Johann von Faltzburg

Johann von Faltzburg (born October 13, 1609 in Kempten as Johann Faltz ; † January 2, 1681 ) was a councilor in Swedish Pomerania .

Life

Johann Faltz was the oldest of six children of Jodokus Faltz, principal of the St. Annen Latin School in Kempten, and his wife Ursula Schlud. After his father's death in 1623, he attended Latin school because his mother could not afford the money to study.

In 1630 his uncle Philipp Sattler, who was in the Swedish service, called him to Pomerania , where he got him a job in the field chancellery of the Swedish army. He soon became secret secretary and administrator of the royal archives. In the battle of Breitenfeld in 1631 he managed to get the endangered archive safe from the imperial troops. After the battle of Nördlingen , Axel Oxenstierna sent him to Strasbourg with the archive . There he and the Swedish resident Friedrich Richard Mockhel processed the secret correspondence. In 1633 Johann Faltz became a secret trainee lawyer in the royal Swedish law firm. He accompanied Oxenstierna to negotiations in Paris. In 1639 both returned to Pomerania. Oxenstierna gave him various secret assignments, which Faltz reported personally in Stockholm .

After the death of the last griffin duke Bogislaw XIV , the Swedes set up a provisional government in Pomerania, to which Faltz belonged as secret state secretary. In 1640 he took part in a joint state parliament between the Swedish rulers and the Pomeranian estates, in which the latter rejected the introduction of a Swedish government in Pomerania .

After the Peace of Westphalia he was raised to the Swedish nobility on November 18, 1648 with the name von Faltzburg . The following year he became an economics councilor in Pomerania. His duties included the administration of the royal estate. In addition, he administered the office of Belgard for General Arvid Wittenberg and the office of Wollin for the queen widow Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg .

After Queen Christina abdicated , Karl X. Gustav took him back into the diplomatic service, appointed him royal council and entrusted him with the correspondence with the Swedish ambassadors and envoys. Faltzburg had meanwhile acquired the Nadrensee and Keesow estates near Stettin. During the Second Northern War he stayed in Stettin or on his property, while the government was temporarily relocated to Wolgast . During this war the buildings of his estates were burned down by Polish troops.

In 1657 he was appointed government councilor in Swedish Pomerania and in 1660 sent to Berlin for negotiations, where he negotiated the evacuation of the Pomeranian villages occupied by Brandenburg troops. He then traveled to Swabia to bring his two eldest sons to the illustrious grammar school in Hall .

In the following years he represented Swedish Pomerania at the district and coin days of the Upper Saxon Empire . In 1662 he became a member of a commission that prepared the introduction of the 1663 regimental form . In 1664 the king awarded him a canonical from the Camminer cathedral monastery . Along with Joachim Ruediger von Owstin he took in Pomerania , Gollnow , Wollin and Usedom the homage of stands of King Karl XI. opposite.

During the Swedish-Brandenburg War (1674–1679) he stayed in Stettin by order of Field Marshal Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck . Soon after the end of the siege he fell seriously ill, so that his son Johann Philipp, who had been assigned to him as deputy since 1668, had to take over his tasks in handing over the treaties for the peace of St. Germain in Pasewalk . Johann Philipp fell ill the following year and died soon after. The father died in 1681. Both were buried in the family funeral in Stettin's Marienkirche .

family

Johann von Faltzburg was married three times. His first marriage was with Margarete Schlegel, daughter of the royal chamber councilor Daniel Schlegel . The woman died in her first delivery.

In 1643 he married Anna Eleonora Hagemeister (1623–1660), daughter of the Princely Pomeranian Chamber Councilor Johann Hagemeister. With her he had four sons and two daughters. These were:

• Johan Philip (1644–1680), Secretary to the Swedish Pomeranian Government
• Axel (1645–1728), Swedish major general
• Christina Eleonora ∞ Mattias von Hartmannsdorf
• Gustav (1650–1719), President of the Wismar Tribunal

From his third marriage to Christina Elisabeth von Lichtfuss there were three sons, one of whom survived the father.

literature

• Gabriel Anrep : Svenska Adelns Ättar-Taflor. Part 1, Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm 1858, p. 791 ( Google books ).
• Robert Hasenjäger: Johann von Faltzberg, the first Swedish-Pomeranian State Secretary, and his family. Pomeranian Yearbooks , Vol. 13, 1912, pp. 121–145 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature about Johann von Faltzburg in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bernhard Schlegel, Carl Arvid Klingspor : Den med sköldebref förlänade men ej å Riddarhuset introducerade Svenska Adelns Ättar-taflor. Adamant Media Corporation, ISBN 9780543959577 , p. 257 ( Google books , Swedish).