Bernhard Ludolph Kanne

Bernhard Ludolph Kanne (born August 24, 1588 in Horn ; † March 19, 1660 in Klöden ) was an Electoral Saxon chamberlain and owner of the two manors Klöden and Löwendorf .

He was the son of the governor Arnolt Kanne and was born in 1588 in the local office. His father moved to Kursachsen in 1596 to manage the family-owned Klöden manor. He died there in 1603 when his son Bernhard Ludolph Kanne was just 15 years old. He took over the housekeeping on Klöden and married Elisabeth von Wulffen in Lemgo in 1610 , the daughter of the governor Carl von Wulffen from Stadthagen . This marriage resulted in six sons and a daughter, including Christian Ernst Kanne (* 1617 in Klöden), chamberlain of the Electorate of Saxony, court marshal and governor of the offices of Schweinitz, Schlieben and Seyda, Raban (* 1628) and Moritz (* 1635).

In 1620 Kanne became chamberlain to the Elector of Saxony. He held this office for six years, at his own request he left the Dresden court and returned permanently to his Gut Klöden. There he experienced the turmoil of the Thirty Years War. The elector later entrusted Kanne with several special tasks, such as the so-called "War Commission" in 1632 because of the spa town of Wittenberg and the spa district . In 1651, during the presence of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony on the Lichtenburg , the village of Gentha, which had become desolate in the Thirty Years' War, was awarded to him in the Seyda office for his services at court and in the war .

literature

• Abraham Calow: Verae Nobilitatis Insignia , Wittenberg 1660.