Adolf XI. (Schaumburg)

Adolf XI. (According to another count, Adolf XIV.) (* 1547 ; † 1601 ) ruled the county of Holstein-Pinneberg and the ancestral county of Schauenburg from 1581 to 1601.

Life

Adolf was born in 1547 as the second son of Otto IV. Von Holstein and Schauenburg and his first wife Maria von Pommern-Stettin (1527–1554), daughter of Barnim IX. , born. While his brothers Hermann , the eldest, and Anton were raised to be clergymen, Adolf was trained to succeed his father. He studied at the University of Wittenberg and then accompanied his father on his campaigns.

When his father died, the state estates, with the support of his stepmother Elisabeth Ursula von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , initially managed to keep the sons from their first marriage out of the government. Under the rule of the estates, the debts with which Otto had burdened the country were largely reduced. In 1581 Adolf took over the regency. In 1583 he married Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . The only son from this marriage, Julius, died before his father in 1601. His brother Ernst followed him as regent.

Under Adolf's reign, the Jews, especially the Portuguese-Sephardic Jews, were protected by the letter of protection of September 28, 1584. It only applied to the County of Pinneberg, as the County was an allodial property. This led to the first settlement of Jews in Altona and Ottensen and thus promoted their further development.

literature

• Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen, Elke Imberger, Dieter Lohmeier , Ingwer Momsen (ed.): The princes of the country. Dukes and Counts of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2008, ISBN 978-3-529-02606-5 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Otto IV.	Count of Schauenburg and Holstein 1581–1601	serious