Hans Caspar von Bothmer

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Hans Caspar von Bothmer (1717)

Johann Caspar Graf von Bothmer , also Johann Kaspar von Bothmer (born March 31, 1656 in Lauenbrück , † February 6, 1732 in London ) was a Hanoverian and British diplomat and minister.

Life

origin

He came from the Lower Saxon noble family Bothmer , a lower landed noble family . His parents were Baron Julius August von Bothmer (1620–1703) and his wife Margarethe Eleonore, née von Petersdorff (1638–1729). She was a daughter of the Privy Council and Chief Captain of Harburg Hans von Petersdorff and Eleonore von Thun. His father was a Braunschweig Privy Councilor, court judge in Celle and Landdrost von Lauenburg.

Career

Bothmer was called to the court of the Brunswick-Lüneburg principality of Calenberg in Hanover in 1682 and was court squire of Princess Sophie Dorothea . From 1683 he was a diplomat in the Hanoverian service, first on missions in Denmark and France. From 1685 to 1690 he represented the Hanoverian court as envoy in Berlin , from 1690 to 1696 in Vienna and from 1696 to 1698 and from 1700 to 1701 in The Hague . In addition, he was repeatedly on special missions between these cities, as well as in Paris . In 1696 he was appointed imperial baron along with his brothers and father , and in 1713 he was made imperial count . From 1711 he was only active in London. Bothmer was instrumental in ensuring that the Hanoverian Elector Georg Ludwig became King of Great Britain in 1714 as George I.

Bothmer stayed in London until his death in 1732 and was the king's most important advisor, for example First Minister for German Affairs. He had his office since 1720 in Westminster at 10 Downing Street and headed the German law firm .

Now ascended to the higher nobility and with the associated financial opportunities he had from 1726 to 1732 by Johann Friedrich Künnecke the castle Bothmer as a family residence for himself, his wife and daughter in Klützer angle construct. He did not live to see it being completed. In addition, Bothmer acquired ten goods in the region by 1731, including Elmenhorst, Brook and Christinenfeld.

family

Bothmer married on June 17, 1684 in Hanover, Sophie Ehrengard von der Asseburg (1668–1688), the daughter of Christoph Christian von der Asseburg (1639–1675) and Gertrud von Alvensleben (1640–1691). The couple had the following children:

  • Ernst August (1685–1687)
  • Sophie Charlotte (1688–1695)

After the death of his first wife, he married Gisela Erdmuthe von Hoym on December 28, 1696 (* June 23, 1669; † January 17, 1741). The couple had a daughter:

  • Sophie Charlotte (October 21, 1697 - September 14, 1748)
∞ Count Heinrich II, von Reuss zu Ober-Greiz (* February 4, 1696 - † November 17, 1722)
∞ Count Georg Wilhelm von Erbach-Erbach (* July 19, 1686 - May 31, 1757)

literature

Web links

Commons : Hans Caspar von Bothmer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ F. Burmeister, C. Mark: Bothmer Castle in Mecklenburg: Origin, Change and Vision. P. 31.
  2. ↑ Malte-Ludolf Babin: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. All writings and letters, general political and historical correspondence . Row 1. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, p. 783
  3. ^ F. Burmeister, C. Mark: Bothmer Castle in Mecklenburg: Origin, Change and Vision. P. 32.
predecessor Office successor
Hanoverian envoy to Prussia
1685 to 1690
Ferdinand Friedrich von Falkenhayn Hanoverian envoy to Austria
1690 to 1696 		Bodo from Oberg
Justus Sinold called von Schütz (until 1688) Hanoverian envoy to the Netherlands
1696 to 1698
1700 to 1701 		Elias von Klinggräff
personal data
SURNAME Bothmer, Hans Caspar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bothmer, Johannes Kaspar von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1656
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauenbrück
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1732
Place of death London