Hermann Christian von Wolffradt

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Hermann Christian von Wolffradt (* unknown; † September 16, 1723 in Dömitz ) was the Privy Councilor and Chancellor of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

Life

Hermann Christian von Wolffradt was the third son of Hermann von Wolffradt (1629–1684) and Christine Rehnskiöld.

He was initially in the service of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm (I) , the regent of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Around 1705 he accompanied his brother, Duke Christian Ludwig , on a diplomatic mission to the Netherlands and England . On behalf of Friedrich Wilhelm I, he traveled to Berlin in 1713 and to his sister, the Prussian Queen Sophie Luise , who had been deported to Perwenitz . After the Duke's death in the same year, he worked for his successor Karl Leopold . In 1720 he was appointed chancellor by Karl Leopold in Dömitz.

As early as 1718 or 1719, a report of an alleged conspiracy against Karl Leopold, which von Wolffradt signed together with the Privy Councilors Schöpfer, Schaper and von Petkum, is said to have resulted in a broken relationship of trust. The informer fled when the alleged conspirators were about to be caught in Hamburg. Von Wolffrath wrote a very submissive letter of apology after two of the councilors were dismissed.

Another conflict with the duke is said to have come about with the departure of Albrecht Joachim von Krakevitz to Swedish Pomerania . Wolffradt, whose wife was the Duke's mistress, suddenly fell out of favor with Karl Leopold. He was allegedly charged with forging an unspecified document. In his work "Old and New Mecklenburg", David Franck described the fact that this could have been the dismissal certificate for Krakevitz as implausible. From the summer of 1721, investigations were carried out against von Wolffradt and the secret cabinet secretary Scharff. The Dömitz fortress commander, Colonel Balzer Detlof von Buggenhagen, who had also fallen out of favor, and the chief hunter von Bergholz managed to escape. Over time, the investigation was expanded to include the mayor of Dömitz Brasch, family members and domestic workers of the suspects, and several musketeers. Two of the musketeers were executed in December 1721. Scharff, who was incriminated by their statements, was tortured and pressed statements that allegedly induced Karl Leopold to leave Dömitz shortly afterwards.

On May 29, 1722 Hermann Christian von Wolffradt was sentenced to death by the court president Jakob Carmon and the chancellery Ch. David Schröder. On September 16, 1723, von Wolffradt was publicly beheaded in Dömitz. Brasch and Scharff died in prison in the months that followed.

family

Hermann Christian von Wolffradt was married to Frederika Wilhelmina (NN) since September 29, 1719. She was Karl Leopold's mistress and remained so for eight years after Wolffradt's death.

literature

  • Carl Gesterding : Genealogies and / or family foundations Pomeranian, especially knightly families. First collection. G. Reimer, Berlin 1842, p. 212f. ( Digitized version )
  • Carl Eduard Friedrich Dalmer: Collection of several news from the time and life of D. Albr. Joach. v. Krakevitz. Hingst, Stralsund 1862, p. 132f. ( GoogleBooks )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Reifferscheid : How the Schwerin museums were. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher. Vol. 97, 1933, pp. 129–158 ( digitized version ( memento of the original from September 12, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove it Note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / portal.hsb.hs-wismar.de
  2. ^ Friedrich Wigger : From the life of Queen Sophie Louise of Prussia (the "Princesse von Grabow"). In: Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 41, 1876, pp. 3–97 ( digitized version ( memento of the original dated August 31, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove it Note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / portal.hsb.hs-wismar.de
  3. ↑ a b c Wolffradt, ?? from. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Library, June 7, 2004, accessed on December 21, 2009 .
  4. ^ Carl Gesterding : Genealogies and / or family foundations Pomeranian, especially knightly families. First collection. G. Reimer, Berlin 1842, p. 179 ( digitized version )
  5. ^ A b Wilhelm Paul Graff: The second marriage of Duke Karl Leopold: a cultural image from Meklenburg in the first quarter of the 18th century. In: Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 60, 1895, pp. 199–308 ( digitized version ( memento of the original dated September 6, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove them Note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / portal.hsb.hs-wismar.de
  6. ^ Karl Ernst Hermann Krause:  Carmon, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 3 f.
  7. ↑ The ancestry of the bride is controversial. Older authors only agree that she was the illegitimate daughter of a prince. Her father is presumed to be the Mecklenburg Duke Friedrich Wilhelm (I) or the Prussian "Soldier King" Friedrich Wilhelm I.

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personal data
SURNAME Wolffradt, Hermann Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Privy councilor and chancellor in Mecklenburg-Schwerin
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1723
Place of death Doemitz