Hans Albrecht von Maltzan

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Hans Albrecht Freiherr von Maltzan (also Maltzahn ; born October 13, 1754 in Kummerow ; † December 17, 1825 in Eutin ) was a German court official, diplomat and from 1811 Oldenburg regional president of the Principality of Lübeck .

Life

Hans Albrecht came from the younger house of Kummerow of the Mecklenburg noble family Von Maltza (h) n . He was the eldest son of Bogislav Helmuth von Maltza (h) n (1724–1800) on Wolde and his wife Dorothea Barbara Elisabeth, geb. von Maltzahn (1732–1801) from the house of Kummerow . The Prussian major general Helmuth Dietrich von Maltzahn was his younger brother. His father had to pledge the Wolde family estate with Zwiedorf , Kastorf and a share in Rosenow in 1770 and sell it in 1792. From 1766 onwards, Hans Albrecht attended the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin. From 1771 to 1775 he studied law at the universities of Frankfurt (Oder) and Göttingen .

In 1775 he joined the Hanoverian service as court squire ; In 1786 he was appointed chamberlain . In 1790, as a member of the Hanoverian delegation, he witnessed the election of Leopold II as Roman-German Emperor . Then he said goodbye and lived with his parents, who had moved to live with his mother's relatives at Ivenack Castle .

After his mother's death in 1801 he went to the Oldenburg court service. From 1803 he was the travel marshal of the two Princes Paul Friedrich August (1783-1853) and Peter Friedrich Georg (1784-1812). He accompanied her to the University of Leipzig (1803-1805) and on her subsequent educational trip to England (1806-1807). In 1807 he went on a diplomatic mission to St. Petersburg , where he stayed for two years as an advisor to Georg von Oldenburg. In 1809 he returned to Oldenburg and in 1810 became Oldenburg's ambassador to Paris . On May 20, 1811, Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig appointed him as the successor to Hans Detlef von Hammerstein as the district president of the Principality of Lübeck, part of the Duchy of Oldenburg, the northern part of which was excluded from the French occupation. Furthermore, Maltzan also became a member of the provisional government commission, which functioned as the state ministry during the Duke's Russian exile . After the end of the French era and the return of Peter Friedrich Ludwig from exile, he and Friedrich Mutzenbecher sent him to the Allied headquarters in Paris in the spring of 1814 to declare that Oldenburg would join the Holy Alliance . In September 1814 he was appointed Oldenburg envoy to the Congress of Vienna . Maltzan's position was difficult here, since Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig, who himself stayed away from the Congress, was against Oldenburg's accession to a permanent organization of a German Confederation , as he saw the Oldenburg sovereignty endangered. On the other hand, the duke's resistance to the introduction of a rural constitution prevented the duke from joining forces with other small-state diplomats for a long time. As a representative of the relatively insignificant small state of Oldenburg, Maltzan, who received only minor support from the Russian delegation, was also unable to enforce the duke's far-reaching territorial claims. After the end of the congress he returned to his post as President of the Government in Eutin, which he held until his death.

Hans Albrecht von Maltzan remained unmarried.

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SURNAME Maltzan, Hans Albrecht von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maltzan, Hans Albrecht Freiherr von (full name); Maltzahn, Hans Albrecht von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court official, diplomat and district president of the Principality of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Kummerow
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1825
Place of death Eutin