Peter Colomb (Finance Councilor)

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Peter Colomb , since 1786 Peter von Colomb (born July 27, 1719 in Neustadt (Dosse) , † March 18, 1797 in Aurich ) was a Prussian Finance Council and President of the Prussian War and Domain Chamber in Aurich. He was knighted on October 2, 1786.

Life

origin

His parents were Henri Colomb and his wife Madeleine de Moor († 1751) from Paris. The family comes from Burgundy, where they owned large glassworks . They were among the many French who fled the country after the Edict of Nantes was repealed . His father came to Brandenburg via Copenhagen and settled as a merchant in Neustadt . His niece Marie-Elisabeth was the mother of Alexander von Humboldt .

Career

After attending the Joachimsthaler Gymnasium , he enrolled in Halle to study law in 1737 and moved to Jena in 1740 . In 1741 he entered Prussian service and became chamber secretary in Minden . From here he was transferred to Aurich in 1746 as a war and domain councilor. East Frisia had only fallen to Prussia in 1744, where he was able to work under President Lentz and was temporarily East Frisian state parliament commissioner. He succeeded in consolidating the broken finances , although the Seven Years' War hit East Frisia heavily with contributions . In 1765 he was appointed to the III. Department of the General Direction, where he replaced C. F. von Reinhard, his position in Aurich was taken over by H. Olffen from Geldern . In 1768, the head of the War and Domain Chamber Aurich proposed Minister vom Hagen Colomb as the successor to President Ernst Boguslaw von Wegnern , who had been retired against his will. Before leaving for Aurich, he received an audience with the king in Potsdam. Colomb was President of the Aurich Chamber until his death. His successor was Friedrich Karl Heinrich von Schwerin († 1805).

family

Colomb married on January 29, 1760 Marie Elisabeth Bacmeister (born February 26, 1740; † October 3, 1807) daughter of the Aurich government councilor Georg Albrecht Bacmeister. The couple had the following children:

  • Hedwig Adelheid (April 14, 1762; † 1855) ⚭ August 30, 1780 Heinrich Ludwig von Warsing (1750–1817), Judicial Councilor
  • Magdalene Charlotte (born September 3, 1763 - † December 16, 1768)
  • Georg Heinrich (born June 14, 1765; † July 26, 1839), Privy Councilor ⚭ November 10, 1803 Eleonore Sabine von Unruh (born April 21, 1780; † August 15, 1836) from the Schweinert family
  • Marie Friederike Elisabeth (* June 27, 1766; † August 11, 1842)
⚭ Friedrich Wilhelm von Benecke (born April 19, 1752 - † April 3, 1793), district president
⚭ Karl Geisler (April 9, 1760 - December 22, 1806), Finance Councilor in Berlin
  • Ludwig Christoph (born October 14, 1767; † November 5, 1831), district president in Bromberg ⚭ August 25, 1802 Martyna von Zablocka from the Wrzesnia family (born January 30, 1781; † September 10, 1825)
  • Magdalene Henriette (April 18, 1769 - July 19, 1792) ⚭ Karl Geisler (April 9, 1760 - December 22, 1806), Finance Councilor in Berlin
  • Auguste Elisabeth (March 2, 1771; † April 25, 1808) ⚭ October 12, 1790 Hermann von Conring (* October 28, 1763; † September 17, 1809), member of the government
  • Katharine Amaline (* October 23, 1772; † April 16, 1850) ⚭ July 19, 1795 Prince Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
  • Peter (June 19, 1775 - November 12, 1854), Prussian general of the cavalry
⚭ Wilhelmine Luise von Stosch (born April 26, 1784 - † October 22, 1822)
⚭ June 21, 1824 Marie Henriette von Stosch (* June 21, 1791; † April 9, 1857)

literature

  • Biographical Lexicon for East Friesland, Volume III, Aurich 2001, pp. 96–97 Peter von Colomb (pdf)
  • Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 178 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the letter aristocratic houses. Gotha: Perthes, 1907 p. 109f, digitized
  • Marcelli Janecki , Handbook of the Prussian Adels , Volume 2. S. 162ff

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ after: Alexander von Humboldt's Memoirs, Volume 1, page 6
  2. ↑ After BLKO: from Blanzac in Gard
  3. ↑ East Frisian History: Vol. From 1758 to 1786, p.103
  4. ^ Tileman Dothias Wiarda , Ostfriesische Geschichte: from 1786 to 1806 p.227
  5. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , New General German Adels Lexicon , Volume 9, p.489
  6. ↑ Handbook of the Prussian Nobility, Volume 2 1893, p.251
personal data
SURNAME Colomb, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Colomb, Pierre; Colomb, Peter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Finance Council and President of the Prussian War and Domain Chamber in Aurich
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt (Dosse)
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1797
Place of death Aurich