Hans Bogislav von Schwerin

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Count Hans Bogislav von Schwerin (born June 10, 1683 in Löwitz , † August 23, 1747 in Berlin ) was a Prussian diplomat, administrative officer and master hunter.

Life

Hans Bogislav came from the Löwitzer line of the Pomeranian noble family von Schwerin. He was the second son of the Szczecin castle captain Ulrich von Schwerin (1648–1697) and Anna Lucretia von Ramin. From 1695 he was brought up by his uncle Dettlof von Schwerin in The Hague . In November 1699 he enrolled at the University of Greifswald , after which he studied at the Universities of Leiden and Rostock . As early as 1702 he joined the Buchwald regiment as an ensign, which belonged to the Mecklenburg troops in Flanders and Brabant, which his uncle commanded. In 1704 he left the service and accompanied his uncle to Putzar . After his death in 1707 he went to Schwerin to the ducal court and served there for three years as chamberlain to Duke Friedrich Wilhelm . In 1710 his request for release was granted. He took up residence at Putzar Castle , from where he managed his estates during the Great Northern War .

After the Treaty of Stockholm (1720), the part of Swedish Pomerania south of the Peene in which his possessions were located came to Prussia . Hans Bogislav von Schwerin entered the Prussian civil service. In 1721 he went to the court of August the Strong in Warsaw and Dresden as envoy of King Friedrich Wilhelm I. In 1723 the king appointed him to the secret council of the General-Ober-Finanz-Kriegs- und Domainen -directorium in Berlin. In addition, he was appointed chief forester of the Central and Altmark and the Ruppiner and Prignitzer districts in 1729. In 1734 he became master hunter.

In 1734 the king awarded him the order de la Générosité and gave him a building site in Friedrichstadt on the road to the zoo and building materials worth 40,000 thalers. Hans Bogislav had a representative palace built by Conrad Wiesend in the later Wilhelmstrasse 73, between the houses of the Supreme Court Councilor von Görne and the War Council von Kellner. On August 29, 1737, he and his brother, Field Marshal Kurt Christoph von Schwerin , received the palace as an inheritance.

Hans Bogislav von Schwerin was one of the 24 people named by the king who had to organize the big festivities held in winter, to which the royal family appeared. After Friedrich II ascended the throne , he and his brother Kurt Christoph von Schwerin were raised to the rank of count on July 31, 1740. In 1741 he received confirmation of his fiefdom and the office of hereditary kitchen master in (Old) Western Pomerania . He was buried in the family's hereditary funeral in the Putzar church .

family

Hans Bogislav von Schwerin married Charlotte von Arnim on December 27, 1728 in Boitzenburg (* January 1, 1710, † November 22, 1779). She was the daughter of the Prussian Minister of State and General Postmaster Georg Dietloff von Arnim-Boitzenburg and Dorothea Sabina Countess von Schlieben. With her he founded the Schwerinsburg house of the von Schwerin family. Your children were:

  • Friedrich Wilhelm (1729–1803), Commander of the Order of St. John
  • Anna Margarethe Dorothea (1731–1787)
  • Wilhelm Friedrich Carl (1739–1802), Prussian lieutenant general
  • Heinrich Bogislav Dettlof (1742–1791), general councilor
  • Ulrike Sophie Charlotte (1746–1749)

possession

Hans Bogislav von Schwerin received - although not yet of legal age - in 1705 the partial fiefdom of his father, who died in 1697. In 1708 he reached a settlement with his brother Kurt Christoph about the goods from the inheritance of their father and their uncle Dettlof von Schwerin. The goods Putzar, Boldekow , Glien, Sarnow , Zinzow, Kavelpaß, Borntin and shares in Rubenow, Wusseken, Drewelow , Thurow and Teterin came into his possession . He sold the shares in Wusseken, Drewelow, Thurow and Teterin to his brother Kurt Christoph. He had the Vorwerk Sophienhof and Charlottenlust built.

His brother sold the palace in Berlin's Wilhelmstrasse on April 2, 1757 to Stephan Peter Oliver Graf von Wallis . It served as the Reich President's Palace from 1919 to 1934 .

literature

  • Ludwig Gollmert, Wilhelm Graf von Schwerin, Leonhard Graf von Schwerin: History of the family von Schwerin. Part 2: Biographical News. Wilhelm Gronau, Berlin 1878, pp. 222-223.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ a b Doris Reimer: Passion & Calculus. The publisher Georg Andreas Reimer (1776–1842). De Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-080881-0 , pp. 119-120.
personal data
SURNAME Schwerin, Hans Bogislav von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwerin, Hans Bogislaw von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian diplomat, administrative officer and land hunter master
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1683
PLACE OF BIRTH Loewitz
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1747
Place of death Berlin