Friedrich Giese (bailiff)

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Friedrich (Frederik) Giese (born June 15, 1625 in Husum , † February 12, 1693 in Copenhagen ) was a German civil servant in the Danish service.

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Friedrich Giese was a son of Joachim Giese († 1644) and his wife Salome, née Moldenit († before 1687). The father worked as city secretary and councilor, from 1632 also as a school supervisor in Husum. His ancestors on his father's side came from Mecklenburg-Schwerin , where grandfather Joachim Giese was a pastor. The mother was a daughter of Asmus Moldenit, who worked as a land clerk in the eastern part of Eiderstedt . The family came from the parish Moldenit in the Duchy of Schleswig . He had two brothers, the pastor Joachim Giese and the lawyer Augustus Giese .

After attending a school in Husum, in 1639 he began a four-year apprenticeship with the ducal Gottorf chancellery secretary Eilhard Schacht in Gottorf . At the time, an apprenticeship at Schacht in Schleswig-Holstein promised particularly good prospects for a further professional career.

On the recommendation of Christian zu Rantzau , Giese worked from 1644 as secretary to Reichsmarschall Anders Bille. In 1647 he went to Jutland as an auditor , the highest military court official. From 1652 he went on a journey as court master with Billes son Henrick through Germany, Holland, England, France and Italy, which they reached in the summer of 1656. After his return in 1657 King Friedrich III appointed him . to general auditor. As such, he served from 1657 to 1660 during the Danish-Swedish War and the Siege of Copenhagen.

In March 1659, Giese took on the task of reporting extensively on the military actions of Reichsmarschall Bille, who had died in a Swedish prison in 1657. Obviously, the report was intended to provide documents for legal action against his heirs. The report did not have any legal effects and is therefore unlikely to have satisfied Giese's client. Nevertheless, he enjoyed the trust of the king and was appointed permanent secretary of the new treasury college in November 1660. During a reorganization of this college, he was promoted to assessor together with Heinrich von Stöcken . He was also responsible for the financial affairs of the Norwegian and Danish parts of the country.

In December 1679, Giese switched to the new rent chamber college, headed by von Stöcken, as assessor. In 1684 he was appointed to the Admiralty Council, which co-determined the financial management of the fleet. In 1684 he received the title of Chancellery and Chamber Council. Christian von Plessen as head of the rent chamber made Giese in April 1692 bailiff of Ringsted with continued title and payment . This presumably represented a gentle way of saying goodbye. His tenure in the Rentkammer ended in July 1692, a few months before his death.

Giese formed a group of German civil servants with the rent masters Christoffer von Gabel , Heinrich Müller and von Stöcken, who gained influence and reliably helped the Danish kings from 1660 to create a central administration and to reorganize the finances of the state. They came from a middle-class background and had received practical training. In doing so, they challenged nobles for their position because, unlike them, they owed their wealth and their position solely to their professional activity.

Little is known about Giese's personality, partly because of the lack of personal references. In contrast to von Gabel and von Sticks, it was not particularly prominent. He obviously worked hard in administration, but had no political ambitions. He used his demands on the royal family to gradually acquire property in the parish of Nordrup . In 1683 he applied to turn it into a noble estate under the name Giesegaard , which has been owned by the Schack family since the middle of the 18th century .

Giese, whose brother Augustus Giese worked as a lawyer and writer, was buried on March 2nd, 1693 in Nordrup .

family

On December 18, 1665 Giese married Margaretha Elisabeth Schönbach in Copenhagen, who died after 1719. Her father Johann Christoph Schönbach (1616–1683) was a Schleswig-Holstein Land Chancellor and married to Susanne Elisabeth Lange (1621–1673).

The Giese couple had two sons and five daughters. Two daughters and the younger son died in the fire in the Copenhagen theater in 1689. The other daughters died before their father. The surviving son Christoph Joachim (1668-1719) was a Danish judicial councilor and from 1712 bailiff of Vordingborg .

literature

  • Dieter Lohmeier: Giese, Friedrich . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , pages 96-98.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Giese, Augustus . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 94.
  2. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Giese, Friedrich . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 97.
  3. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Giese, Friedrich . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 97.
  4. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Giese, Friedrich . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 97.
  5. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Giese, Friedrich . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 97.
  6. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Giese, Friedrich . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 97.
  7. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Giese, Friedrich . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , pages 97-98.
  8. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Giese, Friedrich . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 96.
  9. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Giese, Friedrich . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 96.
  10. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Giese, Friedrich . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , pages 96-97.
personal data
SURNAME Giese, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giese, Frederik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant in the Danish service
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1625
PLACE OF BIRTH Husum
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1693
Place of death Copenhagen