Johann Georg Reinhard

Johann Georg Reinhard (born March 5, 1606 in Berlin ; † July 6 (?) 1672 in Cölln on the Spree ) was a German lawyer and administrative officer.

Life

Reinhard was the son of the margrave councilor Samuel Reinhard and his wife Eva Behr.

At the same time as attending school, Reinhard was learning Latin and Greek privately . In 1622/23 he studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Wittenberg ; Enrollment for this took place on July 12, 1617. He moved to the University of Frankfurt (Oder) in 1623 and stayed until 1625. Reinhard enjoyed the majority of his lectures privately with Professor Martinus Milagius .

After successfully completing his studies in 1625, Reinhard accompanied the Brandenburg Privy Councilor Levin von dem Knesebeck to Denmark and to the celebrations for the wedding of Margravine Katharina with Gábor Bethlen .

After his return, Reinhard went to the University of Leiden in 1626 and stayed until 1628. In that year he started a long trip to France. From July 26, 1628 he studied at the University of Orléans and worked there as a supervisor in the library of the German nation . After a stay in Paris (April / August 1629) he returned to the University of Leiden. Together with Baron Heinrich von Friesen he studied there from autumn 1629 and spring 1630.

After returning, Reinhard found a job as court master of Joachim Werner von der Schulenburg and Kurt Ludolf von Arnim . He also accompanied Arnim on his two trips. The first led to studies at the universities of Wittenberg (1631), Leipzig (1631/32) and Leiden (1633/35). He then went on a Grand Tour through the Netherlands , England , France and Italy . It returned to Berlin via Paris and Amsterdam in 1638 .

Reinhard's career began on October 18, 1638 when he was sworn in as consistorial councilor. With effect from September 6, 1639 he was promoted to court and chamber judge. As such, he worked in the central administration of the Brandenburg region from 1640.

On March 29, 1647, Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen accepted Reinhard into the Fruit Bringing Society . As a company name he gave him the happy and as a motto in food and drink . Reinhard was given the German hogweed in a landscape as an emblem ( Heracleum sphondylium L. ). Reinhard's entry can be found in the Koethen Society Register under no. 468. This also includes the rhyme law that he wrote on the occasion of his admission:

The German Beerenklu gives you pleasure

So in food and drink: My name is amused

That’s why I’ve been here: No one can be saddened

Whoever loves and fears the Lord is concerned

Happy is his soul in which it remains loved

From God, whom no one can tear out of their hands

The body should then also be popular

When he comes to rest heaven will come.

On September 30, 1653 he was appointed as a councilor to the appellate court in Ravensberg and with effect from October 30, 1658 he was a member of the judicial commission of the Privy Council.

In 1668 Reinhard was unexpectedly dismissed. In the following year he was offered the office of Chancellor of the Magdeburg government. In 1670 he resigned from this office. Reinhard remained at the court of Duke August von Sachsen-Weißenfels , the last head of the Fruitful Society, only the office of a secret council.

At the age of 66, Johann Georg Reinhard died on July 6, 1672 in Cölln on the Spree.

family

On March 26, 1640 Reinhard Eva married Sibylla Striepe , a daughter of the Brandenburg pfennig master Hoyer Striepe . Her daughter Elisabeth Sibille married the Brandenburg Chamber of Commerce Hans Jakob von Cratz († May 20, 1706), parents of Major General Karl Friedrich von Cratz .

literature

• Peter Bahl : The court of the great elector. Studies on the higher officials in Brandenburg-Prussia . Böhlau, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-412-08300-3 , p. 561–562 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical purposes . Volume 1, R 43

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt : Pagus Neletici Et Nudzici , p. 27, digitized family tree from Cratz