Johann Kleinschmidt (Chancellor)

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Johann Kleinschmidt (* 1536 in Kassel ; † July 25, 1587 in Darmstadt ), also: Johannes Kleinschmidt , was Chancellor of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt from 1575 until his death .

Personal relationships

origin

The parents of Johann Kleinschmidt had had a same name "Johann Kleinschmidt" from Homberg (Efze) , which at the University of Marburg had studied 1569/70 alderman and councilor and 1567-1577 Treasurer of the City of Kassel was. He died in Kassel on October 23, 1580. He was married to Elisabeth Weitzel (* 1514).

family

Johann Kleinschmidt married the widowed Catharina, née Klüppel, from Korbach or Höxter on May 11, 1568 in Kassel, who had previously been married to the bailiff Henrich Weiters from Helmarshausen and died on November 5, 1590 in Darmstadt. The marriage produced three sons and two daughters, including

  • another Johann Kleinschmidt (1569–1611), who was also a lawyer, office procurator and later mayor of Kassel.
  • Heinrich Kleinschmidt (February 22, 1571 in Kassel; † June 17, 1648 in Marburg), where he was court judge.
  • Johann Philipp (1577–1634), Privy Councilor and Court Judge in Darmstadt.
  • Marie Catharine, married to Dr. jur. Philipp Lulejus († 1632), syndic and mayor in Oppenheim .

Career

Johann Kleinschmidt attended the “Municipal School for Academics” in Kassel and then in 1553 initially switched to the State University in Marburg. Next he studied with a scholarship of Philip the Magnanimous in Italy and got at the University of Basel the Doctor of Laws conferred. In 1566 he returned to Kassel, where he became the law firm's procurator.

On May 1, 1567, he was appointed by Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel to his council. In 1571 he went to the county of Bentheim as Chancellor at the request of Anna von Tecklenburg-Schwerin , with whom the Landgrave was related through his grandmother . He then moved back to Hesse in 1574, where he became Chancellor of Landgrave Georg I and the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt. George I commissioned him to collect the law that was used in the Landgraviate. The project was believed to have been completed in 1569. This legal collection was initially not published because the four ruling Hessian landgraves tried to agree on a common legal system for all four parts of the country. However, the project failed. So in 1589 Georg I took Kleinschmidt's design out of the drawer. The court in Marburg had reservations and delayed the matter, but from 1591 the collection compiled by Johannes Kleinschmidt was applied as the land law of the Upper County of Katzenelnbogen . It remained in force until January 1, 1900, when the Civil Code , which was uniformly applicable throughout the German Empire, came into force.

Johann Kleinschmidt was a member of the legation of the Hessian landgraves to the Reichstag in Augsburg in 1566 and in the following year he represented the Hessian territories there together with Jacob Lersner . At the Reichstag in Regensburg in 1576, Johann Kleinschmidt represented all four of the then existing Hessian landgravates together.

death

Johann Kleinschmidt was buried in the city ​​church in Darmstadt .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Lupold von Lehsten: Kleinschmidt, Johannes . In: LAGIS ; accessed on March 17, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Löhr: Kleinschmidt .
  3. ↑ LAGIS; Löhr: Kleinschmidt .
  4. ↑ Schmidt, p. 68.
personal data
SURNAME Kleinschmidt, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleinschmidt, Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chancellor of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt
DATE OF BIRTH 1536
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1587
Place of death Darmstadt