Heinrich von Reventlow (bailiff)
Heinrich Graf Reventlow (born March 2, 1796 in Schleswig , † July 2, 1842 in Hildesheim ) was a German administrative lawyer in the Danish service.
Life
Heinrich von Reventlow came from the older house of the Schleswig-Holstein nobility family ( Equites Originarii ) von Reventlow . He was the eldest son of the royal Danish chamberlain and major general Count Heinrich von Reventlou (1763-1848), lord of the Falkenberg , heir to Wittenberg ( Martensrade ) and Kaltenhof, and his wife Anna Sophia, née. Countess von Baudissin (1778-1853). Ernst Christian , Friedrich and Christian Andreas Julius were his brothers.
Together with Christian zu Rantzau , who was of the same age , he visited the Katharineum in Lübeck until Michaelis in 1814 and studied law at the Universities of Göttingen and from 1817 Kiel .
In 1819 he joined the Danish civil service as a chancellery in the Department of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen . In 1820 he passed his legal exam before the upper court at Gottorf Castle . From 1822 to 1825 he was auscultant in the German Chancellery in Copenhagen, from 1825 to 1828 legation secretary at the Danish embassy in Berlin and from 1828 to 1831 in the same position at the embassy of the Danish king in his capacity as Duke of Holstein and Lauenburg at the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main .
In 1831 he was appointed bailiff for the Flensburg office , in 1834 councilor in the government of the duchies and in 1839 bailiff for the offices of Bordesholm , Kiel and Kronshagen . In May 1842 he asked for his release for health reasons and died in Hildesheim on the way to a cure.
On July 13, 1831, he married the lady-in-waiting of Caroline Amalie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg Julie Louise Frederike Countess Rantzau (* July 25, 1808 in Itzehoe ; † December 9, 1894), a daughter of Carl Emil Graf zu Rantzau Rastorf (1775–1857) and his wife Emilie, b. Countess von Bernstorff (1777–1811), a daughter of Andreas Peter von Bernstorff . He became the brother-in-law of his schoolmate Christian zu Rantzau. After his death, his widow married Otto von Rantzau for the second time .
His son Adolf Ludwig Christian von Reventlow (* 1835) was embittered by the noble monastery of Itzehoe. His daughter Caroline Christiane Elisabeth (1837–1917) married Emil zu Rantzau . Adeline Countess von Reventlow became an animal painter.
Awards
- 1834 title chamberlain
- May 4, 1839 Dannebrogorden , knight
literature
- Danmarks nobility Aarbog. 1939
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized version ), no. 51
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reventlow, Heinrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reventlow, Heinrich Graf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer in the Danish service |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1796 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schleswig |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2, 1841 |