Christoph Deichmann

Christoph Deichmann (* 1576 in Burgsteinfurt , † 1648 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer and diplomat.

family

Deichmann was the son of the Burgsteinfurter Mayor Rötger Deichmann and his wife Adelheid Haupt .

Life

After Deichmann graduated from the Arnoldinum high school in Burgsteinfurt, he enrolled at the University of Cologne . His further university career led him to the high school Herborn (1595), University of Wittenberg (1598) and University of Marburg (1599). From here he began his cavalier tour, which took him through France, Italy and the Netherlands for several years.

After his return he could be found again at the University of Marburg, where he successfully disputed de potestate and received his doctorate on March 14, 1605 as Iuris Utriusque Doctor . There Deichmann held his inaugural lecture Oratio de docendi ac discendi iuris necessitate on October 23, 1605, as a newly appointed professor of law. Here in 1613 Hempo von dem Knesebeck also disputed about De pactis .

Since April 15, 1605 Deichmann was married to Christina Vultejus, a daughter of his former teacher Hermann Vultejus .

When Deichmann negotiated the Bingen agreement with the Spanish general Ambrogio Spinola in 1621 , Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel immediately suspended him from his service. On May 1, 1621, Deichmann was dismissed without notice by his landgrave.

But just a few weeks later, Deichmann found a new area of ​​responsibility as the Count of Lippe Chancellor and Vice-President of the Detmold Court . As such he monitored u. a. Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen and Count Christian von Waldeck as guardians of the still underage Count Simon Ludwig zur Lippe-Detmold .

Deichmann was also appointed as the Swedish envoy of the Westphalian district. Duke Johann Albrecht II of Mecklenburg-Güstrow appointed him chancellor during this time.

In 1636, Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen accepted Deichmann into the Fruit-Bringing Society . He gave him the company name of Lautere and the motto in his green . The calamus ( Acorus calamus L. ) was assigned to Deichmann as an emblem . Deichmann's entry can be found in the Koethen Society Register under no. 288. The rhyme law is also noted there, which he wrote as thanks for his inclusion:

The calamus is louder in its smooth green,
The long little leaflet, Who now wants to be so bold,
That he call himself louder, without being blared?
From above, the Lord has forehead hearted and sensed, With
the condition I have taken it
And all others want to be like that. To their pious
ones, food is used in this world quite pure fruit, if something
outside of the right one is not done.

After Duke Johann Albrecht II's death in 1636, his widow, Eleonore Maria von Mecklenburg-Güstrow , was embroiled in a lawsuit by Duke Adolf Friedrich I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin about the guardianship of her son, who would later become Duke Gustav Adolf of Mecklenburg-Güstrow . Deichmann's dismissal as Chancellor in 1639 was a purely political decision.

Landgravine Amalie Elisabeth von Hessen-Kassel , the widow of Landgrave Wilhelm V von Hessen-Kassel , appointed Deichmann her resident in Hamburg. From 1644 he also represented Kurbrandenburg there.

Christoph Deichmann died in Hamburg in 1648 at the age of 72.

Web links

Publications by and about Christoph Deichmann in VD 17 .