Johann Georg von Ribbeck the Younger

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(II.) Johann Georg von Ribbeck (also: Johann Georg von Ribbeck, the Younger , * 24. December 1601 ; † 3. August 1666 in Spandau ) was kurbrandenburgischer Chamberlain , chief captain and commander of the Spandau Citadel and Amtshauptmann of Potsdam and Saarmund . He was also a knight of the Order of St. John , Commander of Werben and heir to Glinicke , Seegefelde, Dalgow and Niendorf.

origin

His parents were the privy councilor Johann Georg (I) von Ribbeck (* December 10, 1577 - January 27, 1647) and his wife Katharina von Brösigke (* May 2, 1581; † March 11, 1650). His father was the heir to Glinicke, Seegefelde and Dalgow. The Colonel Henry (Heine) von Ribbeck was his brother.

Life

His father sent him with his brother to Berlin, where he spent the next three years with the mayor of Strasbourg, where he was also taught law by a student. In 1614 he came to the University of Frankfurt an der Oder , in 1615 he moved to Leipzig, but was back home in 1616. Then he came to the high school in Cologne on the Rhine. He stayed there for three years and then went to the Netherlands. In 1619 he was back in Prussia and became an ensign in the regiment of Colonel Dietrich von Kracht , which was established that year on behalf of Elector Johann Sigismund . After a few months he was promoted to lieutenant. In 1621 his later brother-in-law Adam Georg Gans Edler von Putlitz (1590–1660) set up a company of 300 men with which he moved to the Netherlands. With the regiment he now took part in the siege of Bergen op Zoom. In 1622 he came to East Friesland with Count Ernst von Mansfeld . The behavior of the troops in the country alienated him and he went back to Brandenburg in 1623. Colonel Sigmund von Platen offered him a Swedish company there, but he refused because the Elector asked him to recruit his own company. Because of the Polish unrest he was transferred to Krossen with this company, where he stayed for the next 9 months. Then the company was released.

In 1624 he went back to the Netherlands and now took part in the siege of Breda . In 1625 he was back in Brandenburg and became governor of the Brandenburg Guard and appointed General-Muster-Herren by the estates there. On the orders of the Elector, he and Count Adam von Schwarzenberg accompanied Katharina von Brandenburg - the Elector's sister - to her wedding with Prince Bethlen Gabor . In 1626 he recruited a company and was sent with Lieutenant Colonel Konrad von Burgsdorff to the defense of Prussia, where he stayed for three years. Because then the peace between Poland and Sweden was restored. The Swedish Colonel Johann von Vitzthum offered him the position of a Swedish Oberistwachtmeistes, which the elector refused and instead took him into his entourage as a chamberlain. He accompanied him to Leipzig on the Prince's Day in 1630. There it was decided to recruit an army of 10,000 men, which prompted Ribbeck to go back into military service. He came to the Alt-Burgsdorf regiment as Oberistwachtmeister, but the Saxon General von Arnim asked the Elector to put Ribbeck in his service. Ribbeck went into service in Saxony and recruited a company of 200 men within six weeks. He was then given command of a company in the regiment of Colonel Johann Friedrich von Kötteritz. He fought in the Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) , where he was seriously wounded and was taken prisoner, from which his brother-in-law, Colonel Melchior von Dargitz, freed him . He had been untreated for three days and suffered from red dysentery when he was brought to Zittau, where a skilled doctor could treat him.

In 1632 he went to the Swedish Army and came as a lieutenant colonel in the regiment of Colonel Hans Wolf von der Heyden . He left the regiment because of disputes in 1633 and returned to Brandenburg. In 1634 the elector Georg Wilhelm wanted to make him the successor of the colonel Johann Streiff von Lauenstein , which Ribbeck refused and withdrew to his estate (Nieder) Neuendorf. In 1641 the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm brought back and gave him the regiment to Colonel Moritz August von Rochow , and he was appointed in command of the Spandau Fortress. After the death of his father, he was also given the post of captain. In 1649 he received the Golden Chain of the Chamberlains, in 1655 he received the inspection of the Saarmund office and in 1660 also the Hauptmannschaft of Potsdam. At the same time he served as a diplomat, because the elector repeatedly sent him to the court of Electoral Saxony. On September 15, 1661, he was accepted into the order by the Lord Master of the Johanniter Order, Prince Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen , and on August 16, 1662, the Chancellor of Sonnenburg appointed him Commander of Werben. He died on August 3, 1666 in Spandau and was buried in the local church of St. Nicolaikirche. His epitaph can be found in the church of Groß Glienicke.

family

He married Anna Maria von der Gröben (* July 25, 1616, † December 31, 1674) in Lichterfelde in 1633, Otto von der Gröben's only daughter. The couple had three daughters and one son:

  • Anna Katharina (April 15, 1634; † 1664)
⚭ Johann Sigismund von Loeben (1604–1654), son of the Chancellor Johann von Loeben (1561–1636)
⚭ 1663 Isaak du Plessis-Gouret
  • Hans Georg (III.) (February 28, 1637 - December 5, 1703), landscape director
⚭ 1670 Margarete Gottliebe von Pfuel (1652–1672), daughter of General Georg Adam von Pfuel
⚭ 1683 Katharina Brandt von Lindau (14 November 1656 - 16 May 1710), widow of Ludwig von Görne
  • Hedwig Sophie (1636–1661) ⚭ Georg Werner von der Schulenburg († April 22, 1677)
  • Marie Elisabeth († July 21, 1680) ⚭ Joachim von Graevenitz (* 1637; † 1667)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geneagraphy.
  2. ↑ At König: Kurt von Burgsdorf .
  3. ↑ Epitaph.
  4. ↑ Samuel Lenz : S. Lentzens Diplomatic pen history of Brandenburg , S. 106th
  5. ^ Bernhard Schmidt: "The only thing that arouses interest is the altarpiece": the Ribbeck Altar in the Patronage Church of Groß Glienicke and its restoration , p. 11.
  6. ↑ Fig
  7. ^ Johann Friedrich Danneil : The sex of the von der Schulenburg , Volume 2, p. 255.
  8. ^ Yearbook of the German Nobility , Volume 1, 1896, p. 706.
personal data
SURNAME Ribbeck, Johann Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ribbeck, Hans Georg II. Von; Ribbeck, Hans Georg von; Ribbeck, Johann Georg von the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurbrandenburg Chamberlain, Supreme Captain and Commander of the Spandau Fortress
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1601
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1666
Place of death Spandau