Johann von Prott

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Johann von Prott

Johann von Prott (* 1573 in Lemgo ; † December 27, 1634 in Oldenburg ) was a German lawyer, diplomat and chancellor of the county of Oldenburg .

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Coat of arms of those of Prott
Coat of arms of the Grothe from Lemgo

Prott came from a respected patrician family Lemgos and was the son of the wholesaler and long-distance trader with cloths as well as long-time mayor Hermann Prott († 1610) and his first wife Alheit (Adelheid) geb. Dreyer. His sister Catharina married in 1586 the ducal Braunschweig secret council Engelbert Grothe zu Lemgo († around 1605/06), whose brother Johann Grothe (1563–1626) was Chancellor of Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel and married Elisabeth from the old Hessian noble family Hund zu Gudensberg, a daughter of the Hesse-Kassel chancellor Heinrich Hund. Her great cousin, the lawyer at the court in Lippe, Johann Grothe (1544–1609), received a knighthood privilege for his court at Talle near Lemgo in 1606 and was married to Gertrud Orth from Hagen .

Johann Prott was tutored by private tutors and studied law at the universities of Marburg , Cologne , Leiden and Basel since 1591 . There he received his doctorate in 1597 and then worked as a lawyer at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer . He then entered the service of Count Simon VI as a councilor . zur Lippe , for whom he carried out several diplomatic missions.

In 1600 Prott married Maria in Osnabrück , a daughter of the local citizen Anton Storck, with whom he had eleven children. On February 21, 1605 he was appointed to Oldenburg as Chancellor of Count Anton Günther . As his close confidante, Prott soon had a leading role in the county’s internal administration, justice and foreign policy. So he worked out the legal and historical argument for the Weser customs rights claimed by Anton Günther since 1612 for all merchant ships sailing the Lower Weser , which were finally awarded to Oldenburg in 1623 with the consent of the Electors and Emperor Ferdinand II .

Furthermore, Prott was concerned with the Oldenburg neutrality policy and was able to contribute through numerous special missions to the fact that the county was largely spared from devastation during the Thirty Years' War .

In recognition of his services, Anton Günther donated the Heringsfeld estate to Prott in 1609, in the Jever domain belonging to Oldenburg . In addition, he enforced the elevation of the imperial nobility to the Kaiser Protts .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sources and research on the history of the Reformation , Volume 48, 1981, pp. 260–263 and p. 280.
  2. ^ German inscriptions online: Inscription catalog Lemgo, No. 126 (accessed on November 23, 2019).
  3. ↑ a b cf. family table Grothe in: Sources and research on the history of the Reformation , Volume 48, 1981, p. 269.
  4. ↑ Christoph von Rommel: History of Hessen , Volume 5, Kassel 1835, p. 409 f.
  5. ↑ " Grothe, Johann ", in: Hessian Biography (as of October 30, 2018)
  6. ^ Sources and research on the history of the Reformation , Volume 48, 1981, pp. 267–270.
  7. ↑ Joseph Bender : History of the city of dogs. A description of their institutions, their community relations with the rural communities and their fate , Werl 1848, p. 70.
  8. ↑ In 1583 the later father-in-law Anton Storck loaned Count Friedrich von Diepholz 200 Reichstaler. See Wilhelm von Hodenberg: Diepholzer Urkundenbuch , Hannover 1842, p. 130.
  9. ↑ Hans Friedl: Prott, Johann von in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 20 (2001), p. 744 f. ( Online version )

Web links

  • The biography of Johann von Prott on the website of the German Biography online
personal data
SURNAME Prott, Johann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prott, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH 1573
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemgo
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1634
Place of death Oldenburg