Helmuth von Plessen (politician)

Helmuth Count of Plessen

Helmuth's signature and seal of the LGGEV (right sheet, center-left seal)

Helmuth Reichsgraf von Plessen (born April 4, 1699 in Cambs , † March 16, 1761 in Ivenack ) was a royal Polish and electoral Saxon chamberlain, real secret council, minister of state and envoy to the Danish court. In 1755 he was one of the co-signers of the Land Constitutional Constitutional Comparison .

ancestry

He was the son of the Mecklenburg District Administrator, Real Secret Councilor and Chamber President Diedrich Joachim von Plessen (* February 11, 1670 † September 22, 1733) and Gertrud Eleonore von Plessen, née. von Lepel (born February 19, 1674 † September 25, 1741).

Estate structuring of the Plessen estate Ivenack in Mecklenburg

Helmuth von Plessen, who was raised to the rank of imperial count in 1741, married Juliane von Francke, the widow of Ernst Christoph von Koppelow, and thus came into possession of the estate and castle Ivenack , which he made a majorate by a will and donated to the entails commission . This took place under the condition, sanctioned with an imperial diploma, that the respective majority holder from the resulting Ivenack branch of the baronial family von Maltza (h) n had to bear the title and coat of arms of the imperial counts of Plessen. After his death, the property passed to his nephew, Helmuth Burchard Hartwig Freiherr von Maltzahn (1729–1797; No. 948 of the gender census), with whom a line of tradition from Maltza (h) nscher Counts of Plessen began that spanned several generations. From then on, Ivenack remained in the Maltza family estate until the land reform in 1945.

literature

• Max Naumann: The Plessen. Line from the XIII. to XX. Century . Limburg an der Lahn 1971
• Genealogical Handbook of nobility band X . (Volume 119 of the complete series), CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISSN  0435-2408