Otto von Blome (diplomat, 1770)

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Otto von Blome

Otto von Blome , also Otto Blome II. (* March 5, 1770 in Kiel ; † March 20, 1849 ) was a Holstein 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 the canon in Lübeck and landowner Wulf Blome / Wolf von Blome (1728–1784) on Bahrenfleth .

Initially a Danish officer, he turned to the diplomatic career and accompanied his uncle Otto von Blome (1735-1803) from 1797 to 1800 when he went to St. Petersburg as the Danish envoy . Appointed adjutant general to the king in 1802, he became the Danish envoy to Stockholm in October of that year and, in 1804, the Danish envoy to St. Petersburg.

In 1803 he inherited the estates in Heiligenstedten , Bahrenfleth, Campen, Bekhof and Bekmünde from his uncle who died unmarried . He further expanded the library on Heiligenstedten that his uncle had set up and which was auctioned off in 1927.

In 1808 he represented the Danish king at the Erfurt Prince Congress . When the war between Russia and Denmark broke out in 1813, he took his leave, but returned to his post in St. Petersburg after the peace treaty in October 1814. In this position he was promoted to major general in 1815 and lieutenant general a la suite in 1818 .

At the beginning of 1824 he was appointed Danish Minister of State and Head of the Department of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen , but resigned from this position at his own request in March of the same year. In 1826 he again took over the Danish embassy post in St. Petersburg, from which position he finally resigned in October 1841. A close friendship connected him with the Danish King Christian VIII and the Russian Minister Karl Robert von Nesselrode .

With diplomas from King Friedrich Vl. of Denmark he was raised together with his eponymous nephew Otto von Blome (1795-1884) on Gut Salzau and Blomesche Wildnis , Danish chamberlain and cavalry master , the eldest son of his late brother Friedrich von Blome, on September 11, 1819 and on Elevated to the Danish feudal count on May 1, 1826 .

Oto von Blome died without offspring. The Fideikommiss of the Marschgüter came by inheritance to Adolf von Blome .

Awards

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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 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The earlier date according to New General German Adels Lexicon , Volume 1, Leipzig 1859, p. 474; the later date according to Danmarks adels aarbog. Volume 23 (1906), p. 80
  2. ↑ 410. Award, JHF Berlien: The Elephant Order and its knights . Copenhagen 1846 ( digitized ). , P. 161f (afterwards also the other awards). His motto was: L'honneur et l'amour .
personal data
SURNAME Blome, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blome, Otto II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Holstein officer and diplomat in Danish service
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1849