Otto von Klinckowström

Otto von Klinckowström , actually Otto Vilhelm Klinckowström (born November 27, 1683 in Wismar , † 1731 in Pyritz ), was a Swedish civil servant and diplomat.

Life

Otto Wilhelm von Klinckowström was a son of Martin Klinckow (1650-1717) and Anna Elisabeth Vorberger (1677-1705), who was raised to the Swedish nobility in 1684 . He was initially an auscultant at the Wismar Tribunal and worked in 1705 in the Livonian office of the royal chancellery. After that he was secretary to the Governor General of Swedish Pomerania , Jürgen Mellin .

In 1708 he was commission secretary at the Polish court. The following year he traveled to see King Charles XII. to Bender to inform him of the death of his sister Hedwig Sophia . The king sent him to negotiate with the Khan of the Crimean Tatars Devlet II Giray in 1709 and again to Poland in 1712. In 1715 he was secretary in the foreign department of the royal chancellery. In 1726 he was appointed to the chancellery and in the same year was sent to Berlin as an extraordinary ambassador to the Prussian court . In a brochure he advocated an alliance between Sweden and Hanover , for which he received £ 200 from England .

Otto Wilhelm Klinckowström was married to Countess Carischa Bonkowska, a lady-in-waiting at Stanislaus I. Leszczyński's court . The marriage remained childless. He died in Pyritz in Pomerania , where he was also buried.

literature

• Gabriel Anrep : Svenska Adelns Ättar – Taflor. Part 2. Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm 1861, p. 442 ( Google books ).
• Vilhelm Fredrik Palmblad, Peter Wieselgren, Karl Fredrik Werner (eds.): Biografiskt lexicon öfver namnkunnige svenske men. Volume 7. Uppsala 1841, p. 75 ( Google Books ).
• Klinckowström, Otto Vilhelm . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 590 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).