Friedrich Wilhelm von Thulemeyer

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Thulemeyer also Thulemeier (* or baptized November 9, 1735 ; † July 6, 1811 in Berlin ) was sent in 1763 by Frederick the Great as a diplomat to the Republic of the Seven United Provinces . In 1788 he became Minister of Justice under Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia. His music collection, which contains a large number of original manuscripts, is of particular importance - even today .

Life

He was the son of Wilhelm Heinrich von Thulemeyer , a royal Prussian state and war minister who was a member of the tobacco college of the soldier king and came from a family resident in the Principality of Lippe around 1560 . His mother Ernestine von Schilden came from Hanover. When she was 34, her husband suddenly died. The young Thulemeyer, godchild of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, was educated at state expense. He then studied law in Frankfurt am Main and received further training from a Mr. Passavant . October 1763 Thulemeier got a Prussian diplomatic assignment in The Hague. On behalf of Frederick the Great , he tried to get a marriage between the young Prince Wilhelm V of Orange and Wilhelmine of Prussia. Ludwig Ernst von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , field marshal of the Netherlands since 1751 and guardian of the prince from 1759 , preferred to marry another relative, nevertheless the prince of Orange and Wilhelmine of Prussia married in 1767. The prince left the affairs of state to him since 1751 was officially governor of the Netherlands, even after he came of age in 1766, further to Ludwig Ernst von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, which led to political unrest in the Netherlands (patriot movement).

Because Thulemeyer was poorly paid, as was customary at the time, he found it difficult to raise his living expenses. He made the acquaintance of a rich woman, the widow Agatha Theodora Geelvinck ( Amsterdam , 1739 - Hanau , 1805). She came from a powerful and very rich family of Amsterdam mayors . Frederick the Great did not agree with Thulemeyer's planned marriage. The reason was possibly that the two brothers and the widow's daughter Constancia had close ties with the patriot movement in Holland, and that Thulemeyer's independence as a diplomat would be jeopardized by marriage. Nevertheless, Thulemeyer was able to improve his financial situation and rented an elegant house on Lange Voorhout , not far from the Binnenhof . Thulemeyer was the subject of numerous rumors in the Netherlands at the time.

Binnenhof , also then the political center of the Netherlands

Thulemeyer had better diplomatic relations than the English ambassador James Harris, Earl of Malmesbury, and he took care of the important trade relationship between Prussia and the United States around 1784/1785 through his contacts with John Adams , Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin . Thulemeyer tried to facilitate trade via the free ports of Emden and Stettin . This resulted in the friendship and trade treaty between Prussia and the USA .

Meanwhile, the decisions of the governor Prince William of Orange met with increasing resistance from the patriot movement and the prince even expressed his wish to leave the country in the presence of Thulemeyer. In October 1786 Johann Eustach von Görtz was sent to The Hague, but attempts at reform in the democratic sense, also demanded by the two diplomats Görtz and Thulemeyer, failed. The conflict escalated when Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia wanted to travel from Nijmegen to The Hague at the end of June 1787 (of which Thulemeyer was not informed) and her way outside of Schoonhoven was blocked. Her brother, Friedrich Wilhelm , who had been the new Prussian king for a year, asked for satisfaction shortly afterwards. Then there was a Prussian ultimatum , which Thulemeyer passed on to the "Staten van Holland". When Holland rejected this, the politically divided republic was occupied by Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand on September 13, 1787 with the consent of England . France had financial problems and could not afford the intervention of the troops stationed in Givet (Ardennes) on the Dutch border.

Thulemeyer traveled back to Berlin in 1788 and became Minister of Justice there. CP von Alvesleben was named as his successor in Holland. With the payment for his services in Holland, he acquired the Groß-Küssow estate in the Pyritz district ( Western Pomerania ). From 1801 he lived on Behrenstrasse in Berlin. In 1807 Thulemeier was dismissed from his office.

Thulemeier remained unmarried throughout his life, but left behind a daughter, Louise Wilhelmine, whom he appointed as heiress with restrictions.

estate

  • Mémoire de Monsieur le Baron de Thulemeier, envoyé extraordinaire de Sa Majesté le Roi de Prusse, à… les Etats-Généraux des Provinces-Unies des Pays-Bas. Mémoire… à… les Etats-Généraux des Provinces-Unies des Pays-Bas, 1784. Te Arnhem: by Van Bemmelen [etc.]
  • He gave about 5000 to 6000 books to the Joachimsthal School . Today some of these books are kept in the Berlin State Library.
  • The elegant Thulemeier was not only a passionate chess player , but also played the harpsichord himself .
  • Particularly noteworthy is his music collection, which he also donated to the Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium. The majority of this music collection has been in the music department of the Berlin State Library since 1961. With the publication of a catalog, music research was given an important document on Berlin instrumental music from the second half of the 18th century, the history of which was closely linked to the development of Berlin musical culture after the court orchestra was restored by Frederick II in 1740 is. The collection, with very good copies of the compositions by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , Johann Joachim Quantz , Christoph Schaffrath and Christoph Nichelmann can be narrowed down to the years around 1745 to 1764. Christoph Nichelmann and Johann Gottlieb Janitsch should be mentioned as author, previous owner and also as the writer of many sources . The most important composer of many of the works that have come down here as sources is Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. It cannot be ruled out that parts of the collection go back to a former possession of music by Thulemeier's father. Over the centuries, especially in the immediate post-war period, individual volumes of the collection came to other institutions or were even lost. On January 12, 2007, the Berlin State Library received 14 such blasted volumes from the Thulemeyer Collection from the Thuringian State Music Archive ( Weimar ), which could thus be reunited with the main part of the collection
  • His correspondence with John Adams , the first US - Ambassador in The Hague , was published already. 1853
  • The letters with spicy details about a relationship in the years 1765–1768 with an elderly lady from The Hague named Maria Mathilde van Assendelft, at that time kept in Bytów , have been lost.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official name spelling according to the genealogical handbook of the nobility is Thulemeyer , see Adelslexikon. Volume XIV (Volume 131 of the complete series), CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISBN 3-7980-0831-2 , p. 426.
  2. ^ Robert Eitner: Thematic catalog of the von Thulemeier'schen music collection . Supplement to the monthly issues for music history. 1898/99, Leipzig 1898.
  3. ↑ Robert von Blumenthal: The Thulemeier family from Horn in Lippe. In: Genealogy. Volume 36, 1987, pp. 737-757.
  4. ↑ In 1756 he lived with his mother on Ober-Wallstrasse.
  5. ↑ N. Bootsma: Braunschweig and Orange in the 18th and early 19th centuries. In: Horst Lademacher (ed.): Onder den Oranjeboom. Text tape. Dynasty in the republic. The House of Orange-Nassau as a mediator of Dutch culture in German territories in the 17th and 18th centuries. 1999, pp. 239-243.
  6. ↑ Wanda von Puttkamer : Friedrich Wilhelm von Thulemeyer, teased van Frederik den Grooten in The Hague (1763–1781). In: Haagsch Maandblad. 1735, pp. 429-438.
  7. ↑ Dépêches van Thulemeyer 1763–1788 . In de bewerking van Robert Fruin, ingeleid en aangevuld door HT Colenbrander, 1912, p. XXV.
  8. ^ Commemorative writings van Gijsbert Jan van Hardenbroek, Deel III, 1781–1782. Amsterdam 1910, p. 7.
  9. ^ Hugh Hastings, State Historian: Frederick the Great and the United States; Relations That Existed Between the Greatest of the Hohenzollerns and the Statesmen of the Young Republic . June 15, 1902.
  10. ↑ archive.org ( DjVu format)
  11. ^ Herman Theodoor Colenbrander : De patriottentijd. Hoofdzakelijk naar buitenlandsche modest. Deel I 1784-1796 . 1898, p. 316.
  12. ^ Pieter Lodewijk Muller:  Wilhelmine . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 232-234.
  13. ↑ Encounters with German culture by Meindest Evers
  14. ^ O. Schutte: Repertory of the Buitenlandse Vertegenwoordigers, residerende in Nederland 1584–1810 . 1983, p. 597.
  15. ^ Friederike Wilhelmine Louise von Thulemeyer (born April 29, 1793 in Berlin ; † January 12, 1877 in Naumburg ), from a connection with Louise Eleonore Busse from Neuruppin , since 1810 landlady of Groß-Küssow. She married Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm Friedrich Eduard von Puttkamer on April 28, 1816 in Berlin (born October 26, 1782 in Brandenburg an der Havel ; † May 13, 1858 at Gut Deutsch-Karstnitz, Stolp district , Pomerania ). She received the Prussian nobility legitimation on September 11, 1811 with the settlement of her father's name and coat of arms. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIV (Volume 131 of the complete series), CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISBN 3-7980-0831-2 , p. 427.
  16. ↑ Thulemeier's testament of July 14, 1810 (BLHA Pr.Br.Rep.4A, Kammergericht, Testamente 18403)
  17. ^ Robert Klempin, Gustav Kratz: Matriculations and registers of the Pomeranian knighthood from XIV. To XIX. Century. Verlag Sendet, 1863, p. 622. ( excerpt )
  18. ↑ stabikat.sbb.spk-berlin.de
  19. ^ CPE Bach Concerto in E-Minor, W. 24, Critical Commentary (PDF).
  20. ^ Tobias Schwinger: The Thulemeier musical collection and the Berlin music tradition in the second half of the 18th century . Ortus-Musikverlag, Beeskow 2006, ISBN 3-937788-08-5 , pp. 4, 9.
  21. ^ Tobias Schwinger: The Thulemeier musical collection and the Berlin music tradition in the second half of the 18th century . Ortus-Musikverlag, Beeskow 2006, ISBN 3-937788-08-5 , p. 383.
  22. ↑ Monthly report January 2007 ( Memento of October 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
  23. ^ The Online Library of Liberty
personal data
SURNAME Thulemeyer, Friedrich Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thulemeier, Friedrich Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian diplomat and Minister of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1735
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1811
Place of death Berlin