Johann Friedrich Karl von Alvensleben
Johann Friedrich Karl von Alvensleben (born October 26, 1714 in Magdeburg , † May 16, 1795 in Ham Common , England) was a British-Hanoverian minister.
Life
He came from the Low German noble family von Alvensleben and was born in Magdeburg as the eldest son of the later Minister Rudolf Anton von Alvensleben (1688–1737) and Eleonora von Dieskau (1685–1721), studied at the University of Helmstedt and then went to the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar active. In 1736 he was appointed to the Chamber of Commerce in Hanover . In 1745 he went to Dresden as ambassador from the Electorate of Hanover , and in 1754 to Ratzeburg as Landdrost and consistorial president .
In 1771 King George III appointed him . from Great Britain to the Really Secret Minister of State and appointed him "Head of the German Chancellery " (Minister for Hanoverian Affairs) to London . There he worked until the end of his life. He died unmarried at the age of 81 on May 16, 1795 at his country estate Ham Common near London and was buried in the vaults of the German Church of St. Mary in London.
Alvensleben came from Neugattersleben and inherited his father's estate in Randau near Magdeburg. After 1742 he built a new house there, various farm buildings, some workers' houses, a dairy, a windmill, a preacher's widow's house and several colonist houses. He later inherited Hundisburg Castle , which after him fell to his nephew, the Prussian First Minister Philipp Karl von Alvensleben .
literature
- Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück: Historical news of the Alvensleben family and their goods. Third part. Berlin 1829, pp. 360-362.
- Leopold von Ranke : Hardenberg and the history of the Prussian state. 1877.
- E. von Meier: Hannoversche constitutional and legal history. 1898.
- Udo von Alvensleben: Alvensleben, Johann Friedrich Karl von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 234 ( digitized version ).
- Udo von Alvensleben-Wittenmoor : The Alvensleben in Kalbe 1324-1945. Edited by Reimar von Alvensleben . Falkenberg 2010.
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Hanoverian envoy to Saxony 1745–1754 |
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| Johann Burchard von Behr | Head of the German Chancellery 1771–1795 |
Georg August von Steinberg |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Alvensleben, Johann Friedrich Karl von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British and Hanoverian Minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1714 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1795 |
| Place of death | Ham Common |