Valentin von Massow (politician)

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Valentin von Massow (born December 7, 1712 in Rohr , † September 20, 1775 in Berlin ) was a royal Prussian real secret minister of state and vice-president of the general finance directorate , heir to Rohr, Rummelsburg, Groß Karzenburg, Waldow, Schweßin, Friedrichshuld Etc.

Life

origin

He came from the noble Pomeranian family Massow . His parents were Valentin von Massow auf Rohr (1676-1760) and his wife Marie Luise von Schlieffen (1689-1749).

Career

Valentin von Massow became war councilor and domain councilor as well as district administrator in 1738 and chamber president zu Küstrin in 1744 . After a punitive transfer he became President of the Chamber in Minden in 1746 . Here he tried to build the salt works in Melbergen / Rehme and acquired Kuxe from the mining union . But the Prussian King Frederick the Great did not entrust the building of the salt works and the establishment of the boiling operation to him, but to the two leaseholders of the royal salt works near Unna , Baron Friedrich Ludolph von Torck zu Nordherringen and the Kleveschen war councilor Johann Bertram Arnold von Rappard , what led to years of conflict.

During the Seven Years' War he was chief of the General War Commissariat of the Allied Army. On May 9th, 1763 he received the dignity of a real Minister of State in the General Directory, where he got the Kingdom of Prussia and all treasury matters to his department.

He died after a fortnightly illness at the age of 62.

Marriages and offspring

In his first marriage he married Juliane Scholastica von Massow, eldest daughter from the second marriage of Valentin von Massow auf Waldow. The couple had the following children:

  • Valentin George Anton (* 1740; † June 11, 1786), War and Domain Councilor in Halberstadt ⚭ May 8, 1764 Marie Elisabeth von Schellersheim, daughter of Privy Councilor Paul Andreas von Schellersheim
  • Anna Juliane Dorothea († 1814)
⚭ Karl August von Massow on Woblanse († March 10, 1778) (parents of General Karl Friedrich Heinrich von Massow )
⚭ 1781 Friedrich Wilhelm von Normann (1761–1788), Rittmeister

On August 20, 1743 he married Freiin Johanna Friderike von Krause (1726–1813), daughter of Johann Rudolf von Krause, governor and consistorial president, chief steward of the Duke of Württemberg-Oels , and Christiane Charlotte von Stein-Altenstein. The couple had the following children:

literature

  • Continued new genealogical-historical news , pp. 705–706 digitized
  • Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , New Prussian Adelslexicon , Volume 4, p. 472f, digitized
  • 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. 625 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar, The Royal Prussian and Electoral Brandenburg Real Secret State Council on His Biennial Foundation Days , p. 442, digitized
  • Franz Wiemers, The building of the Neusalzwerk by B. Rappard and v. Torck, hostilities with v. Massow . Pp. 76-81. In: Franz Wiemers, The salt being on Ems u. Weser under Brandenburg-Prussia. A contribution to the history of the origins of the city of Oeynhausen. 1915. Münster, University, dissertation, 1919
  • Paul Hermann Adolph v. Massow (edited by Ewald Ludwig Valentin v. Massow), news about the sex of those v. Massow , Valentin No. 287 , Berlin 1878, p. 124, digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Wiemers, The salt being on Ems u. Weser under Brandenburg-Prussia. A contribution to the history of the origins of the city of Oeynhausen. 1915. Münster, Universität, Dissertation, 1919, p. 107 (source in note 18: Acta borussica, authority organizations , vol. VII, p. 26, 27.)
  2. ^ Klaus Basner: Unna. Historical portrait of a city. Vol. 1, Bönen 2014, pp. 282f.
  3. ^ Franz Wiemers, The building of Neusalzwerk by B. Rappard and v. Torck, hostilities with v. Massow . Pp. 76-81. In: Franz Wiemers, The salt being on Ems u. Weser under Brandenburg-Prussia. A contribution to the history of the origins of the city of Oeynhausen. 1915. Münster, University, dissertation, 1919
  4. ^ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann ; Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Vor and Hinter-Pommern , p. 813, digitized
  5. ↑ Year book of the German nobility , volume. 3, 1899, p.242
  6. ^ History of the Gesammt-Familie von Normann , p.147f
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20071021210848/www.garnisonfriedhof-berlin.de/112.html
personal data
SURNAME Massow, Valentin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian minister of state and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1712
PLACE OF BIRTH pipe
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1775
Place of death Berlin