Johann Friedrich von Wolffersdorff

Johann Friedrich von Wolffersdorff , also Johann Friedrich von Wolfersdorf , (* July 13, 1639 ; † August 18, 1691 in Scherbitz ) was Saxon-Weimar court counselor and chamber director, assessor at the court in Jena , owner of the Hennersdorf and Berga manors, most recently house marshal and Saxon Councilor in the imperial free secular Quedlinburg monastery as well as heir and court lord on Scherbitz .

He came from the Vogtland noble family von Wolffersdorff and was married twice. From both marriages there were two sons who outlived their father.

From 1677 Johann Friedrich von Wolffersdorff was the teacher of the princes of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar and in 1679 accompanied them on a short trip abroad.

On September 4, 1683, he was directly involved in the conclusion of the three-year contract between Duke Wilhelm Ernst and his brother Duke Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar.

In 1684 he was appointed as the successor to Bernhard Pflug on Posterstein as Privy Councilor and Court Master of the Dukes of Saxe-Weimar. On March 26, 1685, however, he resigned from this position. He went to Quedlinburg, where he tried to enforce the rights of the Ernestines at the Quedlinburg Abbey as house marshal and councilor. During this time he acquired the Scherbitz manor in the Electorate of Saxony .

His youngest son was Carl August von Wolffersdorff (1691–1746). Another son, Hans Christoph von Wolffersdorff, acquired the literary manor Grebehna in the Delitzsch office from his aunt Anna Elisabeth Hoffmann, pastor white from Schkeuditz , in 1718 as a princely Saxon-Weißenfels chamberlain for 4,000 thalers .

literature

• Gottfried Albin de Wette, Johann Georg Weber: Historical news from the famous Residentz-Stadt Weimar , 1737, p. 76.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Sebastian Müller: Of the electoral and princely house of Saxony Ernestin and Albertine lines annals. Gleditsch, 1700, p. 549 ( limited preview in the Google book search).