Johann Christian von Danckwerth

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Johann Christian von Danckwerth , born as Johann Christian Danckwerth (born January 7, 1718 in Egestorf (Deister) ; † October 26, 1791 in Bremen ) was a German lawyer and senior bailiff and the first of the von Danckwerth dynasty raised to the nobility .

Life

Johann Christian Danckwerth was a son of the Buxtehude magistrate of the same name, Johann Christian Danckwerth the Elder . He first grew up in the small town of Egestorf am Deister and in Engensen near Burgwedel and in Buxtehude . In 1745 he attended the local grammar school for scholars in Hamburg . After briefly studying law, he became the Royal Swedish Intendant in Bremen in 1747 .

A good two decades later, in 1769, Danckwerth took over the duties of the Hanoverian electoral chief magistrate in Bremen. At the same time, he headed the Gogericht in the city of Achim as an official from 1769 .

On July 15, 1776 Danckwerth was raised to the imperial nobility by the German Emperor Joseph II .

A few years before his death, von Danckwerth had been cured of nearly a year of blindness. His grave is in the Bremen Cathedral .

family

Johann Christian von Danckwerth had a daughter named Caroline Louise von Dankwerth, who had been married to Carl Friedrich vom Marschalk since November 25, 1787.

literature

  • Horst von Hassel: Johann Christian von Danckwerth (1718–1791) . In: Wolfgang Bonorden (editor): The graves in the Bremen St. Petri Cathedral: a biographical, genealogical, sociological and heraldic analysis of those buried there; A joint research work by the members and friends of the "Maus", Gesellschaft für Familienforschung eV, Bremen , Volume 1 Bremen: Hauschild, 1995
  • Armin Schöne : Intendant and Oberamtmann Danckwerth and Intendant Dr. Olbert , in this: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Congress of Vienna. European power politics around Langwedel and Bremen (= clerical and secular rule in the Old Kingdom , Volume 2), 1st edition, Bremen: Edition Falkenberg, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-074-5 , p. 360ff; limited preview in Google Book search

Archival material

Archival material by and about Johann Christian von Danckwerth can be found, for example

  • in the Lower Saxony State Archives (location Stade)
    • as will of the chief bailiff and manager Johann Christian von Danckwerth zu Achim or Bremen from the period 1790–1792, archive signature NLA ST Rep. 70 no. 1715 , old archive signature Rep. 71 Stade no. 1715
    • as a will of the widowed Oberamtmännin von Dankwerth, b. Reinbeck, in Verden, archive signature NLA ST Rep. 70 No. 1779 , old archive signature Rep. 71 Stade No. 1779

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e o. V .: Wolfgang Bonorden in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of February 19, 2009, last accessed on July 25, 2019
  2. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): Danckwerth , in ders .: New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 2, p. 417; Digitized via Google books
  3. ^ A b c d Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : von Danckwert (Joh. Christian) , in ders .: Lexicon of all scholars who have lived in Bremen since the Reformation , Volume 1, Schünemann, Bremen 1818, p. 98; Digitized via Google books
  4. ↑ Compare the information in the Arcinsys Lower Saxony Bremen archive information system
  5. ↑ Compare the information at Arcinsys
personal data
SURNAME Danckwerth, Johann Christian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danckwerth, Johann Christian (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Elector of Hanover, lawyer, chief magistrate and royal Swedish director in Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH Egestorf (Deister)
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1791
Place of death Bremen