to use the baron title through an open letter from King Frederick VI. of June 8, 1827. On June 16, 1827 he was appointed Colonel à la suite of the Danish Army and Chamberlain and on August 17, 1827, when he was accepted into the diplomatic service, he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. As such, he was the Danish consul general in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , and from 1835 to 1847 after the death of the previous envoy Joachim Frederik Bernstorff (1771-1835) envoy at the imperial court in Vienna . Also in 1835 he resigned from the military as a Danish major general a. D.
The couple had two sons and three daughters, including Baron Friedrich Sebastian von Löwenstern (1829–1910), who later settled with his family in Oberalm and founded the Freiherr von Löwenstern's Maarmor factories , now known as Marble Industry Kiefer . The other children were: Adelbert (1817–1879), Georgine (1819–1893), Laurette (1821–1851) and Adelaide (1823–1849).
Awards
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Dannebrogorden (Commander 1826, Grand Cross 1840) -
Order of St. Anna 3rd and 2nd class - Golden cross for Eylau
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Order of St. Vladimir
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Knight's Cross of the Sword Order
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Medal for entering Paris
- Medal for 1812
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Grand Cross of the Order of the Iron Crown 1st class
literature
- Woldemar Hermann von Löwenstern; Friedrich von Smitt (ed.): Memories of a Livonian. 2 volumes, Leipzig and Heidelberg: Winter 1858
- Digitized volume 1, copy from the Bodleian Library
- Digitized from Volume 2, copy from the New York Public Library
- Woldemar Hermann von Löwenstern; MH Weill (ed.): Mémoires du général-major russe baron de Löwenstern (1776–1858) publiés d'après le manuscrit original et annotés. Paris 1903
- Digitized at Hathi Trust
- Louis Bobé : Georg Heinrich von Löwenstern , in: CF Bricka (ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon , Gyldendal , Copenhagen 1887–1905.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data from Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (edit.): Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods Part 2, 1.2: Estland, Görlitz 1930, p. 124f. ( Digitized version )
- ↑ Georg Heinrich von Löwenstern on salzburg.com
Other sources
- Archives of the family of the Barons v. Löwenstern (Ludolf Baron von Löwenstern)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Joachim von Bernstorff |
royal Danish envoy in Vienna 1835–1847 |
Henrik Bille-Brahe |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löwenstern, Georg Heinrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Løwenstern, Georg Heinrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian soldier in Russian and later Danish service, most recently as major general, Danish consul general in Brazil and Danish envoy in Vienna |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1786 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reval |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 20, 1856 |
| Place of death | Kiel |