Johann Christian Motz

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Johann Christian Motz (born March 11, 1604 Witzenhausen ; † February 3, 1683 Kassel ) was a Hessian war council and colonel .

Life

family

Johann Christian allegedly came from an originally Hanau Burgmann family . The progenitor is said to be the castle man Heinrich Motz, who was enfeoffed to Hanau in 1354. The documented trunk row begins with the Witzenhausen master cooper and wine merchant Henne Motz (around 1441–1493). The grandfather Hans Motz (1518–1593), Hesse-Kassel official schultheiß, was enfeoffed in and around Witzenhausen and the last tenant of Ludwigstein Castle there . Johann Christian's father Johann Motz (1565–1611) was the mayor of Witzenhausen. His mother, Elisabeth Gudenus , was the daughter of the court secretary in Kassel, Christian Gudenus.

His first marriage was to Margaretha Weigand (1616–1652), daughter of the Kassel lawyer Bartholomäus Weigand. Widowed, he entered into a second marriage with Elisabeth Hombergk zu Vach (1631–1674), a daughter of the Hesse-Kassel Ober-Salzgrafen Philipp Hombergk zu Vach. At least the following children have resulted from both marriages:

  • Johann David Motz († 1702), secretary and war secretary in Kassel and later government councilor in Marburg
  • Catharine Elisabeth Motz, ∞I Nikolaus Wetzel, Oberschultheiß in Kassel; II Henrich Duysing (1656–1661), professor in Marburg
  • Johann Philipp Motz, doctor of medicine
  • Christoph Ludwig Motz (1665–1742), commander of the regiment Prince Philipp on foot and later commander of the imperial city of Bremen
  • Margarethe Motz († 1705), ∞ Nikolaus Wilhelm Goddaeus (1646–1719), privy councilor and chancellor

The Bremen Senator Heinrich Christian Motz (1761–1832) was his great-grandson, the Prussian Finance Minister Friedrich von Motz (1775–1830) and the Electorate of Hesse Minister Gerhard Heinrich von Motz (1776–1868) were his great-great-grandchildren.

Career

Motz attended the University of Marburg until 1620 in order to decide for the soldier profession that year. He entered the Venetian service where he took part in the War of the Mantuan Succession and advanced from a simple musketeer to a lieutenant captain . In 1631 he returned to Hessen-Kassel, was promoted to captain and received a company of the White Regiment. In 1633 he rose to the rank of sergeant major and in 1634 lieutenant colonel . Motz had been in command of the Black Regiment since 1646 or 1647 , which is equivalent to being promoted to colonel. At the same time he held the high command in East Friesland and was commandant in Neuss until 1651 . In the same year he said goodbye to return to Kassel again.

With his appointment as Oberamtmann an der Diemel , which he had occupied from 1662 to 1666, he was entrusted with various special tasks. So also with the reform of the Hessian companies, which made him a council of war at the same time. Finally Motz was appointed in 1666 by Regent Hedwig Sophie to command the residence and fortress of Kassel. In this position Motz ended his life. He was buried in the cemetery near the collegiate church of St. Martin on February 15, 1683.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 6, Leipzig 1865, pp. 369-370.
  2. ^ GHdA , Adelslexikon Volume IX, Limburg an der Lahn 1998, p. 209
  3. ↑ Dieter Krieger, Hessisches Wappenbuch: Familienwappen , Volume 1, Limburg an der Lahn 1999, p. 100 f.
  4. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund , Lexicon of all scholars who have lived in Bremen since the Reformation , Volume 2, Bremen 1818, p. 50
personal data
SURNAME Motz, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hessian war council and colonel
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1604
PLACE OF BIRTH Witzenhausen
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1683
Place of death kassel