Georg von Frantzke

Georg von Frantzke , occasionally Georg von Franzke , (born April 15, 1594 in Leobschütz , Silesia , † January 15, 1659 in Gotha ) was a German lawyer and court official.

Life

Frantzke was the son of the businessman Georg Frantzke and his wife Margarethe Reimann. After first lessons by private tutors, Frantzke attended the grammar school in Brieg from 1609 at the age of 15 . He then studied philosophy and theology at the University of Frankfurt / Oder from 1612 to 1613 .

His uncle Georg Reimann was a professor of rhetoric and librarian in Frankfurt / Oder. In 1613 Frantzke moved with him to the University of Königsberg , where he studied law. When he finished his studies six years later, he was offered a position as a lecturer at the University of Jena . There in Jena he married on March 2, 1622 Anna Maria Wex and nine days later his doctorate Frantzke to Dr. jur.

In the following years Frantzke tried again and again - but in vain - to gain a foothold as a lecturer at the University of Königsberg. In 1626 he was appointed as assessor at the court in Jena. He held this office for three years.

On February 22, 1629, Count Karl Günther von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt hired him as a councilor to his court. After his death on September 24, 1630, Frantzke worked for his widow Anna Sophia as a kind of private legal aid.

On February 1, 1633, Frantzke was admitted to the Weimar court as a legal adviser . The Dukes Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar , Albrecht of Saxe-Eisenach , and Ernst I of Saxe-Gotha placed great value on his opinion, especially in matters of inheritance . The establishment of the ducal partition agreement was worked out under Frantzke's leadership.

In 1640 he represented Weimar at the Frankfurt Convention and at the Reichstag in Regensburg he was there when the fiefs were received. After the founding of the new Duchy of Saxe-Gotha , Frantzke moved to the court of Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Gotha as Chancellor and Consistorial President in 1641 and helped shape the development of this new state through his work.

On May 3, 1645, Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen visited Weimar . On the occasion of this visit, he accepted Georg von Frantzke into the Fruit Bringing Society together with Duke Bernhard von Sachsen-Jena , Christian Legell and Samuel von Goechhausen .

The prince gave Frantzke the company name of equals and the motto to incense . As a badge was Frantzke of Seven tree ( Juniperus Sabina L. var. Cupressifolia Ait. ) Is intended. Frantzke's entry can be found in the Koethen Society Register under no. 428. There is also the rhyme law recorded on the occasion of his admission:

The Sevenbaumes almost in the smell compares itself to
The Weyrauch lit the closest, which is
also called Equal, therefore I have been.
See how nature freely reaches out the hand In everything
Too good for us: It also wants willingly
a from reverent heart through good to be softened
to bring true fruit, which is richly deared to us, when
we are freed from all fears upon prayer.

With effect from June 20, 1646 Frantzke was raised to the imperial nobility and Palatinat ad personam and three years later admitted as a full member of the new secret council chamber.

In the last years of his life, Frantzke published some hymns under the pseudonym Christianus Philometer . Georg von Frantzke died on January 15, 1659 in Gotha at the age of 65.

Works

• Commentarius in XXI libros pandectarum iuris civilis (1644)
• Exercitationes iuridicae XII in quibus CXV controversiae iuris eruuntur (1623)
• Libri duo sacrorum carminum (1656)

literature

• Ulrich Hess:  Frantzke, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 357 ( digitized version ).