Matthias von Güntersberg

Matthias von Güntersberg (* 1584 ; † January 7, 1650 in Stettin ) was a German lawyer, judge in Pomerania and Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and regional director of the states of Pomerania-Stettin and Cammin .

Life

Matthias von Güntersberg studied at the universities of Jena , Frankfurt (Oder) , Leiden and Oxford and then went on long trips. He then became a councilor and later court director in Stettin. After a while he went to Pyritz as a captain and judge . At the same time he was vice cathedral and in 1621 thesaurus of the cathedral chapter in Cammin . Duke Franz sent him to Leipzig in 1618 for the coin tasting day of the Upper Saxon Empire .

In 1621 he followed a call from Duke Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin as president of the regional court in Sternberg and was then governor and higher court administrator in Schwerin until 1630. He returned to Pomerania to become Captain von Wollin and first counsel to the Dowager Duchess Sophie von Sachsen, who resided on her personal belongings in Schloss Wollin .

After her death in 1635, he became vice- dominus in 1636 and dean and first canon of Cammin in 1637 . As a prelate , he belonged to the district administrators of the Cammin monastery and led the directory of the estates in the monastery and in Pomerania-Stettin. In 1643 the estates elected him, along with three other representatives, as members of the peace negotiations to end the Thirty Years' War .

family

Matthias von Güntersberg came from the house Reichenbach the noble family Güntersberg . His parents were Heinrich von Güntersberg and Ermgard von Both adH Kalkhorst . Four children are known from his marriage to Erdmuth von Pirch adH Vitröse. Including his son Franz von Güntersberg (* 1618; † October 5, 1679) who also became regional director and dean of Cammin and was married to Anna von Carnitz adH Carnitz , as well as his daughter Elisabeth von Güntersberg, who with Ulrich Christoph von Schwerin , chief steward and Hereditary lord on Kummerow, was married.

Matthias von Güntersberg was the heir to Reichenbach, Buslar and Falkenwalde .

literature

Julius von Bohlen : The acquisition of Pomerania by the Hohenzollern. To commemorate the reunification of the whole of Pomerania 50 years ago under the rule of its illustrious royal family. Decker, Berlin 1865, p. 55, end note 33, digitized .

Web links

Publications by and about Matthias von Güntersberg in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Rudolf Spuhrmann: History of the city of Cammin i. Pomerania and the Camminer cathedral chapter. 2nd enlarged and improved edition with attached pictures. Formazin & Knauff, Cammin i. Pommern 1924, pp. 85-89.
^ Joachim Krüger : Between the Empire and Sweden. The sovereign coinage in the Duchy of Pomerania and in Swedish Pomerania in the early modern period (approx. 1580–1715) (= Nordic history. Vol. 3). LIT, Berlin et al. 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9768-0 , p. 150 , p. 164 , (also: Greifswald, Universität, dissertation, 2004).
^ ^A ^b Carl von Lützow: Contribution to the characteristics of Duke Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin, as well as to the description of the customs of the seventeenth century, borrowed from the duke's personal diaries in the grand ducal archives of Schwerin. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity. Vol. 12, 1847, ISSN 0259-7772 , pp. 59-122, here pp. 78 and 98 online .
^ Johann Jakob Sell : History of the Duchy of Pomerania from the oldest times to the death of the last duke, or to the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Volume 3. Flittner, Berlin 1820, p. 348, digitized .

personal data
SURNAME	Güntersberg, Matthias von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, canon
DATE OF BIRTH	1584
DATE OF DEATH	January 7, 1650
Place of death	Szczecin

[C-1] Rudolf Spuhrmann: History of the city of Cammin i. Pomerania and the Camminer cathedral chapter. 2nd enlarged and improved edition with attached pictures. Formazin & Knauff, Cammin i. Pommern 1924, pp. 85-89.

[2] Joachim Krüger : Between the Empire and Sweden. The sovereign coinage in the Duchy of Pomerania and in Swedish Pomerania in the early modern period (approx. 1580–1715) (= Nordic history. Vol. 3). LIT, Berlin et al. 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9768-0 , p. 150 , p. 164 , (also: Greifswald, Universität, dissertation, 2004).

[KL-3] A ^b Carl von Lützow: Contribution to the characteristics of Duke Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin, as well as to the description of the customs of the seventeenth century, borrowed from the duke's personal diaries in the grand ducal archives of Schwerin. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity. Vol. 12, 1847, ISSN 0259-7772 , pp. 59-122, here pp. 78 and 98 online .

[4] Johann Jakob Sell : History of the Duchy of Pomerania from the oldest times to the death of the last duke, or to the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Volume 3. Flittner, Berlin 1820, p. 348, digitized .