Hans Schack, 4th Count of Schackenborg

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Hans Schack, Count of Schackenborg (14 January 1734 – 21 August 1796) was a Danish nobleman and enfeoffed count (Danish: lensgreve). He was the fourth holder of the County of Schackenborg from 1741 to 1796.

Biography[]

Schackenborg Castle, photographed in 2006.

Hans Schack was born on 14 January 1734 at Schackenborg Castle in Møgeltønder in the Kingdom of Denmark. Born into the noble family of , he was the fifth child and eldest surviving son of the Danish nobleman and civil servant Otto Didrik Schack, and his wife Anna Ernestine Frederikke Vilhelmine Gabel .^[1]

At the early death of his father on 11 July 1741, he inherited the County of Schackenborg and assumed the title of enfeoffed count.^[1]

Count Schack died on 21 August 1796, aged 62, at Schackenborg Castle.^[1] He was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, .

Family[]

Schack married firstly on 7 January 1757 at Christiansborg Palace Chapel in Copenhagen , daughter of Danish courtier, statesman and diplomat Count Adam Gottlob Moltke and Christiane Frederikke von Brüggemann, by whom he had four children. She died on 7 April 1763 in Copenhagen.^[1]

• , who succeeded him as 5th Count of Schackenborg.
• Countess Frederikke Juliane Schack (1762–1815)
• Countess Anne Ernestine Schack (1762–1763)
• Countess Adamine Frederikke Schack (1763–1825)

Schack married secondly on 7 October 1763 at Lohma in the Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg Caroline Louise Sophie von Moltke, daughter of Joachim Christoph von Moltke and Sophia Albertina von Wolzogen), by whom he had four children. She died on 12 September 1794.

• Countess Caroline Mathilde Juliane Schack (1768–1775)
• stillborn son (1770)
• Countess Sophie Albertine Ernestine Schack (1772–1774)
• stillborn son (1775)

Notes and references[]

Bibliography[]

• Danmarks Adels Aarbog 1932 (PDF). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz. 1932.

External links[]

• (in Danish) Official website of Schackenborg Castle