Anton Wolff von Todenwarth
Anton Wolff von Todenwardt (born June 5, 1592 in Speyer ; † April 7, 1641 in Frankfurt ) was Chancellor in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt .
Life
Origin and family
Anton Wolff von Todenwardt grew up as the son of Leonard Wolff to Todenwarth (1549–1606, lawyer and procurator at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer) and his first wife Anna Bien (1580–1614) together with his brothers Johann Jakob (1585–1657, Imperial envoy) and Christian Marsilius (1595–1641, Imperial Colonel) in the ancient noble family Wolff von Todenwarth from the Henneberg, Franconian and Hesse families . He was married to Catharina von Beeck (1593-1635). The son Eberhard (1614–1663, lawyer, privy councilor, diplomat) emerged from the marriage. In his second marriage, Anton was married to Sophie von Baumbach (* 1611).
Career and work
After attending schools in Speyer and Schleusingen studied Anton at the Universities of Jena and Giessen Law and received his doctorate in 1620 at the University of Giessen, having in 1611 as Assessor his service in the Imperial Courts had begun in Speyer. From 1613 to 1614 he stayed as councilor and syndic of the Electoral Palatinate in Aachen. After the siege of Aachen by General Ambrosio Spinola and the collapse of the Protestant majority in the city council, he fled via Utrecht to Strasbourg , where he also worked as a syndic from 1615 to 1624. There he obtained the imperial privilege for the University of Strasbourg . After these activities he moved back home. From 1624 to 1639 he worked as a Privy Councilor and Chancellor under Landgrave Georg II in Darmstadt and Gießen. In 1627 he was a co-founder of the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt. In 1632 he was appointed bailiff of Ottersberg, Umstadt, Habitzheim and Rüsselsheim. In 1635 he was envoy to the separate peace of Pirna and Prague and in 1636 princely governor in Hesse-Darmstadt in Marburg and bailiff in Schmalkalden. In 1639 Anton was dismissed from service due to serious illness. He fell out of favor, was arrested in Marburg and subjected to reprisals until his death.
Todenwarth Foundation
With the Todenwardt Foundation, Anton set a monument to his wife Catharina, who died of the plague on June 10, 1635 in Giessen. In the deed of foundation of the Todenwarth Foundation, he wrote that “their long-lasting illness and weakness, because of sovereign orders, in concern that I would otherwise want to be turmoil and hindered in the hailing peace work, bit me and concealed them after their death stayed. "
Honors
- March 10, 1623 in Regensburg raised to imperial nobility
- On June 27, 1637 in Prague he was raised to the status of imperial baron
Others
- In Darmstadt at Mauerstraße 17 there is a listed building that is used as a house of culture. At the beginning of the 17th century, the master builder Jakob Müller built the building for Anton Wolff von Todenwardt as an octagonal garden house.
- In 1627 Landgrave Georg II transferred the manorial estate Braunshardt to Anton Wolff von Todenwarth as an inheritance. Landgrave Ludwig VIII von Anton's heirs redeemed it around the middle of the 18th century .
literature
- City Lexicon Darmstadt. wbg Theiss in Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG), 2006, ISBN 978-3806219302 .
- Hermann Friedrich Macco : Aachen coat of arms and genealogies , Volume 1, Aachen 1907, p. 245 digitized
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Todenwarth, Anton Wolff from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chancellor in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1592 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Speyer |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1641 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt |