Johann Philipp Winheim senior

Johann Philipp Winheim (born March 7, 1652 in Frankfurt am Main , † November 30, 1728 in Coburg ) was war commissioner in the margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and imperial and princely Saxon postmaster .

Life

Johann Philipp Winheim was born in Frankfurt am Main as the son of the administrator of the Counts of Solms , Johann Heinrich Winheim and his wife Maria Katharina. Little is known about his early years. He enrolled at the University of Jena for the summer semester in 1670 and appeared in Oberkotzau as a secretary in 1686 . Presumably he is already in the service of Margrave Christian Ernst von Brandenburg-Bayreuth at this point in time .

In the course of the Turkish wars there were also threats to the Venetian possessions in Dalmatia and Morea . When the Margrave signed a treaty with the Republic of Venice on January 30, 1687 , to provide two regiments to defend these colonies, Winheim was appointed war commissioner. From this time there are various reports, in particular about his stays and the war there. a. handed down in Dulcigno , Curzola , Spalato as well as Morea, Napoli di Romania , Negroponte and other places. Winheim's task was to settle the soldiers' expenses with Venice, the payment of the soldiers, their meals and of course the forwarding and settlement of the funds to the margrave in Bayreuth . In this function he was in constant contact with Bayreuth and, during his time as war commissioner, traveled from the regiments' respective locations via Venice to the margraviate and back. When he was accused of misappropriating funds from incorrect and incomplete accounts with Venice in 1696, he resigned from his service. The allegations made were finally refuted by Winheim, so that he was released from arrest and rehabilitated in the same year. In 1699 he was asked again from Bayreuth to travel to Venice and to lead negotiations there about outstanding funds. This can be seen as a vote of confidence and rehabilitation. In January 1700 he left Venice for the last time and wrote his final report.

His next stop was to be Coburg: in 1698 he was appointed imperial postmaster and later at the same time also princely Saxon postmaster. The previous accusations are likely to have moved him to turn his back on the margraviate and go to Saxe-Coburg. He held both offices - with the above mentioned interruption in Venice in 1699 - until 1717, when his son Johann Philipp Winheim junior. took over the offices as part of a newly created lease.

literature

• Max Teuber: Coburg post office manager in old times, Coburg, 1921, pages 20–30
• 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