Wolfgang Ferdinand von Dörnberg

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Baron Wolfgang Pandolphus Ferdinand von Dörnberg ; also Doernberg (* the thirtieth August 1724 in Regensburg ; † 9. September 1793 in Berlin ) was Minister of State of Hesse-Kassel , Prussian Minister of Justice (under Frederick the Great ), Supreme Court President and the third Erbküchenmeister in Hesse .

Life

family

Wolfgang Ferdinand von Dörnberg was the son of Johann Caspar Freiherr von Dörnberg (* May 17, 1689 at Hausen Castle near Bad Hersfeld ; † February 6, 1734 in Thomary, Sweden ), head of the Hessian law firm in Thomary and his wife Sophie Charlotte Maria ( * November 13, 1696 in Wesel ; † December 1, 1738 in Lichtenvörde), a daughter of Johann Siegmund von Heyden , Prussian general of the cavalry , governor of Lippstadt and Drost zu Wetter . His brother was:

  • Karl Sigismund von Dörnberg (* May 12, 1718 in Marburg ; † October 18, 1778 in Hausen), hereditary chef, married to Florentine Theodore (* 1719 - September 14, 1762), a daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Quadt zu Wykrath ( 1682-1724). In his second marriage he was married to Henriette von und zu Mansbach (1743–1785), a daughter of the Hessian Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm von und zu Mansbach (1711–1784) and his wife Sophie von Bernstein, from this marriage the later Lieutenant General Wilhelm von went Dörnberg , after which the Dörnberg uprising against Jérôme Bonaparte was named.

Wolfgang Ferdinand von Dörnberg was married to Caroline Dorothea (born October 28, 1728 in Dittershausen, † May 29, 1788 in Berlin), daughter of Carl Ludwig von und zu Löwenstein (1688-1738), Hesse , since September 12, 1748 in Dittershausen -Kasselscher Oberst, and his wife Dorothea Catharine von Baumbach . Together they had nine sons and a daughter, of whom we know by name:

  • Carl Ludwig von Dörnberg (1749–1819), officer, Teutonic Knight , Member of Parliament and since 1793 4th hereditary kitchen master in Hesse;
  • Wilhelm Ferdinand von Dörnberg (born October 10, 1750 in Marburg, † 1783), district president in Minden;
  • Friedrich Carl von Dörnberg (born February 19, 1754 in Kassel; † March 10, 1804 in Hanau), married to Henriette (born August 18, 1767 in Berlin; † February 27, 1844 in Hanau), daughter of Friedrich Christian Freiherr von Geuder -Rabensteiner (1710–1770), Prussian chamberlain , temporarily heir to Marquard Castle , freemason , chief steward of the Hereditary Princess Wilhelmine of Hessen-Kassel ;
  • Hans Friedrich August von Dörnberg (born April 24, 1755 in Kassel; † February 10, 1803), Hesse-Kassel chamberlain and war and domain council ;
  • Luise Wilhelmine Caroline Juliane von Dörnberg (born September 12, 1762 in Kassel; † unknown), married to Karl Gottlob von Schenckendorff (born August 17, 1745 in Pinnow in the Sternberg district ; † February 12, 1801 in Wulkow ), royal Prussian lieutenant colonel ;
  • Wilhelm Ludwig Moritz von Dörnberg (* 1764; † 1810), Hesse-Kassel major;
  • Johann Ernst von Dörnberg (1768–1828), district president and general commissioner;
  • Konrad Heinrich von Dörnberg (born August 24, 1769 in Breitenbach am Herzberg; † November 25, 1828 in Regensburg ), President of the Chamber in Bayreuth , married to Freiin Wilhelmine Sophie von Glauburg (1775–1835).

He was the hereditary lord of Herzberg Castle in Breitenbach am Herzberg .

Career

Wolfgang Ferdinand von Dörnberg enrolled at the University of Marburg to study law on September 19, and on December 24, 1747 was appointed a noble councilor at the government chancellery of Landgrave Ludwig VIII in Marburg, and in the following year he became more royal Swedish and Princely Hessian Government Councilor.

On January 29, 1752 he came to the government in Kassel as a councilor and on December 20, 1753 he was chamberlain. On February 24, 1760 he was appointed to the Secret Council and Vice President of the Government, and on July 5, 1762 to the Real Secret Council with a seat and vote in the Secret State Ministry, where he remained Government Vice President until he quit his service in 1763.

On February 28, 1771, he entered Prussian service and was, as the successor to Johann Ludwig von D'Orville (1714-1770), Minister of Justice of the French colony. King Friedrich II assigned him both the spiritual department and the directory of poor affairs. He was also president of the French senior management and senior consistory of the Huguenots in Berlin ; later he was also the supreme presidium of the three senates of the chamber court , and from January 1, 1785 he was appointed president of the secret high tribunal . After the Justice Minister Karl Abraham von Zedlitz was dismissed from the civil service, he took over the Palatinate Colony Department together with the Grand Chancellor Johann Heinrich von Carmer .

In July 1788, due to illness, he gave the presidium at the Secret High Tribunal and Chamber Court to his colleague Eberhard Friedrich Christoph Freiherr von d. Reck (1744-1816), but kept the rest of the portfolio.

After his death, his department initially went to Johann Heinrich von Carmer on an interim basis , who then handed the office over to Friedrich Wilhelm von Thulemeyer .

Awards and honors

Wolfgang Ferdinand von Dörnberg was a knight of the Order of St. John .

Fonts (selection)

  • At the very sad parting of Philipp Frantz from Danckelmann, I wanted to show his sadness through these thoughts . 1742,
  • Christoph Philipp Höster; Carolina Dorothea von Löwenstein: When the Reichsfrei-Hochwohlgebohrne Freiherr, Mr. Wolfgang Ferdinand Freiherr von Dörnberg, married Carolina Dorothea von Löwenstein on the 12th of the autumn month 1748 in Dittershausen . Marburg Müller 1748.
  • Silvius Friedrich Ludwig von Franckenberg; Wolfgang Ferdinand von Doernberg: When Wolffgang Ferdinand Freyherr von Dörnberg married Carolina Dorothea von Löwenstein on September 12, 1748 in Dietershausen . Marburg Müller 1748.
  • Johann Heinrich Feder; Wolfgang Ferdinand von Doernberg: The prosperity of the married status wanted on the 12th of September. This 1748th year celebrated the Hochfreyherrlich-Dörnberg-Löwenstein wedding festival appropriately . Marburg Müller 1748.
  • Hugo Blair ; Wolfgang Ferdinand von Doernberg; Friedrich Samuel Gottfried Sack : Hugo Blair's sermons . Leipzig Weidmann 1781.
  • Wolfgang Ferdinand von Doernberg; Thym; Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab: Regulations on how in the future the preachers associated with the Kurmärkische Reformirten Prediger-Wittwen-Casse should be made easier by the same to join the Königliche Allgemeine Wittwen-Verpflegungs-Societät De Dato Berlin, February 9th, 1789 . Greifswald University Library 2017.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Simon: The Prussian constitutional law . S. 88. Aderholz., 1844 ( google.de [accessed on February 21, 2019]).
  2. ^ Johann DE Preuss: Friedrich the Great: a life story . S. 531. Nauck, 1833 ( google.de [accessed on February 21, 2019]).
  3. ^ Conrad Bornhak: History of the Prussian administrative law: Second volume: Until the peace of Tilsit . S. 274. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-51989-5 ( google.de [accessed on February 22, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Dörnberg, Wolfgang Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dörnberg, Wolfgang Pandolphus Ferdinand von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Minister of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1793
Place of death Berlin