Matthias von Clausenheim (the elder)

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Matthias von Clausenheim , originally Matthias Clausen , also Claussen (* around 1685 ; † April 6, 1744 in Hamburg ) was a German administrative lawyer and Minister of State in Holstein.

Life

Matthias von Clausenheim comes from the family (Clausen) von Clausenheim, who were raised to the nobility in 1702 . He was the only son of the Kiel professor and land rent master Johann von Clausenheim . From 1699 his father was responsible for the income of Duke Friedrich IV of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf as a chamber councilor and land rent master . His tenure fell in a phase of political and economic uncertainty in the small duchy in the Great Northern War . Frederick IV was looking for an alliance with King Karl XII. of Sweden , his brother-in-law, against his overpowering neighbor Denmark. With its king he shared the government of the duchies of Schleswig as a Danish fief and Holstein as an imperial fief. Like his predecessors, however, he sought independence from Denmark. In the Peace of Traventhal in 1701, Denmark was forced to recognize the Gottorfer sovereignty in its share from the Duchy of Schleswig and to pay Duke Friedrich a high compensation. As a result, Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf was at the height of its power for a short time.

On April 15, 1702 Matthias von Clausenheim received a preamble in the Hamburg cathedral chapter . Associated with this was the right of residence in a curia behind St. Petri .

In the same spring of 1702, Duke Friedrich decided to join the Swedish army in its campaign against Russia and Poland . He left the government of his duchy to the Clausenheim brothers in return for a rent. The husband of Clausenheim's cousin, Lieutenant Colonel Tilemann Andreas von Bergholtz, became Governor General. The responsibility of the ducal privy council president Magnus von Wedderkop and his deputy Johann Ludwig von Pincier was limited to foreign affairs. The Duke's death on July 19, 1702 in the Battle of Klissow by a cannonball put an end to this innovative and controversial agreement. During the reign of the Duke's widow, Hedwig Sophia of Sweden , and the administrator Christian August von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , Georg Heinrich von Görtz gained influence. The chamber bill of 1703 became a long-standing point of contention because of a request by Jacob Mussaphia . In this situation, Johann Clausenheim ceded the office of land rent master to his son in 1705, but remained a member of the ducal pension chamber .

Matthias von Clausenheim was the land rent master and cashier of Gottorf from 1705 to 1720. During the time of the Danish occupation of the duchy in the 1710s, he established an administration in exile in Hamburg. In 1720, he succeeded his father as Vice President of the Gottorfer Rentekammer.

In the same year Denmark received the ducal territories in Schleswig in the Peace of Frederiksborg . After that, Duke Karl Friedrich was only Duke of the imperial fiefdom of Holstein-Gottorf. When the Duke and his Privy Council President Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz (married to another cousin of Matthias von Clausenheim) traveled to Russia for several years in order to achieve an alliance with the Tsar by marrying a Tsar's daughter, Clausenheim from Hamburg led the Government affairs. For the engagement of Karl Friedrich and Anna Petrovna , he commissioned Georg Philipp Telemann to perform a festive serenade based on the text by Johann Philipp Praetorius : Cimbriens general joy . From 1725 to 1727 he headed the General Provincial Commission and from 1727 to 1733 was a member of the Secret Government Council , the government of the duchy in the time of the grand ducal era .

In 1732 he withdrew from politics. The reasons were an investigation into old irregularities in his father's accounts, an open claim from Jacob Mussaphia for 32,000 thalers and the accusation of abuse of the salt trade . "The defendant was given quick removal and imperial protection," said Peter von Kobbe in his Schleswig-Holstein story . From then on he lived in Hamburg and on his estates in Mecklenburg. Here he hired the lawyer and satirist Christian Ludwig Liscow as his secretary in 1734 .

family

Clausenheim was married to Margarethe Lucia (1689–1760), b. Redeker, daughter of the Mecklenburg court counselor Heinrich Rudolph Redeker and granddaughter of Heinrich Rudolph Redeker . The couple's children included:

Matthias von Clausenheim acquired extensive property in Mecklenburg through marriage and purchase . After the death of his father-in-law in 1716, his wife inherited Scharstorf, Groß Potrems and Wendorf as hereditary maid . As a result, Matthias von Clausenheim was dubbed the heir of Scharstorf and Trems . In 1726 he bought Gut Körchow near Wittenburg as his main estate from the von Bischwang family and in 1732 Gut Brahlstorf , not far from Körchow, between Hagenow and Boizenburg . His family was thus a member of the Mecklenburg knighthood and was eligible for parliament . However, it was not received by the Mecklenburg nobility. In 1775, Christoph Otto von Gamm counted her among the families who do not have the indigenous population of this country and are wealthy in it . With these great goods he had "received many deals and many disputes".

Due to old demands from Jacob Mussaphia , which his son Isaac Mussaphia now made, amounting to 32,000 and 4,700 thalers, his father's legacy and his inheritance were burdened with lawsuits up to the Reich Chamber of Commerce for the next generation .

Awards

literature

  • The family v. Clausenheim. In: New Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg Provincial Reports 15 (1826), pp. 77–79 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arnold Christian Beuthner : Now living Hamburg, or complete information on the names, characters and apartments of all class persons and accredited ministers residing there, in the same venerable noble and wise council, also of the venerable cathedral capitul and ministers, such as also of the gentlemen's graduates, and of all in bourgeois colleges, and finally of other persons belonging to the spiritual and worldly class. 1725, p. 18
  2. ^ Albert de Boor: directories of grand princely officials in Holstein. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 32 (1902), pp. 137–176, here p. 149
  3. ^ Wolf Hobohm: Telemanns commissioned and occasional works. P. 147
  4. ^ Robert Pries: The Secret Government Council in Holstein-Gottorf 1716-1773. Neumünster: Wachholtz 1955 (= sources and research on the history of Schleswig-Holstein 32), p. 32f
  5. ↑ Peter von Kobbe : Schleswig-Holstein history from the death of Duke Christian Albrecht to the death of King Christian VII (1694 to 1808). Altona: Hammerich 1834, p. 159
  6. ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Liscows life. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity 10 (1845), pp. 97–179 ( full text ), pp. 125f
  7. ↑ Lothar Kalbe: The colored windows of the Marienkirche in Rostock donated by August Friedrich Mann and their family history background. In: Frank Martin (arrangement): Glass paintings in the churches of St. Jacobi, Greifswald, St. Marien and St. Nikolai, Rostock: a project of the German Federal Environment Foundation. Ed. By the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Laboratory for Glass Painting Research of the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Germany / Potsdam, Leipzig: Ed. Leipzig, 2005 ISBN 3-361-00594-9 , pp. 51–72, here p. 68 note 37
  8. ↑ Baptism dates of the children according to Hildegard von Marchtaler : Nobles and notables of the Nordic empires, especially of the entire Danish state, in Hamburg church registers. In: Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift 71 (1950), pp. 98–112 ( digitized version )
  9. ↑ For example in Arnold Christian Beuthner : Jetztlebendes Hamburg, or complete information on the names, characters and apartments of all class persons and accredited ministers residing there, in the same venerable high-noble and high-wise Raths, furthermore the high-venerable cathedral capitul and ministerii , as well as the gentlemen's graduates, and all in bourgeois colleges, and finally other persons belonging to the spiritual and worldly class. 1725, p. 18
  10. ↑ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch (ed.): Directory of the Meklenburg nobility from the Meklenburg = Strelitz minister Christoph Otto von Gamm, edited around the year 1775. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology 11 (1846), p. 423 –426 ( full text ), here p. 466
  11. ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Liscows life. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity 10 (1845), pp. 97–179 ( full text ), p. 126
  12. ↑ Peter von Kobbe : Schleswig-Holstein history from the death of Duke Christian Albrecht to the death of King Christian VII (1694 to 1808). Altona: Hammerich 1834, p. 199
  13. ↑ Johann Ulrich von Cramer : Wetzlarische auxiliary hours, in which selected jurisprudence decided at the highest-priced Cammer Court to expand and explain the German legal scholarship that is customary in courts. Volume 5, p. 72ff ( On the difference between Schleswig and Holstein things in view of the appellation to the highest imperial courts )
personal data
SURNAME Clausenheim, Matthias von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clausen, Matthias; Claussen, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and Minister of State of Holstein-Gottorf
DATE OF BIRTH around 1685
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1744
Place of death Hamburg