Johann Rudolph von Ahlefeldt (1775–1848)

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Johann Rudolph von Ahlefeldt (born January 1, 1775 at Gut Saxtorff , † November 25, 1848 at Gut Sehestedt ) was the landlord of Ludwigsburg , Sehestedt and Saxtorff. He was the husband of the German writer Charlotte von Ahlefeld .

Life

He was the son of the landlord, chamberlain and district administrator Detlev von Ahlefeldt (1747–1796) and his first wife Heilwig Conradine Countess von Ahlefeldt († 1748) from the house of Eschelsmark .

After the death of his father, Ahlefeldt received 60,000 Reichstaler and the Saxtorff estate through a Fideikommiss . He had this converted and expanded generously. During a trip to Weimar , he met his future wife Charlotte von Seebach (born December 6, 1781 at Gut Stedten, now part of Berlstedt ; † July 27, 1849 in Teplitz ), the daughter of the Electorate of Hanover 's cavalry colonel Alexander Christoph August von Seebach , Landlord of Stedten, and the Albertine Auguste Wilhelmine von Ingersleben . On May 21, 1798 the couple was in Schleswig married by the poet and philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder .

The marriage, from which the three sons Friedrich (1799–1862), Erich (1800–1853) and Hermann (1806–1855) emerged, was not a happy one. Charlotte separated from her husband in 1807 and moved to Schleswig, but returned to Saxtorff for a short period in 1810 and 1811. From 1821 she lived in Weimar again.

On Boxing Day 1847 the manor on Gut Saxtorff burned down. Ahlefeldt died in November 1848 and left a great fortune. Heir was his eldest son Friedrich von Ahlefeldt , royal Danish chamberlain , member of the Schleswig Estates Assembly as Estates Deputy of the Schleswig Knighthood .

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Hansen: More complete description of the state of the Duchy of Schleswig. First part, Flensburg 1770, page 527
  • Hermann Julius Meyer: Neues konversations-lexikon a dictionary of general knowledge. Volume 1, 1861, page 323
  • Schleswig-Holstein Knighthood : Contribution to the nobility history of Germany and Denmark. Schleswig 1869, page 29
  • Alexander Jacob Schem: German-American conversations-lexikon (German edition). New York 1869, 211
  • Henning von Rumohr: Castles and mansions in the Duchy of Schleswig. Weidlich, 1968, pages 183 and 414
  • Caroline Jagemann: Self-productions in classic Weimar. Wallstein 2004, page 275

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser A Volume VIII, Page 5, Volume 38 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1966
  2. ^ Genealogical manual of the nobility A VIII, 1966