Jürgen Mellin

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Jürgen Graf von Mellin (born November 2, 1633 in Urpala , Finland , † January 13, 1713 in Stettin ; also Jürgen Freiherr von Mellin ) was the Swedish field marshal and governor general of Bremen , Verden and Swedish Pomerania .

Life

Jürgen Mellin came originally in Mecklenburg resident, came in the 16th century in Swedish noble family services Mellin , inter alia, in Estonia acquired and Finland possessions. His father Bernd Mellin (1608–1690) was a captain in Kexholm and later governor in Ingermanland .

In 1649 he began his military career as a musketeer in a German regiment that his father had recruited for Sweden. He served in various garrisons in Finland and the Baltic States . In 1650 he served as a pikeman in the Queen's bodyguard, in 1654 as a lieutenant captain in the Gustaf Horns regiment and in 1656 as a cavalry master in the regiment of Landgrave Friedrich von Hessen-Homburg . In 1659 he was adjutant general to King Karl X. Gustav . Later he was lieutenant colonel in Colonel Knausdorff's dragoon regiment and in 1669 in the Karelian cavalry. In 1675, with the rank of colonel , he became the commander of Wrangel's Dragoon Regiment in Pomerania . He took part in the battle of Fehrbellin . In 1679 he was initially fortress commander in Anklam and in the same year commander of the fortress Stettin. In 1680 he was given command of an infantry regiment.

In 1681 he became commander in chief of all Swedish troops in Pomerania. In the same year he exchanged his family estate Wahnerow in Hinterpommern for Damitzow in Vorpommern , where he had his country seat from now on. By successfully managing his Estonian, Finnish and Pomeranian estates, he was able to acquire a considerable fortune. In Western Pomerania he was able to expand his property to include the Neuendorf, Boldevitz , Mönkvitz and Ramitz estates .

Promoted to major general of the cavalry in 1686, he became lieutenant governor of Swedish Pomerania in 1688. In 1690 he became the commander of the Swedish imperial contingent, which the Swedish King Charles XI. as a German imperial prince and as a result of the Augsburg Alliance during the War of the Palatinate Succession to the Imperial Army and sent to the Rhine .

In 1691 he was raised to the status of a Swedish baron along with his brothers and nephews. In 1693 he was promoted to lieutenant general and appointed governor of Wismar . On August 26, 1696, Jürgen Mellin was raised to the status of Swedish count and governor general of Bremen and Verden. Appointed to the Royal Swedish Council, he was promoted to Field Marshal on August 28th. On July 4, 1698 he was by the Swedish King Charles XII. appointed Governor General of Pomerania and installed as Chancellor of the University of Greifswald . As governor, he promoted trade in the West Pomeranian cities, which experienced an upswing until the occupation of West Pomerania during the Great Northern War . In his capacity as Chancellor of the University, he brought Johann Friedrich Mayer to Greifswald as Professor of Theology and Procancellor and in 1702 issued new study regulations designed by Mayer.

In 1711 Jürgen Graf von Mellin resigned from his offices for health reasons. After his death, the cities of Stralsund and Stettin donated 6,000 thalers, which were used to finance a copper coffin and an elaborate memorial service.

family

Jürgen Mellin's first marriage in 1655 in Reval Anna Magdalena von Löwen (1636–1690). The marriage resulted in two sons who began a military career in the Swedish service. The count's branch of the family, who lives in Pomerania and Estonia, descends from the eldest son Bernd Johann, as well as:

  • Bernhard Johann (1659–1733) Major General ⚭ Anna Helena Wrangel, ⚭ Gertruda Stryk widowed Buddenbrock
  • Anna (1661–1716) ⚭ 1682 Rittmeister Claus von Loppenow
  • Magdalena (1662–1692) ⚭ 1679 Governor Adam Friedrich von Ramin (born August 29, 1650 - January 18, 1697) from the House of Stoltzenburg
  • Anna Christina (* 1664; † after 1733) ⚭ 1684 Colonel Bernd Christopfer Wolffradt (1660–1732)
  • Göran Friedrich (1666–1719), Colonel ⚭ 1714 Fredrika Helena Lagerström,
  • Karl Gustav (1670–1738) Major General ⚭ Beate Dorotea von Rotermund
  • Axel Ludwig (* 1676) young
  • Maria Eleonore (born September 11, 1678; † 1757)

In Stettin in 1691 he married Eva-Sophia (1644–1707), widow of Franz von Horn, government advisor and castle captain of Stettin and daughter of Enno Freiherr von Innhausen and Knyphausen . Through them he came into the possession of Weissenklempenow . The couple had the following children:

  • Friedrich Johann (1688–1689)
  • Margarete Elisabeth (1689–1737) ⚭ 1706 Rittmeister Joachim Karl von Loppenow

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten : History of the University of Greifswald with documented enclosures. Volume 2. CA Koch, 1856, p. 146
  2. ↑ Dirk Alvermann (Ed.): The University of Greifswald in the educational landscape of the Baltic Sea region. LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, 2006, ISBN 3-8258-0189-6 , p. 79
personal data
SURNAME Mellin, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mellin, Jürgen Graf von; Mellin, Jürgen Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish Field Marshal and Governor General of Bremen, Verden and Swedish Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1633
PLACE OF BIRTH Urpala , Finland
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1713
Place of death Szczecin