Friedrich Amadeus Gottlieb von Raumer

Friedrich Amadeus Gottlieb von Raumer (born January 18, 1643 in Dessau , † March 23, 1728 ibid) was a German government director and state minister and princely envoy .

Live and act

The son of the Dessau court preacher and superintendent Georg Raumer (1610-1691) and Dorothea Elisabeth von Bergen (1619-1702) attended the Protestant grammar school illustrious in Zerbst after finishing school in Dessau , where he laid the foundation for his later studies. He then studied law and philosophy with Enoch Gläser and Hermann Conring at the University of Helmstedt and with Johann Brunnemann at the Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder . Following his final exams, Raumer undertook a three-year study trip through Europe from 1666 to 1669 and it was planned that after the elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg took possession of the Duchy of Liegnitz, he would take up a position as court master there. After Emperor Leopold I let the electoral project fail, Prince Johann Georg II of Anhalt-Dessau , Friedrich Wilhelm's brother-in-law, took Raumer into his service as secret secretary and promoted him to court counselor in 1672 .

This was followed by numerous trips as envoy of the Princely House, including 1673 and 1676 to the imperial court in Vienna, and from 1679 to 1687 as comitial envoy to the Perpetual Reichstag in Regensburg . Here he acted primarily as a liaison between Emperor Leopold I, who had to flee from the Turks to Linz , and Prince Johann Georg II of Anhalt, who hurried to Vienna with his troops to provide support. In 1687 Raumer was called back to Dessau and was given the office of government director and promoted to privy councilor .

As part of a further diplomatic mission to Augsburg in 1689 and then again to Vienna, the incumbent Reich Vice Chancellor Leopold Wilhelm von Königsegg-Rothenfels campaigned for the Kaiser to ensure that the Imperial and Hereditary Austrian nobility with effect from January 18, 1693 for Friedrich Gottlieb Raumer was renewed and confirmed. However , Raumer refused to be appointed to the Reichshofrat in Vienna at the same time on the grounds that his work in Dessau was due to the death of Johann Georg II in the same year and the absence of his successor and son Leopold I von Anhalt-Dessau due to the war Interim regent Henriette Catharina von Oranien-Nassau was considered particularly necessary. The emperor accepted this decision and after his return to Dessau, Raumer was additionally entrusted with the duties of Justice Director and promoted to privy councilor by the incumbent regent.

In the period that followed, Raumer was repeatedly sent as an authorized minister to important consultations at princely courts, especially in preparation and handling of the reorganization of the electoral states of those years. Friedrich Gottlieb Raumer carried on the tasks entrusted to him with the utmost fulfillment of duty into old age and died in 1728 at the age of 85. Raumer bequeathed his extensive private library to the Francisceum in Zerbst as early as 1715.

A fragment of Friedrich Gottlieb von Raumer's estate is now in the Gerlach archive at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

family

Friedrich Amadeus Gottlieb Raumer himself was never married and had no children of his own. But after the early death of his brother Ephraim Jonathan Raumer (1646–1676) and his wife and their two daughters as a result of a dysentery epidemic, he took care of the only surviving son Johann Georg von Raumer . At the age of five he took in his nephew, adopted him and, together with his father Georg Raumer and his brother Theodor Christian Raumer , took care of his upbringing and training. He later recommended him to the prince as his successor for the office of the Anhalt government director and, through his personal connection to the imperial family in Vienna, ensured that the inheritable nobility was transferred, renewed and confirmed by Emperor Joseph I to Johann Georg on September 15, 1708 .

As a result, the line of the von Raumer family in the nobility , which still exists today, could be continued, whose numerous members repeatedly held outstanding positions, especially in science , politics and in military service in Anhalt and Prussia .

Literature and Sources

• Hermann v. Raumer: The story of the von Raumer family ; (Library of Family History Works Vol. 38 - Degener-Genealogie-Verlag); 1975. VIII u. 264 p., 24 plates with 35 illustrations, ISBN 3-7686-6002-8
• Jakob Christoph Beck , August Johann Buxtorf, Johannes Christ: Supplement to the Basel general historical lexicon , Volume 1, Basel, 1744 Google book

Web links

• ze300572. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 30, Leipzig 1741, column 572.