Johan Lillieström

Johan Lillieström , also Johann Lilljeströhm , (born March 6, 1597 in Örebro as Johannes Nicodemi Ahus or Ahusen ; † March 5, 1657 in Pomerania ) was a Swedish diplomat , politician and government official. He made particular contributions to the restoration of secular and ecclesiastical order at the end of the Thirty Years War and in the middle of the 17th century in Swedish Pomerania .

Life

Training time

The son of councilor Nicodemus Ahus (1550–1597) and Kristina Jacobsdotter attended school in Örebro and then studied at Uppsala University . In 1614 he went to the University of Wittenberg and meanwhile studied from 1616 to 1617 at the University of Helmstedt . In 1618 he returned to Sweden, where he received a grant from King Gustav II Adolf , supported by Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna , to continue his studies. Johan Ahus initially studied for four years in Helmstedt and Jena and then went to the Netherlands for a year . Then he came to Stockholm for a year , where he worked in the Reich Archives. In 1624 he made a trip to Holland at Oxenstierna's expense , where he attended the University of Leiden to study foreign languages ​​and political science.

Diplomat in the Thirty Years War

In 1626 he went to Prussia as Secretary Oxenstiernas, who entrusted him with a large number of diplomatic missions . In 1630 he took part in negotiations in Danzig , as a result of which the city declared its absolute neutrality. In the same year he was appointed royal secretary. In 1631 he followed Oxenstierna to Frankfurt am Main , where King Gustav Adolf was standing with his army. He was involved in negotiations in the run-up to the later Heilbronner Bund . He was then sent to Lorraine to the French army under de la Force. In 1632 he was present in Warsaw when Władysław IV Wasa was elected King of Poland. In the same year he became general commissioner in Prussia and in 1634 war commissioner of the Swedish army in Silesia . In the following year he took part as Swedish commissioner in the negotiations with Poland-Lithuania , which were concluded with the Armistice Treaty of Stuhmsdorf .

Government official in Pomerania

In 1636 Johan Ahus was raised to the Swedish nobility and from then on he was named Lillieström . He was appointed State Secretary and seconded as an assistant councilor to the government of the Swedish-occupied Pomerania under Governor General Sten Svantesson Bielke . He drafted administrative regulations for Pomerania, which were approved by the Chancellor Oxenstierna in 1640. However, a committee of the Pomeranian estates refused to approve it at a parliament convened in Stettin in November 1640 . Johan Lillieström was unable to take part in the state parliament, as he was captured by the Brandenburgers on a foray in August of the same year and was only released ten months later. Then he had to implement the measures ordered by the Swedish government in Stockholm to restore secular and ecclesiastical order in Pomerania by virtue of the powers conferred on him. This happened from October 1641 to May 1643 in collaboration with Alexander Erskein and under the direction of Johan Axelsson Oxenstierna . Then he had to take over the civil administration alone. He played a decisive role in the reorganization and reorganization of the two Pomeranian court courts , the consistories and the University of Greifswald . He drew up a complete plan for the reorganization of the Pomeranian administration.

In 1648 he was appointed a councilor. The following year he became Vice-President of the Government and Director of the State Chancellery of Swedish Pomerania . Queen Christina appointed him curator of the University of Greifswald in 1650. For four years he negotiated with the Brandenburg negotiators about the border between the Swedish and Brandenburg parts of Pomerania, which was established in 1653 with the Szczecin border recession. In 1655 he was appointed councilor and president of the Swedish-Pomeranian government.

Rating

Johan Lillieström was seen as an astute, skilful and incorruptible politician as well as a promoter of trade and science. Axel Oxenstierna wrote in 1641 in a letter to his son Johan about Lillieström: "Just as I value him as the cleverest and most courageous of all, so he is without a doubt the one you can rely on."

family

After the early death of the father, the mother married Michael Danckwardt, a citizen of Örebro. His half-brother, who later became Lieutenant General, Landshövding and Governor General Claes (Niklas) Danckwardt (1613–1681), who married Maria von Pfuel (1622–1697), came from the marriage. In 1647 he was ennobled under the name Danckwardt-Lillieström.

Johan Ahus married Regina Elisabeth Hagemeister in Hohenselchow in 1632 , the daughter of Johann Hagemeister (1576–1638), councilor of the Pomeranian Duke Bogislaw XIV. , And Margaretha Schwallenberg. Three of her sons later studied at the University of Greifswald. Carl Gustav Lillieström († 1706) was a councilor at the court in Greifswald .

literature

• Unlike Anton von Stiernman, Carl Fredric Rothlieb: Matriculation öfwer Swea rikes ridderskap och adel. Vol. 2, Stockholm 1755, pp. 324-325, pp. XXXVI ( Google books , Swedish).
• Lillieström, Johan . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 62 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
• Lillieström, Johan . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 16 : Lee – Luvua . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1912, Sp. 531 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Clas Theodor Odhner: The politics of Sweden in the Westphalian peace congress and the establishment of the Swedish rule in Germany. BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009, ISBN 978-1-110-25739-3 , pp. 38f. ( Google books )
2. ^ ^{A b} Herbert Langer: The Pomeranian State University of Greifswald and the Swedish imperial interest (1630-1720). In: Peter Wörster (ed.): Universities in Eastern Central Europe: between Church, State and Nation. Social-historical and political developments. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58494-3 , pp. 90f. ( Google books )
3. ↑ Danckwardt-Lillieström, släkt - Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon ( sv ) September 10, 2018. Accessed September 10, 2018.
4. ↑ Danckwardt . In: Bernhard Meijer, Theodor Westrin (ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 5 : Cestius-Degas . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1906, Sp. 1243 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).