Sweet milk (family)

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The Süßmilch family comes from the border area between Bohemia and Upper Lusatia, where they held the office of inheritance at the border fortress Tollenstein near Rumburk and converted to Protestantism in the course of the Bohemian Reformation. In addition to lawyers, it also produced officers, entrepreneurs and scientists.

history

From 1600 to 1634 the office was exercised by Christoph Süßmilch, his second son Elias was succeeded. He was married to a Catholic for the second time and converted to Catholicism again on this occasion. His son Elias, from his first marriage, had traveled to France, England, Holland and Germany in his youth and studied law at several universities, but fell out with the father and the family of the stepmother because he in turn refused to convert.

He went abroad penniless, entered the service of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg (The Great Elector) and fought in the battle of Fehrbellin (June 18, 1675) in the electoral guard. After the battle he resigned his service with the rank of sergeant lieutenant. In 1674 Elias Süßmilch married the widowed Katharina Scherer, b. Lembke. Through this marriage he became the owner of the Erbbraukrug in Zehlendorf , which according to the inheritance register from 1591 was connected to a brewery and to which a farm belonged.

Elias Süßmilch's sons acquired civil rights in Berlin and exercised the right to brew brewing alongside other trades while the jug was leased out. Christoph Süßmilch, eldest son from his first marriage, received his cousin and teacher Ulrich Liebpert's privilege in 1716 after the death of his cousin and teacher Ulrich Liebpert , which was associated with the title of Royal Prussian court printer and important court and state orders, but was revoked from him in 1721, because he had apparently fallen from grace at court. His half-brother Elias Süßmilch, who came from his father's second marriage, was active in agriculture, grain trading and brewing, and in 1706 he married Maria Blell from Brandenburg.

The firstborn son from this connection was Johann Peter Süßmilch (1707–1767), provost at St. Petri in Cölln and founder of modern demography and statistics. In 1751 Johann Peter took over the Zehlendorfer Krug, which was still leased. When a daily express post (journalier) was set up between Berlin and Potsdam in 1754, Süßmilch also took over the business and leased it to the tenant of his jug. In the same year he sold the entire jug property to the city secretary Johann Christian Schlicht and instead acquired the Schulzenhöft and the windmill in Friedrichshagen.

literature

  • Vincenz John:  Sweet milk, Johann Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 188-195.
  • Heinrich Banniza von Bazan: The Zehlendorfer Kruger Elias Süßmilch (around 1700), his clan and offspring . In: The Herald for Gender, Coat of Arms and Seal Studies, Vol. 2, 1941, pp. 1–15
  • Arthur Georgi: The development of the Berlin book trade up to the establishment of the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels in 1825 . Parey, Berlin 1926, p. 91 (to the court printer Christoph Süßmilch)
  • Wolfgang Neugebauer : Johann Peter Süßmilch . In: Gerd Heinrich (Ed.), Berlinische Lebensbilder , Vol. 5, Berlin 1990, pp. 183-200
  • Zehlendorfer Chronik, 8 (93), series of publications by the Heimatverein for the district of Zehlendorf eV
  • Hartmut Zückert: commons and repeal of commons. Comparative studies on the late Middle Ages up to the agricultural reforms of the 18th and 19th centuries. Century. Lucius and Lucius, Stuttgart 2002 (= sources and research on agricultural history, 47), p. 385 ("Krug- und Pfarrland Zehlendorf")