Joachim Friedrich von Moltke

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Joachim Friedrich von Moltke (born November 15, 1618 in Toitenwinkel , † September 1, 1677 ) was a German lawyer and landowner.

Life

Joachim Friedrich von Moltke was the son of Gebhard von Moltke auf Toitenwinkel and his second wife Anna Rotermund ad H. Engelswacht and was born on November 15, 1618 on his father's estate Toitenwinkel.

Initially taught by private tutors, he began his studies at the University of Rostock in 1637 and continued in 1638 in Marburg , Rinteln and Leiden as well as other Dutch cities. In 1640 von Moltke returned to his home town of Rostock at the request of his father and is recorded there as a respondent in 1642 . Since his mother died in 1641 and his father in 1644, on the other hand the Toitenwinkel estate had fallen into strange hands due to the chaos of war, he had no choice but to break off his studies and secure a paid job in the military. From then on he served the Swedish crown as captain.

Duke Gustav Adolph von Mecklenburg-Güstrow appointed him in 1660 to the Mecklenburg Council and at the same time as governor of Ribnitz , whose position he held for 17 years to the satisfaction. Joachim Friedrich von Moltke was still a canon of the cathedral monastery in Magdeburg and the last heir from the Moltke family to Toitenwinkel and Wesselsdorf.

In the last years of his life he was often ailing, plagued himself with severe scurvy and podagra and died after a long period of suffering on September 1, 1677 at the age of 59. Joachim Friedrich von Moltke was buried in the former grave chapel of the Toitenwinkel village church .

Crucifixion epitaph Moltke in the Toitenwinkel village church

In 1896 Friedrich Schlie reported on a preserved memorial plaque in this church with an inscription and his coat of arms.

At the fortress Laholm he married Maria, geb. from Sperling . The two daughters Anna Catharina and Magdalena Margaretha died in childhood. They were married for 25 years until his wife died on June 13, 1667. When the household became too burdensome for him after the death of his first wife, he married Dorothea von Meding on June 26, 1670 , the daughter of the Princely Braunschweigisch-Lüneburg master stable master and heir to Barum , Christoph von Meding. She married Gebhard Julius von Mandelsloh (1634–1692) in her second marriage , who thereby became master of Toitenwinkel and bequeathed it to his descendants.

Web links

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6740 .
  • Claus Heinrich Bill: Mecklenburg nobility in the early modern period 1550 to 1750 (= series of publications by the Institute of German Aristocracy Research. Volume 15). Institute for Prussian Historiography, Sonderburg 1999.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Claus Heinrich Bill: Joachim Friedrich v. Moltke . 1997, p. 128.
  3. ^ Karl Koppmann : The coffins in the former grave chapel at Toitenwinkel. In: Contributions to the history of the city of Rostock . Volume 2, Hinstorff, Rostock 1897, pp. 101-105 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Friedrich Schlie : Art and History Monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 1: The district court districts of Rostock, Ribnitz, Sülze-Marlow, Ticino, Laage, Gnoien, Dargun, Neukalen . Schwerin 1896, p. 336.
  5. ^ Claus Heinrich Bill: Joachim Friedrich v. Moltke. 1997, p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Moltke, Joachim Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1618
PLACE OF BIRTH Toitenwinkel
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1677