Jakob Friedrich von Rohd

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Jakob Friedrich Rohd , von Rohd since 1736 , also von Rohde , (* 1703 in Königsberg ; † May 22, 1784 ibid.) Was a Prussian minister.

Life

Origin and family

The Rohd coat of arms awarded with the nobility diploma

According to the records of Count Ernst Ahasverus Heinrich von Lehndorff, Jakob Friedrich was the son of a beer brewer , which is why the high nobility were indignant when the king later awarded him the high distinction of the title of Oberburggrave in the Kingdom of Prussia . He was also related to the philosopher, high school and university teacher at the Albertus University in Königsberg Johann Jacob Rohde (1690–1727). He was elevated to the Prussian nobility on January 28, 1736 . In 1756 he married Charlotte Wilhelmine von Wallenrodt (1736–1759), who died at the age of 23 three days after giving birth to a son in Wolfenbüttel . She was the daughter of the Prussian Minister of War and High Marshal, Johann Ernst von Wallenrodt and the Concordia Renata born. von Bömeln († 1736), a daughter of Gdansk mayor Gabriel von Bömeln . From the marriage, Charlotte Henriette Sophie von Rohd (1756-1829) was the only daughter. In 1781 she married the Prussian Field Marshal Friedrich Adolf von Kalckreuth (1737-1818).

In 1781, the Prussian budget minister and Oberburgraf von Rohd donated a capital of 6,000 thalers to the Rohdianum , from which the rectors of the academy benefited with 100 thalers annually and the oldest professor of eloquence at 60, as well as a student of philosophy and 100 thalers annually for four years the right one. He also founded the von Rohd'sche Stift in the suburb of Königsberg in 1781 , which started work after his death in 1784: there were four innocently impoverished widows, two noble and two civil classes, a home and 200 Reichstaler cash each year.

Career

Rohd was enrolled at Königsberg University in the summer semester of 1717 , where he probably also made the acquaintance of Johann Christoph Gottsched . In 1727 he was court judge in Königsberg, from the end of 1736 district director and minister in the Lower Rhine-Westphalian district as well as resident in Kurköln . The then 29-year-old King Friedrich II. Had Jakob Friedrich von Rohd hired a thug in 1741, who suppressed the 44-year-old editor of the widespread, Catholic-oriented Gazette de Cologne , which regularly exaggerated Austrian successes and suppressed Prussian victories in the First Silesian War , Jean Ignace Roderique , hit in the street. In his anger, the king even dedicated a humiliating poem in French to him. In 1746 Rohd was promoted to Privy Legation Council and from 1747 to 1753 he was the Prussian ambassador to the Swedish court in Stockholm . On August 13, 1753 he became a real secret council, budget minister and member of the Prussian government. He was also President of the Pupil College and Oberburggraf . He rose to the position of president of the tribunal in 1762 and was envoy to the imperial court in Vienna from 1763 to 1772 . During this time he employed his relative and godson Friedrich Ernst Jester as a secretary in the embassy there. In Rohd's absence from Königsberg he was represented by Fabian Abraham von Braxein in the office of Oberburgrafen, the presidium of the East Prussian Tribunal and the supervision of the Königsberg University, from 1763 to 1768. In addition to the title of secret minister of state, Rohd also had that of minister of war inside.

Rohd was the hereditary lord of the Prussian estates Schrombehnen , Klein Laut and Bögen and Spandienen near Königsberg.

The Prussian diplomat Dodo Heinrich Freiherr zu Innhausen und Knyphausen (1729–1789) began his diplomatic career as a secretary at Rohd during his time in Stockholm. In September 1772, Rohd and General Joachim Friedrich von Stutterheim played an important role in the orderly takeover of Royal Prussia into the Prussian state. His successor as Budget Minister and Oberburggraf was Ernst Friedrich Count Finck von Finckenstein zu Schönberg (1698–1753).

Immanuel Kant was one of Rohd's friends who sometimes ate with him. Later the philosopher wrote part of his late work on the invitation of 1801 to the academic funeral ceremony for the Prussian Minister of State and Oberburggrave von Rohd.

literature

  • Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The royal Prussian and electoral Brandenburg real secret Council of State on its 200-year foundation day January 5, 1805 , Berlin 1805, pp. 433–434, no. 208.
  • Karl Ehregott Andreas Mangelsdorf : Progr. From the charity of the late Preuss. Minister of State and Oberburggrave von Rohd. Koenigsberg 1793

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Joseph von Eichendorff : The restoration of the castle of the German knights in Marienburg , 1844, p. 73.
  2. Wieland Giebel (ed.): Die Tagebücher des Graf Lehndorff , 2007, p. 424.
  3. a b E. A. von Lehndorff: Thirty Years at the Court of Frederick the Great , 1910, p. 405.
  4. ^ Rohde, Johann Jacob in the catalog of the German National Library .
  5. a b Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class increases and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, p. 22 and addendum p. 3.
  6. ^ Rohd, Charlotte Wilhelmine from in the German biography
  7. a b Detlev Schwennicke (Ed.): European Family Tables New Series , Volume XXI Brandenburg and Prussia 2 , Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt / Main 2002, Tfl. 165.
  8. Gabriel Bömeln
  9. Ludwig von Baczko : An attempt at a history of Königsberg , Königsberg 1804, p. 430.
  10. An attempt at a history of Königsberg , p. 497.
  11. a b c d Johann Christoph Gottsched. Correspondence , p. 267.
  12. Rolf Straubel : Nobles and civil servants in the Frederician Justice and Finance Administration , 2010, p. 277.
  13. “A Cologne vivait un fripier de nouvelles, / Singe de l'Aretin, grand faiseur de libelles, / Sa plume ètait vendue es se écrite mordants / Lançaient contre Louis leurs traits impertinents”. Quoted from Ludwig Salomon: History of the German newspaper system. First volume. S. 147 ff., Oldenburg, Leipzig 1906.
  14. ^ A b Genealogical-Diplomatic Yearbook for the Prussian State , Volume 2, Berlin 1843, p. 142.
  15. Johann Samuel Publication : Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , Volume 15, 1838, p. 422.
  16. ^ Diplomatic news from noble families, such as those of Brandenstein, von Braxein, [...] , 1792, p. 51 f.
  17. Gottlob Friedrich Krebel : European Genealogical Hand-Book , 1763, p. 120.
  18. ^ Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexicon der Prussischen Monarchy , Volume 2, Berlin 1854, p. 304.
  19. Immanuel Kant: Briefwechsel , 1986, p. 209.
  20. ^ Johann Rheindorf: Kant's opus postumum , 2010, p. 121.
  21. Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung , Saturday, September 7, 1795, No. 93, Col. 737.
predecessor Office successor
Karl Wilhelm von Finckenstein Prussian envoy to Sweden
1747–1753
Helmuth Burchard von Maltzahn
Joachim Wilhelm von Klinggräff Prussian envoy in Vienna
1763–1772
Georg Ludwig von Edelsheim