Joachim von Rantzau

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Joachim von Rantzau (born February 10, 1627 on Gut Salzau (today part of Fargau-Pratjau ); † February 11, 1701 in Lübeck ) was a German cathedral dean.

Life

Joachim von Rantzau came from the Holstein nobility family ( Equites Originarii ) Rantzau . He was a son of Daniel von Rantzau, who died young, (1600–1630) in Salzau and his wife Catharina (1603–) and heir to Johannsdorf (Johannisdorf near Oldenburg in Holstein ?) And Neustädter Hof.

As early as 1638 he received the possession of a prebender in the Lübeck cathedral chapter , which has been predominantly Lutheran since the Reformation , which Ludolf von Dassel had renounced in his favor. In June 1643 he enrolled at the University of Rostock .

In the election of the cathedral dean by the chapter on April 2, 1668, there was a tie for Joachim von Rantzau and Johannes von Warendorf . The Prince-Bishop August Friedrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf decided the stalemate in favor of Joachim von Rantzau.

He was a Gottorfischer Privy Councilor and bailiff of the prince-bishop's office in Kaltenhof . His name was found on two bells cast in the parish church of the Kapitelsdörfer St. Georg in Genin (Lübeck) during his tenure as dean of the cathedral , but they were cast in 1757. When he wanted to fill the pastor's position in Hamberge with a theology student who was supposed to marry Rantzau's maid, there was a dispute with the prince-bishop's superintendent Johann Wilhelm Petersen . Rantzau combined in his person the official and Scholasticus chapter offices . When in 1699 the provost George Radow died, gave him the chapter also this office - an accumulation of offices that was made rückgänging again after his death.

In the year-long conflict in the chapter about the appointment of a coadjutor with the right of succession for Prince-Bishop August Friedrich, which reflected the conflict between Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , Rantzau developed into the "mainstay of the Danish party", which was in favor of King Christians V. son Carl (born October 26, 1680; † August 8, 1729), a younger brother of the Danish King Frederick IV . This conflict remained unresolved until his death. His successor as dean of the cathedral was Dietrich Wilhelm von Witzendorff ; Johann Ludwig von Pincier succeeded him as provost . Both pursued a policy of demarcation from Denmark.

Joachim von Rantzau was married to Clara, b. from Ahlefeldt .

literature

  • Wolfgang Prange : Directory of the canons. In: Ders .: Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, principality and part of the country 1160-1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 394 No. 260

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Theodor Hach : Lübeck bell customer. (= Publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck 2), Schmidt, Lübeck 1913, p. 96f
  3. ^ Markus Matthias: Johann Wilhelm and Johanna Eleonora Petersen: A biography up to Petersen's impeachment in 1692 (= work on the history of Pietism. Vol. 30). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-55814-7 , p. 134f
  4. ^ Johann Hermann Schnobel (ed.): Jacob von Melles Thorough Message from the Kayserlichen, Freyen and the H. Römis. Imperial City of Lübeck 3rd edition 1787, p. 153
  5. ↑ Peter von Kobbe : Schleswig-Holstein history from the death of Duke Christian Albrecht to the death of King Christian VII (1694 to 1808). Altona: Hammerich 1834, p. 42
personal data
SURNAME Rantzau, Joachim von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cathedral dean
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1627
PLACE OF BIRTH on Gut Salzau (today part of Fargau-Pratjau )
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1701
Place of death Lübeck