Maximilian von Schütz

Maximilian Henrich Ferdinand von Schütz (born June 24, 1692 in Butzbach ; † April 14, 1773 in Warlitz ) was the Brunswick-Lüneburg governor and finance director of the imperial execution in Mecklenburg .

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Maximilian von Schütz came from the important Hessian noble family Sinold called Schütz and was the last child of the Butzbach city pastor Jost Hermann Sinold called Schütz. His grandfather was the important lawyer and chancellor of the University of Giessen, Justus Sinold called Schütz . A godfather at his baptism was the Giessen theology professor Johann Heinrich May . Maximilian spent his childhood in Hanover, where he was taken into care after the death of his mother Andreas Gottlieb von Bernstorff , his cousin's husband. From 1709 to 1711 he attended the Knight Academy in Lüneburg , then studied at the universities of Jena and Helmstedt . In July 1714 he finished his studies with a legal thesis, which was also printed. Like most members of his family, from around 1710 he did without the part of the name “Sinold”. In 1718 he was appointed court and chancellery by his employer, Duke August Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Lüneburg . As part of the imperial execution in Mecklenburg , he was employed as a tax officer in Boizenburg from 1722 . There he was subordinate to Johann Ludwig von Fabrice , who had succeeded the late superior Georg Ernst von Werpup . Because of his services he was given the title of " Oberhauptmann " in 1728 . In 1732 he married Amalia Margarethe von Fabrice and in 1735 acquired the Warlitz estate near Hagenow . During the Seven Years' War Maximilian von Schütz was almost taken hostage by Prussia in 1759, which he was able to avert in the last resort with a medical certificate and a passionate petition to his employer in Wolfenbüttel . In his mourning for the children who had died before him and the associated extinction of his family branch, he decided in 1765 to build the spacious new church St. Trinity in Warlitz from his assets . This important building, with which numerous well-known artists and the Pritzier pastor Heinrich Julius Tode were entrusted as architect, has been preserved in its original form to this day. In the portal is the family coat of arms of the Sinold called Schütz . The family crypt that Maximilian von Schütz had built in the center of the Warlitz Church was extensively restored in 2013 with three preserved coffins.

Works

• Problema Juridicum an non omnes contractus juxta usum fori Germanici sint consensuales. Helmstedt 1714.

Web links

• Baroque church Warlitz

literature

• Hanno Müller: family book Butzbach. Volume 2, Butzbach 2003 (therein the family number 3329)
• Wilhelm Havemann: History of the Lands Braunschweig and Lüneburg. Volume 3, Göttingen 1857.
• Joachim Lampe: Aristocracy, court nobility and state patriciate in Kurhannover. The spheres of life of the higher officials at the Hanoverian central and court authorities 1714–1760. Volume 1: Presentation ; Volume 2: Lists of officials and pedigrees. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1963.
• Jan von Busch (ed.): Theology of the Enlightenment - tension between baroque church space, church music and natural science. On the 275th birthday of Heinrich Julius Tode. (= Rostock Theological Studies. Volume 19). LIT-Verlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1797-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the land constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755). Rostock 1864, p. 244.