Magnus von Dernath
Magnus Graf von Dernath (born August 13, 1765 at Gut Hasselburg ; † April 15, 1828 in Copenhagen ) was a German-Danish administrative lawyer, Danish diplomat and Lübeck canon .
Life
Magnus von Dernath came from the Holstein line of the Counts of Dernath and was a son of District Administrator Friedrich Otto von Dernath (1734–1805) on Hasselburg, Övelgönne , Perdöl , Åkær and Dybvad, and his first wife Elisabeth Christina (1744–1770), born from Plessen . He was close to the Emkendorfer Kreis through his sister Sophie Luise Charlotte, who married Carl Ludwig von Baudissin .
On February 25, 1777, on presentation by Wolf Blome, he received a prebend in the Lübeck cathedral chapter , which Henning Benedikt von Rumohr had previously held. With the secularization of the Hochstift in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, he kept his privileges and income for life.
He studied law at the Universities of Göttingen and Kiel as well as on a Grand Tour in Geneva and Strasbourg .
In 1786 he came to Copenhagen, where he became an auscultant in the pension chamber on the recommendation of his father-in-law Andreas Peter von Bernstorff the following year . From 1788 to 1810 he was a deputy in the General-Landes-Ökonomie and Kommerzkollegium (comparable to a present-day Ministry of Economics ) in Copenhagen . In 1790 he became a royal Danish chamberlain ; In 1794/95 he was chamberlain on duty to King Christian VII. As the cost of living at court exceeded his means, he retired to Åkær. From 1794 to 1799 he also owned Antvorskov and Falkenstein, which he sold to Constantin Brun . From 1801 he leased his father's estate in Hasselburg, which he inherited in 1805 and had its mansion facade renovated in a classicist style.
In the wake of the threat to Denmark from the coalition wars, Dernath became politically active again. In 1808 he became field commissioner for Holstein and stayed in Altona from 1808 to 1809 . Here he negotiated with Marshal Bernadotte, among others .
He continued the diplomatic experience he had gained in this way when he was appointed Danish ambassador in Stockholm after the Treaty of Jönköping , which ended the Danish-Swedish War on December 10, 1809 . He performed this mission from January 1810 to April 1812. His nephew Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin assisted him at times . In the discussions about the succession to the throne after the death of Christian August von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1768-1810) , he spoke out in favor of a Danish solution. After Bernadotte had been declared crown prince, Dernath foresaw a Swedish-Russian rapprochement and the dangers it posed for Denmark. Soon after, he was called back to Copenhagen for some careless expressions of opinion.
From 1812 to 1815 he represented Denmark as envoy at the Saxon court in Dresden . In 1816 he lost Hasselburg through bankruptcy .
From 1816 to 1825 he was the Danish ambassador in Madrid . His recall came in connection with the dismissal of the Spanish Foreign Minister and Prime Minister Francisco Cea Bermúdez .
After the death of the Danish Foreign Minister Niels Rosenkrantz in 1824, he was temporarily under discussion as his successor.
He was married to Sophie Magdalene Charlotte, born in 1787. Countess Bernstorff (born May 9, 1770 in Copenhagen; † October 30, 1841 in Dresden-Neustadt), a daughter of Andreas Peter von Bernstorff and Henriette Katharina zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1747–1782) and close friend of Friederike Brun . Friederike Brun wrote to her To my friend Charlotte, Countess von Dernath, née Bernstorf. The couple's daughter Elise (1789–1867) married her uncle Christian Günther von Bernstorff in 1806 . With Magnus Graf von Dernath, the Holstein-Danish line of the Counts of Dernath in the male line died out in 1828.
Awards
- Commander 1809
- Grand Cross 1811
- Title Secret Conference Council 1817
literature
- Magnus von Dernath , in: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon. 2nd edition, full text
- Wolfgang Prange : Directory of the canons. In: Ders .: Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, principality and part of the country 1160-1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , No. 405
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm von Bippen : Eutin sketches: on the cultural and literary history of the eighteenth century. Weimar: Böhlau 1859, p. 222
- ↑ Herrenhaus Gut Haselburg ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 18, 2016
- ↑ Latest world events 1825, p. 739
- ^ The family book of Friedrich von Matthissons . [Part 2.] Transcription and commentary on the facsimile. Edited, commented and with an afterword by Erichwege, Doris and Peter Walser-Wilhelm and Christine Holliger in collaboration with Bonstettiana, Archive and Edition and the Anhaltische Landesbücherei Dessau. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0002-6 , p. 308
- ↑ To my friend Charlotte, Countess von Dernath, née Bernstorf
- ↑ At the end of the 19th century, her memoirs saw several editions: Elise von dem Bussche-Kessell (ed.): Countess Elise von Bernstorff, née Countess v. Dernath. A picture from the period from 1789 to 1835. From her records 2 volumes, Berlin: Mittler 1896
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dernath, Magnus von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dernath, Magnus Graf von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Danish administrative lawyer, Danish diplomat and Lübeck canon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1765 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | at Gut Hasselburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1828 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |