Enevold Brandt
Enevolt of Brandt ( born September 7, 1738 in Copenhagen, † April 28, 1772 ) was a Danish Count and courtier, who was executed along with Johann Friedrich Struensee.
Life
Brandt was the son of Cabinet Secretary and City Council Carl Brandt Teichhof (1696-1738) and the Else Berregaard ( 1715-1793 ). He had an older brother Christian. Both were already from youth Hofjunker. Brandt visited the Knight Academy Sorö, studied law and was assessor in 1764 at the Supreme Court. His brother made a career as a civil servant and was Rantzau since 1764 administrator of the county. There Brandt met the Landphysikus Struensee know.
Already in 1760 Brandt was appointed gentleman of the bedchamber and pulled apparently the court service to the legal profession before. Hoping for a Hofkarriere at the young King Christian VII he denounced in a letter dated May 2, 1768 the royal favorite Conrad Holck and offered himself as its replacement. The desired success was: Brandt was banned with immediate effect from Denmark, but retained his salary. He traveled to Paris, where he joined the acquaintance of Voltaire. As a Christian VII was on his trip to Europe in July 1769 to Paris, Brandt asked him and the actual regent Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff to pardon. Although he was not allowed to return to Denmark, but was appointed chamberlain and got a job in the county of Oldenburg, who was in personal union with Denmark, and was managed by Bernstorff as director of the German firm.
1770 appointed him Struensee back to the court. He had come to realize that the king was easy to steer when he was only exposed to the direct influences. Struensee had already caused Bernstorff deposition. Now Brandt should entertain the king and thus reduce the influence of his drinking companions Conrad Holck. Under Struensee protection Brandt received numerous offices and titles, as well as a good income. On January 29, 1771 he was awarded the donated by the Queen Caroline Mathilde Mathilde north. But unlike the law graduate had expected Struensee not involved him in his reforms. Although he was appointed director of the royal theater, art gallery and art collection, Struensee austerity measures left him no room for their own plans. Instead Struensee demanded from him only the insane, increasingly suffering from Tobsuchtanfällen king to keep them happy. In September 1771 Brandt Struensee asked by letter to dismissal, complaining simultaneously about its despotic behavior, but Struensee convinced him to stay. On September 30, 1771 he was charged with Struensee together to the rank of Count ( greve lens ), but without actually associated lands. In Struensee opponents and the people Brandt was therefore regarded as a co-conspirator. Since the king had pleasure in brawls, Brandt could not escape the. In November 1771 came it to the incident that took the lives Brandt later. However, Christian VII Brandt took the scratches not bad, but appointed him a few days later, on 26 November, the Grand - Maître de la wardrobe du Roi.
On January 17, 1772 Brandt was arrested together with Struensee and imprisoned in the castle of Copenhagen. On 25 April, he was sentenced to death for high treason and high treason. During his captivity, he showed no signs of concern. Rather than confess to his assigned pastor Pastor Hee his sins, he occupied himself with music. On leaflets taunting the detainee, he is therefore depicted playing the flute. Even still on the way to the scaffold, he was firmly with his pardon, but he came from an influential family. In addition, the only way he alleged crimes had been a playful fight with the king, in which Christian VII had suffered a harmless scratch. On April 28, Brandt was led to the scaffold before Struensee. His coat of arms was broken. Then he just got his right hand cut off and was then beheaded. His body was quartered and braided on the wheel. The remains should have collected his brother and buried in a coffin in St. Peter's Church in Copenhagen anonymous.