Wilhelm Carl August von Brandenstein
Wilhelm Carl August von Brandenstein († August 26, 1756 in Altenburg ) was a court official in the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg and owner of several manors .
Life
He came from the Thuringian noble family von Brandenstein . After training by private tutors, he embarked on an administrative career and became chamberlain and court and judicial councilor at the court in Altenburg .
Since at least 1747 Wilhelm Carl August von Brandenstein belonged to the Canonici Minores of the Merseburg Monastery .
In 1754 he bought from his mother-in-law, the widowed councilor Henriette Sybille von Dieskau, nee. von Osterhausen, their manor Kölzen and the associated saddle farm Starsiedel in the bishopric of Merseburg in the Electorate of Saxony . Furthermore, he already owned the Tegkwitz estate . However, the hopes he had with the new acquisition of these goods were not fulfilled, as he died unexpectedly on August 26, 1756 in Altenburg. His body was transferred to the family funeral in Teckwitz, where he was buried on August 29, 1756.
From her marriage to Henrietta Elisabeth Johanna von Brandenstein born in 1753. von Dieskau had two sons, Friedrich August Christian (born June 13, 1754) and Wilhelm Gottlob August von Brandenstein (born July 19, 1756) as well as the daughter Henrietta Sophia (born August 9, 1755), who were underage and therefore had a guardian needed, especially since his youngest son was only a month old when his father died. In 1756, the Saxon-Coburg-Saalfeld court and consistorial councilor Johann August von Schönfeld assumed guardianship . When Schönfeld died in 1760, he took his place as the guardian of Vice Chancellor Carl Adam Gottlob Pflugk on Ehrenhain. In 1766 the Saxon Elector Carl Wilhelm von Minckwitz took over the guardianship. In 1768, at the request of his mother, he arranged for the Kölzen manor with the Starsiedel saddle farm, which had been newly acquired by Wilhelm Carl August von Brandenstein in 1754 and which had fallen to his only living son, to the mother in the course of an inheritance settlement. She had only remained a widow for a few years before she married the Württemberg Chamberlain and Councilor Ernst Anton von Seckendorff at the latest in 1768. She died just one year later in February 1769. Shortly before her death, she bequeathed the Kölzen and Starsiedel estates to her two biological children from her first marriage and her two Seckendorff stepchildren from her second marriage. In an inheritance settlement with their father or stepfather in 1770, they agreed that he should take over the property from then on.
Of the three children, the youngest son Wilhelm Gottlob August von Brandenstein died before he was two on September 28, 1757 in Tegkwitz. Henrietta Sophia von Brandenstein married Karl Ludolf von Alvensleben (1746–1813) from Zichtau .
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon . Volume 58, 1974
- Wolf von Brandenstein: History of the von Brandenstein family, 4 booklets (in 2 volumes), Magdeburg 1895–1905
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual genealogical handbook , 1747, p. 260
- ^ Certificate from the Consistorial Councilor and General Superintendent Johann Caspar Reuchlin, Altenburg, April 29, 1757.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brandenstein, Wilhelm Carl August von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German court official in Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg and manor owner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th century or 18th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 1756 |
| Place of death | Altenburg |