Gottfried von Reventlow

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Gottfried Graf von Reventlow (born March 30, 1800 in Christiansholm near Copenhagen , † April 26, 1870 in Ratzeburg ) was a German administrative lawyer and judge. He was the last president of the Lauenburg court in Ratzeburg.

Life

Reventlow brothers

Gottfried von Reventlow came from the Altenhof family of the Schleswig-Holstein nobility family ( Equites Originarii ) Reventlow and was the second son of Cay Friedrich von Reventlow from his second marriage to Emilie Louise Henriette Countess von Bernstorff (* October 7, 1776 in Copenhagen; † 26 November 1855 in Preetz), daughter of the Danish Minister of State Andreas Peter von Bernstorff . Theodor von Reventlow on Jersbek was his younger brother.

At Easter 1818 he began studying law at the University of Kiel , together with his brother Theodor. Both brothers moved to the University of Heidelberg in October 1818 and came to the University of Göttingen in the winter semester of 1820, together with Ernst zu Rantzau .

After passing the legal exam before the Holstein court in Glückstadt , he joined the Danish administrative service of the duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg . He started as an official clerk, soon became the second official in the Ratzeburg office and in 1831 he was appointed bailiff .

From 1839 he had a threefold position: he was one of the two councilors who, together with the Landdrost, formed the government of the duchy, first lordly assessor at the court court in Ratzeburg, and lordly assessor of the Lauenburg consistory . The court court was the middle instance in civil matters as well as the judgment court in criminal matters for the entire Duchy of Lauenburg. For the members of the knighthood and their families, for entire communities, all state officials and other officials, it was the first instance. Since 1834 it was under the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg Higher Appeal Court .

Court building in Ratzeburg, later district building

Gottfried von Reventlow survived the Schleswig-Holstein uprising , in which, unlike his brother, he was not involved. With the restoration of Danish rule in the duchy in 1851, there was also the separation of the judiciary from the administration . Reventlow was appointed court judge and president of the court with a royal patent from May 20, 1851 . He kept this position during the time of the Austro-Prussian condominium in 1864 and after the change of rule from the Duchy of Denmark to Prussia as a result of the Gastein Convention in 1865.

After his death, the post was not filled again and the court court, together with the Lauenburg government, was repealed on January 1, 1872.

He gave the city of Ratzeburg a three-armed candelabra , which had its place on the market until 1890, then had to give way to the statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I and was moved to the station forecourt.

Awards

literature

  • Dieter Lohmeier : Art. Reventlow, Cay Friedrich Graf von , in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 7, Karl Wachholtz Verlag Neumünster 1985, p. 201 ff. (Mentioned in the article on the father)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The register of the University of Heidelberg. Volume 5, p. 162, No. 296 and 297
  2. ^ Georg Heinrich Oesterley: History of the University of Göttingen in the period from 1820 to its first secular celebration in 1837. Göttingen 1838, p. 44
  3. ↑ Royal Danish Court and State Calendar 1841, Col. 587
  4. ^ Hans-Georg Kaack: Ratzeburg history of an island town. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1987, ISBN 3-529-02683-2 , p. 293
  5. ↑ Königlich Prussischer Staats-Anzeiger 1865, p. 3709
  6. ↑ Königlich Preußischer Staats-Anzeiger 1870, p. 1317
personal data
SURNAME Reventlow, Gottfried von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reventlow, Gottfried Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and judge
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Christiansholm near Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1870
Place of death Ratzeburg