Joachim Carl von Maltzan

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Joachim Carl Graf von Maltzan , also Joachim Karl , not von Maltzahn (born December 28, 1733 in Militsch ; † September 10, 1813 ibid. ) Was a Prussian minister and envoy .

Life

Origin and family

Joachim Carl von Maltzan (no. 504 of the gender census ) was a member of the extensive aristocratic family Maltza (h) n and is attributed to its Militsch branch . He was one of five children of the Prussian envoy and cabinet minister Joachim Andreas von Maltzan, Freiherr zu Wartenberg (# 501; 1707–1786) and Friederike Luise, née Countess von Platen-Hallermund (1713–1798).

In 1761 he married Ernestine, b. Baroness von Mudrach (1746–1795), who gave him the rule of Deutsch Lissa as heiress . The marriage had three children:

  • Joachim Alexander Casmir Kasimir (1764–1850) ⚭ Antoinette Countess von Hoym (1768–1799)
  • Joachim Caesar Eugen (1765–1845) ⚭I Luise Henriette von Wedell (1776–1829); ⚭II Friederike Heloise Henriette Seelmann
  • Sophie (1766–1845) ⚭ August Alexander Graf von Bojanowsky

Career

Maltzahn initially received home tuition and then attended grammar school in Breslau until 1753 . His cavalier tour followed and led him u. a. in 1753 to Prague and Karlsbad . From 1755 he studied in Leyden and then in London , from where he returned via Paris shortly before the outbreak of the Seven Years War in Militsch.

From 1761 he was in the diplomatic service of Prussia and from then on mostly stayed abroad. First he went to St. Petersburg with Wilhelm Bernhard von der Goltz in 1762, where he received the Order of St. Anne . From 1764 he was the royal chamberlain and from 1765 he served as envoy extraordinary to London. The king had recalled him from there in 1782, but he did not return to Silesia until 1784 , where, after his father's death, he later became majorate of the free class rule Militsch and holder of the Prussian land treasurer of the Duchy of Silesia . 1787 was the the character of a Privy Council and he was appointed as Minister bestallt , but gave up his diplomatic career in the same year and retired to his estates.

He was a knight of the Black Noble Order .

literature

  • Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The royal Prussian and electoral Brandenburg real secret Council of State on its 200-year foundation day January 5, 1805 , Berlin 1805, pp. 487-488
  • Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 612 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Maltza (h) n 1194-1945. The life path of an East German noble family. Cologne 1979. p. 252.
  2. ^ A b Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Preussisches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 4, Leipzig 1837, p. 412.
personal data
SURNAME Maltzan, Joachim Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maltzan, Joachim Karl von; Maltzahn, Joachim Carl von (wrong name form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian minister and envoy
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH Militsch
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1813
Place of death Militsch