Hans Ernst von Hardenberg

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Hans Ernst von Hardenberg , since 1778 Count von Hardenberg (born January 30, 1729 in Marienstein , † October 14, 1797 in Hardenberg ) was a German politician , envoy and Freemason .

Life

Hans Ernst von Hardenberg came from the Lower Saxon noble family of Hardenberg and was born as the son of Fritz-Dietrich von Hardenberg (1674–1739) and Lucie Magdalene von Hardenberg. von Grote from the Schnega family (1686–1757). He came from the so-called rear house Hardenberg , the later third line Alt-Hardenberg . On March 8, 1778, he and his children were raised to the status of hereditary imperial count .

From 1747 Hardenberg served as court squire , from 1751 to 1769 as chamberlain and in 1755 was knightly deputy of the Göttingen quarter of the Calenberg landscape . In 1757 he was appointed Privy Legation Councilor, in 1765 Callenberg County and Treasury Councilor, and he advised the Hanover delegation in London. In 1776 Hardenberg acquired the Schnedinghausen estate ; there he built a mill, a brewery and a distillery.

In 1752 he married Anna Eleonore Katharina von Wangenheim (born November 19, 1731 in Hanover ; † March 11, 1786 in Hardenberg), the young widow of General Johann Georg von Ilten . The marriage resulted in nine children who continued the title of count. The best known are: August Wilhelm Karl (1752–1824), Ernst Christian Georg August (1754–1827) and Karl Philipp (1756–1840).

Freemasonry

Hans Ernst von Hardenberg was a member of the Freemasons Association . His mother's box was the Minerva zu den three Palmen in Leipzig , into which he was accepted on October 25, 1746. From 1747 to 1749 he held the office of master from the chair there . On January 29, 1746 Hardenberg also took part in the inauguration of the Freemason Lodge Friedrich (today Friedrich zum white horse ) in Hanover.

Honors

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics. Lichtenberg's listener. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0015-6 , ( Lichtenberg-Studien 14).
  • Otto Werner Förster (Ed.): Matriculation of the Freemason Lodge Minerva to the three palms 1741-1932. Taurus-Verlag, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-9807753-2-1 .
  • Johann Wolf: History of the Hardenberg family , with 123 documents, Volume 2, p. 255f. ( Digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ J. Wolf: History of the Hardenberg family , p. 262.
  2. ↑ Hochfuerstl. Hessen-Casselischer Staats- und Adress-Calender (1775) , p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Hardenberg, Hans Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hardenberg, Hanns Ernst from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Freemason
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1729
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienstein
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1797
Place of death Hardenberg