Friedrich Runge (Chancellor)

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Friedrich Runge (born March 17, 1599 in Greifswald , † December 25, 1655 in Kolberg ) was the first Brandenburg chancellor in Western Pomerania .

Life

Friedrich Runge was the son of the ducal councilor Daniel Runge , with whom he came to Wolgast in 1603 . From 1614 to 1618 he studied at the University of Greifswald , then in 1619 in Jena . After a trip that took him through the Netherlands and England , he completed his studies at the University of Rostock in 1623 .

In the same year he accompanied the Pomeranian ambassadors Philipp von Horn and Jacob Seldrecht to the Reichstag in Regensburg. In 1624 he joined the ducal administration of Bogislaw XIV of Pomerania and was appointed councilor the following year. At the ducal expense he received his doctorate in law in Greifswald in 1626 . For the Duchy of Pomerania he was often in diplomatic service during the Thirty Years War . In 1634 he was one of the ducal plenipotentiaries who directed the donation of the Eldena office to Greifswald University.

After the griffin dukes died out with Bogislaw XIV in 1637 , Friedrich Runge moved with his family to Danzig and later to Stolp . In 1641 he accepted the office of the city syndicus of Stettin . In this function, the Pomeranian estates sent him together with Marcus von Eickstedt in March 1644 and October 1645 to the peace negotiations in Osnabrück. After the end of the war, Friedrich Runge was appointed Chancellor for Western Pomerania by the Brandenburg Elector Friedrich Wilhelm in 1649 and established the government in Kolberg. He brought the border recession between Sweden and Brandenburg to a close and received as a wage the praise for the cantor's council of the Kolberg cathedral chapter , which he later ceded to his son-in-law, the court judge Sebastian Brunnemann.

family

Friedrich Runge was first married to Anna Marie Oesler († 1633) widowed Rochlitz. His second wife was Marie Kundenreich, the daughter of a Kolberger councilor.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten :  Handover of the office of Eldena to the University of Greifswald on March 28, 1634 . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Hrsg): Baltic studies . Vol. 17, Issue 2, Stettin 1859, p. 168 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Runge, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first Brandenburg Chancellor in Western Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1599
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1655
Place of death Kolberg