Peter Rüdiger von Kleist
Peter Rüdiger von Kleist († 1684 ) was a Pomeranian district administrator .
Life
origin
Peter Rüdiger von Kleist came from the Dallenthiner side branch of the primeval Pomeranian noble family von Kleist . He was born as the only son of Ewald von Kleist († approx. 1660), lord of Dallenthin ( Neustettin district ), and Adelheid von Glasenapp .
Career
Peter Rüdiger probably studied law and then became a ducal Pomeranian civil servant. After the Pomeranian ducal family died out in 1637, the Pomeranian officials initially remained in office, if only because it was unclear who would inherit the last Duke of Pomerania , Bogislaw XIV , who died that year . The Elector of Brandenburg was legally the heir on the basis of an inheritance contract , but during the Thirty Years' War the Swedes under their King Gustav II Adolf occupied Pomerania and, on the basis of a contingent inheritance contract from 1630 with Bogislav XIV., Actually incorporated Pomerania . The ownership structure in the Duchy of Pomerania was not regulated until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 : Brandenburg was then assigned to Western Pomerania , while Sweden received the estuary of the Oder with Stettin and today's Western Pomerania with Stralsund and Rügen .
Peter Rüdiger von Kleist remained a civil servant under Swedish rule and was also taken over by Brandenburg. At the end of the fifties he was commissarius and director of the Neustettiner district. At the beginning of the sixties he was then electoral Brandenburg district administrator in Western Pomerania. An episode that Peter Rügiger had to experience first-hand shows how insecure and vigilant justice conditions were at that time: when a fellow-class officer, Captain-Lieutenant Lorenz-Jürgen von Glasenapp, impaired his rights as the protector of his servants felt, he and his servants attacked Kleist's servants, then broke into Kleist's house, searched it and threatened to shoot him in the head. Fortunately for Peter Rüdiger, his cousin Peter von Kleist and his housekeeper saved him from Glasenapp.
Kleist owned extensive property. First he inherited the Dallenthin and Lanzen estates from his father. In addition, his wife brought him the Groß-Borselin estate as a dowry in the marriage. He died in 1684 on an unspecified day.
family
He was married to Anna von Puttkamer , with whom he had four sons and a daughter.
Web links
- Biography on the website of the family association derer v. Kleist, III. 178, pp. 224-225.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gustav Kratz : The history of the von Kleist family , Volume III, No. 111
- ↑ Gustav Kratz: The history of the von Kleist family , Volume III, No. 178, p. 224 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kleist, Peter Rüdiger from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Pomeranian District Administrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1684 |