Georg Wachschlager

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Georg Wachschlager

Georg Wachschlager (born November 2, 1648 in Thorn , Polish Prussia , † November 20, 1720 in Stockholm , Kingdom of Sweden ) was a German diplomat in the Swedish service and court chancellor in Stockholm.

Life

The family on the father's side has been traceable in Prussia since the 14th century. The father Daniel Wachschlager (1623–1688) was a councilor and mayor in Thorn, the mother Elisabeth († 1681) a daughter of the local doctor Georg Mochinger. Georg Wachschlager attended the university in Königsberg . He was then a member of a Polish delegation at the papal court in Rome . In 1674 he became secretary of the Swedish envoy Anders Lilliehöök in Warsaw , until 1678. In 1693 he was the commission secretary in Warsaw.

In 1698 Georg Wachschlager was appointed a Swedish resident in Warsaw. In 1700 he was released from this service at the beginning of the Northern War . He then stayed temporarily in the camp of the Swedish King Karl XII. who fought against Poland. Wachschlager was a member of delegations that negotiated with August the Strong in 1704 about the renunciation of the Polish royal crown, and in 1705 about a Swedish-Polish peace. He was mentioned as the Swedish State Secretary. Since 1708 Wachschlager was envoyé exrraordinaire (envoy extraordinary) to King Stanisław Leszczyński (in Königsberg?), Who was supported by Sweden. In 1711 he was raised to the Swedish nobility.

In 1715, Wachschlager was expelled from Königsberg by the Prussian authorities, where he had been (temporarily?) Since 1708. He went to Stockholm, where he became court chancellor the following year, which he remained until his death. In 1719 he was appointed baron .

Georg Wachschlager owned, among other things, an estate ( Third Pelonker Hof ) near Danzig, which he had received from the inheritance of his father-in-law Johann Schlackow. He was married to Anna Catharina Schlackow (Schlakau). Sons were

  • Carl Wachschlager
  • Georg Wachschlager

literature

  • Droste: In the service of the crown. Swedish diplomats in the 17th century. LIT-Verlag, Munich 2006. p. 413 B 109
  • Georg Wachschlager . In: Nordisk familjebok. 31. 1921. pp. 219f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jöran Andersson Nordberg : Life of Carl the Twelfth King in Sweden. Second volume. Hamburg 1746. pp. 579f.