Gabriel von Bömeln

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Gabriel von Bömeln

Gabriel von Bömeln (* July 22, 1658 in Danzig ; † March 25, 1740 there ) was mayor of Danzig.

Life

Gabriel von Bömeln was the son of Gdańsk mayor Georg von Bömeln and his wife Justina Gabriel, widowed Sielmann. In the summer semester of 1672 he began his legal studies at the University of Königsberg . After graduation, he traveled to Poznan to learn Polish. In 1683 he went to the Polish court in Warsaw to study the political situation there. He then joined the Danzig administration. In 1692 he was a lay judge in Danzig , 1700 a councilor and from 1708 to 1740 he was the mayor.

In 1700 Gabriel von Bömeln was the spokesman for an embassy that was supposed to reconcile Ludwig XIV , as the latter was opposed to the city's application by Prince Conti for the Polish throne due to Danzig's negative attitude . Three years later, von Bömeln negotiated successfully with the Swedish general Magnus Stenbock , who was advancing towards Danzig. In 1705 he pacified the English negotiations with Danzig over the rights of the English merchants in Danzig. In 1734, at the age of 76, he led the defense of Danzig against Russian and Saxon troops in the dispute over the election of Stanislaus I Leszczyński .

He was married to Agathe Schröder, daughter of Simon Schröder († 1675), Schöppen in the old town of Danzig , with whom he had four children:

  1. Georg Simon (born June 11, 1688 Danzig, † March 20, 1755 Danzig), from 1741 city councilor in Danzig, married from 1714 to Anna Elisabeth, daughter of the Danzig mayor and burgrave Karl Ernst Bauer (1665–1719), member of the noble Bauer family who bought a family crypt in Danzig in 1708.
  2. Agatha Justina († December 28, 1755 at the age of 64, buried January 22, 1756 in the upper parish church of St. Marien zu Danzig as the last of those from Bömeln, childless), married I. Johann von Sinclair, Great Britain Major General and Commander in Chief of the Danzig Militia († 1731), married II. 1733 Count Constantin von Unruh (Polish Konstanty Unrug ; 1696–1763), Polish-Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor , Jägermeister, Chamberlain and Commissarius General for the city of Danzig
  3. Concordia Renata, married Johann Ernst von Wallenrodt . Together the parents-in-law of the Prussian Minister and Oberburggrave, to Königsberg, Jakob Friedrich von Rohd .
  4. Constantia Benigna (1700–1749), married Jean de Freneuse in 1728, 1731–1736 Colonel of the Electoral Saxon Dragoon Regiment "Prince of Poland" (under the command of the future Polish King August III )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Bahr :  Bömeln, Gabriel von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 400 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Gabriel Bömeln
  3. ^ Johann Friedrich Gauhe : Des Heil. Rom. Reichs Adels-Lexici , Volume 2, Leipzig 1747, pp. 41–45.
  4. ↑ Theodor Hirsch : The upper parish church of St. Marien in Danzig in their monuments. Volume 1, Danzig 1843, p. 378.
  5. ^ New genealogical-historical news , 1756, pp. 2087 f.
  6. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 9, Leipzig 1870, p. 341 f.
  7. ↑ Johann Christoph Gottsched , 2020, pp. 1745 and 1765.
personal data
SURNAME Bömeln, Gabriel von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Gdansk
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1658
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1740
Place of death Danzig