Georg Kleist

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Georg Kleist , also Jürgen Kleist , (* around 1435 ; † 1508 ) was a ducal Pomeranian councilor and chancellor.

Kleist was a descendant of the Tychow-Dubberow line of the long -established and widely ramified Kleist family in Western Pomerania , which has been traceable there since the Middle Ages, owned extensive estates, was influential and produced several personalities who worked in high state offices.

Life

He was the elder of two sons of Tessen Kleist († before 1477) on Dubberow . Georg Kleist was mentioned for the first time in 1477, together with his brother Peter and other relatives, in the general deed of mortgage on April 13, 1477. Since 1478 he was one of the signing witnesses on documents of Duke Bogislaw X. , from 1479 he was marked with " vonnse Schruier " (our clerk) or "our house-schruyer " (our house clerk) . In 1482 he became a notary and soon afterwards he became a councilor to the duke and his 'right hand'. In 1483 he sold him the castle and town of Zanow as well as the associated villages and waters. Bogislaw X. had also procured the position of Archdeacon of Stargard in Pomerania as a sinecure for his advisor Kleist . On April 3, 1486 he was appointed bailiff of the Rügenwalde office with his seat in the town's castle , where he also worked as a liege judge. In 1490 Kleist bought half of the village of Krolow .

In 1486 he took part in the army expedition of 800 representatives of the Pomeranian knighthood and the cities on the occasion of the engagement of Bogislaw X. sister Katharina to Heinrich I of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. When Bogislaw made the decision to marry Princess Anna of Poland for the second time around 1490 and wanted to have a correspondingly representative residence built in Stettin - the later Stettin Castle - he got involved with the councilors of Stettin because of the building site needed for this in quarrel. Together with the princely councilors Werner von der Schulenburg and Henning Steinwehr, Kleist mediated the dispute between Bogislaws X and the city of Stettin in the winter of 1490/1491 and reached a settlement.

In early 1491 he was appointed chancellor. He took part in negotiations with Brandenburg over the Pomeranian feudal issue and was involved in the conclusion of the Treaty of Pyritz in 1493. In addition to the bailiwick of Rügenwalde, he took over the bailiwicks of Stolp and Schlawe as well as Bütow Castle and Land in 1494 . In 1496 he negotiated unsuccessfully in Sandomir with the Polish King Johann I about the Lauenburg and Bütow lands . During the trip to the Holy Land from 1496 to 1498, Duke Bogislaw X. Kleist was governor in Pomerania. When the Duke and Johannes von Kitscher , Petrus von Ravenna and his son Vincentius brought new advisers with him on his return , Kleist retired from civil service. At the end of 1498, Bogislaw X gave him the castle , town and country of Usedom . In 1499, Duke Bogislaw X enfeoffed his councilor Jürgen Kleist with the Ruschütz manor in the Stolp district, which the brothers Martin and Tetzlaff Puttkamer had bought from members of the Damerow family. He was still active as Chancellor until mid-1501. In 1504 he negotiated again with Poland over Lauenburg and Bütow. In 1506 he appeared as a witness in Rügenwalde and last time on March 9, 1507 in Stolp.

According to the author of a history of the von Kleist family , Heinrich Kypke, various family documents erroneously stated 1518 as the year of death, which is why this information appears in various historical writings. After the exchange contract concluded between his widow and the duke in 1509 for the town of Zanow, Georg Kleist died in 1508.

Kleist's fearlessness led to a Pomeranian legend. After that, Kleist once got into a storm comparable to purgatory during a trip to Usedom over the Swine and, although his servants who were traveling with him, had already seen ghosts, he continued undeterred.

family

Georg Kleist was married to Anna, the daughter of Bailiff zu Stolp, Hans von Stojentin . The marriage had three daughters and one son. His daughter Anna married the ducal chancellor and court marshal Jacob von Wobeser .

literature

  • Heinrich Kypke : History of the Kleist family. Third part, second division, containing the biographies of the Tychow-Dubberower line. Trowitsch and Son, Berlin 1882, pp. 4–21 ( online )
  • Roderich Schmidt : The historical Pomerania. People - places - events. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-27805-2 , pp. 479-484 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kypke: History of the Kleist family. 3.2; Berlin 1882, p. 21 ( online ).
  2. ^ Editing:  Kleist, von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 10 ( digitized version ). (Mention in family article)
  3. ^ Hermann Wagener : State and Society Lexicon . Volume 11, Berlin 1862, pp. 356-359, especially p. 358.
  4. ^ Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch . Stettin 1854, pp. 100-101.
  5. ↑ Kypke: History of the Kleist family. 3.2; Berlin 1882, p. 4 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Kypke: History of the Kleist family. 3.2; Berlin 1882, p. 6 ( online ).
  7. ^ A b Hans Branig : History of Pomerania . Part 1: From becoming the modern state to the loss of state independence 1300–1648 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-412-07189-7 , p. 68.
  8. ↑ Kypke: History of the Kleist family. 3.2; Berlin 1882, p. 7 ( online ).
  9. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Western and Eastern Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2, Stettin 1784, p. 874.
  10. ^ Robert Klempin : Diplomatic contributions to the history of Pomerania from the time of Bogislaf X. Berlin 1859, p. 153.
  11. ↑ Kypke: History of the Kleist family. 3.2; Berlin 1882, p. 9 ( online ).
  12. ↑ Henning, not Heinrich, cf. z. B. Paul Friedeborn: Historical description of the old city of Stettin in Pomerania . Alten Stettin 1613, p. 160: List of Chancellors Bogislaws X. 1474–1523
  13. ^ Fr. Thiede: Chronicle of the City of Stettin . Stettin 1849, p. 364 below
  14. ^ Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch . Volume 4, Stettin 1859, pp. 103-104.
  15. ↑ The year of death 1518, which Kypke marked as wrong, can be found in older literature, such as Christian Friedrich Wutstrack : Brief historical-geographical-statistical description of the royal Prussian duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Stettin 1793, p. 115. or Karl Friedrich Pauli : General Prussian State History . Volume 6, Halle 1765, p. 351, § 244
  16. ↑ Nicolaus von Klemptzen : From Pomerania and its princes gender description . Stralsund 1771, pp. 184-185 .
personal data
SURNAME Kleist, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleist, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court official, ducal-Pomeranian chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1435
DATE OF DEATH 1508