Eckard from Usedom

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Eckard von Usedom , also Eckhard (t) , (* 1580 ; † March 8, 1646 ) was a German lawyer and court president in the Duchy of Pomerania-Wolgast .

Life

Eckard (III.) Von Usedom came from the Pomeranian noble family von Usedom . Around 1608 he was a court advisor , later a privy councilor in the Electoral Palatinate . When the situation changed there, he went to the Reich Chamber of Commerce as an assessor . In 1610 he was attacked by soldiers in Dachstein in Alsace and seriously wounded.

In 1623 he became a ducal secret legation councilor and later chancellor of Pomerania . In 1625 he was appointed president of the court and castle captain in Wolgast . He was repeatedly entrusted with important matters by the dukes Philipp Julius and Bogislaw XIV . During the Thirty Years' War he and Thomas Heydebreck negotiated the Greifswald settlement concluded on February 11, 1628 with the Imperial Colonel von Arnim .

Although he wanted to retire from his offices for health reasons in 1632, he took over the office of Governor of Rügen , which he administered until the end of his life.

In his will he donated several grants to the University of Greifswald . His book collection went to the Greifswald University Library .

literature

  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Vol. 9, Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1870, reprint: Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1996, ISBN 3-487-04558-3 , p. 350 ( digitized version )
  • Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part 4, Vol. 1, W. Dietze, Anklam 1866, pp. 1028-1030 ( digitized version )
  • Maciej Ptaszynski: “Si hominibus placerem, servus dei non essem”. A case of refusal of communion in the Duchy of Pommern-Wolgast in the 17th century . In: Baroque. German-Polish cultural contacts in the 16th-18th centuries Century. Osnabrück 2006, ISBN 978-3-938400-13-5 , pp. 33-54. (an essay about the life of Eckard von Usedom)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Zober : History of the siege of Stralsund by Wallenstein, in 1628 . W. Trinius, Stralsund 1828, p. 25 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Julius Petzholdt : Handbook of German Libraries . HW Schmidt, Halle 1853, p. 157 ( digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Usedom, Eckard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Usedom, Eckhardt from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and President of the Court of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH 1580
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1646