Johann Friedrich von Lesgewang

Johann Friedrich von Lesgewang (* July 11, 1681 ; † February 10, 1760 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a royal Prussian state minister, war councilor and member of the secret council of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia .

Life

Johann Friedrich came from the old East Prussian noble family von Lesewang (also Lessgewang). His father Andreas von Lesgewang (1628–1704) was a royal Prussian privy councilor and since 1669 court judge . He became hereditary lord on grounds and Barthen . His mother Maria Lovisa (1661-1730) was born from Mühlheim .

Lesgewang enrolled at the Albertina in Königsberg in September 1696 and went on a cavalier tour in 1700 . In 1706 he received the title of Chamberlain . In 1711 he became governor in Neidenburg and Soldau and from 1715 to 1724 in Ragnit . In 1721 Lesgewang was appointed secret war councilor and commissariat director, and on June 22, 1726, he was appointed real secret budget. As early as February 1723, he took over the War and Domain Chamber in Königsberg as President . In addition, he was simultaneously assigned the office of director of the royal magazines and the tobacco tax committee and, as president, the management of the East Prussian Commerce and Admiralty College and the Higher Appeal Court in Königsberg.

He was now a close confidante of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I. For his services, Lesgewang received the Order of the Black Eagle in July 1739 , the highest distinction of the Kingdom of Prussia. As the heir to the property in Groß Klingbeck near Poplitten , he established the Lesgewang Foundation in Junkergasse in Burg Freiheit in Königsberg . The women's monastery had its own jurisdiction and was exempt from taxes. It was only dissolved in 1968.

In 1746 he gave up the management of the War and Domain Chamber at his own request, but remained a member of the Prussian government. In 1752 he also resigned the presidency of the Königsberg Commerce College. Valentin von Massow was his successor . As one of the few Prussian officers he refused the Russian occupation in 1758, during the Seven Years' War , the homage . Johann Friedrich von Lesgewang died already blind on February 10, 1760 at the age of 78 in Königsberg. His written estate with a maturity from 1725 to 1745, is located in the Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin.

literature

• Hermann Hengst: The Knights of the Black Eagle Order. Verlag Alexander Duncker, Berlin 1901, page 189.
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 5, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1864, pp. 482-483. (Digitized version)
• Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 570 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• Johann Friedrich von Lesgewang in the German biography
• Entry about Lesgewang, Johann Friedrich von (died 1760) in the central database of bequests