Heinrich Christian von Offenberg

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Heinrich Christian von Offenberg (* 25. February 1696 , † 8. April 1781 in Illien , Kurland ) was a Courland state politicians, it belonged to the body of the four top councils in the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia and was briefly Regent of the Duchy .

Life

According to tradition, the Offenberg family came from Switzerland , with Lorenz I († 1576) as head of the chancellery of the Archbishop of Riga, Margrave Wilhelm von Brandenburg , who was named the first Offenberger in Livonia in 1545 . Marrying Barbara von Rosen opened up family ties to the Livonian aristocratic families . In 1594, Emperor Rudolph II confirmed the imperial nobility for the family. Friedrich Georg von Offenberg (1620–1676), a son of Lorenz II, founded the Illien line. Heinrich Christian's father was Christoph Georg von Offenberg, he was head captain in Selberg and master on claws in Kurland, his mother was Elisabeth Beate, née Budberg . In 1740 Heinrich married Christian v. O. Friederike Dorothea, Countess von Dönhoff (* 1718 † 1756) from the Illien and Sarraicken family. He was the owner of the Oebelgunde estates near Doblen , Heyden, Ziepenhof and Udsen, as well as the pledge holder of Fockenhof and Grenzhof.

From 1727 to 1733 Heinrich Christian von Offenberg Doblenscher was captain , in between in 1729 there was a secondment as a state delegate in Danzig . In 1733 he was appointed chief captain in Tuckum and in 1748 was appointed land marshal . During this time, Christoph Friedrich von der Osten-Sacken were Landhofmeister, Hermann Christoph Finck von Finckenstein Chancellor and Otto Christopher von der Howen Oberburggraf. Thus he was one of the four top boards of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia. In 1758 he took over the office of Oberburggrave and in 1763 he was elected as Landhofmeister to the highest office of the duchy, which he held until 1767.

When the incumbent Duke Ernst Johann von Biron (1690–1772) was exiled, he paid homage to the potential successor Prince Karl of Saxony (1733–1796). After the return of the exiled Duke Ernst Johann on January 22, 1763, he immediately declared his allegiance and was decorated with the Alexander Nevsky Order and the Russian Order of Saint Anne in gratitude by Tsarina Catherine the Great and in recognition of his loyalty . On February 10th of the same year the Duke invited all nobles to a "fraternal conference", on the one hand he wanted to pronounce an amnesty for all opposition nobles and on the other hand he wanted the oath of loyalty to be renewed in the presence of Prince Charles of Poland should. Until the end of the conference on March 11, 1763, two critical points were still open: “The Duke promises to give consensus to redeem the pledged goods from bourgeois hands and not to bring any more allodial goods; also the advocates, whose number should not be increased, not to have any public offices next to the advocacy. - Both with appeal (§ 2, 3, 6.) to the commission decisions of 1717, never recognized by Duke Ferdinand. “The three senior councilors in 1763, the Chancellor Dietrich von Keyserling , the Oberburggraf Heinrich Christian von Offenberg and Land Marshal Franz Georg von Franck signed the farewell conference. Landhofmeister Otto Christopher von der Howen stuck to his refusal and refused to obey the duke. On April 30, 1765 Heinrich Christian von Offenberg as Oberburggraf and alleged Landhofmeister, Franz Georg von Franck as Landmarschall and alleged Oberbruggraf, Otto Friedrich Saß as Chief Captain of Tuckum and alleged Landmarschall and Johann Ernst Klopmann as alleged Chancellor were summoned to the trial of the Kurland Knights . The reason for the negotiation read: "The Oberburggrafen von Offenberg, as the alleged court master, is accused of having usurped the office of court master in 1763 in an inadmissible manner".

In 1758 Prince Karl of Saxony was elected Duke, but the deposed Duke Ernst Johann von Biron was reinstated as Duke by Katharina the Great in 1763. During a short-term interregnum , Heinrich Christian von Offenburg was appointed regent by the councilors from January 23 to February 21, 1763. and took over the reign on behalf of the chief councilors

progeny

Offenberg's son Heinrich Christian von Offenberg (* January 21, 1752; † November 11, 1827) was a lawyer in the service of Duke Peter von Biron (1724-1800), at whose suggestion he undertook a two-year educational trip to Western Europe and Italy and later whose court marshal was. Heinrich had been a member of the Masonic lodge "To the three crowned swords" in Mitau since 1778 . From 1807 he was a member of the Courland High Court and from 1818 until his death its president. In 1815 he was one of the founding members of the Kurland Society for Literature and Art in Mitau.

His grandson Heinrich Christian Wilhelm (1788–1871) was president of the Courland domain farm Mitau and lord of Illien. He was married to Jenny von Mirbach and had 17 children with her. During the time of the Polish uprising in 1831, with a command of volunteers, he established the connection between Courland and Prussia .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Lords of Offenberg. In: Leopold Freiherr von Zedlitz-Neukirch , Neues Prussisches Adels-Lexicon : or genealogical and diplomatic news of the princely, countless, baronial and noble houses residing in the Prussian monarchy or related to it , Volume 3, Published 1837, page 477 ff. [1]
  2. ^ Friedericke Dorothea von Dönhoff. Entry on Geneall.net [2]
  3. ↑ New genealogical-schematic Reichs- und Staats-Handbuch: vor d. Year .. , Verlag Varrentrapp, 1757, original from the Austrian National Library, digitized May 27, 2015 [3]
  4. ^ Karl Wilhelm Cruse, Curland under the dukes , Volume 2, Verlag GA Reyher, 1837, original from Harvard University , digitized July 24, 2007 [4]
  5. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Franz Georg von Franck. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  6. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Klopmann, Johann Ernst v .. In: BBLD - Baltic biographical lexicon digital
  7. ↑ Augspurgische Ordinari-Post-Zeitung: 1766, published 1766, original from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, digitized 4th Aug. 2010 [5]
  8. ↑ Kurtz-gefaßte historical news for the sake of new European events , Volume 57, Verlag Seiffart, original from the Austrian National Library, digitized April 11, 2012 [6]
  9. ↑ Regents in Latvia [7]
  10. ↑ Regency in the name of the councilors [8]
  11. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry to Offenberg, Heinrich v .. In: BBLD - Baltic biographical lexicon digital
  12. ↑ Lodge of the Three Crowned Swords. In: Henning von Wistinghausen , Freemasons and Enlightenment in the Russian Empire: The Revaler Lodge 1773-1820 . With a biographical lexicon, Volume 1, Verlag Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2016, ISBN 3-412-50131-X , 9783412501310 [9]
  13. ↑ This Masonic lodge also belonged to Hermann Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein, a son of the former chancellor of the duchy and lodge master (1693–1758) in Mitau
  14. ^ Marquis Paulucci : Statutes of the Courland Society for Literature and Art. Mitau 1816. [Sign.]: Marquis Paulucci. P. 649–655: Courland Society for Literature and Art Statutes (of the Courland Society for Literature and Art), Textabdr. of 10 paragraphs. [10]
  15. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry to Offenberg, Heinrich v .. In: BBLD - Baltic biographical lexicon digital
  16. ^ German biography: Offenberg, Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Baron von
personal data
SURNAME Offenberg, Heinrich Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Court master and regent in Courland
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: February 25, 1696
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1781
Place of death Illien , Courland