Gottfried Heinrich misery

Gottfried Heinrich misery

Gottfried Heinrich Elend , later von El (l) en (d) sheim , (born February 1, 1706 in Halberstadt , † March 17, 1771 in Kiel ) was a German lawyer, university professor and high government official.

Live and act

Gottfried Heinrich Elend was the son of the Hanoverian grammar school director Johann Balthasar Elend († 1739) and his wife Henriette Catharine Sophie, née Maschou or Mascau (buried on October 23, 1738). After being baptized at St. Martini, he first lived in Halberstadt and from 1717 in Hanover .

In 1725 Elend began studying law in Helmstedt , which he continued in 1728 at the University of Halle . In 1729 he took a trip to Holland and Belgium as a companion. In 1732 he moved to the University of Kiel with a young nobleman , where he received his doctorate in 1734. jur. (UJD) and worked as a private lecturer and lawyer. In 1735 he wrote, presumably under the pseudonym Marcus Ehrensold, "Patriotic thoughts on the necessity of a debt and pledge protocol to be arranged over the aristocratic goods in the principalities of Schleswig- and Holstein".

From 1738 to 1745 Elend taught as an associate professor. In 1743 he became a chancellery, 1744 judicial advisor, 1744 judicial advisor. From 1744 to 1748 he took over the office of syndic of the Lübeck Donm chapter. In 1746 he became Oberprocureur (Obersachwalter) of Holstein and entered the Secret Government Council on December 30, 1746. On December 24, 1748 he was appointed Privy Legation Councilor and knighted on September 15, 1749. His title was "von Elensheim", he referred to himself as "Gottfried Hinrich von Ellendsheim".

As a nobleman, von Elensheim carried a coat of arms that showed a split red and gold shield on which an Elen could be seen. He was a member of the investigation committee that investigated the Westphalen brothers and participated in the impeachment of Ernst Joachim Westphal . He lost his positions on suspicion of state and other crimes for which no evidence was available. A rescript of December 9 and 20, 1755 from Petersburg was followed in January 1756 by his dismissal and arrest and the reinstatement of Westphalia in the offices he had previously held.

Von Elenheim spent the time in prison together with Professor Johann Wilhelm Gadendam in Kiel Castle . The indictment in July 1756 led to a year-long inquisition trial. Von Elenheim left the prison on January 18, 1763 on bail. Catherine II issued an acquittal at the end of 1764 and said that the process was "void and unfounded". At the same time, she appointed the nobleman "Conference Councilor and Chairman of the First Council of our Pension Chamber". Due to the long imprisonment and the "tribulations endured" during this time, she promised him "the highest mercy and protection".

In 1765 von Elenheim was awarded the Order of St. Anne . In 1766 he was appointed district administrator, in 1768 he was a member of the real privy councilor. However, he initially had no voting rights and no seat in the council , of which he became a permanent member a year later. He also served as President of a newly established General State and Economic Improvement Directorate . He belonged to the regional court and the Curatel-Collegium of the University of Kiel and took over the chairmanship of the setting, land allocation and surveying commission. In 1769 he became a bailiff of the new office in Kronshagen . On April 7, 1770 (matriculation number 730) he was elected a member of the Leopoldina with the surname Hephaestion .

family

Gottfried Heinrich Elend was married to Anna Elisabeth Augusta Müller, who died in Kiel on November 27, 1766 at the latest and was buried in Bordesholm. The couple had their daughter Henriette Friederica Elend , who founded the Kiel welfare institution in Kiel City Monastery .

literature

• Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 229
• Hedwig Sievert: Misery, from El (l) en (d) sheim . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, pp. 136-137

Individual evidence

1. ↑ member entry of Gottfried Heinrich von Ellendsheim at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 29 November 2016th