Christian Ernst to Stolberg Wernigerode

count Christian Ernst to Stolberg Wernigerode (* 2. April 1691 in Gedern; † 25. October 1771 in who Niger desert) was a German politician. It governed who Niger desert in the resin from 1710 to 1771 over since 1714 the county standing under direct sovereignty of Brandenburg Prussia.

life

Christian Ernst is that 10. Child of the 2. Before the count Ludwig Christian to Stolberg. Its nut/mother was the princess Christine of Mecklenburg Güstrow.

In accordance with the paternal will of 23. It received the county who Niger desert, which Hohnstein forest south of Benneckenstein and the requirements on the pawned office to January 1699 after its death Elbingerode (resin). After the death of the father 1710 it began the inheritance under guardianship of its nut/mother and called themselves from now on count to Stolberg Wernigerode. It shifted the seat of the government of Ilse castle back after who Niger desert, whose lock it let recondition and extend structurally.

To 21. It issued a Primogeniturordnung, which planned the succession only in male line to May 1738 and so that who Niger desert forbade future divisions of the county.

By dying its brother Heinrich August it inherited 1748 the Frankish rule Schwarza.

Christian Ernst was knight of the royal-Prussian black eagle medal and the royal-Danish medal de l'union parfaite. From 1735 to 1745 it carried out Christian VI. for the king as a secret advice. of Denmark helpful services.

Under the government of the count Christian Ernst an active building activity developed within the county who Niger desert, then it let the desire garden in the French style transform and to establish the building of a Orangerie. Furthermore is to be owed to it the establishment late cloud little houses so mentioned on breaking into.