Johann Friedrich II of Alvensleben
Johann Friedrich II. Von Alvensleben (born January 9, 1657 in Halle , † September 21, 1728 in Hanover ) was the Hanoverian minister. He had the Hundisburg Palace expanded into a baroque complex with formal gardens.
Life
Johann Friedrich II. Von Alvensleben came from the Low German noble family von Alvensleben . Born as the second son of the Magdeburg Privy Councilor Gebhard XXV. von Alvensleben (1618–1681) from Neugattersleben Castle and Agnes von Rautenberg (1616–1685) from Rethmar Castle , he studied from 1675 to 1678 at the University of Leipzig and then undertook an educational trip to Holland, England, France, Italy and 1681 Switzerland, which also included studying in Saumur for several months . In 1682 he entered the service of Duke Anton Ulrich von Wolfenbüttel , first as a chamberlain, then in 1686 as a councilor. In 1687 he led a Braunschweig contingent of troops against the Turks to the Republic of Venice .
In 1688 he entered the service of Brandenburg, first as a chamber councilor and war councilor, and in 1691 as a real Braunschweig Privy Councilor . At the same time he remained in the service of Brunswick and kept his residence on his property. In 1703 he negotiated in Danzig during the Northern War as the Brandenburg ambassador with the Swedes. In the following years he withdrew more and more from public life and devoted himself to the sciences and the management of his estates.
As a comprehensively educated scholar and art collector, he created a large library, which u. a. and Leibniz used. He had a lively political correspondence with him, which comprises 129 sheets and is in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library . The content of the letters served above all to preserve the imperial concept against the rising power of Prussia and the Welf House.
In 1719 he was appointed Minister of State of Hanover by King George I of Great Britain . In this position he had u. a. took responsibility for the duchies of Bremen and Verden and lived in Stade for a year in 1723 in order to better fulfill his duties . In 1726 he said goodbye due to illness.
In the period from 1717 to around 1726 he was involved in a knighthood conflict with King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia . This had ordered the replacement of the fief canon. Instead of the obligation to provide feudal horses in the event of war, the feudal bearers should pay an annual fee. Alvensleben and some other members of the knighthood sued the Reichshofrat in Vienna and won the process. However, this was without major consequences. Although Emperor Charles VI. In his edict of February 1, 1725, the King of Prussia stuck to his policy and the aristocratic families concerned finally had to bow to the court order.
When heirs were compared with his younger brother, the Hanoverian court councilor Karl August I von Alvensleben (1661–1697), the Hundisburg estate fell to him temporarily in 1691 and finally in 1693. From 1693 to 1712 he was there by the Brunswick court architect Hermann Korb the Hundisburg castle building, a masterpiece of Baroque in Lower Germany with significant gardens. In 1714 he also acquired the Woltersdorf estate near Magdeburg.
He was married to Adelheid Agnes von der Schulenburg (1664-1726) from Altenhausen and had eight children with her. His eldest son was the future Minister of Hanover, Rudolf Anton von Alvensleben (1688–1737). Johann Friedrich died on September 21, 1728 in Hanover and was buried in the palace chapel in Hundisburg.
literature
- Johann August Jänichen: Johann Friedrich von Alvensleben. Magdeburg 1729. (funeral sermon)
- Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück: Historical news of the Alvensleben family and their goods. Third part. Self-published, Berlin 1829, pp. 242–273.
- Otto von Heinemann : History of Braunschweig and Hanover. Perthes, Gotha 1884–92.
- Leopold von Ranke : Twelve books of Prussian history. Critical edition by G. Küntzel. 3 volumes. Three masks, Munich 1930.
- Udo von Alvensleben : The Brunswick castles of the baroque period and their master builder Hermann Korb. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1937, ( Art History Studies 21).
- Udo von Alvensleben : Alvensleben, Johann Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 233 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Jörg Leuschner: Alvensleben, Johann Friedrich von. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 40-41 .
- Sabine Sellschopp: Leibniz and the Brothers von Alvensleben - encounters and correspondence. In: Berthold Heinecke, Hartmut Hecht (Hrsg.): At the midpoint of the messages that occurred between Hanover and Berlin. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in Hundisburg. Contributions to the conference in Hundisburg on September 18, 2004. Kultur-Landschaft Haldensleben-Hundisberg eV, Haldensleben-Hundisburg 2006, ISBN 3-00-019699-4 , pp. 51-69.
- Udo von Alvensleben-Wittenmoor: The Alvensleben in Kalbe 1324-1945. edited by Reimar von Alvensleben , Falkenberg August 2010 (180 S).
Web links
- Johann Friedrich II. Von Alvensleben (1657–1728) on familie-von-alvensleben.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alvensleben, Johann Friedrich II. Von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hanoverian Minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1657 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hall |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1728 |
| Place of death | Hundisburg |