Hans von Ahlefeldt (1710–1780)

Sielstein from 1751 with the name of Landdrosten Hans v. Ahlefeldt am Koppelsiel in Oldenburg

Hans von Ahlefeldt (born January 22, 1710 in Hamburg , † May 26, 1780 in Rellingen ) was a privy councilor and bailiff in the Danish civil service and most recently Landdrost in Pinneberg .

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Drostei (Pinneberg) , built 1765–1767 under Landdrosten Hans von Ahlefeldt.

As the first child from the second marriage of the influential Danish diplomat Hans Heinrich von Ahlefeldt with Mette geb. Reichsfreiin Kiel man of Kielmannsegg he came from noble family 'Holstein Ahlefeld that to the Equites Originarii , so the Holstein nobility counted. With his brother Heinrich von Ahlefeldt (* 1711 in Hamburg; † June 18, 1765 in Haderslev) he was tutored for eight years in Hamburg by a private tutor, the later Rochlitz superintendent Christlieb Gottwald Wabst (1694-1743) from Dresden .

In 1729 he was appointed chamberlain . From 1733 to 1741 he was assessor in the Danish Admiralty and in 1736 as Maître des requêtes advisor to the State Council. In 1741 he was appointed to the conference council and on March 16, 1741 he was appointed Landdrost of the Grafschaft Delmenhorst and the Grafschaft Oldenburg . In 1749 he was accepted into the Dannebrog Order . From February 15, 1752 he was bailiff in Husum , Schwabstedt and Nordstrand and Oberstaller in Eiderstedt . In 1759 he was appointed privy councilor and first deputy for finances, in 1760 he was appointed deputy in the customs chamber and in the Landesökonomie- und Kommerzkollegium and was awarded the Ordre de l'union parfaite . In 1765, with resignation from all other offices, he was appointed Landdrosten in Pinneberg and a secret conference councilor. In 1770 he passed his office on to Jürgen Erich Scheel , who had been married to his niece Anna Dorothea (1743-1805) since 1765.

He was married to Sophie Friederike Joachime Ernestine born on April 28, 1748. Grote (February 2, 1717 - December 6, 1791), widow of the Reichshof and District Administrator Detlev Graf Rantzau zu Ahrensburg . His daughter Ernestine (1753–1796) married Friedrich von Schimmelmann (* 1754 in Dresden, † 1800 in Ahrensburg), a younger son of Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann , in 1778 .

literature

• P. Brock: Ahlefeldt, Hans . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 1 : Aaberg – Beaumelle . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1887, p. 148 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
• Inger Gorny, Hans Friedl (Ed.): Ahlefeldt, Hans. (PDF; 200 MB) In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 15.