Joachim von Brawe

Joachim von Brawe (born August 11, 1663 in Sulzbach , † April 7, 1740 in Hann. Münden ) was a German diplomat and most recently East Frisian envoy to the Reichstag in Regensburg .

Life

Brawe was a son of Magister Justus Brawe from Osnabrück and his wife Margarete Giesbert from the Netherlands. In 1678 he was a secret scribe with the Count Palatine Christian August von Pfalz-Sulzbach , later the Chamber Secretary. In 1685 he was appointed court counselor protocolist, in 1691 court counselor. In 1697 he became the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Privy Councilor and envoy to the Imperial Court in Vienna. In 1708 he was sent to Wetzlar by Landgrave Ernst Ludwig together with the government councilor Ernst von Schwarzenau to settle disputes between the city council and the citizenry . In 1710 he became the envoy of the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel in Regensburg. In 1716 he was East Frisian Privy Councilor. On July 10, 1719 he was appointed to the Braunschweig Privy Council, in 1720 to the Real Privy Council. From 1730 to 1737 he was the diplomatic representative of the East Frisian Princely House and Comitial Envoy to the Reichstag in Regensburg.

In 1739 Joachim von Brawe moved to Hann. Münden, where he died the following year and was buried in the choir of St. Blasii Church (tombstone still present).

Works

• Memorial to the general highly praiseworthy imperial assembly in Regensburg, in the absence of the Hoch-Fürstl. Lübeckische / Von der Hoch-Fürstl. Braunschweig-Wolffenbüttelischen Gesandtschetzt, Pro ulteriori moderatione & remissione residui, with attached Cräyß-Testimonialibus. Regensburg October 30th 1722.

literature

• Georg Brawe: Joachim von Brawe . In: Ostfriesland. Journal of the East Frisian Landscape and the East Frisian Heimatvereine 3/1955, pp. 58–60.
• Lupold von Lehsten: The Hessian Reichstag envoy in the 17th and 18th centuries. Volume 2: Appendix. Lists and biographical-genealogical sheets of the Hessian ambassadors for the Reichstag in the 17th and 18th centuries. Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt 2003. pp. 359–364.
• Michael Hermann: Between debts and affairs. Georg Joachim von Brawe as the East Frisian envoy at the imperial court in Vienna 1721-1733 . In: Sabine Graf u. a. (Ed.): Archives and regional history. Festschrift for Christine van den Heuvel, Göttingen: Wallstein [2018] (Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen; 300), ISBN 978-3-8353-3374-1 , pp. 229–244

Web links

• Brawe, Joachim von. Hessian biography (as of March 1, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 30, 2014 . 
• Mention by name of Johann von Brawes on a memorial plaque for the construction of the St. Laurentius Church in Edenkoben