Johann Friedrich von Schütz

Coat of arms of those von Schütz for the nobility diploma from 1790

Johann Friedrich von Schütz , until 1790 Johann Friedrich Schütz (* 1740 in Pasewalk ; † May 9, 1798 in Berlin ), was a Prussian chamber clerk. He was last president of the Pomeranian War and Domain Chamber from 1795 until his death .

Life

His father Johann Wilhelm Schütz was mayor of Pasewalk.

From 1762 Schütz studied at the University of Königsberg . In 1763 he entered the Prussian civil service. He was first active in the field of forestry in the Pomeranian War and Domain Chamber, then became a trainee lawyer in 1768 and a war and domain councilor in 1770 .

In 1779, Schütz was appointed director of the Chamber Deputation at Stendal as the successor to Karl Maximilian Ferdinand von Mauschwitz . But already in 1780 he received other orders in Neumark and Pomerania . At the end of 1780 Schütz was promoted to Finance Councilor in the General Management and at the same time appointed to succeed Franz Balthasar Schönberg von Brenkenhoff in the improvement business in Pomerania and Neumark; Alexander Ludwig Neuhauss succeeded him as chamber director in Stendal . Schütz was commissioned by King Friedrich II with several projects, including drafting a plan for the formation of a fire society in Pomerania.

In 1790 Schütz was raised to the nobility as von Schütze, together with his brother, the secret chief finance officer George Carl Gotthilf (1758-1805) . The directors of the West and West Pomeranian estates, Carl von Massow and von Blanckensee, had campaigned for the ennoblement of Friedrich Wilhelm II . The brother was dismissed in 1803, initially without a pension, for violations of duty. His daughter was married to Major General Wilhelm von Schack .

In addition to his previous duties, von Schütz was appointed the new President of the Pomeranian War and Domain Chamber in 1795 after the retirement of Chamber President Carl Wilhelm von Bessel . He was also the administrator of the dominions Schönlanke, Schwedt, Vierraden and Wildenbruch.

After contactor cultivation and colonization around the course was in Madü Lake the place Schützenaue named.

From 1777 he was married to a daughter of the Szczecin War and Domain Council Carl Lebrecht Noething (1717–1797). At his death in 1798 he left a widow and five children.

literature

• 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. 915 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, p. 56.
2. ↑ Rolf Straubel : Nobles and civil officials in the Frederician judicial and financial administration. Selected aspects of a social restructuring process and its background (1740–1806) (=  publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives . Volume 59 ). BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8305-1842-6 , p. 320 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ^ 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. 915 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ↑ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : Neues Prussisches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 1, Leipzig 1836, p. 406.
5. ↑ Baltic Studies New Series, Volume 74, 1988, p. 112.
6. ^ 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. 692 ( limited preview in Google Book search).