1712-1784

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Christoph von Pfeil
(1712-1784)

Born: Jan­ua­ry 20, 1712, Grün­stadt, Ger­ma­ny.

Died: Feb­ru­ary 14, 1784, Deuf­stet­ten, Ger­ma­ny.

Biography

Christoph was the son of Quir­in Heinr­ich von Pfeil, who at the time was in the serv­ice of the Count of Lein­ing­en.

He ma­tri­cu­lat­ed at the Uni­vers­ity of Hal­le in 1728, as a stu­dent of law. Af­ter com­plet­ing his course at the Uni­vers­ity of Tüb­ing­en, he was ap­point­ed, in 1732, Würt­tem­berg sec­re­ta­ry of le­ga­tion at Reg­en­sburg; then, in 1737, Jus­tiz-und-Re­gier­ungs­rath at Stutt­gart; in 1745 Tu­tel­ar­raths-Prä­si­dent; in 1755 Kreis­di­rect­or­ial­ge­sandt­er to the Swa­bi­an Di­et; in 1758 Ge­heim Le­ga­tions­rath; and in 1759 Ge­heim­rath.

However, he found him­self at last no long­er able to co­op­er­ate in car­ry­ing out the ab­so­lut­ism of the Würt­tem­berg prime min­is­ter Count Mont­mar­tin. When his re­sig­na­tion was ac­cept­ed, April 13, 1763, he re­tired to the es­tate of Deuf­stet­ten, near Crail­sheim, which he had bought in 1761. In Sept., 1763, he was ap­point­ed by Fred­er­ick the Great as Ge­heim­rath, and ac­cred­it­ed Prus­sian min­is­ter or am­bas­sa­dor to the Di­ets of Swa­bia and Fran­con­ia. He was there­af­ter cre­at­ed Bar­on by the Em­per­or Jo­seph II, and in 1765 re­ceived the cross of the Red Ea­gle Or­der from Fred­er­ick the Great.

In August 1783, an in­ter­mit­tent fev­er de­vel­oped which con­fined him to bed, where he re­mained un­til his death

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