Henning Wegner

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Henning Wegner (also: Henning von Wegnern ; born January 9, 1584 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; † November 6, 1636 ibid) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Henning was the son of the Magdeburg patrician Nikolaus Wegner, who came to Königsberg in 1573 and became a ducal counselor and lawyer. In 1580 he married Ursula, daughter of Henning Boye. His sister Klara, brother Christoph and Nikolaus came from this marriage. He began his studies at the University of Königsberg , where he matriculated on November 21, 1596. After extensive training in the field of law at the time, for example as a respondent at the University of Jena , he went to the University of Basel in 1607 .

In Basel, he had his dissertation De contractibus in genre defended on August 15 and was on 27 August 1607 to the doctor doctorate of rights. After a stay at the University of Rostock , where he enrolled in October, he returned to his hometown. Here he was then Princely Courland Council, 1612 Associate Professor of Law at the University of Königsberg, 1615 second full professor and 1618 first professor of the law faculty. In that capacity he also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the alma mater in the summer semesters 1616, 1618, 1620 and 1625 .

In addition, he had developed a keen interest in the questions of his city and was involved in its community-political decision-making processes. In 1627 he was elected mayor of Königsberg's old town. Because of the associated stresses, he resigned his professorship, but remained as a senior in the law faculty. He had earned a reputation for himself in missions to various courts, for example he represented the city in the Swedish War against Gustav Adolf and he had dealt a lot with the constitutional relationship between Prussia and Poland. In view of his services, he was raised to the nobility on March 14, 1635 by the King of Poland and thus became the hereditary lord in Kapkeim and Kuggen .

family

Wegner, as the founding father of the von Wegner family , was married twice.

His first marriage was on December 2, 1611 with Dorothea (* November 12, 1590 - March 20, 1628), daughter of the Polish ship's captain Heinrich Hintz.

After the death of his first wife, he married Regina (* October 11, 1612; † March 16, 1678), daughter of Christoph Winter von Sternenfeld and later wife of Cölestin Myslenta .

The first marriage has 10 children and the second marriage has five children. Known by the children is:

  • Christoph (born October 13, 1612 - † February 14, 1663) Dr. jur. and hereditary lord and chamberlain on Kapkeim, married. with Anna Dorothea, daughter of Hans kitchen master von Sternberg on inheritance.
  • Henning (born February 6, 1614; † July 2, 1656) councilor in Kneiphof, m. I. Marriage with Katharina, the daughter of the Königsberg councilor Sigismund Scharff, the widow of the treasurer in Kneiphof Reinhold Boye; II Marriage to Regina († June 12, 1656), daughter of the mayor of Kneiphof Reinhold von Eggert.
  • Bernhard von Wegnern (born August 8, 1615) became Major General in Bavaria
  • Ursula von Wegnern (born January 4, 1617 - † January 28, 1659) married. With the secretary of the old town Peter Weger (* February 9, 1602; † February 12, 1642)
  • Nikolaus von Wegnern (March 5, 1618 - 1619)
  • Reinhold von Wegnern (February 7, 1623 - March 2, 1620)
  • Johann von Wegnern (born August 16, 1621; † 1662) electoral councilor and court magistrate, heir to Seepothen and Besskein, married. with Maria († 1678), daughter of the councilor Friedrich vom Stein on Seepothen and Besskeim.
  • Dorothea von Wegnern (* April 7, 1623 - † July 9, 1692) married. on May 16, 1639 with the deacon of the old town Isaak Halbsch von der Porten (April 1, 1595 - June 1, 1648)
  • Georg von Wegnern (born October 9, 1624; † 1659) unmarried, hereditary lord and Rittmeister on Kuggen
  • Sigismund von Wegnern (born October 1, 1626; † young)
  • Daniel von Wegnern (born March 9, 1628; † March 9, 1689) Tribunal councilor and official of the Samland consistory, heir to Kuggen, Borchertsdorf and Weissenstein, married. with Regina (July 18, 1640; † March 21, 1674), daughter of the Kneiphof mayor Johann Krintz on Schwanitz.
  • Hieronymus von Wegnern (* 1630; † 1631)
  • Michael von Wegnern (* and † 1631)
  • Regina von Wegnern (born October 31, 1632; † March 27, 1700) married. October 12, 1648 with the deacon of the old town Christoph Schröter († 1674)
  • Elisabeth von Wegnern (* May 5, 1634; † April 16, 1672) I. Marriage on September 23, 1650 with the rector of the Königsberg Cathedral School Mag. Konrad Neufeld (* January 13, 1623; † January 24, 1656); II. Marriage 1662 with the professor and archpriest in Wehlau Mag. Lambert Steger
  • Katharina von Wegnern (born January 12, 1636 - † February 10, 1699) I. Marriage in 1655 with the professor in Gießen Dr. Christian Colbe († November 2, 1657); II. Marriage June 10, 1663 with the hunting counselor Dr. Dietrich Kühnemann († 1677)

Works

Various disputations by him are known such as De foro competente, Contraheda emtione, Jurisdictione, Fidejussoribus, probationibus et feudi, Donationibus, Servitutibus. Also published in print:

  • De jure non provocandi Prussiae ducalis. Danzig 1633
  • Disp. Tit. Pand. De verb. Et rer. Significat.
  • Disp. Analysin Institutionum Justin
  • De justitia et jure excited
  • Analysin Institutionum Justiniani Imper. Koenigsberg 1629
  • Disp. De foro competente

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (* 1585) m. with the councilor of the Königsberg old town Andreas Lölhöfel (* 1571; † January 17, 1645)
  2. ↑ * March 10, 1586; † June 5, 1653; Dr. jur., electoral councilor, lawyer Fisici, assessor at the Samland consistory, heir to Damerau, Pregelswalde and Sageiten, noble 14 March 1635, 1635 Prussia. Indigenous I. Marriage in 1616 with Maria (~ June 15, 1594; † July 23, 1629), the daughter of the councilor of the old town Hans Meinicke; II. Marriage in 1631 with Elisabeth (* November 6, 1601 - † January 6, 1678) the daughter of the Burgrave of Lyck auf Malinowken, Schedisken and Krolawolla Christoph Schützer, the widow of the clerk Lorenz Becke in Sehsten and the professor Dr. Lorenz Weger
  3. ↑ (* 1588; † young)
personal data
SURNAME Wegner, Henning
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henning von Wegnern
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1584
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1636
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)