Wilhelm Heinrich Christoph von Cramer

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Wilhelm Heinrich Christoph von Cramer (born January 6, 1712 in Hanover , † March 18, 1793 in Schlanstedt ) was a Lower Saxony bailiff, agricultural reformer and Drost.

origin

Cramer came from a merchant family that was ennobled as " von Cramer " from 1742 , and was a son of Henning Cramer (* 1653 Hildesheim; † 1726 in Hanover), a citizen and merchant of Hanover. He had several siblings in known families of kurhannoverischen Staatspatriziats einheirateten.

Life

Wilhelm Heinrich Christoph (from) Cramer 1739 was bailiff and around 1,742 Amtsrat. Like his brother-in-law Johann August Bonhorst several years before, he was appointed Drost in Königslutter , from 1755 to 1779. During his tenure, he made outstanding contributions to the city's economic, social and educational development. In 1758 he brokered that the Gut Niedernhof of the Lords of Knesebeck became the property of the powerful brewers' association (numerous breweries, including Duckstein ). Through the leasing of the monastery household to the aforementioned brewing society for 100 years on long lease, beginning in 1769, the expansion of several mulberry plantations for silkworm breeding and the promotion of the wool industry, and above all through the cultivation of tobacco and madder , which was effectively supported by Cramer, it came about to the economic upswing of the small town, which has so far been more medieval.

A change in the cityscape was caused by Cramer's work. For example, a row of houses begun in 1752 was completed in front of the Braunschweiger Tor. The tower of the town church was also renewed and a school was built in its vicinity. Cramer arranged for grants for this school, better pay and an increase in the teaching staff there.

Cramer tried in Königslutter to implement the social reforms conceived by his brother-in-law Heinrich Bernhard Schrader von Schliestedt , also in the course of the educational-reforming industrial school movement , which contributed to his favorable fame. On the other hand, he took his leave in 1779 precisely because he “ did not want to pay homage to higher orders that did not appeal to his individuality ”. He changed rulers and moved into the royal Prussian domain Schlanstedt near Halberstadt , where he died about 29 years after the death of his wife. He was buried on March 24, 1793 in a vault under the Priechentreppe of the Schlanstedter Church. One of his sons followed him in the position of chamber councilor in Schlanstedt.

family

He was married to Catharina Margaretha Schrader (* 1716 Braunschweig; † September 16, 1764 Königslutter), a daughter of Braunschweig Mayor Paul Schrader (1673-1729) and Catharina Margarethe von Kalm (1687-1746), and had seven children, whereby with the death of his son Hennig Wilhelm Anton von Cramer (born April 30, 1750 Königslutter; † August 16, 1815 in Braunschweig), the male descent of the von Cramer family supposedly died out.

In order to honor his wife, who died earlier in 1764, Cramer arranged for her to be buried in a sarcophagus in the abbey vault of the collegiate church , which was set up right next to the resting place of Abbot Friedrich Ulrich Calixt . In 1818, however, due to the progressive disintegration of the sarcophagus, the then monastery pastor Johann Georg Heinrich Bode arranged for it to be moved to the monastery cemetery in front of the monastery church.

literature

  • Lampe, Joachim (1963): Aristocracy, court nobility and state patriciate in Kurhannover: Volume: Official lists and pedigrees ; Page 378. ( Limited preview at books.google.de ; inspection May 13, 2020)
  • v. Alten: The Cramer family (Krahmer) . Inquiry in Rheude, Lorenz M., (Hrsg.): Wellers archive for heritage and heraldry , organ of the Roland Association for the promotion of regular customers. 3rd year 1902–1903 (Verlag Gebr. Vogt, Roda 1903), p. 76 ( digitized at archive.org ; inspection May 13, 2020)
  • E. Appelhans (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch - Volume 40 (1959); Pages 83–86 ( digitized version at TU Braunschweig and digitized version from yumpu.com; access on May 13, 2020)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lower Saxony State Archive Wolfenbüttel NLA WO 50 Neu 3 Köng Nr. 106 online entry , inspection May 16, 2020
  2. ↑ Lower Saxony State Archives Wolfenbüttel NLA WO, 50 Neu 3 Köng (goods administration), no.216 online entry , inspection May 16, 2020
  3. ↑ Cramer, contrary to the customs of the time, considered knitting lessons for both sexes in the same room without influencing other students to be justifiable. Cramer also promoted the teaching staff at the school at the town church, mentioned below. See thesis in the Department of Education - General Didactics, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (Anonymous, Books on Demand Norderstedt 2016): The professional education thought in the 18th century. The industrial school movement ; Page 6. Limited preview on grin.com/document/420549, accessed on May 17, 2020
  4. ↑ His successor from 1779 was Johann Friedrich Ernst Heinrich Ribbentrop (* 1745 Schwalenberg ; † 1807 Königslutter), brother of Philipp Christian Ribbentrop , both sons of Heinrich Christoph Anton Ribbentrop (* 1704 Laßbruch ; † 1753 Brake ); see Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch (1959), page 86
  5. ↑ See Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch (1959), pages 84 and 86
  6. ↑ cf. Johann Friedrich Unger (Ed.): Handbook on the Royal Prussian Court and State: for the year 1804 (Berlin 1804) p. 87 books.google.de , also see Handbook on the Royal Prussian Court and State: for the year 1798
  7. ↑ see Detlef Döring (Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2015): Johann Christoph Gottsched Correspondence November 1742 - February 1744 ( limited preview at books.google.de ); Accessed May 13, 2020
  8. ↑ see v. Alten: The Cramer family (Krahmer) . in Rheude (1903), p. 76
personal data
SURNAME Cramer, Wilhelm Heinrich Christoph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cramer, Heinrich Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Drost in Königslutter
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1712
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1793
Place of death Schlanstedt