Chamberlain

Berlin memorial plaque on the house, Schloßstraße 6, in Berlin-Charlottenburg

A Chamberlain was at the end of the 17th century and in the 18th century a personal servant at the court for a person belonging to the higher nobility .

The name was under Friedrich III. introduced by Brandenburg , who hired two Turks from the victorious battle of Ofen - today's Budapest  - in the course of the Great Turkish War against the Ottoman Empire in 1686 as body servants for his second wife, Sophie Charlotte , after they had converted to Christianity .

Later, these two are now in were Charlottenburg Palace - Chamber Turks make  Friedrich Wilhelm Hassan and Friedrich Aly  - in the newly founded city of Charlottenburg for free cottagers .

See also

• Kammermohr
• Court dwarf
• Booty Turks
• Mehmet von Königstreu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Turkish-German history in the gallery in the body park: With red carpet , by Stefanie Flamm, Berliner Zeitung of October 29, 1998
2. ^ Economic history: Exotic lackeys for Europe's aristocratic palaces , Spiegel Online , June 29, 2012
3. ^ Die Kammertürken vom Charlottenburger Schloss KiezBlatt (newspaper of the Kiezbündnis Klausenerplatz eV) number 9 / June 2003, page 4