Johann Sigismund Schulin

Johann Sigismund Schulin

Count Johann Sigismund Schulin , Danish Johan Sigismund Schulin (born August 18, 1694 in Prichsenstadt ; † April 13, 1750 in Lyngby , Denmark ) was a German-Danish diplomat and later in the service of the Danish kings Christian VI as Foreign Minister . and Friedrich V. For his diplomatic work he was raised to the rank of count by King Friedrich.

Life

Johann Sigismund Schulin was born on August 18, 1694 in Prichsenstadt, Lower Franconia . He came from a family of Evangelical Lutheran clergymen who had already achieved quite a reputation in Franconia. His father was Magister Ernst Georg Schulin, the pastor of the small town. His mother's name was Susanne Euphrosyne and was the daughter of the former pastor Johannes Heinrich Baumgartner. The privy councilor and judge Johann Sigismund von Heßberg could be won as godfather .

Johann Sigismund had a total of five siblings. The brother Johann Heinrich later became dean in Gunzenhausen , the brother Gustav Lorenz was in the service of the Margraves of Bayreuth-Brandenburg . Four years after the birth of the young Georg Sigismund, his father was transferred to Rosstal near Ansbach . The young Johann Sigismund completed his school education in nearby Heilsbronn , where he attended grammar school. This was followed by studies at the universities of Jena , Helmstedt and Leiden .

After completing his training, he received a position as court master at the court of the Margraves Friedrich Ernst and Friedrich Christian in Bayreuth , probably through the mediation of his older brother Gustav Lorenz . Here he married the daughter of the margravial councilor Dr. van der Venne, Anna Susanne Euphrosyne, who died soon after. In 1730 Johann Sigismund left Bayreuth together with the margrave Friedrich Ernst and settled in Denmark .

The older sister of the margrave, Sophie Magdalene , had the Danish King Christian VI here as early as 1721. married and her brother was appointed governor of Schleswig and Holstein. In the same year Schulin received a court office from Christian VI. from Denmark. He became a post censor and was later able to take over the post of director of the General Post Office. Already on April 6, 1731 he was by Christian VI. ennobled and called himself from then on "Graf von Schulin".

Schulin remarried in 1732. This time Catherine Maria von Mösting, daughter of the royal Danish steward Alexander Frederik, was the chosen one. The rise of the German continued at a rapid pace. In 1733 he became secretary of the so-called German Chancellery at court, in 1735 Christian VI made him. to his foreign minister. At the same time, Schulin was appointed a member of the Ministry of Trade and Industry. In 1737 he finally became a privy councilor .

In the 1740s, Denmark was hard hit by rivals in the Baltic Sea region , Russia and Sweden . The two warring powers formed an alliance against Denmark in 1743. Johann Sigismund Schulin tried to bring the conflicting parties to a balance through espionage and bribery. However, he acted very cautiously towards the other powers and thus anticipated the later neutrality policy of his successors in the office of foreign minister.

After King Christian VI. Having died in 1746, his only son Frederick V was crowned king. Unlike the very religious father, the new king was a connoisseur and had numerous affairs and the schoolgirl had to keep the king's reputation pure as a post censor. In 1747 Frederick V appointed him knight of the Danebro Order . In the same year he became a member of the Elephant Order . 1750 was raised Schulin finally in the Lehnsgrafenstand .

As early as 1739 the German had received the Frederiksdal estate in Lyngby near Copenhagen. He had the estate remodeled by the plasterer Carlo Enrico Brenno, among others. It is still owned by the Schulin family today. On April 13th, 1750 Schulin died on his estate and was buried in the Petrikirche in Copenhagen. A now lost epitaph was set up here, which was decorated with verses by Johann Christoph von Reitzenstein . The hometown of Prichsenstadt named a street after the diplomat.

Marriages and offspring

While still in Bayreuth, Johann Sigismund Schulin married Anna Susanne Euphrosyne van der Venne in 1725. The marriage remained childless and the woman died after a short time. In 1732 he married Catherine Maria von Mösting a second time. Schulin had five children with her, but only two of them reached adulthood.

• Louise (* 1745)
• Frederik Louis (1747 – around 1781), also Danish chamberlain

literature

• Karl-Heinz Leibl: Johann Sigismund Schulin . In: Yearbook for the district of Kitzingen 2011. Under the spell of the Schwanberg . Dettelbach 2011. pp. 311-330.
• City administration Prichsenstadt (Ed.): Prichsenstadt. Festschrift on the occasion of the city's 600th anniversary 1367-1967 . Gerolzhofen 1967.

Web links

Commons : Johann Sigismund Schulin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City administration Prichsenstadt (ed.): Prichsenstadt . P. 65.
2. ^ Leibl, Karl-Heinz: Johann Sigismund Schulin . P. 311.
3. ^ Leibl, Karl-Heinz: Johann Sigismund Schulin . P. 312.
4. ^ Leibl, Karl-Heinz: Johann Sigismund Schulin . P. 317.
5. ^ Leibl, Karl-Heinz: Johann Sigismund Schulin . P. 320.
6. ^ Leibl, Karl-Heinz: Johann Sigismund Schulin . P. 313.