Johann Wachmann the Younger

Johann Wachmann the Younger in a lithograph from 1850

Johann Wachmann , also called Johann Wachmann the Younger , (born September 16, 1611 in Bremen , † February 15, 1685 in Bremen) was an important Bremen legal scholar , diplomat and envoy to the city in the 17th century.

biography

Johann Wachmann - son of Bremen's mayor Hermann Wachmann (1579–1658) and nephew of Bremen's Syndicus Johann Wachmann the Elder (1592–1659) - was enrolled in 1629 at the Bremen high school illustrious . As a schoolboy, his interest in diplomacy was aroused when he was present at the negotiations on the Peace of Lübeck . During the Thirty Years' War he also traveled in September 1629, accompanied by the council syndicate Johann Preiswerck, to Magdeburg , which was threatened by Wallenstein , and to The Hague , where political negotiations took place.

From 1632 to 1634 Wachmann studied law at the University of Königsberg . He then went on an extensive journey through the Netherlands and England , stayed in France for a year and then went to Switzerland , where he worked in Basel on December 10, 1637, to the Dr. jur. doctorate , before returning in 1638 to Bremen. In the same year he became illustrious professor of law at the grammar school. From 1652 he was also the councilor and assessor at the court.

1653 guard went as an envoy of the City of Bremen to the Reichstag to Regensburg to the lifting of outlawry cause: She had the emperor imposed against Bremen in 1652, after which Bremer Council refused to Elsflether Weser tariff payable to the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg in the Weser navigation he lifted. The dispute was finally settled with the Regensburg settlement and the customs of Bremen recognized.

As a result, Ferdinand III was a security guard . appointed to the imperial council , got a seat and vote on the Reichstag in 1654 and was raised to the nobility. During the First Bremen-Swedish War , he traveled to Münster and the Netherlands to negotiate to seek support for Bremen. Despite military successes, Sweden found itself increasingly in a difficult diplomatic situation and was forced to conclude an armistice - the First Stade settlement .

In 1660 Wachmann turned down a professorship in Marburg and became director of the council chancellery, but also remained active as Bremen's ambassador and negotiator - especially in connection with the continuing differences between the Hanseatic city and Sweden, which led to the Second Bremen-Swedish War in 1666 . After the unsuccessful siege of Bremen, the conflict was finally settled in the Peace of habenhausen . In the years that followed, Johann Wachmann continued to work on a diplomatic basis.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Lexicon of all scholars who have lived in Bremen since the Reformation . 2 volumes, Schünemann Verlag , Bremen 1818.
• Wilhelm von Bippen:  security guard, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 418-420.