Ehrenfried Amthor

Ehrenfried Amthor (born January 21, 1638 in Gera ; † May 23, 1696 in Rendsburg ) was a senior administrative officer in the Danish army.

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Ehrenfried Amthor belonged to the Thuringian branch of the Amthor family. His father Wolfgang Ulrich Amthor (1606–1642) worked as a physician, Count Reuss-Plauenscher personal physician and Gera city physician. His mother Maria, née Zencker, came from Zeitz and died in 1642. His brother Joachim Huldreich (* 1631) worked as the Count's Chancellor of Stolberg; the brother Johann Christian was from 1691 to Danish lieutenant in Lövendal's Dragoons and later Danish major. Christoph Heinrich Amthor was one of his nephews .

From 1654 to 1658 Amthor studied at the University of Jena . He then went to the Eberstein Regiment of the Danish Army as a cornet, where he became an auditor and regimental quartermaster in 1660. From 1665 he worked as a provincial commissioner. In 1679 he moved to Wismar , which had been taken by the Danes four years earlier , where he worked as a war commissioner and general auditor.

After a few years in Wismar, Amthor worked as a war and land commissioner in Glückstadt , where he was promoted to the budget council. In 1690 he took over the post of War Commissioner Christian Selmer, who had died a year earlier, in Rendsburg . Under the direction of Major General Jobst Scholten , Amthor took over the general administration of the construction work to expand the fortress there. His main duties included paying bills and rewarding local and foreign craftsmen. He paid the wages of 3,000 to 4,000 soldiers who participated in the construction of the facilities as workers or craftsmen.

Ehrenfried Amthor, who had been married to Anna Sabine Claudi since 1659, died childless in Rendsburg and was buried in Krempe .

literature

• Claus Wulf: Amthor, Ehrenfried . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 2. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1971, p. 36

Web links

• Publications by and about Ehrenfried Amthor in VD 17 .