Johann Georg von Raumer

Johann Georg von Raumer (born May 1, 1671 in Dessau ; † February 5, 1747 there ) was a district president of Anhalt and Prussian envoy .

Grave slab at the Marienkirche in Dessau

Live and act

The son of the Dessau theologian Ephraim Jonathan Raumer (1646–1676) and Johanna Magdalena Milagius (1642–1676), daughter of the diplomat and Princely Anhalt Chancellor Martin Milagius , was orphaned at the age of five. As a result, both his grandfather Georg Raumer and his father's brothers, Theodor Christian Raumer and Friedrich Amadeus Gottlieb von Raumer , took over the education and training, the latter also officially adopting him, even without children. His grandfather himself took care of the admission to the Zerbster high school illustre , where his uncle Theodor Christian Raumer was the rector's office at the time . In 1690, Raumer finally began studying law under Andreas Mylius at the University of Leipzig and graduated in 1694 with Samuel Stryk at the University of Halle an der Saale .

He then went on a longer study trip through northern Germany, the Netherlands, France and England, where he mainly learned the English and French languages ​​and observed and documented the warfare of the Prussian army during the War of the Palatinate Succession . In 1696 he accepted a call as a princely envoy to the court of the incumbent interim regent of Anhalt-Dessau Henriette Catharina von Oranien-Nassau , mother of the future Prince Leopold I , who initially sent him to observe the siege of Namur . Just one year later, Raumer was ambassador of the Princely Anhalt in the delegation for the peace negotiations in Rijswijk . Here, among others, the Brandenburg-Prussian State Minister Paul von Fuchs became aware of him and arranged for Raumer to be accredited as ambassador to both the Swedish and Danish royal houses.

During the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), Raumer accompanied Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau as an advisor on his campaigns in Italy and France for several years. The new King of Prussia Frederick I now availed himself of the services of Raumer, and appointed him his General Secretary and King . Councilor . He sent him on a diplomatic mission to Dresden in 1708 and in 1709 to Prince Eugene of Savoy in Vienna. In 1717 Raumer was promoted to privy councilor and in 1720 he was reappointed as a delegate to the Stockholm peace negotiations . In the same year, after his return as the official successor of his uncle and adoptive father, he was appointed regional president of Dessau, in an office which he had been temporarily managing for a long time and which is why he was offered several lucrative offers as ambassador to royal houses abroad , had waived. In addition, he was appointed President of the Consistory in 1720 and was finally promoted to Privy Councilor in 1728 .

Already on September 15, 1708, Raumer received from Emperor Joseph I the confirmation and renewal of the imperial and hereditary-Austrian nobility, which his adoptive father had previously received in 1693 and which was now transferred to Johann Georg due to his childlessness.

In positive memory of his former training facility, the Francisceum in Zerbst , as well as the family ties to this institution, Raumer bequeathed the family library to this school in 1714 with more than 1000 old volumes of books originally created by his grandfather and Dessau superintendent and consistorial councilor Georg Raumer . His adoptive father Friedrich Amadeus Gottlieb von Raumer did the same a year later and bequeathed his entire library to this institution as well.

Part of Johann Georg von Raumer's estate is now in the Gerlach archive at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

family

Johann Georg von Raumer was married to Albertine Charlotte von Reinhart (1697–1747), daughter of the privy councilor and Chancellor of Bernburg Johann Georg von Reinhart. With her he had three daughters and two sons, with his son Leopold Gustav Dietrich von Raumer (1726–1788), who was also director of the Anhalt government, with Anna Eleonore von Waldow , who was the lady in waiting for the princess and wife of Leopold I. Anna Luise Föhse , was married. Leopold Georg continued the line of the von Raumer family, which continues to this day , of which numerous members repeatedly held outstanding positions, especially in science , politics and military service in Anhalt and Prussia .

The second son Karl Albrecht Friedrich von Raumer became the Prussian lieutenant general and governor of Danzig and was the first of the family to be honored with the Pour le Mérite .

Literature and Sources

• Hermann v. Raumer: The story of the von Raumer family ; (Library of Family History Works Vol. 38 - Degener-Genealogie-Verlag); 1975. VIII u. 264 p., 24 plates with 35 illustrations, ISBN 3-7686-6002-8
• Jakob Christoph Beck, August Johann Buxtorf, Johannes Christ: Supplement to the Basel general historical lexicon , Volume 1, Basel, 1744 Google book

Web links

• ze300574. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 30, Leipzig 1741, column 575.