Hermann Alexander von Wolffradt

Hermann Alexander von Wolffradt (* 1689 ; † after 1734 in Meyenburg ) was a German lawyer, governor of Rügen and bailiff in Bergen on Rügen .

Hermann Alexander was a son of Berendt von Wolffradt (1643–1693) from his second marriage to Katharina von der Osten . In 1711 he became a trainee lawyer at the Greifswald court and in the same year governor and governor of Rügen . After the occupation of Swedish Pomerania by Danish troops, he resigned from his office in 1716, but continued to hold the title of governor . After the re-establishment of Swedish rule in Western Pomerania , he was reinstated as governor by Governor General Johann August Meyerfeldt in 1721 .

He had inherited the Udar estate from his father . He had the courtyard buildings burned down in 1726 rebuilt. However, the high costs forced him to sell the estate to the von Usedom family on Kartzitz .

In 1734 he was granted his leave and the title of government councilor was awarded. He went to his stepson and nephew, the district administrator of Rohr in Meyenburg in Prignitz , where he also died.

Hermann Alexander von Wolffradt was married to Hedwig von Bohlen for the first time . His second wife was Hedwig Sophia von Molzahn , daughter of the Mecklenburg district administrator of Molzahn on Grubenhagen. His daughter Ursula Charlotte died as a conventual of the aristocratic women's monastery in the Bergen monastery on Rügen .

literature

• Carl Gesterding : Genealogies and / or family foundations Pomeranian, especially knightly families. First collection. G. Reimer, Berlin 1842, pp. 216-217. ( Digitized version )

See also

• List of the bailiffs of Rügen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Meier: Western Pomerania north of the Peene under Danish administration 1715 to 1721. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2008, pp. 115–116 ( Google books )