Gerhard Friedrich von Buschmann

Gerhard Friedrich von Buschmann (born June 2, 1780 in Tossens , † September 24, 1856 in Oldenburg ) was a German diplomat , most recently a State Councilor in Russian service.

Life

Buschmann was born as the son of the farmer Johann Friedrich Buschmann in Tossens and initially worked as a clerk in the offices of Ganderkesee and Delmenhorst , until Duke Peter I employed him as treasurer for his sons Paul Friedrich August and Georg . He accompanied the princes from 1803 to 1805 to study in Leipzig and in 1806 on their trip to England . In 1808 he entered the service of Prince George as private secretary , who from 1809 lived with his wife, the Tsar's daughter and Grand Duchess Katharina Pavlovna , as the Russian Governor General in Tver in central Russia . Buschmann, who had already taken part in lectures in Leipzig and received further training in Russia, was able to pass a legal exam there and was later appointed college assessor and councilor. After the prince's death (1812), Buschmann remained in the close position of trust in the service of Grand Duchess Katharina, traveled with her for almost three years through Europe and followed her to Stuttgart after her marriage to Crown Prince Wilhelm von Württemberg . After Katharina's death (1819), he went to Oldenburg with her two sons from his first marriage and his family. In 1821 it contained the title of Russian State Council and the Russian hereditary nobility . From Oldenburg he managed the assets of Katharina's second son , Prince Peter von Oldenburg , who lived in Saint Petersburg .

family

From 1809 he was married to Johanna Kleensorge (1788–1868), the daughter of a master carpenter in Oldenburg. The marriage had twelve children. The son Friedrich Wilhelm August (1816–1871) last lived as a Russian State Councilor in Oldenburg and, as the successor of the father, continued to look after the Oldenburg property of the Russian line of the House of Oldenburg . The son Georg Heinrich Alexander (1819-1891) became an officer and left the only descendants in the male line of the family. The son Peter Friedrich Carl (1831-1894) lived as a Privy Councilor in Varel. The daughter Katharina (1810-1884) was married to the President of the Higher Appeal Court in Oldenburg, Friedrich Wilhelm Anton Roemer (1788-1865). She wrote memories of her childhood in Saint Petersburg and Stuttgart. The daughter Alexandra was the wife of Colonel Wilhelm Theodor Becker (1818–1885), whose son was Enno Becker (1869–1940), the creator of the Reich Tax Code of 1919. The youngest daughter was the wife of Colonel Adolf von Weddig (1808–1876 ).

literature

• Gerhard Friedrich Buschmann. 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. 114 ( online ).