Hans Caspar von Bothmer

Johann Caspar Graf von Bothmer, Johann Kaspar von Bothmer ( born March 31, 1656 in Lauenbrück; † February 6, 1732 in London ) was a British diplomat and kurhannoverscher and ministers.

Life

Hans Caspar von Bothmer was born in 1656 in Lüneburg Lauenbrück. He was from the Lower Saxon noble family Bothmer, a landed gentry family and was brought in 1682 to the court of brunswick - Lüneburg principality part Calenberg in Hanover and was Hofjunker with the Princess Sophie Dorothea. Since 1683 he was a diplomat in Hanover services and represented the Hanoverian court in Vienna, The Hague, Berlin and Paris and from 1711 in London. There he was mainly attributable to ensure that the Hanoverian Elector Georg Ludwig in 1714 in a personal union when George I King of Great Britain.

In 1696 he was appointed together with his brothers and his father to the barons, 1713 raised to the imperial princes.

Bothmer remained until his death in 1732 in London and was the principal adviser to the king, he was chief minister for the affairs of Germany. He had since 1720 in Westminster, Downing Street 10 and led the German firm his official residence.

Now, went up into the higher nobility and the associated financial possibility Had he built from 1726 to 1732 by Johann Friedrich Künnecke the Bothmer Castle as a family residence for himself, his wife and daughter in Klützer angle whose completion he did not live. In addition, Bothmer acquired in the region to 1731 ten goods, including Elmenhorst, Brook and Christine box.