Johann Jakob Wolff von Todenwarth

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Johann Jakob Wolff von Todenwarth

Johann Jakob Wolff von Todenwarth (born August 28, 1585 in Speyer , † March 25, 1657 in Regensburg ) was councilor of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt and imperial councilor, syndic and envoy of the imperial city of Regensburg at the imperial court in Vienna and at the Westphalian peace congress in Münster and Osnabrück.

Life

Origin and family

Johann Jakob Wolff von Todenwarth grew up as the son of Leonard Wolff zur Todenwarth (1549–1606, lawyer and procurator at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer) and his first wife Anna Bien (* 1580) together with his brothers Anton (1592–1641, Chancellor in Hesse -Darmstadt) and Christian Marsilius (1595–1641, Imperial Colonel) in the ancient Henneberg-Franconian-Hessian noble family Wolff von Todenwarth . After studying law at the universities of Altdorf , Marburg and Jena , he married Ursula Ayrer, the daughter of the Nuremberg councilor Heinrich Ayrer, in 1607. Out of six children from this marriage, only one daughter survived. Two sons perished in the field in 1634/1639 as imperial officers. After the death of his first wife in 1615 he married Barbara Widmann (1596–1652) and after her death in 1653 he married his sister-in-law Susanne Dorothea Widmann, nee. Schiltl, widow of his brother-in-law. Both marriages have remained childless.

Career and work

In 1612 Johann Jakob became the syndic of the city of Regensburg, where he was also appointed city clerk in 1616, which he held for 30 years until his election to the city council. After the decision to build the Dreieinigkeitskirche had been made by the city council in 1627 , he played a key role in the procurement of funds, referred the architect Johann Carl from Nuremberg and gave the speech for the laying of the foundation stone. He remained in the service of the city of Regensburg for 45 years until his death. From 1628 he was active as Imperial Councilor for the imperial city of Regensburg at the imperial court in Vienna during the Thirty Years' War . In the summer of 1633 he was captured by Swedish soldiers on a trip from Nuremberg to Regensburg near Lauf and imprisoned for several months as an enemy agent in Mainz. He was accused of secretly working on behalf of the emperor against the allied evangelical cities and the crown of Sweden under the pretext of harmless business. Emperor Ferdinand II compensated him for the consequences of his imprisonment with compensation for pain and suffering of 20,000 thalers. In July 1634, on the imperial mandate, he was also decisively involved in the handover negotiations for the city of Regensburg, which had been conquered by the Swedes during the battles for Regensburg and occupied for seven months. After the surrender of the Swedes, however, to the annoyance of the Bavarian elector, the city was not occupied by Bavarian but by imperial troops, as Todenwarth had planned in the spirit of the emperor.

In 1635 he was involved as a representative of Hessen-Darmstadt in the negotiations for the peace treaty in Prague . After that, Todenwarth was also the envoy of Landgrave Georg II of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt and, in 1646, envoy of the imperial city of Regensburg during the negotiations for the Westphalian Peace Congress in Münster and Osnabrück.

After taking part in the first Reichstag after the Thirty Years' War in Regensburg in 1653/1654 as a representative of the city of Regensburg , he was last active as the Hessian envoy at the imperial court in Vienna in November 1655 .

Honors

On March 10, 1623 he was raised to the imperial nobility in Regensburg .

Others

Johann Jakob found his final resting place in the (former) Petersfriedhof (Regensburg) in the grave of his second wife Barbara (1596–1652), whose epitaph is preserved in the Minoritenkirche (Regensburg City Museum).

See also

literature

  • Heinz Duchhardt , Gerd Dethlefs, Hermann Queckenstedt: ... to an everlasting memory. The peace halls in Münster and Osnabrück. Series Osnabrücker Kulturdenkmäler, Vol. 8, Bramsche 1996, ISBN 3-930595-83-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bettina Ulrike Schwick: This stone / should be a witness for posterity . In: Museums and Archives of the City of Regensburg (Ed.): Regensburg studies and sources for cultural history . tape 20 . Universitätsverlag, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86845-077-4 , p. 130-132 .
  2. ↑ Max Neubauer: Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria, the Habsburgs and the imperial city of Regensburg in the struggle for their sovereignty (1594 / 98–1648. Dissertation. Philosophical Faculty III History, Society, Geography) of the University of Regensburg, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Todenwarth, Johann Jakob Wolff from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Envoy from the Imperial City of Regensburg at the Westphalian Peace Congress in Münster and Osnabrück
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1585
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1657
Place of death regensburg