Dietrich Wilhelm von Witzendorff

Dietrich Wilhelm von Witzendorff (born January 27, 1661 in Lüneburg ; † before August 3, 1712) was a German lawyer, dean of the cathedral in Lübeck and district administrator in Lauenburg .

Life

Dietrich Wilhelm von Witzendorff came from the Lüneburg patrician family von Witzendorff . He was the son of Franz Heinrich von Witzendorff (1625–1689), from 1658 councilor and from 1660 mayor of Lüneburg , who withdrew to his estates in 1662, and his wife Ilsabe Sophie (1633–1676), née. from Elver.

As early as 1670, at the age of nine, he received a canon position at Lübeck Cathedral .

From 1694 he was the lord of the Fideikommiss Groß Zecher and Klein Berkenthin , founded by his grandfather Hieronymus von Witzendorff in 1681, and from 1694 to the end of 1699 he was the lien owner on Dobbin . In addition, in 1697 he was able to acquire Seedorf with Hackendorf, Bresahn and Dargow (today both districts of Salem ), Butz and Sterley in the Duchy of Lauenburg . In 1711 he sold Klein Berkenthin.

On May 4, 1701, the Lübeck cathedral chapter elected him its cathedral dean. From 1706 he was at the same time ducal Holstein privy councilor and ducal Brunswick-Lüneburg court judge and district administrator in Lauenburg.

Since 1695 he was married to Anna Maria von der Borch from the house of Schönebeck († 1733), the daughter of the princely Braunschweig colonel and heir to Schönebeck Friedrich von der Borch .

The couple had three sons, including Franz von Witzendorff, who became canon in 1708 but died as a student at Jena University on December 25, 1715 , August Christian von Witzendorff , who also became cathedral dean, and Friedrich Hieronymus von Witzendorff (1695–1742 ).

literature

Wolfgang Prange : Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, principality and part of the country 1160–1937 . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 399, no.288

Individual evidence

^ Witzendorf, Wizendorf, a sizable noble family in the Lüneburg region. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 57, Leipzig 1748, column 1992-1995.
^ Wolfgang Prange : Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, Principality and part of the country 1160–1937 . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 404, no. 325; Date of death corr. after the numerous funeral pamphlets (more than a dozen of them) - pamphlets by and about Franz von Witzendorff in VD 18 .

↑ Michael Hecht: patriciate formation as a communicative process: the salt towns of Lüneburg, Halle and Werl in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. (Urban research / A: Representations 79). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20507-2 , p. 292

personal data
SURNAME	Witzendorff, Dietrich Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, dean of the cathedral in Lübeck bishopric and district administrator in Lauenburg
DATE OF BIRTH	January 27, 1661
PLACE OF BIRTH	Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH	1711 or 1712

[1] Witzendorf, Wizendorf, a sizable noble family in the Lüneburg region. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 57, Leipzig 1748, column 1992-1995.

[2] Wolfgang Prange : Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, Principality and part of the country 1160–1937 . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 404, no. 325; Date of death corr. after the numerous funeral pamphlets (more than a dozen of them) - pamphlets by and about Franz von Witzendorff in VD 18 .

[3] Michael Hecht: patriciate formation as a communicative process: the salt towns of Lüneburg, Halle and Werl in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. (Urban research / A: Representations 79). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20507-2 , p. 292