Gottlieb Georg Heinrich von Stambke

Gottlieb Georg Heinrich Freiherr von Stambke (baptized on July 20, 1706 in the Schlosskirche in Hanover ; † May 3, 1761 in Kiel ) was a German civil servant, envoy and diplomat.

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Gottlieb Georg Heinrich von Stambke was a son of Heinrich Julius Stambke (baptized on November 15, 1664 in Braunschweig ; buried on November 18, 1722 in Hanover), who served as consistorial and court counselor in Hanover. His mother Anna Eleonore, nee Berwardt, was born on June 12, 1687 in Clausthal .

Von Stamke was a nephew of Andreas Ernst von Stambke , who gave him a position in the ducal Holstein civil service. Duke Carl Friedrich accepted him as an alumnus with letters of reply from October 2 and 13, 1724. As part of a scholarship, he was to receive an annual grant of 150 Reichsthalers for studies.

On February 10, 1725, von Stambke enrolled as a student at Kiel University under the name “Hannoveranus” . When Duke Carl Friedrich moved in with his young wife Anna Petrowna in Kiel in 1727, Stambke was court junker, referred to as “Ihro Kayserl. Your Highness Suite ”. In 1729 he accompanied his uncle Andreas Ernst von Stambke to negotiations in Paris . In 1747, Duke Carl Peter Ulrich's government appointed him resident in the Lower Saxony District .

Because of his diplomatic skills, the Duke appointed von Stambke minister. As such, he worked in Hamburg for 10 years . In 1748 the duke appointed him imperial lord and in 1755 chamberlain. In 1757 he received a call to the Petersburg court. Grand Duchess Katharina recommended him as head of the so-called "Secret Chancellery of St. Petersburg". He succeeded the late Johann von Pechlin .

With the management of the "Secret Chancellery", von Stambke was in the favor of the Grand Duchess. He supported them in agreement with the St. Petersburg Chancellor Pyotr Mikhailovich Bestuschew in the political leadership of Holstein. On January 28, 1757, von Stambke married Magdalena Elisabeth von Brockdorff (* around 1740). That same year he became a conference councilor, and a year later he became a real secret council.

Like his uncle, von Stambke got into the conflicts between Empress Elisabeth and Grand Duchess Katharina, in which Christian August von Brockdorff was particularly involved. After Bestuschew's grand pulpit was overthrown in 1758, Empress Elisabeth von Stambke ordered them to leave Petersburg. During the return journey to Holstein, his wife died on May 19, 1758 in Reval .

Von Stambke then moved to Kiel, where he worked as a councilor, but no longer achieved any importance.

literature

• Joachim Stambke: Stambke, Gottlieb Georg Heinrich, Freiherr von . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 3. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1974, pp. 253-254