Matthias von Wolhaben on Missingdorf

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Matthias von Wolzüge , from 1614 Matthias von Wolnahm auf Missingdorf , (* 1588 in Kaschau , Hungary , † January 1, 1665 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) was a German court official in the Oldenburg service. Among other things, he served as director of the county's secret council .

Life

origin

Von Wolzüge came from the old Austrian noble family Wolzo . His parents were Andreas von Wolzüge (around 1540 – before 1603) and his wife, Felicitas born from a Viennese bourgeois family. Lackner († after 1624). In 1569, his father received the postmaster's office in Kaschau in the Kingdom of Hungary from Emperor Maximilian II as a reward for military and diplomatic services . Von Wolzog was born there as the fifth of twelve children. When the Long Turkish War broke out , the family fled to Lower Austria in 1593 , where the father was accepted into the knighthood there in 1599 . After his death, his widow bought the small estate Missingdorf in 1614 , after which this branch of the family was named from then on.

Nothing is known about Wolzogen's youth and education. Presumably he was raised by his parents and a private tutor , and he may have attended one of the aristocratic landscape schools in Vienna or Horn . Since his family's means were limited with the large number of children, von Woliehen did not attend a university. In 1617 he received the Missingdorf rule from his mother, which he may have administered before.

Conflict with the Habsburgs and emigration

Since von Wolhaben was a Protestant , he came increasingly into conflict with the Catholic Habsburgs , who were striving for absolutism and who also took action against the aristocratic estates in order to increase their own power . At that time the Protestant nobility of Austria tried to secure permanent co-government over the House of Habsburg.

Von Wolzüge took part in this development and, together with his brother Andreas (* 1581), signed a federation letter of the Protestant estates addressed to the Habsburgs in October 1608 . He also joined the estates opposition. After the Bohemian uprising in 1618 and the outbreak of open fighting, von Woliehen was part of the Bohemian Confederation from August 16, 1619. In the same year he was elected to the Directory of the Lower Austrian Estates in Horn. He refused to recognize the emperor Ferdinand II, who had been deposed by the Bohemian Confederation, as the rightful sovereign. Thereupon he was declared a chief rebel by the emperor on September 12, 1620 with 30 other lords and knights and expelled from the country with confiscation of all his property. Together with the other Protestant aristocrats, von Woliehen then went to Germany to look for a job with one of the many German princes.

In the service of the County of Oldenburg

In 1632, von Woliehen finally found a job in the service of Count Anton Günther von Oldenburg . As was customary for a court official at the time, he was entrusted with a variety of tasks. For a time, he acted as court master to whom the entire court administration was subordinate, but was also active in the internal administration of the county and also took on diplomatic missions to ensure the Oldenburg neutrality during the ongoing Thirty Years' War . Within a short time, he gained the trust of Anton Günther, who had no legitimate descendants and therefore transferred von Wolhaben with the difficult negotiations to settle the Oldenburg succession issue and to care for his illegitimate son, Anton I. von Aldenburg . He was able to complete these missions to the satisfaction of all involved in 1649 with the comparison of Rendsburg and in 1653 with the separation treaty with the other powers involved, the Kingdom of Denmark and the dukes of Holstein-Gottorp . Duke Friedrich III. von Holstein-Gottorf appointed von Wolhaben for his services to the council and the equally grateful Anton Günther gave him real estate in the Blexen Bailiwick. In 1656, like Anton Günther before, he was accepted into the respected fruitful society . In the same year, Anton Günther appointed his closest confidante von Wolhaben as director of his government chancellery, although he was initially reluctant to take over the management of this authority as a non-lawyer, which also served as the county's supreme jurisdiction.

In September 1656 von Wolhaben also became director of the newly created Privy Council , which, as a central authority, was supposed to relieve and advise the aging sovereign in government matters. However, the committee was dissolved again two years later and von Wolehmen, now seventy years old, withdrew into private life. Bernhard Heilersieg took over his office business as his successor in office. When he was to be reactivated from the Oldenburg region in 1663 by Sebastian Friedrich von Kötteritz for the Secret Council, which was now re-convened under his leadership, von Wolzo declined. He died two years later.

family

Von Wolzüge married in Austria. His wife, whose first name is unknown, came from the Styrian noble family von Greißenegg. The couple had the following children:

  • Friedrich Matthias († August 31, 1681), Oldenburg court junior and later court master of Countess Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, the wife of Anton Günther of Oldenburg.
  • Friedrich Günther († 1680) went to Silesia and became court master in the Duchy of Brzeg .
  • Catharina married Heinrich Ernst Vitzthum von Eckstädt (around 1635 – around 1688), the eldest son of the court master Hans Wilhelm Vitzthum von Eckstädt (1604–1660)
  • Sophia married Anton Günther from the ceiling (1623-1675), the son of the Oldenburg Drosten Hermann from the ceiling (1586-1629).

literature

personal data
SURNAME Wolzüge auf Missingdorf, Matthias von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matthias von Wolzüge (name until 1614)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court official and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1588
PLACE OF BIRTH Kosice , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1665
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)