Johann Zastrow

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Johann Zastrow , also Hans (* March 24, 1573 ; † October 30, 1647 ) was land rent master and councilor in the Duchy of Pomerania . He was the master of Nemmin , Bärwalde and Varselow.

Life

At the age of 19, Johann Zastrow entered the service of Duke Johann Friedrich in 1592 . In 1595 he was at the Reichstag in Regensburg and then traveled through southern Germany. Duke Barnim X sent him to the imperial court in 1601 and 1602 and made him land rent master. He also held this office under the dukes Bogislaw XIII. and Philip II. The latter appointed him palace captain and councilor in Stettin in 1609. The subsequently ruling dukes Franz and Bogislaw XIV left him in this important office. After the end of the Griffin family, he belonged to the “ princely Pomeranian councils left behind ” until they resigned in 1638.

From 1643 he was a member of a committee of the Estates of Pomerania-Stettin, which negotiated with the Committee of the Estates of Pomerania-Wolgast and the Swedish government in Pomerania , as well as corresponded with the Pomeranian envoys during the peace negotiations in Osnabrück .

Johann Zastrow died at the end of October 1647. He was not buried in Stettin until June 1, 1648.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Julius von Bohlen: The acquisition of Pomerania by the Hohenzollern. Berlin 1865, p. 26 ( Google books ).