Christian Schwarz (Mayor, 1610)

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Christian Schwarz , also Schwartz, Schwartze, Schwarzer, Schwartzer , ennobled by Schwartzer (born February 9, 1610 in Greifswald , † October 8, 1679 in Stralsund ) was Mayor of Stralsund and royal Swedish district administrator in Swedish Pomerania .

Life

Christian Schwarz was the second son of the councilor and later mayor of Greifswald, Christian Schwarz . His mother Regina Völschow was the daughter of councilor Jochen Völschow and Sibilla Mevius and widow of Greifswald's mayor Joachim (Jochen) Brunnemann. In his youth he studied at various academies, including the University of Königsberg , and went on an educational trip through several countries. He completed his studies with a doctorate to become a Dr. iur. from.

After the death of the last Pomeranian Duke Bogislaw XIV in 1637, he worked in the judiciary for the interim government installed in Pomerania by the Swedish occupying power.

In 1639 he became a councilor in Stralsund. Together with Joachim von Braun he was sent as a deputy to the peace negotiations in Osnabrück in November 1645 , where he stayed until April 1647. In 1648 he was city treasurer. In the same year he was a member of a delegation of city representatives who traveled to Stockholm to the court of the Swedish Queen Christina .

On February 21, 1655 he was elected mayor. In 1671 he was appointed royal Swedish district administrator. On December 20, 1673 he was by King Charles XI. raised to the Swedish nobility ("von Schwarzern").

progeny

In 1638 he married Margaretha von Braun, a daughter of Peter von Braun († 1657), Altermann of the Stralsund Gewandhaus, and widow of Georg Schwiersen. The marriage had four sons:

  • Christian (1639–1704), royal councilor
  • Johann Friedrich (1642-1716)
  • Georg (1646-1720)
  • Ernst (1648–1729), Hessian privy councilor

literature

  • Gabriel Anrep : Svenska adelns Ättar-Taflor. Verlag PA Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm, 1862, Vol. 3, pp. 682-683 ( Google Books ).
  • Doctor Christianus Schwartzer, the City of Stralsund Deputy on the General Peace Act. In: Johann Ludolph Walter: Universal register on the six parts of the Westphalian peace acts and history, likewise on the two parts of the Nuremberg peace execution acts and history. Universitätsbuchhandlung Göttingen 1740, pp. 103-104 ( Google Books ).
  • Carl Gesterding : Contribution to the history of the city of Greifswald or complete presentation, correction and explanation of all documents pending on the city of Greifswald, its churches and foundations up to the end of the eighteenth century. Volume 1, Greifswald 1829, p. 190 ( Google Books ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DI77, Greifswald, St. Nikolai, Epitaph for Mayor Christian Schwarz. In: www.inschriften.net. Retrieved April 26, 2018 .
  2. ^ Carl Gesterding : Genealogies and / or family foundations Pomeranian, especially knightly families. First collection. G. Reimer, Berlin 1842, p. 129 ( Google Books ).
personal data
SURNAME Black, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwartz, Christian; Schwartze, Christian; Schwartzer, Christian; Schwartzer, Christian von; Schwarz the elder, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Stralsund, District Administrator in Swedish Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1610
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1679
Place of death Stralsund