Johann Peter von Raesfeld

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Johann-Peter von Raesfeld (born March 26, 1679 in Wesel , † October 20, 1764 in Kleve ) was the banner lord of Geldern and Zutphen, Privy Councilor and District President of the Prussian provinces of Kleve and Mark and curator of the University of Duisburg .

Life

He was the son of Anton von Raesfeld and Christiane von Rood gt. Cost; Lord of Bronkhorst in Geldern and Claerenbeck and hereditary lord of Groß-Büllersheim and Miel (Quandt's estates) and came from the Kleve branch of the von Raesfeld family . In 1733 he was Klevian government chancellor and in 1740 extraordinary envoy for the States General under Frederick the Great, who was in negotiations with Wilhelm III. of Orange, the governor of the States General. Among them, the question of whether the Duchy of Kleve and the County of Mark belonged to the Netherlands or Brandenburg (Prussia) was decided in favor of Brandenburg after there was no longer any direct hereditary successor.

Johann Peter von Raesfeld is said to have been a clever and politically prudent person who solved the most difficult tasks, even if King Friedrich was too slow. Johann Peter von Raesfeld is often mentioned in the published “Correspondence of Frederick the Great”. For example, in Volume I of this work it says: “Raesfeld crawls like a snail”. These are negotiations that he had to meet in the Hague regarding a Prussian-French alliance. He was also interested in literature. So he tried to the proposal Voltaire back in the printer van Duren around the time of printing of Frederick the Great wrote "Anti-macchiavelli" On 26 July 1729 renewing the nobility of him was Friedrich Wilhelm I awarded by Prussia.

Awards

Johann-Peter von Raesfeld was a knight of the order Pour le Mérite of Frederick the Great.

literature

  • Walter von Raesfeld: The sex of the lords and barons of Raesfeld , Recklinghausen 1962
  • Fahne, Anton: History of the barons and lords of Hövel , family table Raesfeld
  • Max Hein: Friedrich's correspondence Major publishing house Reimar Hobbing ; Berlin 1914; and Secret State Archive Berlin
  • The "Correspondence of Friedrichs the. Great with Voltaire “ 82. Vol., Part II, p. 18 and No. 139 Leipzig 1909
  • Genealogical paperback of the barons houses 1855 ; Pp. 446 and 447, and Ledebur, Adelslexikon

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Flag: The Lords and Barons v. Hövel, along with the genealogy of the families from which they took their wives , Verlag Heberle, 1860, page 147
  4. ^ Mario Ferdinand Krammer: German letters from a millennium , Reclam-Verlag, 1958, page 87
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personal data
SURNAME Raesfeld, Johann Peter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raesfeld, Johann-Peter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Privy Council and District President
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1679
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1764
Place of death Kleve