Jacob Steinmann

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Jacob Steinmann (born August 30, 1599 in Rostock , † August 4, 1658 in Hamburg ) was a German administrative officer.

Live and act

Jacob Steinmann came from the upper class of Rostock. His father of the same name, who died in 1614, was a Rostock councilor and married to Margaretha, née Prenger. After taking lessons from a tutor, he studied law and politics in Leipzig and then Strasbourg from around 1615, according to his commemorative speech . His name cannot be found in the registers of the two universities. From Strasbourg he went to the Netherlands and apparently lived there for several years. In August 1618 and again in July 1620 he enrolled at the University of Leiden . In the meantime he probably traveled extensively to France or England.

In August 1621 Steinmann registered in Groningen. Supposedly he also studied in Franeker . In 1622 he received a position as court master with a royal bailiff in Holstein, who must have acted Detlev Rantzau auf Panker and Klamp (1577–1639). In the summer of 1624 he accompanied Rantzau's stepson Heinrich to Leipzig while he was studying. After Heinrich Rantzau's death in early January 1625 due to smallpox, he taught Franz Rantzau (1606–1677) in Salzau . Both spent the winter semester of 1624 in Leipzig and went to Strasbourg for the summer semester of 1625. They then traveled to France and returned to their homeland at the end of 1626.

Steinmann then lived in Emden and received, probably recommended by Detlev Rantzau, a call from King Christian IV , for which he initially took on diplomatic tasks. Christian IV appointed him on February 5, 1631 as clerk of the Steinburg office. The administration was in Steinburg until 1639, then in Glückstadt. Most of the tasks in administration and justice he assumed alone, alongside other activities in the military and politics. Steinmann had a prominent position among the officials of the duchies, which is shown in the fact that King Friedrich III. In 1648 he was appointed administrator and a little later on the council of the new Glückstadt law firm. Based on these promotions, it can be assumed that the king perceived his work positively. The population criticized him, however, including for an increase in the rents on the lands that belonged to the king.

Foundations show Steinmann as a rich and pious personality. In 1646 he donated an altar and bells to the church of Borsfleth, which was destroyed in the war . In 1649 he and his wife founded a foundation with starting capital of 1,600 marks, the interest income from which was intended for theology students from the family and from the Elbmarschen. The foundation existed until the 20th century. In 1650 he bought an aristocratic estate in Itzehoe , where he probably lived afterwards. At the beginning of the 17th century, the house was part of the Bahrenfeldt estate, which Steinmann received as a result of a pledge or loan. He had a crypt installed in the associated church of Neuenkirche. Due to the Danish-Swedish War , he had to leave the destroyed town house in Itzehoe in 1657. He moved to Hamburg, where he died the following year. He was then buried in Neuenkirchen.

family

Steinmann's first marriage was a daughter of the theologian Simon Pauli and his wife Catharina, née Prenger. In his second marriage he married Cäcilia Burchard on June 4, 1627 (buried on July 12, 1765 in Itzehoe), whose father Johann Burchard was a citizen of Krempe .

Steinmann had a total of ten children. The son Johannes (buried on October 9, 1685 in Itzehoe) became a lawyer. In 1659 he succeeded his father as administrator and held the office until 1662. In 1667 he was made a Danish resident in Lübeck, in 1684 he was appointed royal councilor and country archivist.

The daughter Margaretha married Georg Reiche for the first time .

literature

  • Dieter Lohmeier: Steinmann, Jacob . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , pages 348-350.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Steinmann, Jacob . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , page 348.
  2. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Steinmann, Jacob . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , pages 348-349.
  3. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Steinmann, Jacob . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , page 349.
  4. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Steinmann, Jacob . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , page 349.
  5. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Steinmann, Jacob . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , page 348.
  6. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Steinmann, Jacob . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , page 348.
  7. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Steinmann, Jacob . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , page 348.
personal data
SURNAME Steinmann, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1599
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1658
Place of death Hamburg