Johann Ulrich Dobrzenski from Dobrzeniec

Johann Ulrich Freiherr Dobrzenski von Dobrzeniec ( Czech Jan Oldřich Svobodný pán Dobřenský z Dobřenic * November 22, 1623 in Kuttenberg ; † June 7, 1670 ) was a Kurbrandenburg diplomat .

Life

Origin and family

Johann Ulrich was a member of the Bohemian noble family Dobrženský von Dobrženitz . His parents were Nicolaus Stanislaus Dobřenský for Dobrenić, Amtshauptmann to Kutna Hora, Catharina Margarete, nee Klusak of Kostelitz from the house Rodomesch.

He married Sophie Elisabeth von Rosen before 1649 († after 1663). Several children emerged from the marriage, including the following son, who already decided to join the Brandenburg tribe again.

(Johann) Friedrich Bogislaw († 12 April 1729), kurbrandenburgischer Secret War Council, Treasurer / Chamberlain and chief steward of the Electress Sophia Charlotte (1668-1705), Lord of the Manor at Ruhleben , Chwalkowitz , glutton , Streckenbach and upper-Kunz village , received on 18th June 1696 in Vienna the old Bohemian gentry

Career

Johann Ulrich came to Brandenburg as a religious refugee in the early 1950s and found a job as a squire , first with Electress Elisabeth Charlotte (1597–1660) in Crossen , then with Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg (1620–1688).

Perhaps on the recommendation of Friedrich Graf von Waldeck (1620–1692), who was a constant supporter of him at the Brandenburg court, he switched to the diplomatic service and was appointed court and legation counselor in 1654 . In October of that year he was sent with an embassy to the Swedish court to congratulate King Karl Gustav (1622–1660) on his assumption of government and at the same time to sound out the political situation there and the intentions of the new king. In Stockholm he worked towards the end of the Bremen war, suggested a closer alliance with Brandenburg, vigorously opposed the Swedish ambitions at the Prussian ports and offered Brandenburg mediation in the Polish-Swedish war . In 1656 the alliance treaty negotiated by him between Sweden and Brandenburg was signed in Marienburg , which granted the elector four Polish palatinates and full sovereignty for the Duchy of Prussia for his support . Johann Ulrich was promoted to Real Privy Council in 1656 . In the following years he was also active as envoy several times in Nordic affairs at the Viennese, Warsaw , Rome and Stockholm courts . When his mentor, Count Friedrich von Waldeck , switched to Swedish services in 1658 as a result of the Treaty of Wehlau , Johann Ulrich also fell out of favor at times. Only after the Peace of Oliva , it was used in the negotiations on the reorganization of the Duchy of Prussia and received the Amtshauptmannschaft Prussian Holland . He renounced a planned delegation to Spain and asked for his departure. He was hereditary lord on Uderwangen .

literature

Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer : Dobrzenski von Dobrzeniec, Johann Ulrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 276 f.
Hans Saring: Dobrzenski von Dobrzeniec, Johann Ulrich Freiherr. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 7 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ Astaf von Transehe-Roseneck (edit.): Genealogical manual of the Livonian knighthood . Part 1, 2: Livonia, Lfg. 9-15, Volume 2, Görlitz [1935], p. 1122.
^ Walter von Boetticher : History of the Upper Lusatian nobility and its goods 1635-1815. Volume 1, Görlitz 1912, p. 305
↑ ^a ^b George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt : J. Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch , VI. Volume, 4th division, Dead Prussian nobility: Province of Preussen , Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1874, p. 14, Tfl. 10; VI. Volume, 5th department, The dead nobility of the province and Mark Brandenburg , Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1880, p. 22, Tfl. 12.
↑ Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The royal Prussian and electoral Brandenburg real secret council of state on its 200th foundation day January 5, 1805 , Berlin 1805, pp. 359-360, no. 63.

personal data
SURNAME	Dobrzenski von Dobrzeniec, Johann Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dobrzenski von Dobrzeniec, Johann Ulrich Freiherr (with title); Dobřenský z Dobřenic, Jan Oldřich Svobodný pán (Czech, with title)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Kurbrandenburg diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	November 22, 1623
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kuttenberg
DATE OF DEATH	June 7, 1670

[1] Astaf von Transehe-Roseneck (edit.): Genealogical manual of the Livonian knighthood . Part 1, 2: Livonia, Lfg. 9-15, Volume 2, Görlitz [1935], p. 1122.

[2] Walter von Boetticher : History of the Upper Lusatian nobility and its goods 1635-1815. Volume 1, Görlitz 1912, p. 305

[MH1-3] George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt : J. Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch , VI. Volume, 4th division, Dead Prussian nobility: Province of Preussen , Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1874, p. 14, Tfl. 10; VI. Volume, 5th department, The dead nobility of the province and Mark Brandenburg , Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1880, p. 22, Tfl. 12.

[4] Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The royal Prussian and electoral Brandenburg real secret council of state on its 200th foundation day January 5, 1805 , Berlin 1805, pp. 359-360, no. 63.