Johann Ernst von Wallenrodt (Minister)

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Johann Ernst von Wallenrodt (born September 27, 1695 - † September 20, 1766 ) was a Prussian minister of state and war.

Life

Origin and family

Johann Ernst von Wallenrodt, to distinguish it from Johann Ernst von Wallenrodt (1615–1697), also called the Younger , was a member of the Prussian line of those of Wallenrodt . His parents were the caretaker of Mohrungen and Liebstadt as well as captain of Osterode , Hohenstein and Insterburg , Ernst von Wallenrodt auf Schodehnen (1651–1735) and Katharina Elisabeth von der Groeben (1663–1705). Johann Ernst married Concordia Renata von Bömeln († 1736), a daughter of Gdańsk mayor Gabriel von Bömeln (1658–1740), for the first time in 1731 . In 1739, as a widower, he entered into a second marriage with Luise Christiane von Korff from the Bledau family (1715–1746). The first marriage produced a son and a daughter, and the second marriage produced another son.

  • Friedrich Stanislaus (1735–1784), majorate on Popehnen
  • Charlotte Wilhelmine (1736–1759), ⚭ 1756 Jakob Friedrich von Rohd (1703–1784), Prussian minister
  • Friedrich Ernst (1739– after 1784), Herr auf Hude

Career

Wallenrodt moved into the Albertina in 1711 and went on his Grand Tour after graduation . In 1714, in the company of the governor of Neuchâtel , Baron de Lubières, he went through Switzerland to Geneva , from there to France , where he attended the funeral ceremonies of Louis XIV , then on to the carnival in Brussels and was finally back in August 1716 Berlin , where he became royal chamberlain . In 1722 he became a privy councilor and received the Order de la Générosité . In the following year he went to Hanover and was English resident in Danzig as a privy councilor from 1624 .

In October of the same year he was sent to the Reichstag in Warsaw . He then went to the coronation ceremonies in London and in the meantime received orders from the Prussian King Friedrich I for various diplomatic assignments. From 1730 he returned to Danzig on behalf of Prussia. On March 10, 1734 he was appointed Real Secret Budget Council or Minister of State and War in Berlin . In June 1740 the order was issued that he should actually receive the budget ministry in the event of a vacancy. Also in 1740 he joined a lodge. After he had already attended the homage to Friedrich Wilhelm , he moved completely from Danzig to Königberg in the winter of 1742 . In January 1643 he became Obermarschall ibid . From 1744 to 1746 he was then an authorized minister at the Polish Diet in Grodno . During the Seven Years' War he left his post and was ordered back to Königsberg in 1762. He died as minister and senior marshal and was replaced in these offices by Friedrich Gottfried von der Groeben (1726–1799).

literature

  • 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. 1064 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlev Schwennicke (Ed.): European Family Tables New Series , Volume XXI Brandenburg and Prussia 2 , Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt / Main 2002, Tfl. 165.
  2. ↑ Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The king. Prussian and Churfürstl. Brandenburg Really Secret State Council on its bicentenary foundation day on January 5th, 1805. Berlin 1805, p. 418, no. 183.
  3. ^ Jacob Friedrich Werner : News from the counts and nobles von Wallenrodischen family. Königsberg 1763, pp. 36-40.
personal data
SURNAME Wallenrodt, Johann Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wallenrod, Johann Ernst von; Wallenrodt, Johann Ernst the Younger from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Minister
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1695
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1766