Karl von Sievers (statesman)

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Karl von Sievers
(oil painting by Georg Caspar Prenner, 1750s)

Karl Eduard Graf von Sievers auf Lagena and Waiwara ( Russian Карл Ефимович Сиверс , * March 12, Swedish / March 22, 1710 greg. In Näsby , Pyttis parish , Finland ; † December 30, 1774 July / January 10,  1775 greg. in Saint Petersburg ) was a German-Baltic statesman and court marshal of Tsarina Elisabeth , from 1762 Oberhofmarschall of Tsarina Catherine II.

Life

He was the son of the militia captain Joachim Johan von Sievers (1674–1753) and Gertrud Elisabeth von Eckermann (1671–1728) , who was admitted to the Russian nobility in 1725 . His ancestors came to Russia as Holstein officers in the Swedish service (see also the Sievers family ).

Karl von Sievers' father had to flee to Finland at the beginning of the Great Northern War . Karl was born there, but the family soon moved to Saint Petersburg . There, in 1735, son Karl became a valet who (then still) became Grand Duchess Elisabeth and later made a career as her favorite at the Tsar's court. On February 5, 1742 he became her chamberlain . He was on May 26, 1745 in Dresden as an imperial Russian chamberlain and brigadier by Elector August III. raised by Saxony as imperial vicar to the status of imperial baron. With the Estonian knighthood he was enrolled on January 15, 1751 and with the Livonian knighthood in 1752 as a lord of the Ostrominsky.

On August 1, 1751 Sievers was made Chamberlain , later he was Real Chamberlain. In the years 1754/1755 he was the Russian envoy in Vienna. From September 21, 1757 until Elisabeth's death in January 1762, he was court marshal and lieutenant general of the Tsarina. On February 15, 1760, he was raised as an Imperial Russian Lieutenant General and Court Marshal to the rank of imperial count with the official salutation "High and well-born" and improved coat of arms, and on February 22, 1760 he received Russian approval to use this title of count. On September 22nd, 1762 Sievers was appointed Oberhofmarschall and General-en-Chef of the Tsarina Katharina II. When he was head of the main court office and thus the Tsarina’s first economic clerk responsible for the most important personnel matters. He was retired in 1767.

As the Imperial Russian envoy in Prussia, he received his portrait from Frederick the Great, decorated with diamonds. Tsarina Elisabeth presented Sievers with large estates in Livonia and Estonia. From 1753 to 1774 he was the owner of the paper mill in Krasnoye Selo .

Sievers married Benedigte Elisabeth Kruse (born January 19, 1725 in Holstein , † September 19, 1777 in Saint Petersburg).

He died on December 30, 1774 in Saint Petersburg. The funeral oration was given on January 13, 1775 by the theologian Martin Luther Wolff (1744–1801), at that time still the second pastor of St. Petrikirche.

Orders and honors

progeny

  • Elisabeth (1746-1818)
  • Johann Carl (1749–1805), Russian colonel
  • Benedikt (1750–1777)
  • Peter (1751-1813), Russian major
  • Carl Joachim (1758–1800), Russian major

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Entry in the baptismal register of the Pyttis parish
  2. ↑ During this time his son Paul was born in Vienna.
  3. ^ Johann Friedrich von Recke , Karl Eduard Napiersky : General writers and scholars lexicon of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland . Volume 4: SZ. Steffenhagen and son, Mitau 1832, p. 566 ( Google books )

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personal data
SURNAME Sievers, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sievers, Karl Jefimowitsch Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic statesman and high court marshal of Tsarina Catherine II.
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1710
PLACE OF BIRTH Pyttis , Finland
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1775
Place of death St. Petersburg