Philipp von Horn

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Philipp von Horn (* around 1595 ; † May 21, 1659 in Berlin ) was Pomeranian Chancellor and Brandenburg statesman.

Life

Philipp von Horn came from the noble family von Horn, who lived on Ranzin and Schlatkow . He was the son of the court administrator and chancellor of Pommern-Wolgast , Burkhard von Horn (1558–1623), and his wife Pelagia von Zitzewitz (widowed von Steding).

Philipp von Horn studied at the Universities of Leipzig and Greifswald . Then, after a cavalier tour , he entered the service of Duke Philipp Julius von Pommern-Wolgast as court counselor and was sent by him to diplomatic missions to Stockholm (1621) and to the Reichstag in Regensburg in 1623 .

Philipp Julius' successor, Duke Bogislaw XIV of Pomerania, appointed him Chancellor of Pomerania and President of the Court of Justice in Wolgast in 1625 . As a skilled diplomat, the Duke sent him on missions to Prague in 1627 and 1628, to the Swedish Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna and King Gustav II Adolf, and in 1630 to Elector Georg Wilhelm of Brandenburg in East Prussia . In May 1630 he conducted negotiations with Wallenstein and then with Gustav II Adolf of Sweden. Together with Paul von Damitz, he concluded an alliance treaty between Sweden and Pomerania in August 1630. The following month he entered the Swedish service for the first time as a councilor, which lasted until the death of Gustav Adolf.

After the griffin dukes died out in 1637, Philipp von Horn initially served in Sweden and initially stayed at the court in Stockholm for a year and a half. In 1642, however, he turned away from the Swedes and, as leader of the inner circle of the Wolgast estates, pursued a policy aimed at connecting with Brandenburg. After a meeting with the Brandenburg Chamberlain, Konrad von Burgsdorff , Philipp von Horn was taken into the service of Brandenburg in 1647 as a Real Privy Councilor. A recognized economic politician in the Pomeranian service, his first task was to reorganize the ailing state financial situation in Brandenburg. As a diplomat he negotiated in The Hague in 1648 about the Klevian possessions of Brandenburg. In Kleve and the Margraviate of Brandenburg , his reforms improved the conditions created by the Thirty Years' War to a small extent .

In 1652 he was sent by the elector to represent him in Prague, where he took part in the negotiations for Ferdinand IV's election as king until his employer arrived . The elector obtained a guarantee from the emperor that Sweden would only get a seat and vote in the Reichstag in the event of the cession of Eastern Pomerania to Brandenburg.

Already ill at this time, he died in Berlin in 1659 after a long and serious illness .

Family and property

Philipp von Horn was married to Esther von Platen for the first time. From his second marriage to Agnesa, the daughter of Joachim von Mörder, comes the son Friedrich Wilhelm von Horn , who was the Swedish and Mecklenburg envoy in Vienna and later the first minister in Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

In 1627 Philipp von Horn acquired Divitz Castle and the manors Frauendorf, Zatel and Karnin from Duke Bogislaw XIV .

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personal data
SURNAME Horn, Philipp von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pomeranian Chancellor and Brandenburg statesman
DATE OF BIRTH around 1595
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1659
Place of death Berlin