Johann von Hoverbeck

Johann von Hoverbeck, 1660

Johann von Hoverbeck , since 1663 Johann Freiherr von Hoverbeck (born December 1, 1606 in Aleksandrowice near Cracow , † April 6, 1682 in Hohenstein , East Prussia ) was a German diplomat.

Hoverbeck's father, Nikolaus von Hoverbeck , descendant of an old Flemish aristocratic family, had emigrated from Brabant to Alexandrowice , an estate near Kraków , in 1570 , supposedly for reasons of faith. Overbeck's mother was Ursula Gutteter-Dobrodziejski from a patrician family of German descent in Krakow; her Polish nobility title is in doubt. The first name of Hoverbeck's grandfather on his father's side was also Johann.

Life

In 1614 Hoverbeck went to high school in Danzig. From 1626 he undertook an extensive cavalier tour to Germany, the Netherlands , England ( Oxford University , London ), France ( Paris , Sedan Academy ), Italy and Hungary . In between he did military service abroad. So he took as artillery commissar u. a. In 1628 he took part in the conquest of La Rochelle , and in the summer of 1629 he took part in a campaign in Holland .

In June 1630 he returned home. He entered the Brandenburg state service in 1631 and was there dealt with "Prussian, Polish and other foreign matters". After he had become legation secretary in 1632, he was appointed ambassador to Poland in 1634 . On March 28, 1639, he received the Indigenous for Prussia . In 1643 he was appointed a privy councilor and made a baron. On December 1, 1654, he was given the office of hereditary trustee of the Kurmark Brandenburg. As a confidante of the Great Elector, Hoverbeck advocated a good relationship with Poland and thus contributed significantly to the stabilization of Brandenburg-Prussia's foreign policy . He signed a. a. the Wehlau Treaty . In 1658 he received indigenous status for Poland as well. In 1659/1660 he was a representative of the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg involved in the Treaty of Oliva . With a diploma dated August 20, 1663, Hoverbeck was elevated to the status of imperial baron.

In gratitude for his diplomatic services, the Great Elector gave him the Eichmedien estate in Masuria in 1653 . There used to be a castle in the village of Eichmedien, but it had since been destroyed and only the basement and the foundations remained. Hoverbeck had a new representative mansion built on the same site, which was completed in 1680, two years before his death. Johann von Hoverbeck was the father of Johann Dietrich von Hoverbeck (1652–1714), who also embarked on a diplomatic career, and of Ludwig von Hoverbeck .

literature

• Peter Bahl : The court of the great elector. Studies on senior officials in Brandenburg-Prussia (dissertation from Freie Universität Berlin , 1999). Böhlau, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2001, pp. 505–506 ( restricted preview ).
• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. 2nd edition, Volume 5, Saur, Munich 2006, p. 155.
• Max Hein : Johann von Hoverbeck. A diplomatic life from the time of the Great Elector. 1925.
• Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer (Hrsg.): Documents and acts on the history of the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg. Political negotiations . Volume 1, Berlin 1864 ( online version ); Volume 2, Berlin 1865 ( digitized version ).
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 4: Graffen - Kalau v. Kalheim . Leipzig 1863, pp. 493-494 ( digitized version ).
• Johann Friedrich Gauhe : Genealogical-Historical Nobility Lexicon of the Holy Roman Empire . Part II (last part), Leipzig 1747, p. 838 ( digitized version ).