Leonhard Klinckowström

Leonard von Klinckowström

Leonhard Klinckowström , also Leonard (born September 30, 1685 , † September 1, 1759 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish civil servant, diplomat , chief postal director and state secretary .

Life

Leonhard von Klinckowström was a son of the land rent master Martin Klinckow (1650-1717), who was raised to the Swedish nobility in 1684, and Anna Elisabeth Vorberger. King Charles XII. ordered him to go to the Swedish headquarters in Rawitsch in 1704 , where he was to become a chamberlain after the death of his older brother Karl Bernhard Klinckowström . However, he became a copyist in the Livonian section of the royal chancellery . In 1705 he served in the field chancellery of Reich Marshal Carl Piper and was taken prisoner by Russia after the Battle of Poltava . He escaped in 1712 and, after an adventurous escape, was able to reach Königsberg in the winter of 1713 . In the spring of 1714 he first traveled to Stockholm, then to the king in Stralsund . He became chancellery in the Foreign Office and went to Stockholm to support Georg Heinrich von Görtz . In 1716 he became a registrar in the German department of the Foreign Office. He received the title of Royal Secretary in 1720. He was sent to England in 1722 on the matter of an alliance with Hanover . In 1728 he became a department secretary in the Foreign Office. He was appointed to the chancellery in 1739.

In 1743 he became chief post director and was thus responsible for the Swedish postal traffic and domestic magazines. He was also active in foreign affairs several times. In 1747 he was appointed State Secretary, and the following year he was made Knight and Commander of the North Star Order . In 1750 he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .

Together with his brother Thure Gustav Klinckowström , he was raised to the status of Swedish baron in early 1759. In the same year he retired from civil service and died on September 1st in Stockholm. He was buried next to his wife in a marble sarcophagus in the Klarakirche .

Leonhard Klinckowström was married to Catharina Ehrenpreus (1703–1757) since 1720. The marriage remained childless.

He owned Lövsta in Ed's socks in Uppland and a large house on Queen Street in Stockholm. In his will he decreed the sale of this property and instead acquiring Rinkestad socks in Ärla as Fideikommiss for his nephew Thure Leonard Klinckowström .

literature

• Gabriel Anrep : Svenska Adelns Ättar-Taflor. Part 2, Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm 1861, p. 442 ( Google books ).
• Vilhelm Fredrik Palmblad, Peter Wieselgren, Karl Fredrik Werner (eds.): Biografiskt lexicon öfver namnkunnige svenske men. Vol. 7, Uppsala 1841, p. 75 ( Google Books ).