Klaus Ernst von Platen

Klaus Ernst von Platen (born April 12, 1612 in Quitzow in der Prignitz ; † April 14, 1669 ) was a member of the Brandenburg aristocratic family Platen and since 1663 Kurbrandenburg secret war council , since 1655 general war commissioner and captain zu Lehnin .

Life

His father, Hartwig von Platen († 1632), was district director of Prignitz. Klaus Ernst von Platen served as high-ranking advocate of provincial estates interests in the electoral central administration. As an administrator and not as a military man, he overlooked the Kurbrandenburg Army in his function as General War Commissioner .

Klaus Ernst was the first Brandenburg General War Commissioner to be responsible for the main electoral army since 1645. In addition to him, a second General War Commissioner, Johann Ernst von Wallenrodt, served in the army in the Duchy of Prussia . In 1651 he became a real secret councilor in the secret council for Brandenburg-Prussia . He was envoy to the Reichstag in Regensburg (1663). From 1660 until his death he was a clerk of the Lehnin office .

On April 15, 1649, he married Anna Ehrentraut von Klitzing , who from 1685 was the Royal Danish Chief Chamberlain. With her he had four sons including Heinrich von Platen , Royal Prussian Privy Councilor (1654–1734).

literature

• Peter Baumgart : Estates and state formation in Brandenburg-Prussia: results of an international symposium, publications by the Historical Commission in Berlin , Volume 55, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 1980, p. 64
• Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : Neues Prussisches Adels-Lexicon, or, Genealogical and diplomatic news of the princely, counts, baronial and noble houses residing in or related to the Prussian monarchy , Reichenbach, Leipzig 1837, p. 38

Web links

• geneagraphie.com: family tree