Theodor von Reventlow

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Theodor Graf von Reventlow (* 19 July 1801 in Christiansholm at Copenhagen; † 4. February 1873 in Jersbek ) was laird of Holstein goods Jersbek and lands , royal Danish bailiff of Cismar , provost of St. John's Monastery before Schleswig , Member of the Estates and State Assemblies , President of the Joint Government (1848/1849), Member of the Provincial Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein and the District Council. He was court hunter and chamberlain as well as commander of the Dannebrogorden .

Life

Origin and education

Reventlow brothers

Theodor Graf von Reventlow's father was Cay Friedrich Graf von Reventlow (born November 17, 1753 in Paris; † August 6, 1834 in Altenhof near Eckernförde), head of the German chancellery in Copenhagen from 1797 to 1802 and governor of the Duchy of Lauenburg from 1805 . His first marriage was to Wilhelmine Magdalene Ulrike Countess von Bernstorff (born October 10, 1766 in Gartow, † May 10, 1787 in Copenhagen). His second marriage was on April 24, 1797 in Copenhagen, Emilie Louise Henriette Countess von Bernstorff (born October 7, 1776 in Copenhagen; † November 26, 1855 in Preetz). Both wives were daughters of the Danish Minister of State Andreas Peter Graf von Bernstorff . From the second marriage there are three sons and a daughter: Eugen (* November 27, 1798; † November 28, 1885); Gottfried (born May 30, 1800; † April 26, 1870), lawyer, most recently President of the Court Court in Ratzeburg; Theodor and Maria Emilia, (April 28, 1811 - March 1, 1883).

The father's brothers were Friedrich Graf von Reventlow on Gut Emkendorf (born January 31, 1755; † 1828; married to Friederike Juliane Countess von Schimmelmann , daughter of the Danish treasurer Heinrich Carl Graf von Schimmelmann on Ahrensburg, Wandsbek etc.) and Christian Graf von Reventlow on Wittenberg estate .

After his father's resignation from the management of the German law firm in Copenhagen (1802), Theodor Graf von Reventlow grew up on Gut Altenhof near Eckernförde, was brought up by private tutors and on April 18, 1818, like his two brothers, went to study law in Kiel, Heidelberg and Goettingen. In 1822 he passed his exams in Glückstadt.

Two marriages and six children

Theodor Graf von Reventlow married Sophie Countess von Bernstorff on December 3, 1834 (born January 29, 1807 Copenhagen; † March 7, 1857 La Tour-de-Peilz ) in Berlin. He was married to Asta Georgine Freiin von dem Bussche-Ippenburg called von Kessell (born April 6, 1831 Düsseldorf; † October 7, 1881 in Stephansdorf / Silesia ) in his second marriage (September 14, 1858 at Ippenburg ) .

The four children from their first marriage were Joachim (born August 26, 1837 in Cismar; † October 26, 1870 in Jersbek), Luisa Elise (born September 8, 1842 in Schleswig; † May 30, 1865 in Wilkendorf; married since 1. August 1862 with Gustav von Pfuel in Gielsdorf and Wilkendorf ) and twin daughters who died shortly after birth. The twin daughters born in the second marriage also died shortly after birth. Luisa Elise died a few weeks after the birth of their daughter Martha (* April 21, 1865, † May 11, 1914). Martha von Pfuel married the administrative officer and later Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg in 1889 .

Offices, titles and honors

In 1825 he joined the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg chancellery in Copenhagen as an auscultant and worked there until 1828, when he went to Saint Petersburg as legation secretary on December 27, 1828 as the successor to his brother Eugen . He stayed there until the end of 1833, then returned to the administrative service and at the end of 1834 became a bailiff in the office of Cismar , but already left in 1838. Then he was provost of the monastery of Schleswig (1840 to 1847). His election to the Preetz monastery provost in 1852 was not recognized by the Danish king because of his political activities in connection with the Schleswig-Holstein uprising .

He was appointed Hofjägermeister (1827) and chamberlain (1841) by the Danish king, although this title was not confirmed in 1854 because he was deleted from the list of chamberlains due to his political activities during the Schleswig-Holstein uprising 1848-1851. This placed him in the second and third of the nine ranking classes of acceptable people. He was accepted as a knight (1832) and (higher ranking) commander (1845) in the Dannebrogden .

Political activities

Theodor Graf von Reventlow was a member of the Schleswig Estates Assembly in Schleswig from 1840 to 1846 , and was its vice-president in 1846. From 1842 to 1846 he was also a member of the Holstein assembly of estates in Itzehoe .

After the outbreak of the Schleswig-Holstein uprising in March 1848, he became a member of the United States' Assembly in Rendsburg, which was convened by the Provisional Government on April 3, 1848, and was its second vice-president from April 9, 1848 to October 1848. As one of the few aristocratic landowners, he was elected to the constituent state assembly in July 1848 and then to the "Committee of Fifteen", which was responsible for advising on the draft of a constitutional law for the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein . On October 22, 1848, he took over the presidency of the “Joint Government” established for the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein as a result of the Malmö Armistice .

After a few years of political (compulsory) abstinence, he became a member of the Holstein assembly of estates again in 1855, and in 1856 he entered the Imperial Council , which was set up in Copenhagen on the basis of the constitutional law for communal affairs of the monarchy of October 1855, as its elected representative .

After the wars against Denmark and Austria won by Prussia, the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein were incorporated into the Prussian state with the annexation law of December 24, 1866 . Theodor Graf von Reventlow was a member and spokesman of the shop stewards' conference to discuss (September 1867 in Berlin) the necessary administrative changes. He was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Provincial Parliament, which met for the first time on October 11, 1868, and was also a member of the Stormarn district council until his death.

death

After two years of infirmity with "brain softening" he died on February 4, 1873 and was buried in the burial chapel in Sülfeld .

literature

  • Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (DBL), 27 volumes, Copenhagen 1933–1944, volume 19, 461 f. Keyword: Reventlow.
  • Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (DBL), 3rd edition, 16 volumes, Copenhagen 1979–1984, volume 12, 184 f. Keyword: Reventlow.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility, Graefliche Häuser A Volume II, 1955, and Volume VI, 1970, keyword: Reventlow.
  • New Nekrolog der Deutschen, Volume XII, Weimar 1836, 582–585, keyword: Cay Friedrich Graf von Reventlow.
  • Curt Davids: Chronicle of the old manor district Jersbek-Stegen , Hamburg 1954.
  • Hannelies Ettrich: Chronicle Jersbek , Husum 1989.
  • Barbara Günther (Ed.): Stormarn Lexikon , Neumünster 2003.
  • Hermann Hagenah : 1863. The national movement in Schleswig-Holstein , in: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History, Volume 56, 1926, 271–396.
  • Hermann Hagenah: From the history of the Schleswig-Holstein constitutional law of September 16, 1848 , in: Nordelbingen, Volume 6, 1927, 437–456.
  • Hermann Heitmann: The goods Jersbek and Stegen , Jersbek 1954 (copied Ms.).
  • Wilhelm Klüver: The Reventlows in the history of Schleswig-Holstein , in: Nordelbingen, Volume 26, Heide 1958, 210-217.
  • Dieter Lohmeier: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 7, Neumünster 1985, keyword: von Reventlow, 244–246.
  • Axel Lohr: The history of the Jersbek estate from 1588 to the present , Diss. Phil. Hamburg 2007, Stormarner booklets No. 24, Neumünster 2007.
  • Ludwig Graf zu Reventlow: The sex of the Reventlows , in: ZSHG 22, 1892, 81 f., 155.
  • Henning von Rumohr: Die Klosterpröbste von St. Johannis , in: Contributions to Schleswiger Stadtgeschichte 16, 1971, 78 ff. (Cf. also: Special print from “Contributions to Schleswiger Stadtgeschichte”, Schleswig 1972).
  • Hans-Georg Skambraks: The emergence of the constitutional state law for the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein from September 15, 1848 , in: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History, Volume 84, 1960, 119-208; Volume 85/86, 1961, 131-242.
  • V. Weimar: The Malmö Armistice of 1848 , Neumünster 1959 (sources and research on the history of Schleswig-Holstein, QuFGSH 40), pp. 43, 71, 102 f., 108, 117, 123, 129–131, 135, 160 f ., 262, 300 f.