Hans Heinrich Kielman from Kielmansegg

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Altar of the church in Bruges with the family coat of arms donated by Hans Heinrich Kielman von Kielmansegg

Hans Heinrich Kielman von Kielmansegg (also Kielmann von Kielmannseck) (born September 29, 1636 in Schleswig ; † June 2, 1686 at Gut Quarnbek ) was a Holstein landlord and Danish nobleman.

Life

Hans Heinrich Kielman was the eldest son of Johann Adolph Kielmann von Kielmannsegg and Margarete von Hatten (* August 25, 1617, † December 12, 1656). Together with his brothers Friedrich Christian and Johann Adolph, he enrolled at the University of Rostock in the summer semester of 1651 . From 1655 he studied in Leiden , then he went on a cavalier tour through Italy with Friedrich Christian and Hofmeister Benssen .

Back at home he entered the service of Duke Friedrich III. from Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf . 1658-59 he was on an embassy to London and attended Oliver Cromwell's funeral. Under Duke Friedrich's successor Christian Albrecht , Hans Heinrich's father rose to become the most important power factor in the duchy.

In 1662 he and his sons were accepted into the Schleswig-Holstein knighthood . Hans Heinrich made quickly in the wake of his father's career: He was already in 1662 Kammerrat , 1664 Councilor and member of the government in 1665 and district magistrate of Gottorf . In the same year he went to an embassy in Kleve . From 1667 he supported his father in negotiations with Denmark about the county of Oldenburg , whose Count Anton Günther had died without heirs. Although the count had appointed both the king and the duke as heirs, Christian Albrecht ultimately got nothing. In 1671 Hans Heinrich Kielman was appointed magistrate of Kiel and Bordesholm . In 1674 he took part in the Lower Saxony district council as an envoy .

When Christian V of Denmark took office in 1671, the relationship between the Gottorf Duchy and Denmark tightened. In order to defend against the overreaching in the dispute over Oldenburg, Johann Adolph Kielman resumed negotiations with Sweden, from which he and the duke hoped for sovereignty for the small duchy. In 1675 Christian V lured Duke Christian Albrecht, Kielman and his sons to Rendsburg with an offer to negotiate Kielman's proposal to give the Duke the office of Tondern as compensation for Oldenburg . There he forced the Duke to go to the Rendsburg Recess of July 10, 1675, in which the small Gottorf state had to renounce its sovereignty and all foreign alliances. Kielmann had to undertake not to leave the country. He and his three sons were captured by the Danes at Gut Quarnbek and imprisoned in Korsør and later in the Citadel of Copenhagen. Only after the death of their father were the sons released on March 29, 1677 in exchange for a ransom of 100,000 Reichstalers . They had to swear that they would act against Danish interests again.

After their release, the Kielman sons went to see Duke Christian Albrecht in Hamburg and were given back their offices by him, soon falling out of favor because they were suspected of embezzlement. While his brothers entered the imperial service, Hans Heinrich returned to his estates and entered Danish service. He remained bailiff of Kiel and Bordesholm. On May 8, 1679, he and his brothers were raised to the status of imperial baron. On May 26, 1680 he was raised to the Danish district administrator and on September 11 of the same year to the hereditary Danish nobility. In 1683 he became secretary and district administrator and general war commissioner for the duchies and, towards the end of his life, royal governor of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein and knight of the Dannebrogden . In addition, as successor to his father, he was provost of the St. Johannes monastery in Schleswig and canon in Schleswig and Lübeck.

Squire

Hans Heinrich Kielman owned several properties near Kiel that his father had acquired from 1662: Quarnbek, Kronshagen , and Marutendorf . At his main residence Gut Quarnbek he founded two Meierhöfe , Mettenhof and Dorotheenhof. He took over Bramstedt from his older brother .

He donated a baptismal bowl, an organ and an altar by Theodor Allers for the St. George and Mauritius Church in Flemhude, of which he was the patron saint of the Quarnbek estate . He and his first wife donated new pictures in 1672 for the baldachin altar from the workshop of Hans Brüggemann in the church of Bruges in the Bordesholm office.

family

Hans Heinrich Kielman was married twice. From his marriage to Mette von der Wisch (1645–1674), which he entered into in 1663 , he had eight children, the youngest of whom died with the mother at birth and four did not survive childhood. After the death of his first wife, he married Dorothea von Reventlow (1657-1697). This marriage remained childless.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry (No. 152) in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. Hans Heinrich Friherre Kielman von Kielmansegg, til Quarnbek [1]