Georg Friedrich von Böhmer

Georg Friedrich von Böhmer

Georg Friedrich von Böhmer (born May 18, 1739 in Halle , † April 18, 1797 in Berlin ) was a German diplomat in the service of Prussia .

origin

Georg Friedrich von Böhmer belonged to the Böhmer / von Boehmer family of lawyers , who in the 18th and 19th centuries belonged to the so-called Pretty Families in Kurhannover and in the early Kingdom of Hanover . He was the son of Johann Samuel Friedrich von Böhmer and Katharina Louisa Charlotte Stahl and the grandson of Justus Henning Böhmer .

Live and act

Although the family had moved to the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt due to the transfer of his father Johann Samuel Friedrich von Böhmer , Georg Friedrich von Böhmer completed his law degree at the Friedrichs University in Halle . After that, however, as was the case with his uncle Karl August von Böhmer , he was more drawn to politics than a university career.

After undergoing intensive diplomatic preparatory service in Berlin, Böhmer was first appointed as legation secretary to the imperial court in Vienna in 1762 and was promoted to court and legation councilor on March 11, 1766 at the age of 27 . Here at the court of Emperor Joseph II , he represented Prussian affairs as an accredited resident on behalf of the Prussian King Friedrich II .

During this time, Georg Friedrich von Böhmer applied for a leave of absence from the diplomatic service of several months in order to first settle his own family affairs and then to marry Rosina Kleinert in the Silesian Niedersiegersdorf, a rural community in today's Nowogrodziec . He had got to know them in the course of frequent visits to the then underage children of his deceased uncle Karl August von Böhmer, as the Kleinert family had meanwhile acquired the manor from Karl August's wife Sophie Amalie von Böhmer, née von Kalckreuth . After the wedding celebrations, Georg Friedrich returned to his diplomatic service in Vienna at the beginning of 1771.

But just one year later, Böhmer was transferred as a subdelegate to the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar. Here he had a decisive influence on the fact that with effect from May 8, 1776, the Protestant estates that had joined the reforms of the Enlightenment , withdrew from the visitation business of the imperial commissioner and Mainz elector Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal and thus from the Reich could no longer be controlled and overruled because of. Further royally ordered delegation missions to the Perpetual Reichstag in Regensburg , where an expansion of the princes' powers was discussed, followed. A few years later, meanwhile promoted to Privy Councilor , he was entrusted by the Prussian King on a similar mission when, together with the Prussian War Minister Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg , he convinced the Protestant imperial princes of Prussia, Saxony and Hanover as well as other small states of the establishment of a prince union, which In 1785 even the Catholic Elector Erthal and two years later his coadjutor Karl Theodor von Dalberg had joined. Through his clever and prudent diplomatic skill, this princes' union came about, which was intended to represent a political counterweight to the imperial policy of the Austro-Habsburg power and its territorial claims.

Georg Friedrich von Böhmer

With effect from October 21, 1785, Georg Friedrich von Böhmer was appointed “ envoy to the Mainz, Darmstadt, Zweibrücker Höfe as well as to the Franconian districts and the free imperial city of Frankfurt ” and on January 21, 1787 to “ Minister Plenipotentiary at the Electoral Mainz court and other courts des Rheinstrom "appointed. As a result of the Mainz riots in 1790/91, the occupation by the French and the proclamation of the Mainz Republic in 1792, in which his cousin (Johann) Georg Wilhelm Böhmer was precariously involved as a staunch Jacobin and co-founder, Georg Friedrich Böhmer withdrew on June 21, 1781 had received the royal incolate , initially returned to his country seat in Niedersiegersdorf. Meanwhile divorced, however, he was forced to leave the estate to his wife and five underage children and he then moved to Berlin, where he died at the age of only 56.

family

Georg Friedrich von Böhmer was married to Johanna Rosina Kleinert (1756–1821), daughter of the manor owner and lord of Lower Siegersdorf Caspar Gottfried Kleinert (1702–1759) and Johanna Elisabeth Tischer (1738–1770) from Breslau . He had nine children with her, four of whom died in infancy. Two daughters and the following three sons survived him: the Kgl. prussia. Brigade major and adjutant general Johann Karl von Böhmer (1771–1807), the Kgl. prussia. Premier Lieutenant Johann Philipp Friedrich von Böhmer (1775–1841) and the highly decorated captain and company commander Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Böhmer , all of whom achieved fame and honor in the coalition and liberation wars . At the turn of the year 1791/92, Georg Friedrich von Böhmer's marriage was divorced.

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• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon. Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1972, ISSN  0435-2408 and Volume III. 1958.
• Hans-Thorald Michaelis : History of the Boehmer family. In continuation of the genealogy, written by Hugo Erich von Boehmer in 1892, of the families Boehmer and von Boehmer descended from Justus Henning Boehmer as well as some of the families related by marriage to them. Rheinische Verlagsanstalt, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1978, DNB 800630424 .
• Documents in the private archive of the Boehmer family association, Berlin.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Pretty families. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 310.