Sebastian Friedrich von Kötteritz (Landdrost)

Sebastian Friedrich von Kötteritz (* August 1623 in Meißen ; † 13 August 1666 in Oldenburg ) was a German Oberlanddrost in the service of the County of Oldenburg .

Life

Kötteritz was born as the son of the electoral Saxon secret councilor Sebastian Friedrich von Kotteritz († 1628) and his wife Dorothea Sophia born. born from Einsiedel . His mother died a few weeks after he was born.

He grew up with distant relatives and began his studies at the University of Wittenberg in October 1639 , went to the University of Jena in 1641 , to the University of Leipzig in 1642 and finally finished his wide-ranging education in 1644 again in Wittenberg. In the following year he entered the service of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony , who assigned him to the Saxon legation for the peace negotiations in Osnabrück and Münster . From 1646 Kötteritz also worked for the Swedish ambassador Johann von Oxenstierna , who recommended him to the Oldenburg Count Anton Günther von Oldenburg when he was looking for a prince tutor for his illegitimate son. In 1649 he then entered the Oldenburg service and accompanied Anton I of Aldenburg as court master from 1650 to 1653 on his great cavalier tour through Germany, Italy, France, Holland and England.

After his return, Kötteritz was appointed to the council on January 1, 1654 and was entrusted with a number of special diplomatic missions in the following years. In 1656, Anton Günther appointed a secret council to exonerate himself, to which Kötteritz also belonged. This small body was intended as an advisory body for all government affairs, but ceased its activities two years later. Kötteritz then quickly moved to the head of the Oldenburg administration. In 1657 he became Drost von Varel and Jade and three years later Landdrost von Oldenburg. In this function, Kötteritz, as the county’s highest official, practically assumed the position of a leading minister in later times. At his urging, Anton Günther re-established the Privy Council in 1663 and appointed Kötteritz as its director, who held this position until his death. The connection of the Landdrostenamt with the function of a director of the Privy Council had a favorable effect and secured the existence of this body, which continued to exist as a budget council in the Danish time of the county from 1667 to 1773 as the highest government body.

family

Kötteritz married Anna Catharina born on November 24, 1659. von und zu Fräncking (1632–1677), the daughter of the Jeverschen district president Johann Sigismund von und zu Fräncking (1583–1663) and his first wife Ottilia Catharina born. von Veltheim (1603-1652).

literature

• Kötteritz, Sebastian Friedrich von. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 390-391 ( online ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charlotte Amelie de la Tremoille: The life of Princess Charlotte Amelie de la Tremoille, Countess of Aldenburg (1652-1732) - told by herself. Introduced, translated and explained by Reinhard Mosen. Schulzesche Hof bookstore and Hof book printing. Oldenburg and Leipzig, 1892. Page 360. Digitized.