Johann Fromhold

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Johann Fromhold
Johann Fromhold

Johann Fromhold (born November 12, 1602 in Küstrin ; † July 11, 1653 in Regensburg ) was a German Brandenburg statesman and diplomat .

Life

Born (* November 12, 1602) in Küstrin as the son of the procurator, court judge and mayor Matthias Fromhold and his wife Katharina, the daughter of Walter Schreiner from Oppenheim. Attended school in Küstrin and Landsberg an der Warthe . Studied at the universities of Frankfurt (Oder) (1616), Königsberg (1619), Wittenberg (1621) and Leipzig , where he successfully prepared young students for their exams from 1626 as a Magister and Assesor and in 1631 at the Philosophical Faculty as Dr. jur. PhD. He then became a mentor of the three sons of the electoral secret councilor Georg von Werthern , whom he traveled through France, accompanied by England , the Netherlands and Denmark .

In 1635 he returned to Dresden , entered the Electoral Saxon service and was appointed to the court of the Brandenburg Elector Georg Wilhelm in Berlin . There he was appointed on June 1, 1637 to court, chamber court and war council. In the same year he married Sophia Foppe (1602–1662) and had 4 sons and 5 daughters.

As a recognized personality in the field of the Empire, feudal and canon law he was sent to the imperial court to the Brandenburg falling to Duchy of Pomerania to secure as a fief. For the Electorate of Brandenburg Fromhold worked as envoy at the Peace Congress of Osnabrück from 1646 in Münster, where he was able to achieve territorial concessions for Brandenburg due to his diplomacy. He also took over the representation of the margravates of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and Brandenburg-Ansbach and in this capacity signed the Peace Treaty of Münster for Pomerania-Wolgast and Brandenburg-Ansbach.

Thereupon he was appointed the real secret council in 1648 and chancellor of the Diocese of Halberstadt in 1650 and in 1652 he was sent to the Reichstag in Regensburg as envoy for the electorate of Brandenburg . After overexerting himself in 1652, he died on July 11, 1653 and was buried in the eastern churchyard of today's Protestant Trinity Church, which at that time was still called the Church of the Holy Trinity .

Fromhold's funeral in the churchyard must be seen as a great recognition for the ambassador as a person, but also for the Electorate of Brandenburg. It was the first burial in this churchyard, which was never planned as a cemetery, and where only a few emergency burials took place during the Thirty Years' War and were actually not intended to continue. Other ambassadors later invoked Fromhold's funeral and asked for grave sites for themselves in the churchyard, which is excellent because of its inner-city location next to the newly built church in 1631. After the beginning of the Perpetual Reichstag , the city of Regensburg gave up its resistance to further burials and in the following years the churchyard developed into a burial place for Protestant ambassadors and their family members who died during their service in Regensburg, a total of approx. 110 people List of burial places of ambassadors at the everlasting Reichstag in Regensburg . Today the churchyard is generally referred to as the envoy cemetery , although no Catholic envoys were buried there.

literature

Direct references

  1. ↑ Klaus-Peter Rueß: The ambassador's cemetery at the Dreieinigkeitskirche in Regensburg, its origin and its construction history. State Library Regensburg, Regensburg 2015, pp. 1–20.
personal data
SURNAME Fromhold, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Brandenburg statesman and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1602
PLACE OF BIRTH Küstrin
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1653
Place of death regensburg