Johann Konrad Varnbuler
Johann Konrad Varnbüler (born November 25, 1595 in Stuttgart , † April 10, 1657 in Stuttgart) was a Württemberg politician and diplomat .
Varnbuler is the son of the civil servant Hans Ulrich Varnbuler (1551-1630) and his wife Agnes von Königsbach. He is a grandson of the Tübingen lawyer and diplomat Nikolaus Varnbüler .
Konrad Varnbüler enrolled at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in 1609 and initially studied the “ Seven Liberal Arts ”, with which he obtained a master’s degree . Subsequently, from 1613 to 1617, he studied law and initially became a lawyer at the Reichshofrat zu Vienna, one of the two highest courts in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation .
During the Thirty Years' War , Varnbühler returned to Stuttgart in 1624 and in 1632 entered the service of Duke Julius Friedrich, Duke of Württemberg, as a diplomat . His successor Eberhard III. sent him from 1633 to 1634 as a member of the Consilium formatum in Frankfurt am Main. There he won the trust of the Swedish Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna . As envoy to the negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 in Münster and Osnabrück , he succeeded, with the support of the Swedes, in restoring Württemberg to its pre-war borders. Johann Konrad Varnbüler was then by Eberhard III. enfeoffed with the manor of Hemmingen and called himself " Freiherr von und zu Hemmingen". In the Friedenssaal of the town hall in Osnabrück there is also a portrait of Varnbülers in the gallery of the 42 envoys ( "H. Iohann Conrad Varenbühler, Fürstl. Württemberg. Abgesandt." ). In 1652 he was accepted into the Association of Imperial Knights .
During his stay in Vienna, Varnbüler married Anna Buchner von Buchberg in 1624, who died in childbed with the newborn in 1627. In 1628 he got a second marriage with Susanna Beck, a Nuremberg merchant's daughter. From this marriage there were six sons and four daughters.
literature
- Friedrich Wintterlin : Varnbuler, Johann Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 496-498.
- Andreas Neuburger: Confessional conflict and end of war in the Swabian Empire . Württemberg and the Catholic imperial estates in the south-west from the Peace of Prague to the Peace of Westphalia (1635–1651). Kohlhammer. Stuttgart 2011.
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| SURNAME | Varnbuler, Johann Konrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Freiherr von und zu Hemmingen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Württemberg politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1595 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1657 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |