Johann Friedrich Bachoff von Echt (politician)

Johann Friedrich Bachoff von Echt (born February 17, 1643 in Gotha ; † October 27, 1726 there ) was a German lawyer , court official and statesman.

Life

family

Johann Friedrich Bachoff von Echt was the son of Friedrich Bachoffen von Echt (* around 1610 in Gräfentonna ; † 13 March 1656 there), bailiff, and his wife Anna Sabina (* 18 July 1619 in Gotha; † 9 October 1689 there ), a daughter of Dr. med. Johann Volck (1574–1631), city ​​physician and councilor in Gotha, born. His siblings were:

• Anna Blandina (born June 26, 1636; † unknown), married to Andreas Reyher (1601–1673), rector of the Gotha high school ;
• Johannes Christoph (born December 3, 1638 in Gotha; † December 30, 1705 in Ichtershausen), Saxon-Gotha court and judiciary;
• Maria Sabina (December 17, 1640 - October 10, 1729);
• Anna Lisa (born August 23, 1645; † unknown);
• Georg Heinrich (born July 22, 1652 in Gräfentonna; † November 6, 1744); Mayor of Gotha and ducal Saxon council;
• Michael Christoph (* 1654; † June 11, 1693 in Gräfentonna); Consistorial assessor
• Anna Christina (* unknown; † October 23, 1674), married to Ernst Sigmund Bechmann.

Johann Friedrich Bachoff von Echt married Magdalena Sibylle Johanna on March 23, 1678 in Coburg (* February 18, 1660 in Regensburg, † September 7, 1716 in Gotha), daughter of Johann Thomasius , princely Saxon privy councilor and chancellor. They had nine children together:

• Johann Friedrich (born April 9, 1679 in Gotha; † January 3, 1736 in Gotha), Saxon-Gothic Privy Councilor, senior consistorial president, governor of Tenneberg and imperial court councilor;
• Magdalena Sibylle (born January 16, 1682 - † June 11, 1743), married in 1st marriage to Johann Georg von Thünau (* around 1679 - June 26, 1705 in Halle), lieutenant colonel in a dragoon regiment and in 2. Marriage to Wolf Christian von Ziegeler (* August 4, 1656; † 1737), lieutenant colonel of the Elector of Mainz;
• Christiane Dorothea (* February 14, 1684 - March 29, 1715), married to August von Leitzsch (* August 7, 1666 in Heldrungen; † September 21, 1712 in Gotha) princely Saxon war council and colonel in a dragoon regiment, Mr. on Marck-Wippach and Dielsdorf;
• Sophie Elisabeth (born May 23, 1686; † October 30, 1719 in Gotha), married to Heinrich von Westerhagen, heir to Teistungen, Berlingerode and Dietendorf; Commander of the life guards on horseback and colonel of a dragoon regiment in Saxe-Gotha; Lieutenant general;
• Johanna Eleonora (* March 7, 1688; † July 17, 1733 in Gotha), married to August Johann Friedrich von Thumshirn (* January 20, 1674 in Kaufungen; † December 23, 1719), Princely Saxon Privy Chamber and War Council;
• Friederike Louise (April 4, 1690; † August 22, 1753), married to Hans Ludwig von Nauendorff (born November 20, 1668 in Nauendorf; † July 19, 1720 in Altenburg), master of Nauendorf Caasen and Grossenstein, tax collector and chamberlain ;
• Friedrich Gottlieb (born June 16, 1691; † August 19, 1692);
• Christian Adolf (born March 13, 1695 in Gotha; † March 13, 1695 ibid);
• Johann Wilhelm (born June 16, 1695 in Gotha; † April 12, 1758 ibid), chamberlain and government assessor.

When he died, 54 of his descendants were still alive.

Career

Johann Friedrich Bachoff von Echt was initially taught by private tutors and from the age of 10 he attended the Gotha grammar school from 1653 under the rector Andreas Reyher and the vice rector Georg Heß (also Georg Hesse ) (1613–1694).

He began studying law and philosophy at the University of Leipzig at the end of 1660 and attended law lectures by Amadeus Eckolt , Bartholomäus Leonhard von Schwendendörffer , Schrötern, Romanum, Christoph Hartmann Schacher (1633-1690) and Johann Ernst Norici († 1714) as well in philosophy with Johann Siegmund Schwencken, Christian Friedrich Franckenstein , Jakob Thomasius and Joachim Feller .

In 1665 he became the teacher of Prince Frederick I of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg and in 1666 he was appointed government secretary in Gotha.

He accompanied Frederick I on his trip to France and Italy in 1667 . They traveled to France when the country was at war with Spain ( war of devolution ). At Charleroi they received an escort from Marshal Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne , who camped there with his army, to protect the onward journey. On the way they were attacked by Spanish soldiers and their lives were in danger. Her coachman had been shot down from the carriage and the princely valet had been stabbed and he himself and the attending doctor Jacob Waitz had been taken prisoner while Frederick I was able to escape. They were brought to Mons and released after a few weeks of imprisonment so that Frederick I, who was meanwhile in Paris, could join them.

In June 1668 they returned to Gotha. From 1672 on, Johann Friedrich Bachoff von Echt was a member of the government as a councilor and in 1673 he was appointed real councilor , in 1680 privy councilor in Saxony-Gotha and in 1689 as successor to Ernst Ludwig Avemann (1609–1689) appointed chancellor and government director. In 1691 he became co-guardian of the sons of Duke Frederick I; in the same year he became Reichshofrat and Freiherr von Echt. From 1694 he was director of the Secret Council of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg . In 1698 he was appointed secret council director.

In 1683 the imperial nobility was confirmed.

In 1692 he acquired the manor with the water castle Dobitschen and in 1700 the manor in Remstädt and in 1717 Hartmannsdorf with the water castle Hartmannsdorf ; the possessions were united in 1714 to a family entailment. With the purchase of the manor he received the " high jurisdiction over the village, field and corridor of Dobitschen " as well as the higher courts over Pontewitz , Oberkossa and the Altenburg portion of Bethenhausen with Hirschfeld . For parish Dobitschen villages were added, such Ponte joke Rolika , Meucha , Prehna and today deserted Nasselwitz.

At his death he was accompanied by the consistorial councilor Ernst Salomon Cyprian , shortly before he had been visited by the general superintendent Georg Nitsch . The burial took place in the family's hereditary burial in the Gothaer Friedhof Alter Gottesacker ; it was the oldest crypt in the cemetery and the family had been using it for burial since 1595.

His successor as Chancellor was Siegmund Ehrenfried von Oppel .

He made a foundation in the amount of the equivalent of 2540 marks through bequests to the hospital treasury of the Maria Magdalena Hospital in Gotha, and he was one of the first of the aristocracy to set a good example for awakening charity and common sense.

Honors

1691 Johann Friedrich Bachoff got real by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I of the Order de la Générosité .

Also in 1691 he became a Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor.

literature

• August Beck :  Bachoff von Echt, Johann Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 754.
• Johann Friedrich Bachoff von Echt in New Prussian Adelslexicon or genealogical and diplomatic news , Volume 1 A – D, p. 158. Leipzig 1836.
• Johann Friedrich Bachoff von Echt in Christ-laudable honorary memory, Dem Weyland Hoch-Wohlgebohrnen Mr. Johann Friederichsen Freiherr Bachoffen von Echt . Gotha 1726.

Web links

• Johann Friedrich Bachoff von Echt in the digital collection of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg - University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt .
• Johann Friedrich Bachoff from Echt in thueringenwiki.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Der old Gottesacker zu Gotha , Jens Geutebrück, Verlag Coronaretro 2018