Johann Friedrich von Loeben

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Johann Friedrich von Loeben , baron since 1642 , (born February 27, 1595 in Lagow , † May 16, 1667 in Berlin ) was a Brandenburg statesman .

Life

Origin and family

Johann Friedrich was a member of the Brandenburg line of the noble family of Loeben . His parents were either the Brandenburg Chancellor Johann von Löben (1561-1636) and Margarete, born von Winterfeld (1583-1662), or the heir to Krieschow , Merzdorf and Schönfeld , Friedrich von Loeben (1571-1617) and Margarete, born von Schönaich from the Hasel family († 1628). According to the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility of 1960, the latter were the parents.

He married on March 10, 1620 Anna Maria von Rechenberg (* August 28, 1605, † December 15, 1664), a daughter of the governor of Schweidnitz Caspar von Rechenberg. His brother Adam married their sister Magdalene in 1622. The couple, who were married from 1620, became the first parents of the baronial branch Schönfeld, which went out in 1775, and had 4 sons and 5 daughters, including:

Career

After studying law and political science at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt , the University of Jena and the University of Strasbourg , a subsequent, multi-year grand tour through western Europe, in 1623 he was employed by the Electorate of Saxony . At first he was the chief administrator of Niederlausitz and since 1630 district judge ibid.

Subsequently, Loeben joined his father in 1632 in the service of Elector Georg Wilhelm von Brandenburg (1595-1640). Here, as chief captain, he was first given the authority of the duchy of Crossen with Züllichau . Under the government of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg (1620–1688), he was promoted to legation councilor in 1639 and was first sent to Nuremberg for the electoral collegiate day . In the following years he was given diplomatic missions every year, and he increasingly assumed a leading position among the representatives of Kurbrandenburg, first in Nuremberg, then in Regensburg , then in Copenhagen , and finally in Osnabrück . The diplomatic negotiations between Brandenburg and the imperial court from 1640 to 1661 were also primarily carried out by Loeben. 1642 he received the Brandenburg fiefdom on behalf of the elector and was on this occasion by the emperor in the realm baron conditions applicable , by the elector to Privy Council and member of the Privy Council appointed. In 1644 he received the captaincy over the County of Ruppin and the Land of Bellin . He also took part in the Westphalian peace negotiations. In 1652 he was a commissioner for the election of a new army master at the Sonnenburg Order Castle and was made a Knight of St. John on the occasion . In 1660 he was also equipped with the Johanniterkomturei Lagow. He spent his old age on his country estate . He was hereditary lord on Brodtkowitz , Groß Beste and Klein Beste , Körbiskrug , Krummensee , Pätz and Schenkendorf or on Merzdorf, Schönfeld and Schiedlow , according to the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility from 1960 by Schönfeld, Schmachtenhagen, Schiedlow, Merzdorf, Petersdorf, Schenkendorf "etc. "

His epitaph stayed in the church of Schönfeld for a long time and was later brought to the Märkisches Museum in Berlin.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses , sixth year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1905, p. 460
  2. ^ A b Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 3, Leipzig 1837, p. 287.
  3. ^ Siegfried Isaacsohn :  Loeben, Johann Friedrich Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 39 f.
  4. ↑ a b c d GHdA , Adelige Häuser A , Volume IV, Volume 22 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1960, p. 474 f.
  5. ^ A b Johann Sinapius : Schlesische Curiositäten , Volume 1, p. 117.
  6. ^ Löben, Adolph Maximilian von in the German biography
  7. ^ Karl Friedrich Pauli : Life of great heroes of the present war , Volume 5, p. 181ff.
  8. ^ Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts , volume 18, p. 151 (with other parents).
  9. ^ The art monuments of the province of Brandenburg, Volume 6 Crossen, p. 152.
personal data
SURNAME Loeben, Johann Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loeben, Johann Friedrich Freiherr von (with title)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brandenburg statesman
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1595
PLACE OF BIRTH Lagow
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1667
Place of death Berlin