Heinrich von Reventlow-Criminil

Heinrich Reventlow-Criminil

Heinrich Anna Graf von Reventlow-Criminil (born May 6, 1798 in Wandsbek ; † December 31, 1869 in Ruhleben ) was a Schleswig-Holstein administrative lawyer and Danish politician.

Family and origin

Heinrich Graf von Reventlow-Criminil was born as Heinrich Merchier de Criminil and was the son of Caroline Friederike Schimmelmann (1778-1858) from his marriage to Francois Valentine, Marquis le Merchier de Criminil (1753-1813), who as a noble refugee from the French Revolution to Northern Germany and at Gut Emkendorf . After the death of his father, Heinrich and his brother Joseph were adopted as the adopted son of his childless great aunt Julia von Schimmelmann and her husband Friedrich Karl von Reventlow in 1814 , and in 1815, by royal resolution, he was elevated to the status of a Danish count as a Reventlow Criminil.

Since May 18, 1823 he was married to Luise Countess zu Rantzau auf Rastorf (1799-1852), a daughter of Christian Detlev Karl zu Rantzau . The landowner and diplomat Count Alfred Franz Carl von Reventlow-Criminil (1825–1898) was the couple's only son.

Life

From 1815 he studied law together with his brother Joseph and their cousin Eugen von Reventlow law at the University of Kiel and from 1816 at the University of Göttingen . In 1819 he joined the Danish diplomatic service as an attaché in Berlin with his adoptive father Fritz von Reventlow. In 1821 he entered the Danish administrative service over and was a clerk in Schwarzenbek used where it 1,828 bailiff was. In the same position he went to Flensburg in June 1829 and moved to the German law firm in Copenhagen in 1831 . He quickly gained the trust of the Danish King Christian VIII and in 1839 became chairman of the government commission for the preparation of the Altona-Kiel Railway , which opened in 1844. On March 30, 1842 Heinrich von Reventlow-Criminil became Danish Minister of State and Foreign Minister. As a representative of the idea of ​​the entire Danish state , he loyally officiated until the constitutional reform of 1848. He was no longer a member of the March government of 1848 under Adam Wilhelm Moltke . On January 27, 1852, at the insistence of Austria , he was appointed Danish Minister for Holstein and Lauenburg under Prime Minister Christian Albrecht Bluhme and held office until the resignation of the entire Ørsted Ministry in December 1854. He then retired into private life and died on the 1856 bought the Ruhleben farm near Plön. He was buried in the assistance cemetery in Copenhagen.

Awards

• Title Chamberlain on November 13, 1833
• Dannebrogorden : Knight 1834, Dannebrogsmann on October 28, 1836, Commander on February 27, 1839, Grand Cross on June 10, 1841
• Title as Privy Conference Councilor
• Grand Cross of the North Star Order on June 7, 1845
• Order of the Elephants on January 1st, 1847
• Order of the Red Eagle 1st class
• Grand Cross of the Austro-Hungarian Order of Leopold
• Commander of the ku St. Stephen's Order
• Knight of the Alexander Nevsky Order
• Grand Cross of the Guelph Order
• Honorary Grand Officer of the Oldenburg House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig
• Knight Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus
• Knight of the Legion of Honor
• Knight of the Order of Saint Joseph
• Knight of the Order of the Redeemer
• Knight of the Order of Charles III.
• Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John

literature

• Dieter Lohmeier : Heinrich Graf von Reventlow-Criminil. in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7, pp. 146-150.
• Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg :  Reventlow, counts too. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , pp. 474-476 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Anna Reventlow-Criminil  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Entry at www.reventlow.dk

Individual evidence

1. ↑ All orders according to: Wilhelm Swalin: Det danske Statsraad, 1800-1881: Biographiske data. Stockholm 1881, p. 127.