Heinrich Carl Meinig
Heinrich Carl Meinig , Danish form of the name Henrik Carl Meinig (born March 25, 1736 in Dömitz , † March 29, 1812 in Copenhagen ) was a German diplomat and envoy of the three free Hanseatic cities at the royal Danish court in Copenhagen.
Life
Heinrich Carl Meinig was a son of the doctor Christian Gottlieb Meinig (* 1690), ducal Mecklenburg personal doctor in Dömitz, who moved to Altona in 1751. He attended the Christianeum in Altona. He did not graduate from a subsequent degree. In 1759 he was sent to Copenhagen by the Hamburg Senate to report from there for the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck . In 1759 he was officially commissioned as agent and resident of the Hanseatic cities at the Danish court. He held this post for 51 years.
During his term of office, the settlement between the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck and King Christian VII as Duke of Holstein due to the sovereignty over the Lübschen estates and city monastery villages of January 22, 1802, which Meinig negotiated and signed for Lübeck, falls. His counterpart on the Danish side was Christian Günther von Bernstorff . The French occupation of the Hanseatic cities made him unemployed in 1810, whereupon King Friedrich VI. granted support.
His successor in 1814 was August Wilhelm Pauli , a businessman from Lübeck .
Mine was a Freemason and temporarily secretary of the oldest Danish lodge St. Martin in Copenhagen. In 1788 he was one of the co-founders of the Copenhagen relief fund ( Understøttelsesselkabet Borgervennen ).
literature
- Niels Nikolaus Falck : Collection of the most important documents relating to the constitutional law of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. Kiel: Schröder 1847
- Louis Bobé : Heinrich Carl Meinigs Indberetninger til Hansastædernes Regering om Forholdene ved det danske Hof i Aarene 1770-72. In: Danske magazine: indeholden bidrag til den danske histories og det danske sprogs oplysning 1897, pp. 307–323
Individual evidence
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Hermann Jacob Forck |
Hanseatic envoy to Denmark from 1759 to 1810 |
August Wilhelm Pauli (from 1814) |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mine, Heinrich Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meinig, Carl Heinrich; Mine, Karl Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Danish diplomat and envoy of the Hanseatic cities in Copenhagen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1736 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Doemitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1812 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |