Andreas Buggenhagen

Andreas Buggenhagen (born May 14, 1583 in Nehringen ; † May 4, 1652 ibid) was a Pomeranian country marshal and court marshal from Mecklenburg-Güstrow .

origin

The knight Andreas Buggenhagen was born as the son of Degener Buggenhagen the Elder. J. († 1591) and Margaretha von Behr († 1598) were born and were the last of the Nehringen-Broock line of the noble family Buggenhagen . The other line on Buggenhagen near Wolgast could not enforce its claims after his death and the goods passed into other hands.

youth

Andreas Buggenhagen enjoyed the training and education of a wealthy country nobleman, which was customary in his time. As a child he was instructed by private tutors, so-called preceptors. After the father's early death, his brother Bernhard took over the guardianship. In 1597 Andreas and his Preceptor moved into the University of Greifswald for two years . From there he went to Wittenberg and Leipzig in the spring of 1599 . At the end of the same year he and his court master Matthias Hubner moved to southern Germany because he had received a professorship in Altorf . He visited many cities in Franconia and Bavaria and would have liked to travel further to Italy and France . Since he was the only one of his generation of the Buggenhagen family at that time, his guardian did not allow him to do so. Instead, Andreas Buggenhagen returned to Pomerania.

Family and household

On November 10, 1604, Andreas Buggenhagen married his first wife, Dorothea von Jasmund , daughter of the Mecklenburg court marshal Christoff von Jasmund in Cammin in Mecklenburg . With her he then moved into the knight's seat Broock an der Tollense, which also belongs to the family's estates . Only after the death of his cousin Bernhard in 1610 did he move to Nehringen, the ancestral home of the family. The marriage with Dorothea von Jasmund remained childless. She died in 1626. After a two-year existence as a widower, Andreas married again, again a Mecklenburg noblewoman, Catharina Preen , daughter of the ducal-Mecklenburg Privy Councilor Otto Preen . This marriage also remained childless.

With his three goods complexes Nehringen, Broock and Pustow , Andreas Buggenhagen was one of the largest noble landowners of his time in Western Pomerania. The so-called Kahlden Hufenmatrikel from 1631 indicates the total extent of his property with 190 3/4 Hufen (105 1/2 Hufen zu Nehringen, 48 1/4 Hufen to Broock, 37 Hufen to Pustow). In addition there were 26 1/2 hooves of his afterlehn people from the families Evert and Hagemann in Brönkow . However, Pustow had been pledged from these estates since 1588 and he pledged Broock himself in 1613. Nehringen was also not managed by himself during his service at the Güstrower Hof. During the Thirty Years War the goods suffered considerable destruction. After 1636 Andreas Buggenhagen was forced to go to Denmark for several years, where from 1639 to 1641 he leased an estate in the then still part of Denmark's Halland province , now Sweden . After his return he devoted himself to rebuilding the Nehringer estates, which he only partially succeeded in doing.

During his service at the court of Duke Johann Albrechts II of Mecklenburg, he initially took over the office of Plau as a pledge, later he leased the office of Dargun , which he took away from him after his employer was driven out by Wallenstein in 1628.

Public offices

Traditionally, the eldest of the Buggenhagen family, Nehringer Line, held the office of Land Marshal for the Principality of Barth and Rügen. After the death of his cousin Bernhard in 1610, Andreas took over this office the following year and in December 1611 already headed a convent of the estates in Stralsund . One of the most important tasks of the Land Marshal, which was a land estate office, was the convening and management of the state parliaments and other meetings of the state estates. In May 1612, Andreas Buggenhagen was appointed district administrator at the Wolgast state parliament . In Pomerania, however, he could not really gain a foothold, but had many envious and enemies at the Wolgast court. In particular, his neighbor Caspar von Behr auf Deyelsdorf , who was also the governor of Grimmen and Tribsees , was almost constantly at odds with him.

That is why he went to Güstrow to the court of Duke Johann Albrechts II of Mecklenburg, where he was made court marshal, the highest-ranking court office. His family ties to Mecklenburg must have played an important role in this. It was here that Andreas Buggenhagen probably came into contact with the Calvinists who, after Johann Albrecht's third marriage to Eleonora Maria von Anhalt-Bernburg, gained a certain influence at the Güstrower Hof. The fact that his funeral sermon was written by a Calvinist preacher proves that he himself was a Calvinist or at least was close to this religion.

After Duke Johann Albrecht II was expelled from Wallenstein, Buggenhagen also lost his offices and followed his master to Lübeck , from where he returned with the Swedish troops in 1631. He was again in his service until Johann Albrecht's death in 1636.

Last years of life

After his return from exile in Denmark , Andreas Buggenhagen devoted himself primarily to rebuilding his estates. In addition, however, he performed the duties associated with the office of land marshal. Since it was clear at that time that his line would die out with him, the Swedish crown distributed expectances on his estates during his lifetime. Because of the debts attached to these, the beneficiaries of this kind did not get a chance, but remained in the hands of the creditors.

On a trip to Güstrow Buggenhagen was attacked by a "severe cough and chest disease" from which he could no longer recover. On May 4, 1652, he died on his knight seat in Nehringen, almost sixty-nine years old, and was buried in Nehringen. Today only the medieval castle tower and the Renaissance altar in the church there remind of the time of the Buggenhagen family in Nehringen . Everything else comes from a later time.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carl Gesterding: Genealogies and / or family foundations Pomeranian, especially knightly families. First collection. G. Reimer, Berlin 1842, p. 168.
2. ↑ Documented, among other things, in file no. 1297 (formerly Tit. 60b, no. 36) of the holdings of the Herzoglich Wolgast Archive (formerly Rep. 5) in the Stettin State Archive (Archiwum Państwowe w Szczecinie), which contained several complaints by von Behr about Buggenhagen from the Contains period 1614 to 1627.

literature

• Of the holy apostle Pauli good fight / completed course / kept faith / sampt of the crown of righteousness obtained on it. For consolation and honorary memory of the fatal yet blessed step / Des ... Andreas von Buggenhagen / (the latter of this family) ... Which Anno 1652. May 4th ... in Neeringen, blissfully fell asleep on his knight's seat in the Lord / and afterwards there ... was transferred to his resting room. From the seventh and eighth verses of the fourth chapter of the other epistles to the Timotheum / ... explained and promoted to print / by M. Joachimum Mencelium.
• Carl Gesterding : Genealogies and / or family foundations Pomeranian, especially knightly families. First collection. G. Reimer, Berlin 1842, p. 167ff. ( Digitized version )
• Dirk Schleinert : Buggenhagen, Andreas (1583–1652) . In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern . Volume 1 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V, Volume 48.1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-20936-0 , pp. 47-49.

Web links

• Literature about Andreas Buggenhagen in the state bibliography MV