Otto von Blome (diplomat, 1735)

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Otto Blome (1735–1803), portrait by Jens Juel

Otto von Blome , also Otto Blome I. (* February 1735 at Hagen Castle (Probsteierhagen) , † February 8, 1803 in Kiel ) was a Holstein landowner, canon, officer and diplomat in the Danish service.

Life

Otto von Blome came from the original Lower Saxon noble family von Blome , which came from the Calenberg nobility and later came to Holstein and Denmark . He was a son of Christoph (er) von Blome (1691–1743) on Bahrenfleth and his wife Hedwig Magdalene, geb. Brockdorff (1706-1736). The Lübeck canon Wolf von Blome (1728–1784) was his older brother. As early as 1743, shortly before his eighth birthday, he also received a prebend in the Lübeck cathedral chapter , at the first request of Emperor Karl VII. Wilhelm Friedrich von Bülow († January 17, 1743) on Harkensee ( Dassow ), who had become free.

After his father's death in 1743, he grew up with Privy Councilor Friedrich / Frederik von Buchwald on Borstel together with his daughter and heir Charitas Emilie (1738–1820), who married Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff in 1751 . In 1747 he attended the pedagogy in Halle / Saale . In 1756 he was second lieutenant in the Oldenburg cavalry regiment of Erhard von Wedel-Friis and from 1758 to 1761 in Prussian military service. He then entered the Danish service and in 1764 became a colonel and adjutant general .

He inherited the Heiligenstedten estate ; Here, from 1769, he had the old Heiligenstedten Castle torn down and replaced with a new building.

Otto von Blome, portrait by Jens Juel (1777)

From 1770 to 1793 he served as the Danish envoy in Paris . As one of the few foreign envoys, he remained at his post throughout the French Revolution . When the other ambassadors left Paris in 1792, a serious illness prevented him from following their example against his will. Even after the proclamation of the republic, his illness prevented him from leaving, and although his mission actually ended as he was not re-accredited to the republic, he was treated as a Danish envoy by the revolutionary government. It was not until the beginning of April 1793 that his state of health made him leave Paris and France. He first went to Aachen and from there to his Holstein estates to await the instructions of the Danish king. In 1797 he went, accompanied by his nephew Otto Blome (II., 1770–1849) as the Danish envoy to St. Petersburg , where he was initially welcomed by Tsar Paul I. But when the tsar began to distrust the Danish government, as it maintained its neutrality during the Second Coalition War against France , Blome's position in Petersburg became more difficult, especially since his lively relations with the English embassy were displeased. Since his bad health was also suffering from the Russian climate, he asked for his recall. In June 1800 he left Petersburg and returned to Holstein.

In 1803 he also owned the Kampen, Bekmünde and Büttel estates in addition to Heiligenstedten .

He died in Kiel in 1803 and was buried in Probsteierhagen . Since he was unmarried, he left his fortune to his nephew of the same name .

The important library of the Counts of Blome-Heiligenstedten , which was auctioned in Hamburg in 1927, went back to Otto von Blome's collecting activity .

Awards

literature

  • Otto Blome , in: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon,, 2nd edition online
  • The library of the Counts of Blome-Heiligenstedten: Auction (Volume 1): History (including many German chronicles and a Napoleon collection), cultural history, literature, geography, travel, archeology including important copper engravings from the 17th and 18th centuries: auction on February 25 and 26, 1927 (Catalog No. 25). Hamburg: Hans Götz bookstore 1927 ( digitized version )
  • The library of the Counts of Blome-Heiligenstedten: Auction (Volume 2): In particular German chronicles, German and French literature and old illustrated travel books: May 1927 (Catalog No. 28). Hamburg: Hans Götz bookstore 1927 ( digitized version )
  • 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 , p. 411 No. 363

Web links

Commons : Otto Blome (1735–1803)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prange (lit.)
  2. ↑ 332nd award, JHF Berlien: The Elephant Order and its knights . Copenhagen 1846 ( digitized ). , P. 117. His motto was: Fide, spe et amore .
personal data
SURNAME Blome, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blome, Otto I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Holstein landowner, canon and diplomat in Danish service
DATE OF BIRTH February 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH at Hagen Castle (Probsteierhagen)
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1803
Place of death Kiel