Gebhard von Moltke

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Gebhard von Moltke (born October 25, 1567 , † November 29, 1644 in Rostock ) was a Mecklenburg landowner, district administrator and politician.

Life

Gebhard von Moltke was a son of Balthasar von Moltke and his wife Anna, geb. from Behr . He studied at the University of Rostock from 1588 and is recorded as a respondent at the University of Jena in 1593 .

In 1612 Gebhard von Moltke married Anna von Rotermundt , widowed von Stralendorff, as Princely Mecklenburg District Administrator on Toitenwinkel . They had three sons and a daughter, three of whom died young. Son Gebhart Gützlaff was born in 1616 on his father's estate Toitenwinkel and died after three years of weak breasts. 1618 son Joachim Friedrich was born in Toitenwinkel. Since he was good at Latin, he went in 1638 together with the Lübeck scholars and subsequent Council relatives Nicholas Shomer to the University of Marburg .

Under Wallenstein , Gerhard von Moltke rose to the position of President of the Privy Council in Mecklenburg in 1629 and had to leave the country in 1631 after the end of Wallenstein's rule. He went into exile in Lübeck . His two estates, Toitenwinkel and Wesselsdorf in Mecklenburg, were confiscated and reassigned as fiefdoms to Swedish noble officers. Moltke was re-enfeoffed with both estates in 1637. Because of the troubled times of the Thirty Years' War, he did not return to Mecklenburg from Lübeck until 1643.

The names of Mr. von Toitenwinkel Gebhard von Moltke and his first wife Anna von Walsleben , who died in 1610, and his second wife Anna Rotermund died of consumption in Lübeck on May 6, 1641, were recorded on an altar plate in the Toitenwinkel village church from 1621 . The coats of arms of these three people are said to have adorned the choir windows in the past . He also donated a pew to the church . Joachim Friedrich von Moltke (1618–1677) was his son and the last heir to Toitenwinkel.

Gebhard von Moltke was provisional in the Dobbertin monastery from 1612 to 1633 . In 1633 he was voted out of the Malchin state parliament because he was in exile in Lübeck. During his tenure in Dobbertin were Joachim von Oldenburg from 1612 to 1622 and Georg von Linstow from 1622 to 1628 monastery captain.

Moltke died on November 29, 1644 in Rostock, but the funeral service did not take place until February 25, 1645 (!) In Rostock's Marienkirche . He was first buried in the Nikolaikirche in Rostock and reburied in the village church in Toitenwinkel on December 12, 1645. The sermon, which was also printed, was delivered by Joachim Lütkemann , and the rector of the University, Johann Quistorp the Elder , wrote a funeral pamphlet in Latin.

literature

  • Ludwig Schultz:  Moltke, Gebhard v. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 157 f.
  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Volume I: The district court districts of Rostock, Ribnitz, Sülze-Marlow, Ticino, Laage, Gnoien, Dargun, Neukalen. Schwerin 1896, pp. 325-341.
  • Claus Heinrich Bill: Mecklenburg nobility in the early modern period 1550 to 1750. Series of publications by the Institute for German Adels Research, Volume 15, Sonderburg, 1999.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6734 .

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin
    • LHAS 2.12-3 / 2 Monasteries and orders of knights Generalia Landeskloster Dobbertin, No. 24 Requests and confirmations from provisional agents, No. 28 Confirmation Joachim Maltzahn zu Grubenhagen as provisional agent in place of Gebhard Moltke, who was voted out of office 1632–1633.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Heinrich Kaak, Martina Schattkowsky: Rule: Development of power over noble and princely property in the early modern period. Böhlau, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-412-05701-0 , p. 25.
  3. ↑ Friedrich Schlie : Art and History Monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Volume 1: The district court districts of Rostock, Ribnitz, Sülze-Marlow, Ticino, Laage, Gnoien, Dargun, Neukalen . Schwerin 1896, p. 326
  4. ^ Horst Alsleben : Compilation of all personalities of the Dobbertin monastery. Schwerin 2010-2013.
  5. ↑ Evidence in VD17
personal data
SURNAME Moltke, Gebhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mecklenburg landowner and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1567
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1644
Place of death Rostock