Gosche von Buchwaldt

Gosche von Buchwaldt

Gosche von Buchwaldt (born September 17, 1624 in Jersbek (probably); † November 27, 1700 in Hamburg ) was the lord of the Schleswig estate of Olpenitz with the Schönhagen Meierhof in Schwansen, Eckernförde, and the Holstein marshes of Bekhof. He achieved a high reputation in public life and held important offices: royal Danish court, county and privy councilor; Ambassador, Knight of the Elephant Order ( blue knight ; with the motto: “RECTE FACIENDO Neminem TIMEAS” (“Do right and do not shy away from anyone”)).

Life

parents

Gosche von Buchwaldt was the son of Jasper von Buchwaldt (* 1591; † 1629) and Anna Wensin (* 1596/1597; † 1674). His mother probably came from Hamburg. Her father was the ducal district administrator and bailiff on Gottorf , Gosche Wensin (* around 1562, † 1639); married in 1589 to Eibe Rantzau (* 1573; † 1610).

He had a brother Hans Adolph (* around 1620 in Jersbek (probably); † March 16, 1695 in Jersbek (probably)), and a sister Dorothea (* April 20, 1627; † May 1, 1681 in Dänisch-Nienhof) , who was married to Bendix von Blome in Deutsch-Nienhof , Dänisch-Nienhof and Kaltenhof (born June 29, 1627, † March 27, 1688 in Danish-Nienhof).

After the death of her husband (in 1629 in the middle of the Thirty Years' War), the widow Anna von Buchwaldt successfully managed the Jersbek and Stegen estates not only until the two sons came of age, but also until they returned from their study trips.

Two marriages and no children

Gosche von Buchwaldt married Mette von Ahlefeldt's first marriage on May 6, 1657 (born November 2, 1627 in Slagelse / Seeland; † March 8, 1668 in Hamburg, buried in the council chapel of the Nikolai Church in Kiel), daughter of Friedrich von Ahlefeldt on Halb-Seegard / Halvsøgård, Grüngrift / Grøngrøft and Aarup / Årup (* 1594 - † March 25, 1657). In his second marriage he was with Augusta Maria Schmied (* May 15, 1665 - † November 12, 1726), daughter of the secret and senior chamberlain and later inspector Joachim Schmidt (Schmieden), one of the most noticeable personalities at the court of Duke Christian Albrecht of Schleswig- Holstein-Gottorf , married.

Life

Gosche von Buchwaldt studied in 1647 and 1649 at the universities in Orléans and Rome, respectively. The succession to his father Jasper von Buchwaldt was determined by lot after an "unpredictable proposal" made in Hamburg on September 13, 1645, whereby the older brother Hans Adolph von Buchwaldt took over the Jersbek and Stegen estates and Gosche von Buchwaldt received the agreed 42,000 Reichstaler transfer payments received, with which he was able to buy the Olpenitz estate on January 21, 1663.

After his dramatic retirement from the Danish civil service, Gosche von Buchwaldt lived in the family-owned house at Valentinskamp in Hamburg from 1686. He died on November 27, 1700 in Hamburg and was buried “simply and without ceremonies” in the council chapel of the Nikolaikirche in Kiel in a sandstone coffin next to his “dearly loved” first wife. His 2nd wife became sole heir.

ancestry

Jasper von Buchwaldt (1591–1629)

Gosche von Buchwaldt (1624–1700)

Gosche Wensin (1562–1639) District administrator and bailiff on Gottorf

Anna Wensin (1596–1674)

Yew tree Rantzau (1573–1610)

no children

1. Friedrich von Ahlefeldt (1594–1657) 2. Joachim Schmidt

1. Mette von Ahlefeldt (1627–1668) 2. Augusta Maria Schmied (1665–1726)

Offices, titles and honors

As early as 1647, at the age of 23, Gosche von Buchwaldt was appointed "councilor from the house" by Christian IV .

After Karl X. Gustav broke the peace in 1658, Gosche von Buchwaldt went to Copenhagen and in November 1659, after the Battle of Nyborg, he was appointed court counselor together with Reichsrat Otto Krag via Hamburg to the Brunswick-Lüneburg Duke Christian Ludwig in Celle, brother-in-law of the Danish King Friedrich III. , sent to persuade him to give up the alliance with Sweden. However, they did not succeed. Otto Krag and Gosche von Buchwaldt continued their journey to the Netherlands with the aim that the States General King Friedrich III. would support in his endeavors for better peace conditions than in the Peace of Roskilde (February 26, 1658). However, they couldn't do anything special here either. In May 1660 they were on an extraordinary mission with the King of England. In 1660, during his time as envoy in Holland, Gosche von Buchwaldt wrote various public writings in both French and Dutch.

Gosche von Buchwaldt was a commissioner in the Sonderburg-Norburg bankruptcy in 1667 . In the following years he lived on his estates in Olpenitz and Schönhagen near Schleswig, until he was appointed royal Danish ambassador to Berlin in 1676 , where he was plundered by the Swedes on the way there. He was supposed to pursue alliance and peace policy there - also through transfers and trips to other royal courts. At the end of 1677 he was transferred from Berlin to the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Celle, where he worked until 1679. In between he was envoy in Brandenburg-Prussia , in the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Calenberg-Hanover , in Hamburg ( 1677/1678 ), in Münster (probably for the funeral of Christoph Bernhard Freiherr von Galen , Prince-Bishop of Münster) and in the Diocese of Osnabrück . In April 1681 he was sent to Berlin, where on January 31, 1682 he concluded a defensive alliance between Denmark and Brandenburg for 10 years with Elector Friedrich Wilhelm . Together with Christian de Lente he was Ambassador Extraordinary to England in 1683 to regulate the marriage contract and the dowry of the Danish Prince George with the English Princess Anne and the final marriage contract, written in Latin on July 27, 1683 in Whitehall as “G . by Bougwalt mp. ”(Minister plenipotentiaire).

On his return from London, Gosche von Buchwaldt was a member of the commission from 1684–1685 that was supposed to regulate the relationship in Oldenburg . On June 21, 1684, he took part in a conference in Itzehoe, in which Danish and Hamburg deputies tried in vain to reach an agreement on the homagial point (homage to the Danish king by Hamburg) and other disputes. In 1686 Gosche broke off Buchwaldt's career abruptly. After the death of his brother-in-law, Grand Chancellor Friedrich von Ahlefeldt (* 1623 Seegard - † July 7, 1686), the commissioners who were supposed to look through his papers found a series of Gosche von Buchwaldt's letters in them, in which he criticized various government actions and himself disparagingly about several leading ministers - sometimes by naming them, sometimes calling them gangs or cabals. Gosche von Buchwaldt was strongly urged either to apologize for his improper behavior or to provide evidence for his statements. He then had to humbly apologize and leave Copenhagen for Hamburg.

Provost to Uetersen and Bitter in Itzehoe

After Friedrich von Ahlefeldt (landlord on Seestermühe, Uetersener monastery provost from 1648–1657; † 1665) had abdicated, Gosche von Buchwaldt was elected the new provost of Uetersen monastery in autumn 1657 by freely choosing the priory and the convent . The recess about the appointment to the Uetersener provost was confirmed by Gosche von Buchwaldt on November 4, 1657 in Hamburg "with hand and heart". He received his royal confirmation on November 25, 1657. Margaretha von Ahlefeldt was during his time as the monastery provost priory of the Uetersen monastery. The bell of the church of Seester from 1668 contains the inscriptions "GOSCHE VON BUCHWALDT" and "MARGRETA VON ALEFELT", and a picture of him hangs in the Uetersen Propstenhaus. On March 13, 1696 he "voluntarily ... resigned because of old age" after he had "gloriously presided over the monastery for 39 years" and now because of old age he had asked for rest.

In a letter dated August 26, 1662, he was wished for luck, because with all votes he had “received the bitterness of the Itzehoe monastery these days ”. He was then in constant dispute with the abbess Emerantia von Heest over the administration of the Itzehoe monastery. Essentially, it was about whether the abbess was allowed to make arrogant decisions without the embitter's consent or decisions that were the sole responsibility of the embitter. Gosche von Buchwaldt asked an appointed commission to clarify how he should behave. The commission convened in Kiel in July 1664 regarded Gravamina as essentially justified. Since Gosche von Buchwaldt was an envoy outside of Schleswig-Holstein for many years, he could not always carry out his duties as a bitter. In the autumn of 1682 he was "given the bill for 9 years." In doing so, he found that the conventual women had lived beyond their means, had illegally sold land and had incurred considerable debts. Then drastic austerity measures were decided.

literature

• Ludwig Bittner and Lothar Groß (eds.), Repertory of the diplomatic representatives of all countries since the Peace of Westphalia, Volume I (1648–1715), Oldenburg i. O./Berlin, 1936.
• Danmarks Adels Aarbog (DAA), Volume XXX (1913) I 183 (gender: von Buchwaldt).
• Hermann Kellenbenz : Official Inspector Schmidt - Financial affairs and assets of a valet. In: Nordelbingen 34, Heide 1965 (Festschrift Lilli Martius), 139–147.
• Adolf Köcher, History of Hanover and Braunschweig 1648 to 1714, First Part (1648–1668), Leipzig 1884; Second part (1668–1674), Leipzig 1895.
• Laurs Rasmus Laursen, Danmark-Norges tract 1523–1750: med dertil hørende Aktstykker, (Volume 5: 1651–1664), Copenhagen 1920; (Volume 6: 1665-1675), Copenhagen 1923; (Volume 7: 1676-1682), Copenhagen 1926; (Volume 8: 1683–1689), Copenhagen 1930.
• Laurs Rasmus Laursen, Godske Buchwald, in: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (DBL), 27 volumes, Copenhagen 1933–1944, Volume IV, Copenhagen 1934, 321 f.
• Laurs Rasmus Laursen, Godske Buchwald, in: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (DBL), 3rd edition, 16 volumes, Copenhagen 1979–1984, 3rd volume, Copenhagen 1979, 51.
• Axel Lohr, The History of the Jersbek Estate from 1588 to the Present, Diss. Phil. Hamburg 2007, Stormarner booklets No. 24, Neumünster 2007.
• Emil Marquard, Danske sent og sentskabspersonale indtil 1914, Copenhagen 1952.
• Doris Meyn, list of provosts and priories of the Uetersen monastery up to the end of the 17th century, in: ZSHG 101 (1976), 73–116.
• Elsa Plath-Langheinrich, Uetersen Monastery in Holstein, With Cistercian nuns and aristocratic canonesses through eight centuries, Neumünster 2008.

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich von Ahlefeldt	Probst of the Uetersen monastery 1657–1696	Friedrich von Reventlow
	Danish envoy in Berlin 1676–1677
	Danish envoy in Hamburg 1677–1678	Georg von Lincker