Arnold Engelbrecht

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Arnold Engelbrecht at the age of 38 in Halle. The pennies of grace hanging from a long and short chain, which corresponded to the award of an order, show the donor in a gold medal, here Duke Christian von Braunschweig-Lüneburg . This emphasizes Engelbrecht's position as a high Magdeburg official in the portrait.

Arnold Engelbrecht (born December 15, 1582 in Wernigerode ; † August 20, 1638 in Wildungen ) was Chancellor of the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel during the Thirty Years' War .

origin

He was the son of the Countess-Stolbergian hut factor and mayor as well as councilor in Wernigerode, Martin Wolfgang Engelbrecht (1532–1591) and Elisabeth Juliana Röber (* 1550 in Wernigerode; † 1617 ibid). He had two siblings: Martin Engelbrecht (1580–1617) was a bailiff in Harbke, his sister Anna Margarethe (* 1581) married Simon Malsius . As a factor in an ironworks in Ilsenburg, his grandfather had already achieved prosperity through trading in metals and brass alloys, obtained from the Stolberg iron stone mines, and as administrator of the local monastery .

Life

Arnold Engelbrecht studied law in Helmstedt and Bologna and went on an educational trip to France. Around 1610 he first joined the administrator Christian Wilhelm as an official for the coinage . In 1613 he was appointed royal magdeburg court advisor and salt count in Halle. After he had already served as a councilor, he was appointed Dr. on February 23, 1613 in Helmstedt. at both rights . He had filed an inaugural dissertation under Heinrich Cludio, which was reprinted several times, for example in 1614. He also wrote other constitutional documents. During his time in Halle he was entitled to the profit of several salt works every year and he owned a house there on the Pflam .

Engelbrecht then accepted a position as a princely privy councilor of Brunswick-Lüneburg to Duke Friedrich Ulrich and moved to Brunswick in 1627 with his family (ten children from his first marriage, four of whom died early). Around 1631 he was Chancellor of the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . He became a heir at the Free Saddle Farm in Gronau ( enfeoffed by Duke Friedrich Ulrich in 1632) and on the manors Voldagsen and Riedeburg, the latter (today Reideburg ) being destroyed during the Thirty Years War and not being managed for about four years. The Voldagsen manor, which also includes an area around the former Marienau monastery , remained with the Engelbrecht family until 1697, when it passed to the von Münchhausen- Schwöbber family through a settlement .

As Chancellor, Engelbrecht was instrumental in diplomatic negotiations for his weak-willed Duke under the unfavorable conditions of the Thirty Years' War, and in doing so did considerable work for the country. Despite the alliance with Denmark, Friedrich Ulrich found himself exposed to the conquest of his lands by imperial troops. The pin Hildesheim should be transferred to the Archbishop of Cologne. The ducal court and Engelbrecht's office were initially under the supervision of the imperial occupation in Wolfenbüttel until 1631, after which it was relocated to the unoccupied Braunschweig.

At the district assembly on January 27, 1634 in Halberstadt, a cooperation between the Swedes and the Brunswick-Lüneburg dukes was decided. The guidelines for joint action by the dukes and a clarification of the situation were previously set out in a document attributed to Chancellor Engelbrecht. After the death of the childless Duke Friedrich Ulrich on August 11, 1634, the chancellor Engelbrecht and his secret councilors were even entrusted with the administration of the principalities, as the remaining lines of the House of Braunschweig-Lüneburg could not agree on the succession and division of rule.

The situation in the Thirty Years War changed shortly after the Peace of Prague , when a Swedish General House of formerly Gustav II. Adolf hold wealthy George of Calenberg , influenced by his brothers, was joined on 31 August 1635 the peace treaty. In order to maintain neutrality between the emperor and Sweden, Duke Georg took over command of a small, independent army in 1636.

Engelbrecht led negotiations in January 1638 in which he committed his brother Friedrich von Celle and Duke August the Younger to help Duke Georg . These were the last significant negotiations for the Brunswick-Lüneburg duchies that took place under Chancellor Arnold Engelbrecht. During a stay at the Sauerbrunnen in Wildungen , he died on the day of his planned return trip on August 20, 1638. His body was laid out in Hildesheim Cathedral on September 6, 1638, transferred to Hanover on September 7, and buried there in the Marktkirche.

family

His first marriage was on March 2, 1612 in Halle Anna Maria Margaretha, b. Stisser (born April 30, 1594 in Halle; † Nov. 3, 1629 in Leipzig), a daughter of Chancellor Kilian Stisser , who had some education and was able to count, write and read. After her death on a trip to Leipzig, on which she had accompanied her husband, he got his second marriage to Anna, nee, on November 21, 1632 in Braunschweig. Neefe (born August 10, 1599 in Chemnitz, † April 5, 1661 in Leipzig, daughter of Paul Nefe, † 1600, councilor and merchant of Chemnitz, and Anna née Roeber, † 1618), the widow of Hofrat Arnold Prein ( also Preuer ).

His children were among others:

from first marriage

  • Christian Wilhelm Johann Engelbrecht (* December 13, 1612 in Halle; † July 17, 1675 Oesdorf , Mayor of Einbeck , Landrentmeister in Hanover; ⚭ (1) October 22, 1639 in Einbeck Catharina Peträus (* December 31, 1620 in Einbeck; † June 21, 1651 ibid); ⚭ (2) August 31, 1652 Anna Catharina Schrader (born September 16, 1630 in Braunschweig, † December 11, 1686 in Plön)
    • from (1) Ilse Dorothea Engelbrecht (born June 3, 1642 in Einbeck ; † August 12, 1706 in Wienhausen ); ⚭ November 27, 1661 in Hanover with Georg Michael Bacmeister (* March 7, 1625 in Lüneburg; † July 28, 1678 in Celle)
    • from (1) Emerentia Engelbrecht (* 1645) ⚭ 1667 Johann Friedrich Crauel
  • Chilian Engelbrecht (born January 19, 1616 in Halle; † January 9, 1680 ibid), lawyer
  • Dorothea Engelbrecht (born September 3, 1617 in Halle, † January 20, 1682 in Celle); ⚭ Theodor (Dietrich) Conerding (born March 15, 1611 in Bückeburg ; July 30, 1684 in Celle), dean of the Bardowik monastery , Leibmedicus of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm and the dukes Georg Wilhelm and Ernst August von Braunschweig-Lüneburg, son of Leibmedicus Hermann Konerding (* October 29, 1562 Hildesheim; † June 27, 1626 Braunschweig) and Anna Maria von Vechelde (* September 5, 1578 Braunschweig; † November 21, 1615 Bückeburg)
    • Anna Margaretha Konerding (born September 28, 1640 Hanover, † October 24, 1708 Göttingen); ⚭ Otto Riepenhausen (* 1633; † 1702 Göttingen )
      • Otto Arnold Riepenhausen (born July 17, 1666 Göttingen; † March 29, 1698 Celle), physician and city physician; ⚭ Dorothea Christiani
    • Catharina Elisabeth Konerding (born December 20, 1641 Hanover, † April 25, 1711); ⚭ September 11, 1660 Georg Christiani (* 1622; † 1684), chambermaster of the princely Brunswick-Lüneburg
      • Dorothea Christiani (* February 6, 1675 Celle; † July 15, 1725 ibid); ⚭ October 10, 1693 with Otto Arnold Riepenhausen
    • Maria Elisabeth Konerding (born February 16, 1647 in Hanover, † February 14, 1722 in Braunschweig); ⚭ with the Prussian electoral council and personal physician Martin Willich (born August 6, 1643 in Hamburg; † January 4, 1697 in Cölln / Spree)
    • Christian Arnold Konerding (* 1650 Hanover; † 23 July 1678 Celle), Leibmedicus in Celle

from second marriage

  • Julius Arnold Engelbrecht (born May 28, 1635 - † April 16, 1675 in Wolfenbüttel), lawyer and councilor
  • Georg Engelbrecht the Elder (* 1638; † 1705), professor at the University of Helmstedt and Brunswick-Lüneburg council; ⚭ (1) October 1669 Margaretha Schrader, daughter of Christoph Schrader and granddaughter of brother Ernst Stisser (1595–1636) of Anna Margaretha Stisser
    • Georg Engelbrecht (* 1680; † 1735), received an imperial nobility renewal in Vienna on October 2, 1727 as von Engelbrechten in the erroneous assumption of ancestry from an old Alsatian noble family. The electoral recognition of the nobility was granted on October 15, 1728 in Hanover.

Fonts (selection)

  • De jurisdictione tum veteris rei publicae romanae, tum translato imperio ad Germanos imperatoris , Helmstedt 1613
  • Quaestiones ad Tit. VII aureae Bullae de successione in electoralibus ex jure primogeniturae , Halle 1614, Giessen 1621

literature

Web links

References and comments

  1. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund (1823): The learned Hanover or Lexicon of Writers ... , Volume 1, Page 560 ( google.books.de, inspection May 13, 2020)
  2. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund (1823): The learned Hanover or Lexicon of Writers ... , Volume 1, Page 560 ( google.books.de, inspection May 13, 2020)
  3. ↑ cf. Dr. med. dent. Muhl, Celle; on gw.geneanet.org
  4. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen Häuser , third volume, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1909, ( online pp. 174–177 )
  5. ↑ cf. Works by Martin Geier
  6. ↑ Her first husband Arnold Prein, a royal magdeburg secret and court advisor, was stabbed to death in his bedroom by a burglar in 1625; see. Dr. med. dent. Muhl, Celle; on gw.geneanet.org
  7. ^ Georg Michael Bacmeister, entry on myheritage.de; Accessed May 27, 2020
  8. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund (1823): The learned Hanover or Lexicon of Writers ... , Volume 1, Page 71 google.books.de
  9. ↑ Entry on vongoetze.com. Accessed July 6, 2020
  10. ↑ Anna Maria was the daughter of the tailor and merchant Hinrik IV (Heinrich) von Vechelde (born October 11, 1543 Braunschweig; † March 5, 1593, great-grandson of Albert von Vechelde ) and Margaretha von Damm (born October 14, 1551; † January 12, 1594), daughter of the Brunswick councilor and mayor Henning von Damm (* October 16, 1517; † January 18, 1566) and Anna von Brackel (* 1521 Braunschweig; † October 1, 1584, a granddaughter of the master) the Braunschweiger Goldschmiedegilde, Olrik von Brakel). See the entry of the Verein für Computergenealogie on gedbas.com; Accessed July 6, 2020
  11. ^ Entry of the Association for Computer Genealogy on gedbas.com . Accessed July 6, 2020
  12. ^ Obituary 1678: Blessed death wish of true Christians, from the letter of the apostle Pauli ... on the corpse of the noble / best and highly learned Mr. Christian Arnold Konerdings ; printed by Andreas Holwein, Celle ( original as digital copy at books.google.de )
personal data
SURNAME Engelbrecht, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelbrecht, Arnoldus; Engelbrecht, Arnoldt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer and Chancellor in Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1582
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernigerode
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1638
Place of death Wildings