Leopold von Schlieben

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Karl Leopold Graf von Schlieben (born February 23, 1723 in Magdeburg , † April 16, 1788 in Königsberg ) was a Prussian budget minister .

Life

Origin and family

Leopold was a member of the East Prussian line Sanditten of the Prussian noble family von Schlieben, who was raised to the Prussian count status in 1718 with his grandfather Georg Adam von Schlieben (1649–1720) . His parents were the Prussian colonel in the Marwitz infantry regiment and the governor in Osterode and Hohenstein Georg Adam von Schlieben (1688–1737) and Katharina Dorothea Elisabeth , née Countess Finck von Finckenstein (1700–1728). Leopold married Countess Marie Eleonore Lehndorff (1723–1800) in 1747 . The marriage resulted in two daughters and two sons, including Friederike von Schlieben (1757–1827), married to Friedrich Karl Ludwig Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1757–1816), a Prussian, Russian and Danish lieutenant general.

Career

Schlieben enrolled at the Albertus University in Königsberg in 1739 . He joined a Masonic lodge in Berlin in 1749 . As the successor to Fabian Abraham von Braxein , he was appointed secret budget councilor and member of the Prussian government in 1768. At the same time he was Oberburggraf in Prussia . He joined the Königsberg Lodge in 1775. Schlieben was also the heir to Gerdauen and since 1754 heir to Sanditten, which he bought from his brother, and from 1776 to 1786 to Alt-Haus Gerdauen. He concluded his career as Minister and President of the East Prussian Pupil College . His successor in the Pupillenkollegium was the Prussian War Minister Christian von Dönhoff (1742-1803). Schlieben was a knight of the Order of St. John .

literature

  • Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 880 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

References and comments

  1. ↑ According to Schwennicke (FN 3); Straubel (lit.) gives February 3rd as the date of birth and names an East Prussian estate as the place of birth .
  2. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, p. 18.
  3. ↑ a b Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables . New episode. Verlag Vittorio Klostermann GmbH, Volume XXI., Frankfurt / Main 2002, Tfl. 149.
personal data
SURNAME Schiegen, Leopold von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlieben, Karl Leopold Graf von (full name with title)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian budget minister
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1788
Place of death Koenigsberg