Christian Friedrich Meurer

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Christian Friedrich Meurer (born September 17, 1625 in Planitz ; † September 24, 1695 in Erfurt ) was a German lawyer and civil servant . He was the “ Elector. Pass to Saxony Highly appointed district administrator in Thuringia and to Tennstedt and heir and court lord on Lützen-Sömmern , Trebnitz and Lauterbach ”.

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Christian Friedrich Meurer was born on September 17, 1625 as the son of the " right-wing well-to-do Mr. Andreas Meurer (* 1592 , † July 17, 1646 ), Churfürstl. Saxon. Well-appointed office administrator in Planitz ”, born. His mother was Maria, geb. Faust, the daughter of Magister Johann Faust zu Mühlberg , who was a pastor and pastor. The paternal grandfather was Andreas Meurer, lawyer and mayor of Stollberg, the grandmother was Sibylla nee. Niedner, daughter of the former mayor Thomas Niedner zu Stollberg. On September 20, 1625, his baptism was performed in the church in Planitz. The godparents included Christian Winckelmann, the electoral supervisor of the rafts in Niederauerbach , as well as Salomon Gerhardt, the electoral magistrate in Zwickau and the wife of Pastor Fugner zu Planitz.

Christian Friedrich Meurer received his instruction and education through private tuition at an early stage and then attended the universities of Wittenberg and Jena , where he devoted himself particularly to studying history and law and took part in public disputations . After successfully completing his degree, he initially decided to forego the dissertation proposed to him to obtain a doctorate and instead to expand his education through a grand tour , to perfect his studies and for his further goals, to achieve a higher quality of his political conversation and rhetoric , to go traveling. He traveled “his fatherland of salvation. Rom. Reichs Teutscher Nation including the bordering countries, residences, cities and towns of Teutschland , also the Kingdom of Bohemia and its capital Prague , both the Marggraff creates Moravia , less the Keyserliche Residenz Vienna , as well as the Churfürstl. Magnificent Bavarian capital and residence city of Munich and, in addition, many renowned capital and other cities, castles, vestments, academies and other (...) Also among other things in 1653 at Regensburg the magnificent coronation of Maj.Hn. FERDINANDI IV. To Rom. Kings with respected ” (p. 43).

He continued his educational journey through Lower Germany to the kingdoms of Denmark and Sweden , studying the peculiarities and conditions in the royal residences , in the elegant cities of Copenhagen and Stockholm , but also in other cities and places, he attended the famous University of Uppsala and stayed also for some time on the Fürstl. Holstein University of Kiel to study. To further improve his personality, he also made many contacts with high-ranking aristocrats and officials. The at the royal. Majest. Denmark hochbestallte Obrist Kai Bertram Graf von Brockdorff (1619-1689), from the Holstein Uradelsgeschlecht those of Brockdorff in the Principality Holstein , familiar Meurer his son to be educated and elevated him to Hofmeister .

After his return, Meurer was named “ Duke of Saxony , Jülich , Cleve and Bergk , des Heil. Rom. Reich Archmarschalle and Elector , Mr. Johann Georg I. “, appointed as official locks for the office of Weißensee . Here, however, it was not more than a year left as him after the death of the Duke's successor, Johann Georg II. (1613-1680), due to its special scholarship and skill and his good manners for the much more important office to the top and subsequent district bailiff used. This elector devoted himself particularly to the economic reconstruction of Saxony after the Thirty Years' War and needed competent officials for this. Meurer's tasks included the responsibility for the administration of the Thuringian country with its entire knighthood in writing and the Ganerbinate at Treffurt and Tennstedt. He led this multifaceted office with its functions, highly important commissions and the many trips that resulted from it for almost 37 years with success. He used his foresight and his diplomatic skill to the full satisfaction of his masters, the Electors of Saxony (successively Johann Georg I to Johann Georg IV.), But also the knighthood of the Thuringian Circle. The responsible and goal-oriented activity for the good of Saxony and the Thuringian district found its special distinction when the Duke and Prince August von Sachsen Weißenfels (1614–1680) as head of the Fruit-Bringing Society considered his district bailiff worthy to accept him as a member. Meurer was given the name "Wohlerkandt, the plant: Teutscher Diptam and the word: In der Treue, enclosed ".

His helpful and service-minded manner was also praised, which he did not only show his family and relatives, but anyone who needed advice, assistance or help. He paid particular attention to poor students, to whom he provided grants with grants .

From 1680 Meurer conducted his official business under Duke Johann Georg III. (1647–1691) who introduced a standing army in Saxony . In 1692 he decided to give up the difficult office for reasons of age and because of his steadily deteriorating health. His eldest son, Ernst Friedrich Meurer (1660–1722), had already stood by his father as “Vice-bailiff”. Christian Friedrich Meurer's request for dismissal from office was not granted immediately by Elector Johann Georg IV (1668–1694) . Johann Georg IV. Did not become elector until 1691 after the death of Johann Georg III. received, and at that time there were competition and important inheritance disputes at the highest level of government affairs, which had arisen at the Ganerbinat zu Treffurt between the high Gan heirs of the electorates of Mainz , Saxony and Hesse. Therefore he could not do without the experience, the thoroughness and the knowledge of his district administrator about many connections in Thuringia and Tennstedt and indicated to him that as ruler he "would like to see that he would like to stay at the office for at least another year, and Let him, Mr. Creyß-Amtmann, be graciously humble by means of a written resolution ” . At the end of the year, Christian Friedrich Meurer received “from Ihro Churfürstl. Through the most gracious understanding and pleasure in seeing his time abandoned office, demonstrated loyalty and dexterity, “ his dismissal from office.

In October 1693 he left Tennstedt, where he had held office for 37 years and lived with his relatives, and went to Erfurt with his family. On August 21, 1695 he suffered a repeated blow and stick flow , whereupon he died on September 24, 1695 with his family. He was 70 years and 7 days old and had 11 children and 18 grandchildren. At his own request, he found his final resting place in the Church of St. Gregorii in Erfurt.

family

Christian Friedrich Meurer's first marriage to Martha Elisabeth, geb. Hopffen (also: Hopff), the daughter of his predecessor in Weißensee, the Electoral Saxon official Simon Hopffen, married. The marriage was concluded on February 9, 1657 in Weißensee. Shortly after the birth of the first child, this daughter and his wife died in 1658, both were buried in the church in Tennstedt. On November 8, 1659 he married again, the bride was Marie Justine, b. Pfretzschner (born September 22, 1640, † March 14, 1696). She was the fifth daughter of the Elector. Saxon. Court and Justice Councilor Nicolao Pfretzschner († 1668), the heir and court lord on Troschenreuth , Oelsen , Schwandt, Oberschaar and Trebnitz. Her mother was Sara Pfretzschner, geb. Rothe († 1658). The wedding took place in the Churfürstl. Residency Dresden made.

From this marriage there were ten children, five sons and five daughters:

  1. Ernst Friedrich (1660–1722), doctor of law, district administrator in Thuringia and Tennstedt after his father. Ernst Friedrich Meurer married Anna Maria geb. Zeumer († 1749), the sister of Johann Christoph Zeumer (1685–1747), Chancellor of Naumburg and Zeitz . The daughter from this marriage, Christiana Friederika Meurer (1713–1774), married the chancellery director zu Eisleben Johann Christoph Schmidt (1704–1781), who after the death of his wife's cousin, the court and judiciary Johann Friedrich Zeumer (1717–1774 ), one of its 3 heir was and the manor Beautiful field and a third portion of the brass work Niederauerbach inherited.
  2. Christian Friedrich (1661–1682) had completed his studies at the University of Wittenberg and completed the educational trip, died in Wittenberg .
  3. Marie Sophie (born August 2, 1662), died after an emergency baptism .
  4. Sara Elisabeth, first married Adam Friedrich Grunicke and then the lawyer and Privy Councilor Paul Heinrich von Tielemann (also: Tilemann, 1656–1733), Doctor of Laws and Hochfürstl. Saxon-Eisenach bailiff in Ostheim.
  5. Johanna Elisabeth († 1691), was married to Wolfgang Georg Rabe (* 1655), a freelance legal scholar and elector. Saxon. Bailiff at Torgau , later at Dresden. She died in childbed in March 1691 as the mother of four underage children.
  6. Martha Elisabeth (1668–1687), died of a fever at the age of 19.
  7. Gottlob Friedrich, candidate of the right.
  8. Rahel Elisabeth (1670–1749), married to Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich (1660–1724), doctor of rights and Syndicus der Kaiserl. Freedom and salvation. Rom. Imperial city of Mühlhausen .
  9. Gottlieb Friedrich (1673–1675), died of the Blattern .
  10. Carl Friedrich, studied law.

In addition to the loss of five children, the Meurer family also had to mourn the tragic death of their brother and brother-in-law. Nicolaus Pfretzschner the Younger (1643–1666), the brother of Marie Justine Meurer and Erbsasse auf Troschenreut, drowned on July 17, 1666 at the age of 23 when, as a student in Sedan / France, he escaped his comrade Zacharias von Quetz from the floods of the Maas saved. His father, the Elector. Saxon. Court and Justice Councilor of Dresden Nicolao Pfretzschner, survived the only son by two years and died in 1668.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Christian Friedrich Meurer, Marie Justine Meurerin u. a .: The In His Faithful Wohlerkante, of course, The ... Mr. Christian Friedrich Meurer ...; Funeral sermon, in: Christianus Pacatus Peripateticus: From the teaching and consolation verse 2 ... Pauli, Mühlhausen 1696. OCLC 257297328 Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel digitized 2011
  2. ↑ Federal Archives, Central Database of Legacies, Schleswig-Holstein State Archives
  3. ^ A b Johannes Francke , Nicolaus Pfretzschner: Frightened and comforted father - from the 20th and 21st verses of the 71st Psalm - In the bey of ... Nicolai Pfretzschner / des Jüngern seel. Hereditary sires on Troschenreit ...; in: Funeral Sermon . Seyffert Gottfried, Dreßden 1666. OCLC 837041204 University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt Digitized 2009
  4. ↑ Renate Schönfuß: The legacy of the Elector of Saxon Court and Justice Councilor Johann Friedrich Zeumer (1717-1774); in: Altenburg History and House Calendar 2015 . E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-95755-004-0 . OCLC 898076898
personal data
SURNAME Meurer, Christian Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1625
PLACE OF BIRTH Planitz
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1695
Place of death Erfurt