Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Friedrich Franz I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg [- Schwerin ] ( born December 10, 1756 in Schwerin, † February 1, 1837 in Ludwig pleasure); was from 1785 reigning Duke of Mecklenburg, since the conclusion of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 Grand Duke of Mecklenburg ( the part of the country Mecklenburg-Schwerin ).
Life
Friedrich Franz I was the son of Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe- Coburg -Saalfeld ( 1731-1810 ). He married on May 31, 1775 Luise Princess of Saxe -Gotha ( 1756-1808 ), a daughter of Prince Johann August of Saxe- Gotha. The marriage took place at Schloss peace in Gotha.
Friedrich Franz was born on June 17, 1785 the reigning Duke of Mecklenburg -Schwerin. He took over the regency of his uncle Friedrich, whose marriage remained childless. At the beginning of his tenure, he triggered the last to Prussia after the imperial execution of Charles Leopold pledged since 1731 villages of the duchy.
Friedrich Franz I eliminated renewed disagreements with Rostock Rostock during the Second Erbvertrag of 1788. He wrote down specific rights of the city until 1918 and 1789, the united Ducal Frederick University, which existed as a spin-off of the University of Rostock in Biitzow since 1760, again with this. He enlarged his dominion by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss through which the city pin villages, possessions of the Lübeck Holy Spirit Hospital, came under his dominion, and acquired by the Treaty of Malmö in 1803, first mortgage, the altmecklenburgischen possessions Wismar, Poel and New Monastery of Sweden back.
In the Napoleonic Wars he held his country first neutral, but when, after the battle of Jena and Auerstedt 1806 troops of the fourth coalition were tolerated, French troops occupied the country in December 1806. Friedrich Franz went on with his family under Danish protection to Altona. In July 1807, the Russian Tsar Alexander I was the reinstatement of the duke during a diplomatic meeting with Napoleon - under the condition of its accession to the Confederation of the Rhine - reach.
After the failed Russian campaign of Napoleon, Frederick Franz renounced the first German prince on March 14, 1813 by the Confederation of the Rhine, and armed troops to fight against France. However, he had to briefly escape from the French out of his residence again. On June 17, 1815, he received the Grand Duke dignity on the day of his 30th jubilee. In 1837 he died and was buried in the Doberan Minster. Was succeeded by his grandson Paul Friedrich.
Progeny
Friedrich Franz I and Princess Louise of Saxe- Gotha had eight children, two died on the day of birth.
- Friedrich Ludwig, Hereditary Prince of Mecklenburg (* June 13, 1778, † November 29, 1819 )
- Luise ( Charlotte) (* November 19, 1779; † January 4, 1801 ) ∞ Duke Augustus of Saxe -Gotha
- Gustav ( Wilhelm ) (* January 31, 1781; † January 10, 1851 )
- Karl ( August Christian ) (* July 2, 1782, † May 22 1833 )
- Charlotte ( Friederike ) ( born December 4, 1784 † July 13, 1840 ), the wife of Christian VIII until their divorce on March 31, 1810 Hereditary Princess of Denmark
- Adolf ( Friedrich) (* December 18, 1785, † May 8, 1821 )
Extramarital descendant with Margarete Elisabeth Bojanowsky:
- Johann Friedrich Ernst, since 1815 by Klee Castle, ( 1790-1864 )
Extramarital descendant with a woman Deters:
- Friedrich of Mecklenburg († 1826 in Dummer hut)
Extramarital offspring with Luise Friederike hall:
- Luise Friederike Charlotte of Kleinow (1785-1839)
- Friederike Kleinow (1794-1849)
Extramarital descendant with Louise Müller:
- Ludwig Christian Helmuth von Mecklenburg ( born November 2, 1811 in Ludwig pleasure; † January 31, 1875 ibid )
Others
Friedrich Franz I was the first bather and is responsible for the expansion of the town to the seaside resort of Heiligendamm. He left in 1793 to build on the advice of his personal physician Samuel Gottlieb Vogel a spa. The resort was eighty years under royal administration. Today a memorial stone in place reminiscent of the founders of the Baltic resort. On the stone are the years: 1793 and 1843.