Hermann von Vultejus

Hermann von Vultée

Hermann von Vultejus (also von Vultée ) (born February 7, 1634 in Marburg ; † April 17, 1723 ibid) was a Hessian lawyer and vice chancellor . He was a scion of the Vultejus family (also Vultée), a Hessian noble family founded by his grandfather .

Life

origin

His father was Johann Christoph Vultejus (1602–1640), the Hesse-Kassel government councilor, son of the law professor and temporarily rector of the University of Marburg, Hermann Vultejus (1555–1634), and his wife Eulalia Adelheid Happel, a great niece of Philipp Melanchthon . His mother was Anna Agnesa Heistermann, daughter of Burgmann Ludwig Heistermann in Fritzlar and Anna von Hesberg . Hermann von Vultejus was named after his grandfather Professor Hermann Vultejus. After the early death of his parents, he lived with his sister Anna Adelheid with his uncle, who later became Chancellor Johannes Vultejus in Kassel .

education

After initial education by private teachers, the young Vultejus attended the University of Kassel from 1650 , where he continued his education in the so-called seven liberal arts . In 1653 he enrolled to study law at the University of Marburg , which was reopened that year , which he continued in Strasbourg from 1656 . After passing his exams there, he returned to Marburg in the spring of 1659.

On his subsequent cavalier tour he traveled in 1659 via Bremen and Emden to Leyden and Groningen and after eight months in the Netherlands in the following year to England, where he attended the coronation of Charles II in May 1660 and then attended the universities of Cambridge and Oxford . Via Dieppe and Rouen , he traveled on to Paris , where he stayed for four months and in August 1660, as a member of the Hesse-Kassel legation, witnessed the arrival of Louis XIV with his newly wedded husband Marie Therese . After visiting Orléans , Blois , Tours , Saumur and Angers , he traveled to Lyon , where a serious illness that he had contracted in Angers prevented him from continuing to Italy , which was planned for 1661 . After his recovery, he therefore only traveled through Switzerland in the early summer of 1661 and returned to Marburg at the beginning of July 1661.

Civil service

Landgrave Wilhelm VI appointed in 1662 . von Hessen-Kassel made him a councilor in the government of the so-called Oberfürstentum in Marburg, the Kassel part of the short-lived and 1604 extinct Landgraviate of Hessen-Marburg . In 1681 Landgrave Karl entrusted him with the management of the government's board of directors in Marburg and in 1687 Landgrave Karl appointed him Vice Chancellor in the Upper Principality, the highest administrative office in the Marburg region. Vultejus held this office until his death. All offers made to him in the following years to enter other services, such as that of King Friedrich I of Prussia in 1703 to go to Berlin as Privy Councilor and Chamber President, he refused.

In the course of his life, Vultejus acquired considerable property. In 1672, for example, he acquired the Elnhausen estate near Marburg from the Schenck zu Schweinsberg family . The Elnhausen moated castle, which was partially destroyed in the Thirty Years War and has since been neglected , was demolished between 1707 and 1717 and replaced by a baroque palace based on the French model. 1688 was followed by the investiture with the manor Adorf by the 1682 princely Count Georg Friedrich of Waldeck -Eisenberg. And in 1720 he was enfeoffed by the Fulda abbot Konstantin von Buttlar with the Fulda goods in Dippach , Kleinensee and Bosserode .

Confirmation of nobility and name change

On October 8, 1694, Vultejus was confirmed as knightly imperial nobility by Emperor Leopold II , after the diploma awarded to his grandfather was lost in 1645 when Marburg was sacked by imperial troops under Peter Melander .

Around 1714 he Frenchized his name according to a fashion of the time to von Vultée (first documented mention in the baptismal register on the occasion of the baptism of the first child of his youngest son in Marburg).

Marriages and offspring

Vultejus married Anna Margarethe von Gehren (1643–1692), daughter of Barthold von Gehren (1610–1657), Hessen-Darmstädtischer Rat, and Elisabeth Pauli (1613–1667) in 1666 ; the marriage produced six sons and five daughters, of whom only three survived their father:

• Elisabeth (1667–1717), ⚭ I. 1689 Johann Christoph Heinius, ⚭ II. 1696 Justus Wilhelm Wissenbach
• Anna Adelheid (1669–1714), ⚭ Georg von Berghofer (1664–1716), Privy Councilor and Vice Chancellor
• Johannes (1670–1699), matriculated in Marburg in 1685
• Hermann (1672–1714), Hesse-Kassel budget councilor and envoy to the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Empire
• Christoph Reinhold (1673–1674)
• Catharina Margarethe (1675–1711), ⚭ 1697 Paul Adolf Grolman, Royal Prussian Councilor of Justice in Kleve
• Joachim Christoph (1676–1735), landowner on Dippach, royal Swedish major general, landgrave of Hessen-Kassel brigadier and commander of Rinteln
• Agnes Christina (* 1678), ⚭ 1698 Hartmann Samuel Hoffmann von Löwenfeld , General Field Sergeant of the Upper Rhine Reichskreis , commandant of the Landau Fortress
• Anna Magdalena (1679–1725), ⚭ 1697 Franz Stückrad, Colonel, later Major General, Commandant of Marburg
• Wilhelm (1681–1773), Waldecker Privy Councilor, court judge and chamber president, landowner on Adorf
• Johann Adolph (1683–1759), councilor, landowner on Elnhausen and Wieblingen , today's district of Heidelberg

After the death of his first wife in 1693 he married Katharina Margarethe auf dem (often also: "uffm") Keller (1645–1721), daughter of the Bremen city commander Gerhard auf dem Keller and Anna Maria Busch (1614–1679); this marriage remained childless.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Since Marburg and the university there had temporarily fallen to Hessen-Darmstadt due to inheritance disputes, the University of Kassel existed from 1633 to 1653 at the Kassel court school in Renthof .
2. ↑ This is the only baroque secular building still preserved today in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district .

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder: Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer Gesch , Volume 16, Marburg 1812.
• Karl-Heinrich Rexroth: Short Chronicle of Elnhausen , Marburg 1972.
• Kurt Stahr: Marburger Kinship Book , Volume II, Marburg 1961.
• HJ v. Brockhusen: Will-Vultejus-von Vultée , Hessenland v. July 11, 1964.
• Kretzschmar:  Vulté, Hermann von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 391.

Web links

• "Vultejus, Hermann von d. Ä. ". Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).