Johann Balthasar von Hoffmann
Johann Balthasar von Hoffmann (born March 1, 1639 in Kassel ; † October 29, 1705 in Brake ) was a German lawyer , doctor of both rights, counsel and comfort of Count zur Lippe-Brake .
life and work
Johann Balthasar came from an old Hessian patrician family. His father Hans Jakob Hoffmann was cupbearer to the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel and was appointed burgrave in Marburg. On November 24, 1664 he married the mayor's daughter Clara Elisabeth Matthias in Brakel (Westphalia) (born December 9, 1645 in Bruchsal; † May 24, 1721 in Rheda )
He was about 1675 in Rinteln in the former to Hesse-Kassel belonging county Schaumburg worked as advocate Fisci. He was later appointed by the Count of Lippe-Brake to the Lippischen Rat and Oberamtmann and moved with his family to Brake. On October 2, 1684, he received a confirmation diploma of the nobility of his family with the following coat of arms: in red a man riding a black horse with a yellow coat and black hat. With that he became Comes palatinus caesareus ( Imperial Palatine Count ). In 1697 he bought a house in what is now Bahnhofstrasse in Brake, which he decorated with his and his wife's coat of arms. Since then, the house has also served as the Brak administrative building. Hoffman died in Brake in 1705, his wife died in Rheda in 1721 with her son Wilhelm and was buried in the local Reformed Church. A grave slab with the still recognizable coats of arms of the couple has been preserved in the Braker church.
His marriage to Clara Elisabeth Matthias gave birth to five sons.
- Johann Christoph (born January 16, 1670 in Kassel; † December 4, 1749 in Brake), Countess Lippischer Hofrat and Drost in Brake, father of the later Chancellor Ferdinand Bernhard von Hoffmann .
- Wilhelm von Hoffmann (* 1674 in Rinteln; † August 28, 1743 in Rheda), countical-bentheim-tecklenburg-rheda-scher government councilor, father of the Electoral Mainz privy councilor and personal physician Christoph Ludwig von Hoffmann
- Theodor Ferdinand von Hoffmann (born June 11, 1676 in Rinteln; † December 18, 1743 ibid), Hesse-Kassel commander of the Rinteln fortress
- Bernhard von Hoffmann (born March 28, 1686 in Brake, † October 21, 1745 in Gronau / Westf.), Counts-bentheim-tecklenburg-rhedasch councilor and official of the Gronau rule
- Constantin von Hoffmann, Commissarius at the Count of "Schwarzenau " (Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein )
Literature and web links
- ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the letter aristocratic houses . Third year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1909, pp. 358–359.
- ^ Institute for Personal History (Ed.): Archive for Family History Research - Revue de recherches généalogiques - Review for Genealogical Studies. Volume 7, Issues 1-4, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg an der Lahn 2003, ISSN 0003-9403 , pp. 287f; Hans-Cord Sarnighausen: On the Gelshorn family of lawyers from Herford, Detmold and Lübbecke - well-known Protestants in Westphalia of unknown origin. In: Archives for family history research . Issue 4, 2003.
- ↑ Church book of the Reformed Church Rheda death entry 1721
- ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 4, Leipzig 1863, pp. 410-411.
- ↑ Bahnhofstrasse 19, Colonate No. 103.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Johann Balthasar von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German advocate, advice and drost |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1639 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1705 |
| Place of death | Brake |