Heinrich von Focke

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Heinrich von Focke , also Fock (born December 1, 1673 in Lübeck , † January 5, 1730 ) was a German administrative lawyer and canon .

Life

Coat of arms of the von Focke family

Heinrich Focke was the son of the Lübeck merchant and councilor Hermann Fock . His brother Hermann Fock († May 24, 1731) was a Swedish resident in Lübeck.

Heinrich Focke was born on March 26, 1681 with the Possession has accepted the resignation canon Erdmann Julius Berkenthin prebend canon of Lübeck chapter . Focke studied law and obtained a doctorate in law. both rights. In 1698 he became a citizen of Lübeck. He was a Danish government councilor and a Holstein State councilor.

In the Lübeck bishop's election after the death of Prince-Bishop August Friedrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf in 1705, which was accompanied by a military conflict and at Christmas 1705 by the siege and occupation of Eutin Castle by the Danes, Focke belonged to the ultimately losing party in the chapter who supported the Danish coadjutor , Prince Carl of Denmark (born October 26, 1680, † August 8, 1729), a younger brother of the Danish King Frederick IV . However, through diplomatic intervention by Queen Anne of England and the States General and after the assurance of a pension, the latter was forced to give up his claim, so that Christian August von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , the candidate of the Gothenburg party, which was allied with Sweden , could succeed. The dispute was finally settled only after the conclusion of the Altranstädter Convention , when Christian August was enfeoffed with the Lübeck Monastery by the Emperor in 1709 .

Focke was raised to the German imperial nobility on October 25, 1729 and his old nobility coat of arms was confirmed.

Heinrich von Focke was married twice; first marriage to a daughter of the mayor of Lübeck, Bernhard Frese . He had a son, Carl Friedrich, who died on February 14, 1740 at the age of 14. He was buried in the von Focke Chapel in Lübeck Cathedral, which he had acquired in 1723 and is named after him today . After his death the prebende went to the canon Detlev Christian von Reventlow. With him, the noble family died out.

Focke Chapel

Focke Chapel

One of the northern side chapels was originally built by the canon Johann Bule († 1332). The cathedral's ossuary was also located here , which was only removed when Benedikt von Ahlefeldt bought the chapel in 1710 and had the grave vault built in. In 1723 the chapel passed to Heinrich von Focke and, in connection with his death around 1730, was given its current design with the baroque portal with a Latin inscription by the Lübeck sculptor Hieronymus Hassenberg .

literature

  • Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, pp. 9–304. Unchanged reprint 2001, ISBN 3-89557-167-9
  • Antje Grewolls: The chapels of the north German churches in the Middle Ages: architecture and function. Ludwig, Kiel 1999, ISBN 3-9805480-3-1
  • Wolfgang Prange : Directory of the canons. In: Ders .: Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, principality and part of the country 1160-1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 400 No. 296

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prange, Canon No. 287
  2. ↑ Peter von Kobbe : Schleswig-Holstein history from the death of Duke Christian Albrecht to the death of King Christian VII (1694 to 1808). Altona: Hammerich 1834, p. 42
  3. ^ Eduard Vehse: History of the small German courts since the Reformation. Part 14: The spiritual courts , Volume 4, Hamburg: Hoffmann & Campe 1860, p. 85
  4. ↑ CR Rasmussen, E. Imberger, D. Lohmeier, I. Mommsen: The princes of the country - dukes and counts of Schleswig-Holstein and Lauenburg . Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2008., p. 195.
  5. ^ De Nederlandsche leeuw: Maandblad van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde, 1889, p. 75
  6. ↑ He is also said to have been canon, which was possible despite his age - but he is not found in the list of all canons of Prange (lit.)
  7. ↑ Prange, Canon No. 348
  8. ↑ The † v. Focke in Lübeck. In: The German Herald: magazine for coat of arms, seal u. Familienkunde 4 (1873), p. 23f. ( Digitized version )
  9. ↑ a b BuK, p. 57
  10. ^ Inscription with translation by Adolf Clasen : Misunderstood treasures: Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German . Lübeck 2003, ISBN 3-7950-0475-6 , p. 74
personal data
SURNAME Focke, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fock, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and canon
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1673
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1730