Nicolaus von Baumann

Family coat of arms of the Baumanns

Nicolaus von Baumann , also Nikolaus von Baumann , Niclas Bauman (born June 12, 1618 in Pomerania ; † February 10, 1695 ), was a Stralsund merchant and councilor.

Life

Nicolaus Baumann, the son of Dr. iur. Joachim Baumann († 1629) and Regina Schlichtkrull († 1629), was bailiff for the goods of Queen Christina in Swedish Pomerania and in 1660 was councilor in Stralsund. He owned the estates Lüdershagen , Lüssow and Negast near Stralsund and was pledgee on Rosengarten and Poggendorf . His fortune enabled him to provide large loans for the Swedish army, the navy and the Swedish-Pomeranian state. These amounted to around 144,000 thalers and were never paid back.

For his services he was raised to the Swedish nobility on June 17, 1676. The coat of arms shows in blue three golden spears folded together by a golden crown as a star . A special honor was given by King Charles XI. approved crown.

family

Nikolaus von Baumann was a descendant of the Rostock scholar and Middle Low German writer Nicolaus Baumann . In 1638 he married Gertrud Herold († 1681), a daughter of the Greifswald syndic Christoph Herold, with whom he had six daughters and five sons. His second marriage to the businessman's daughter Katharina Tönnjes had two daughters and three sons. While in the new general German nobility lexicon it is asserted that the noble family von Baumann had already died out in the male line with Nikolaus von Baumann's death in 1695, Swedish nobility lists list several generations of descendants.

literature

Baumann, Nikolaus von . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 35.
Gabriel Anrep : Svenska adelns Ättar-taflor. Vol. 1, Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm 1858, p. 127 ( Google books ).
Adolf Häckermann : Baumann, Nikolaus von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 154.
Bernhard Schlegel, Carl Arvid Klingspor : Den med sköldebref förlänade men ej å Riddarhuset introducerade Svenska Adelns Ättar-taflor. Adamant Media Corporation, ISBN 9780543959577 , p. 377.

Web links

Literature about Nicolaus von Baumann in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

^ Diedrich Hermann Biederstedt : Contributions to the history of the churches and preachers in New Western Pomerania, from the beginning of the church improvement of the Duchy to the end of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. 1st part, Kunike, Greifswald 1818, p. 116 ( Google books ).
^ Arnold Brandenburg : History of the Magistrate of the City of Stralsund. Löffler, Stralsund 1837, p. 73 ( Google books )
^ ^A ^b Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1859, p. 230 ( Google books ).

personal data
SURNAME	Baumann, Nicolaus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Baumann, Nikolaus; Baumann, Nikolaus von; Bauman, Niclas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Stralsund merchant and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 12, 1618
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH	February 10, 1695

[1] Diedrich Hermann Biederstedt : Contributions to the history of the churches and preachers in New Western Pomerania, from the beginning of the church improvement of the Duchy to the end of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. 1st part, Kunike, Greifswald 1818, p. 116 ( Google books ).

[2] Arnold Brandenburg : History of the Magistrate of the City of Stralsund. Löffler, Stralsund 1837, p. 73 ( Google books )

[Kneschke-3] A ^b Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1859, p. 230 ( Google books ).