Gerdt Anton Rehnskiöld

Gerdt Anton Rehnskiöld , also Gerdt Anthon Rehnsköld or Gerhard Anton Rehnschild , (born April 12, 1610 as Gerdt Antoniison Kewenbringk ; † July 20, 1658 in Langenschwalbach ) was a Swedish government and finance official. He was a councilor and headed the financial administration in Swedish Pomerania .

Life

He came from the noble von Keffenbrinck family who immigrated to Sweden from Westphalia at the end of the 16th century , who wrote themselves there as Kewenbringk and descended into the middle classes. His parents were the Stockholm citizen Antoni Hansson Kewenbringk († 1657) and his wife Catharina Anderssdotter. He became a clerk in the accounting chamber and followed King Gustav II Adolf to Germany in the Thirty Years' War . From 1632 he was field chamberlain in the Swedish armies in Germany. From there he was sent to the Swedish trading offices in Hamburg , Lübeck and Amsterdam to secure supplies for the Swedish army. The Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna sent him to France in 1635.

After the Pomeranian griffin dukes died out in 1638, he was given supervision over the ducal offices and domains. In 1639 he was appointed treasurer for all of Pomerania. On August 22, 1639 he was raised to the Swedish nobility. He was given the name Rehnskiöld (also Rehnsköld , Rehnschild ), although he wanted to keep his previous name. For his services he received the Griebenow , Willershusen and Hohenwarth estates in Pomerania and Stensätra in Södermanland . In 1640 he was appointed treasurer, in the same year chief treasurer for Mecklenburg and in 1649 also for Swedish Pomerania .

In 1650 he became President of the Chamber, later Reich Chamber Councilor and Councilor of the Swedish government in Pomerania . In Pomerania he had to set up a makeshift taxation system based on old registers of taxable hooves. In 1653 he was a curator at the University of Greifswald . He died in Langenschwalbach in 1658, where he had traveled to relax. First he was buried in the Nikolaikirche in Stralsund , later reburied in the Griebenow castle chapel .

family

Gerdt Anton Rehnskiöld was married three times. Almost all children were born in Stralsund. He married his first wife Anna Maria von Holtzendorff († 1640 in Stralsund in childbed ) in 1636. The marriage had a son, who died after six months, and the daughter Christine (* 1640), who married the government councilor Hermann von Wolffradt .

In 1641 he married Brita Torskeskål, who gave birth to six sons and five daughters and also died in childbed. The daughter Catharina (* August 5, 1643, † July 4, 1671) was married to Peter Appelmann , the governor of the queen's domains. Her sister Sophia Juliana (born May 9, 1648) married Paul Wedig von Borcke , chief hunter in Pomerania. Margaretha (February 2, 1655, † June 10, 1734) was married to Major General Anders Sparrfelt (1645-1730). The son Johann Adolf (1646–1681) was Councilor and Minister of State. Axel (born March 12, 1649 in Hamburg, † October 29, 1677 in Skåne ) was a Swedish colonel and heir in Griebenow. Carl Gustaf (1651–1722) was a Swedish field marshal under King Charles XII. The other children died in the cradle.

He married his third wife in 1656. With Anna Catharina Gärffelt he had the daughter Anna Margaretha (1658–1703), who was married to Major Philipp Daniel Holmer.

literature

• Gabriel Anrep : Svenska adelns Ättar-Taflor. Verlag PA Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm, 1862, vol. 3, p. 342, ( Google books , Swedish)
• Zacharias Rottmann: Timely but blissful requests from the righteous and holy people ... at the high aristocratic and Christian glorious burial of the Weyland Hochedlen, Gestrengen, Vesten and Hochbenambten Mr. Gerhardt Anthoni Rehnschildt, your royal. Maytt. zu Schweden Wohlbestalten Reichscammerrahts ... , Stralsund 1658 (funeral sermon).