Johann Ernst von Alvensleben

Johann August Ernst Count of Alvensleben

Johann August Ernst Graf von Alvensleben (born August 6, 1758 in Erxleben , † September 27, 1827 there ) was a German statesman.

Life

family

He came from the Low German noble family von Alvensleben and was the only son of the Electorate of Hanover and heir to Erxleben II Joachim IV von Alvensleben (1720–1782) and Sophia Louise Ernestine von Platen (1733–1799) from Demerthin , daughter of the royal Prussian secret Councilor and Canon of Magdeburg Nikolaus Ernst von Platen (1693–1733), and on July 8, 1788, married Caroline von Rohr (1771–1816), daughter of the Royal Prussian Major General Albrecht Ehrentreich von Rohr . The marriage resulted in thirteen children, including the later Prussian finance minister, Count Albrecht von Alvensleben (1794–1858). After his death in 1827 he was buried in the castle chapel in Erxleben.

job

Alvensleben studied law and political science at the University of Helmstedt from 1775. From 1781 to 1784 he worked as a trainee lawyer at the Magdeburg Chamber of Commerce and then managed the family estates Erxleben II and Uhrsleben . In 1788 he took over a canon position in Halberstadt , moved his residence there and was elected cathedral dean in 1796 as the successor to Count Christian Friedrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode . He was the last dean of the Halberstadt cathedral chapter, which was repealed by Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia in 1810 . From 1793 to 1796 he was a member of the commission that drafted the Märkisches provincial law. King Friedrich Wilhelm III. von Prussia raised him to hereditary count in 1798. After the Peace of Tilsit in 1807, Count Alvensleben went to Paris as a deputy of the cathedral chapter to congratulate King Jerome Bonaparte of the newly created Kingdom of Westphalia . Between 1808 and 1813 he was a member of the imperial estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia . In 1808 he took part in the homage at the Reichstag in Kassel . He was also a participant in the sessions of the Reichstag in 1810. As a connoisseur and friend of art and science, he promoted the Halberstadt poets Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim and Klamer Eberhard Karl Schmidt .

After the restoration of Prussian rule, King Friedrich Wilhelm III awarded him. for his services during the French occupation the order of the red eagle first class and appointed him to the order of St. John . After the dissolution of the cathedral chapter in 1810, Alvensleben withdrew to his Erxleben estate.

Minister in Braunschweig

After the death of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig in 1815, the English Prince Regent Georg received the guardianship of the Duke's underage sons. At the head of the custodial government was Count Gebhard von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg , who died on December 25, 1818 , as Minister of State . His successor was Count Alvensleben, who was appointed Minister of State in 1820 with the consent of his sovereign, the Prussian king. On October 30, 1823, the Hereditary Prince Charles II , who was not well disposed towards him, took over the affairs of state in the Duchy of Braunschweig , whereupon Alvensleben resigned and went back to his estate Erxleben. He received the Grand Cross of the Welf Order , but turned down a pension offered to him.

In 1824 the Prussian king appointed him marshal of the state parliament for the Mark Brandenburg and Lower Lusatia and a member of the State Council.

Johann Ernst von Alvensleben was a freemason in the Masonic lodge Ferdinand zur Glückseligkeit in Magdeburg.

literature

• NN: Biography Johann August Ernst Graf von Alvensleben. In: Der Harz-Bothe, Volume 1 Halberstadt 1827, pp. 67–80.
• New necrology of the Germans. Fifth year, 1827, second part, Ilmenau 1829, pp. 846–852.
• Udo von Alvensleben-Wittenmoor : The last five generations of Alvensleben in Erxleben II - 1782–1945 (written 1959). Published by the von Alvensleben e. V., Falkenberg August 2008, 44 pp.
• Guido Heinrich: Alvensleben, Johann Ernst von. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , pp. 9 – fh10.
• Jochen Lengemann : Biographical Handbook of the Imperial Estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia and the Estates Assembly of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt. Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-458-16185-6 , pp. 111-112.
• Christof Römer: Alvensleben, Johann August Ernst Graf von. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 26 .
• Ferdinand Spehr:  Alvensleben, Johann August Ernst Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 377 f.
• Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück: Historical news of the Alvensleben family and their goods. Third Part, Berlin 1829, pp. 389-393.
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 53.

Web links

• Johann August Ernst Graf von Alvensleben (1758–1827) on familie-von-alvensleben.de
• Family tree on geneall.net
• Alvensleben, Johann August Ernst Graf von. Hessian biography. (As of November 3, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).