Hans Christoph von Uechtritz

Hans Christoph von Uechtritz (* in Lützschena near Leipzig ; † 1671 ) was a Schleswig-Holstein court official.

Uechtritz is the son of Andreas von Uechtritz . As a page at the court of Duke Friedrich III. from Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf Uechtritz received Protestant lessons.

In the years 1635 to 1637 Uechtritz was a member of the legation to the courts in Moscow and Isphahan . These legation trips were led by Adam Olearius .

On his great north German trip, Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen also came to the court of Schleswig . Here the prince took Uechtritz together with his employer Duke Friedrich III on September 3, 1642 . (Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf) in the fruit-bearing society .

The prince gave Uechtritz the company name Poisonous and the motto has its antidote . Uechtritz's emblem was the Nerion blooming ( Nerium oleander L. ). Uechtritz's entry can be found in the Koethen Society Register under number 392. The rhyme law that he wrote on the occasion of his admission is also recorded here:

That flourished Nerions is poisonous in itself

The poison the leaves strive against,

Where the antidote is not mistreated:

How will the poisonous one take away from me?

My word explains it rightly: You should at any deadline

If something poison occurs in common life,

To use an antidote to anger again

The moderation, so you get the fruit of the means inside.