Johann Philipp Winheim jun.

Johann Philipp Winheim (* around 1685 ; † May 3, 1741 in Thurnau ) was the Princely Saxon postmaster .

Life

Johann Philipp Winheim (junior) grew up as the son of the Brandenburg-Bayreuth war commissioner Johann Philipp Winheim senior. and his wife Rosina Böschl mostly in Kulmbach and Coburg . There is no exact record of his date of birth; Due to the frequent changes of residence of the parents, his place of birth is unknown and can only be assumed in the area between the place of birth of his mother, Lichtenstein in Saxony and the later places of residence Kulmbach and Coburg. He first appeared in 1693 as a pupil at the Kulmbach high school. At the beginning of 1707 he enrolled at the University of Erfurt , where he was already listed at the University of Gießen on October 26, 1707 . One reason for moving to Giessen is likely to have been his cousins, the sons of his uncle Johann Albert Winheim (1654–1735) from Lich , who were also enrolled in Giessen.

When his father was unable to complete his postal service due to age and health reasons - he suffered from gout - a new lease was created on February 8, 1717 and Winheim was appointed as the new Princely Saxon postmaster. The decisive factor for this was probably the impeccable fulfillment of duties by Winheim senior and the collaboration with his son that had already started. Joseph Christoph Sinlau from Coburg, however, complained bitterly about this, as he ran the local post office without hesitation for 12 years and still never got a chance.

In December 1719 there were rank disputes between Winheim and the government registrar Merckert during a funeral procession. According to the lease agreement, Winheim was subject to a limited right of immediate communication, which is why he got the right before the princely Saxon government: he was allowed to take part in the funeral procession after the government secretaries and in front of the registrar Merckert . At the same time there was also a complaint from Johann Philipp Winheim, who was given the addition "junior" by the government in order to better distinguish him from his father. In his intervention going, and he "but not a boy, but my 35 ^stes angetretten year, no longer dwelt a bübisches Fractament to leyden" was, it was forced by the government to waive the addition.

Winheim did his job for the next two years without any major incidents, but in early 1721 his financial problems came more and more to the fore. This year, for the first time, a mail item to Frankfurt am Main disappeared . During the controls used, grievances were encountered that Winheim was unable to completely clear up. He was therefore arrested in December 1721 and taken to the Veste Coburg . The subsequent investigations by a ducal commission and the admissions of Winheim brought to light that the financial burdens of the lease signed in 1717 inevitably led to excessive demands. At that time, his debts to the ducal chamber already amounted to an impressive 1,551 Reichstaler. In the following years, the appointed commission tried to clear up all the grievances. Meanwhile Winheim was under house arrest at the fortress, but he was able to make himself useful with all kinds of repairs to the fortress and so hoped for continued employment at the court. By 1724, several petitions and requests for clemency were received from Winheim, his father and father-in-law, as well as a legal report specially commissioned from the University of Altdorf for this purpose by Duke Johann Ernst . However, all of this could no longer prevent his expulsion from Saxony-Coburg with recognition of debts of 2,859 Reichstaler. His successor as postmaster in Coburg in 1725 was Johann Friedrich Mayer (* 1702), a son of the Limmersdorf pastor Lorenz Adam Mayer (1677–1743) and his sister Katharina Helena Winheim (1680–1758).

After his expulsion from Coburg and detours via Seidmannsdorf and Bayreuth , he finally entered the service of the Counts of Giech in Thurnau as a commissioner and lieutenant “with the Granadier-Schloß-Wache and the Land Committee” . In 1727 he intended to publish a book on fireworks and a journal on “all kinds of mathematical, mechanical and economic reading”. It seems that it never came to pressure; at least there is no more news about this. In Thurnau there was no further negligence towards his employer, as he worked there as a respected commissioner for 14 years until his death.

His marriage in Coburg in 1711 to Dorothea Christina Wölffing (1692–1750), daughter of the Government Secretary Sebastian Wölffing (1646–1712) and his wife Maria Elisabeth Gihnlein (1662–1720), a sister of Johann Daniel Gihnlein , had a daughter .

literature

• Georg Wolfgang Augustin Fikenscher: Orationibus vale dicen di caussa in Athenaeo Culmacensi Habitis comprobante perillustri senatu et clesiastico, published by Spindler, Kulmbach, 1801, page 39
• Jochen Koch: Johann Philipp Winheim, war commissioner of the Bayreuth regiments in the “Great Turkish War” (1687–1695) and later Reichspostmeister in Coburg (1698–1717), S. Roderer Verlag, Regensburg, 1998
• Jochen Koch: The imperial and ducal postal system in the royal seat of Coburg under the direction of the postmaster Johann Philipp Winheim from 1698 to 1717, in: Yearbook of the Coburg Regional Foundation, published by the Coburg Regional Foundation, Coburg, 1998, page 285-360

Individual evidence

1. ^ New newspapers from learned things, published in Leipzig, 1727, pages 230-231