Georg Werner August Dietrich von Munster

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Georg Werner August Dietrich of Munster (* 12. June 1751 in Osnabrück ; † 19th February 1801 in Vienna ) was Count of My Hovel, Freiherr von Oer and pity and reigning nobleman to Koenigsbrueck in Oberlausitz , Lord of the rule Rozdialowitz, Schönwalde and Peterswalde in Bohemia also on Steinwalde and Tauentzien ( Familienfideikommiss Schade) in Pomerania , also hereditary marshal of the Herford Monastery (Herworden).

Life

Georg Werner's parents were Count Georg Hermann Heinrich von Münster -Meinhövel (* August 22, 1721; † December 12, 1773) and his first wife Wilhelmine Dorothea von Hammerstein -Gesmoldt (* January 31, 1730; † February 12, 1758). The Hanoverian diplomat Ernst Friedrich Herbert zu Munster was his half-brother.

Georg Werner became a royal Danish and princely Osnabrück real secret councilor , in addition he was electoral Cologne real secret councilor and chamberlain until 1780 . He was a bearer of the Palatinate Order of Lions and Knight of the Teutonic Order in Utrecht . From 1783 he was also Knight of the Order of St. John and designated Commander of Weitersheim. In 1793 he acquired the Oldesloe saltworks from Friedrich Otto von Dernath in exchange for the Åkær and Dybvad goods in Jutland, which were only acquired in 1793 . In 1797 he sold the salt works to the Danish state. In 1796 he received the Royal Prussian Order of the Red Eagle . In 1798 he went to the Kingdom of Naples as royal Prussian envoy . But in 1800 he fell out of favor at the Prussian court, lost his medals and died in Vienna in 1801.

He was known and famous for his outspoken way of thinking. So there was a scandal in 1784. He had published a critical article in Schlözer's State Gazette on the Munsterland military. This brought him into conflict with the then Count of Schaumburg Lippe . The matter went before the Imperial Court, where in 1788 a decision was made in favor of Münster-Meinhövel. He was hailed in the press as a martyr of publicity . The following have been published by him: His inaugural address in the Königschaft Königsbrück, Lusatian monthly magazine 1796, pp. 31-34 and his correspondence with the King of Prussia and Prince Ferdinand, published in Becker's national newspaper, 1800, pp. 811ff.

family

He was married three times. His first wife was Countess Luise von Gronsfeld-Diepenbrock (* December 16, 1755 - March 2, 1803) daughter of Count Bertram Philipp Siegesmund von Gronsfeld-Diepenbrock on October 4, 1775 . The marriage ended in divorce, but the couple had the following daughter:

  • Maximiliane Frederieke Karoline Eleonore Amoene Julie (* September 28, 1776; † 1839) ⚭ September 29, 1795 Wilhelm von Dörnberg (1768–1850)

His second wife was the heirloom Luise Frederike Wilhelmine von der Schulenburg -Altenhausen (* December 2, 1764 - April 25, 1786), daughter of Count Alexander von Schulenburg-Altenhausen, whom he married on September 28, 1780. The couple had the following son:

His third wife was Amalie Johanne Isabella Charlotte von Ompteda (born October 31, 1767; † July 1813) on November 23, 1787, daughter of Conrad Engelbrecht von Ompteda († 1768) and Catharina Charlotte von der Horst (1734-1811). She was a poet and in 1796 published the volume of poetry Amalia's poetic attempts . The countess was also in contact with other greats of the time, such as the poet Christoph Martin Wieland . The couple had the following daughter:

  • Asta Thusnelde (* October 3, 1788; † February 12, 1842), canoness in Preetz, painter ⚭ Carl Emil von Moltke (* January 7, 1773; † March 1858)

literature

  • Samuel Baur: New historical-biographical-literary concise dictionary from the creation of the world to the end of the year 1810. Volume 7, pp. 115–116. Digitized
  • Neues Conversations-Lexicon , Volume 8, pp. 15-16 digitized
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : German count houses of the present. P. 174. Digitized
  • Christian Friedrich Jacobi, Gottlob Friedrich Krebel: European genealogical manual. P. 283. Digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Family tree ( Memento from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Family tree Gronsfeld-Diepenbroick
  3. ^ The German women writers of the nineteenth century. Volume 2, p. 30. Digitized biography
  4. ^ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Letters , p. 618
  5. ↑ Amalia's poetic attempts at digitization
  6. ↑ Gothaer Taschen Book of the Count's Houses. 1860, p. 537. Digitized
personal data
SURNAME Georg Werner August Dietrich von Munster
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Georg Werner von Münster-Meinhövel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial Count von Meinhövel, Baron von Oer and Schade, ruling class lord at Königsbrück
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1801
Place of death Vienna