Johann Lämmel

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Johann Lämmel , also Johannes Lemmel and similar (born April 18, 1644 in Neukirchen ; † May 26, 1705 in Leipzig ), was a royal-Polish and electoral-Saxon secret council and general war paymaster as well as the manor owner .

Life

He was the son of the maltster Hans Lemmel and his wife Anna nee Neubert, who is the daughter of the gardener on the manor Neukirchen / Erzgeb. was. Johann Lämmel was born on this manor and was christened one day later. His parents gave him school lessons before he was sent to an apprenticeship with a trader in Leipzig in 1656. Through the mediation of his father-in-law, the royal Swedish regimental quartermaster Benedict Thomae, Johann Lämmel probably received a position at the court in Dresden, where he was appointed general war paymaster in 1680. As such he acquired u. a. the manor Kleincarsdorf near Possendorf, which he made the center of his life.

Johann Lämmel took part in the Turkish War in 1683 and took part in the Battle of Kahlenberg near Vienna. He also took part in the Palatinate War of Succession in 1690.

In the period that followed, Johann Lämmel made a significant contribution to enabling the Saxon Elector Augustus the Strong to acquire the Polish royal crown. For this he was in high regard at the Dresden and Warsaw courts.

In 1703 the King-Elector August the Strong gave him the order to build a rifle factory in the city of Olbernhau in the Ore Mountains at state expense, similar to the ones in Suhl . To this end, Lämmel recruited specialists from abroad, in particular pipe smiths and gunsmiths, and also got involved personally in the flourishing arms business, which also generated profits for him. However, he could only enjoy it briefly. He died while visiting the Leipzig spring fair in 1705.

literature

  • Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexicon , Bremen 1813, p. 1761.
  • Hans-Dietrich Lemmel: Johann Lämmel (1644–1705) - Saxon war paymaster. In: Journal for Central German Family History 58 (2017), Issue 4, pp. 178–191.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogical data
personal data
SURNAME Lammel, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lemmel, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor and General War Paymaster and manor owner
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1644
PLACE OF BIRTH Neukirchen
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1705
Place of death Leipzig