Johann Friedrich VII of Alvensleben

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Johann Friedrich von Alvensleben

Johann Friedrich VII von Alvensleben (born December 16, 1747 in Zichtau , † March 1, 1829 in Brieg ) was a Prussian district administrator and landowner. In 1808 he was appointed to the imperial estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia . From 1822 he was senior of the Black Line of the von Alvensleben family .

Life

Johann Friedrich was born as the last son of the landowner Levin Ludolf IV von Alvensleben (1710–1750) on Zichtau. Since his father died when he was three years old, he grew up under the tutelage of his mother Anna Hedwig von Alvensleben (1721–1775). After the death of her father, she enlarged the family's property in Zichtau and with an estate in Wollenrade , which she had bought from the historian Philipp Wilhelm Gercken . In 1770, two years before her death, she inherited the feudal estates. At the age of 23, the son received the inheritance on the Schenkenhorst estate and a tenth of the Alvensleben house in Rogätz .

Johann Friedrich completed his training after the end of the Seven Years' War in the Prussian military service and in 1764 with the gendarmerie regiment , where he retired as a cornet in 1769. In 1770 he settled on his Schenkenhorst estate . In 1784 he received from Chamberlain Johann Friedrich IX. von Alvensleben one fifth of the Rogätz family, which he finally exchanged in 1792 for Gut Groß-Engersen from the Hundisburger line , where he worked as a curator. In 1787 he acquired the Zichtau estate from his brother Karl Ludolf, where he took up his new residence.

In 1778, after Count Hans Otto von Bismarck had abdicated, Johann Friedrich was elected district administrator from the Altmark estates . On November 21, his exam was held by the Prussian Minister Friedrich Wilhelm von Derschau , and on November 30 it was approved. He renounced the district office in the home district of Anrendsee / Seehausen and went to the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel , where he wanted to say goodbye in 1784 because of the curatorial position in Groß-Engersen, but then continued his office at the request of the Chancellor of the Altmarkkreis. Von Alvensleben was listed as a hard-working civil servant in the conduit lists , but his knowledge was not sufficient for a position as chamber president in Magdeburg . The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II refused his request on September 15, 1795. With the establishment of the Kingdom of Westphalia , his activity as District Administrator ended with the new administrative regulations of January 11, 1808.

From 1808 to 1813 von Alvensleben was a member of the general electoral college for the Elbe department and also sat on the district council of the Salzwedel district and the department council of the Elbe department. From June 26, 1806 to October 26, 1813 he was a member of the imperial estates. He was elected to the imperial estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia for the landowners of the Elbe department and took part in both meetings in 1808 and 1810.

In 1813, during the Wars of Liberation , he was a co-founder of the Elbe Hussar Regiment . Due to the independent clothing and uniform costs for the soldiers, he was forced to sell the Zichtau, Schenkenhorst and Groß-Engersen estates. In 1815 his daughter-in-law Charlotte von Rohr bought Zichtau back, but the family moved to Silesia in 1818 after the great loss of assets .

In 1822 von Alvensleben became senior of the whole Black Branch of the von Alvensleben family. His eyesight is said to have deteriorated at this time, until he finally became completely blind. He suffered from the black star in Brieg until his death in 1829 .

Johann Friedrich VII. Von Alvensleben married on February 18, 1772 Neugattersleben Louise Eleonore Amalia Sophia von Alvensleben to Neugattersleben (11 October 1744 to 25. September 1815). He had a total of nine children with her, four sons and five daughters. The two sons Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Gebhard Ludolf and Gebhard Friedrich Achaz Karl Albrecht died in childhood, the sons Johann Friedrich Karl (1783–1851) and Ludwig Wilhelm Karl Alexander served as officers in the Prussian army. Ludwig Karl Alexander was later the historical model for a fictional character Theodor Fontane . The daughters were also married to officers from the Prussian army.

literature

  • Lengemann, Jochen , Parliaments in Hesse 1808–1813. 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. 112–113.
  • 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. 7th f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Thiemer, On the history of the district and the district office of Salzwedel , in: Salzwedeler Wochenblatt (December 1, 1932), p. 91ff.
  • Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück, Geschichtliche Nachrichten von dem Geschlechte Alvensleben , Volume 3, S.371

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück / Hellmut Kretzschmar, Geschichtliche Nachrichten von dem Geschlechte Alvensleben, Vol. 3, Berlin 1829, p. 334.
  2. ↑ See ibid. P. 371.
  3. ^ 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. 8 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ See Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück / Hellmut Kretzschmar, Geschichtliche Nachrichten von dem Geschlechte Alvensleben, Vol. 3, Berlin 1829, pp. 372f.
personal data
SURNAME Alvensleben, Johann Friedrich VII. Von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1747
PLACE OF BIRTH Zichtau
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1829
Place of death Brieg