Joseph of Reventlow-Criminil

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Joseph Carl Graf von Reventlow-Criminil (born February 9, 1797 in Hamburg , † June 17, 1850 at Gut Emkendorf ) was a Schleswig-Holstein landowner, administrative officer and politician.

family

Joseph Graf von Reventlow-Criminil was born as Joseph Merchier de Criminil and was the son of Caroline Friederike Schimmelmann (1778-1858) from the marriage with Francois Valentine, Marquis le Merchier de Criminil (1753-1813), who as a noble refugee from the French Revolution to Northern Germany and on Emkendorf . After the death of his father, Joseph and his brother Heinrich were adopted as the adoptive son of Friedrich Karl von Reventlow and his wife Julia , his mother's aunt, and raised to the Danish count status as Reventlow-Criminil. After the death of his adoptive father in 1828, he became his sole heir and master of Emkendorf.

In 1820 in Nice he married the widow Charlotte Juliane (1778–1857), born 19 years his senior. Platen-Hallermund , daughter of Ernst Franz von Platen-Hallermund , widow of Friedrich Freiherr Blome (born February 15, 1769 - † September 12, 1818) and mother of Otto von Blome (1795–1884) and Adolf von Blome (1798–1875 ). The couple's only child was Carl Adelbert Felix Graf von Reventlow-Criminil (born August 9, 1821 in Marseille, † January 11, 1908 in Emkendorf).

Life

From 1815 he studied law together with his brother Heinrich and their cousin Eugen von Reventlow law at the University of Kiel and from 1816 at the University of Göttingen . He passed his exam in Glückstadt in 1819 . On a trip to Italy with his friend Otto von Blome and his family, he married his widowed mother Charlotte von Blome in Nice in 1820 and not, as expected, his friend's sister. He entered the civil service of the duchies and, after assuming his inheritance, became a bailiff in Rendsburg in 1829 , so that he could live in Emkendorf. In 1835 he became a member of the Holstein Estates assembly as a representative of the noble estates and their vice-president. In 1837 the reception ( recepti ) in the Schleswig-Holstein knighthood took place for him and his descendants, but linked to the property of Gut Emkendorf, so that this expired in 1929 with the sale of the property for the descendants. In 1842, in connection with the rise of his brother Heinrich at the Danish court in Copenhagen to the position of Danish Foreign Minister, he became director of the chancellery for Schleswig-Holstein and Lauenburg and royal commissioner in the state assemblies for Holstein and Schleswig. From 1846 he was only commissioner for the Holstein assembly of estates in Itzehoe . Because of his sympathy for the Schleswig-Holstein movement , he fell into disrepute at the court in Copenhagen and King Christian VIII had to comply with his resignation in 1846. In the same month, however, he appointed Reventlow-Criminil as chief president of Altona . As such, he changed sides in 1848 and recognized the Provisional Government of Schleswig-Holstein. Due to his untimely death, he appears to have escaped disciplinary proceedings. He was buried in the parish church for Emkendorf, the Church of St. Catharinen in Westensee .

Awards

  • Hofjägermeister
  • Chamberlain
  • Secret conference council
  • Bearer of the Grand Cross of the Dannebrog Order (1842)

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personal data
SURNAME Reventlow-Criminil, Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reventlow-Criminil, Joseph Carl Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Schleswig-Holstein landowner, administrative officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1850
Place of death to Gut Emkendorf