Danckelman's seven stars

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Danckelmann Palace in Lingen / Ems

As Danckelmansches Pleiades (also Danckelmannsches or Danckelmannisches Pleiades ) of the family were as far back as seven brothers Danckelman called, all lawyers were held high state offices, 1689 together in the kingdom of nobility and 1695 by Emperor Leopold I in the realm baron conditions was collected. Her parents were the builders of the Danckelmann House in Lingen (Ems) (today district court), the district judge, Gograf of the County of Lingen and electoral councilor Mijnheer Sylvester (also Vastardus) Danckelman (1601–1679) and his wife Beate Derenthal († 1683) .

The brothers of the seven stars had two other brothers who, however, died early, as well as three sisters. All grew up in the County of Lingen, which belonged to the Orange until 1702 . The family of grandfather Johann Danckelmann (1563–1642) originally lived in Rheine , but had to leave the Principality of Münster due to their Calvinist creed and found acceptance in the Netherlands.

Johannes von Danckelman

Johannes (born January 4, 1637 in Lingen; † March 24, 1706 in Jever ) was councilor to Count Ernst Wilhelm von Bentheim-Steinfurt , Drost of the Grafschaft Schaumburg-Lippe , president of the Brandenburg-African trading company and resident of the Westphalian district in Emden .

Thomas Ernst von Danckelman

Thomas Ernst (born February 24, 1638 in Lingen, † August 10, 1709 in Lingen) was appointed envoy extraordinary at the court of St James's Palace in London in 1688 and director of the Prussian administration in Lingen and curator of the Lingen High School. He secured for Friedrich I. , after the death of Wilhelm III. of Orange , on March 25, 1702, by a bloodless coup d'état, the county of Lingen, despite the objection of the United Netherlands , for Prussia.

Sylvester Jakob von Danckelman

Sylvester Jakob von Danckelman

Sylvester Jakob (born November 2, 1640 in Lingen; † August 5, 1695 in Berlin), Privy Councilor, was Professor of Law at the Steinfurter High School at Heidelberg University , where he was also elected rector for a year, and at the University of Franeker . In 1688 Sylvester Jakob was appointed representative for the Perpetual Reichstag in Regensburg. In 1689/90 he and his brother Nikolaus Bartholomäus represented the Elector in the election of Joseph I as Roman-German King in Augsburg and in 1690 became President of the Court of Appeal and the Consistory in Berlin .

Eberhard Christoph Balthasar von Danckelman

Eberhard von Danckelman

Eberhard Christoph Balthasar (born November 23, 1643 in Lingen; † March 31, 1722 in Berlin ), probably the best-known of the seven brothers, was tutor of the Brandenburg Elector and later King Friedrich I in Prussia, Brandenburg Minister and Prussian High President (Prime Minister) . Eberhard Danckelman's responsibility included the founding of the University of Halle in 1694 and the Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1696. His numerous enemies brought about his overthrow and arrest in 1697. One of the many accusations related directly to the seven stars, whose high offices were suspect to the envious. However, Eberhard's five brothers who were still alive at the time were not molested. Despite an amnesty in 1707, Frederick I made sure never to meet him again. After his accession to the throne in 1713, Friedrich Wilhelm I honored him back to the court and valued his advice. A revision of his process and a return of his goods did not take place.

Daniel Ludolf von Danckelman

Daniel Ludolf von Danckelman

Daniel Ludolf (born October 8, 1648 in Lingen; † February 14, 1709 in Berlin), real secret council of state and war commissioner and general war commissioner , was tutor of Prince Ludwig of Brandenburg (1666-1687), later belonged to the government of the Principality of Halberstadt and became president of the Berlin Consistory in 1702 . In 1694, Daniel Ludolf was also appointed first senior curator at the University of Halle. Together with his brother Eberhard, he was an important supporter of Halle Pietism and was in correspondence with his pioneer, the theologian and educator August Hermann Francke (1663–1727).

A place on the new campus of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg was named Von-Danckelmann-Platz in his honor .

Nikolaus Bartholomäus Michael von Danckelman

Nikolaus Bartholomäus Michael von Danckelman

Nikolaus Bartholomäus Michael (born May 25, 1650 in Lingen; † October 27, 1739 in Lodersleben ), Privy Councilor, was appointed Kurbrandenburg ambassador at the imperial court in Vienna in 1688 and represented the elector in the election of Joseph I in 1689/90 together with his brother Sylvester Jakob . to the Roman-German King. In 1690 he married Sophie Magdalena von Brömse (also: von Brömbsen) (1660–1702). In 1697 he was plenipotentiary for the Peace of Ryswyk . In the same year he was assigned to the very elderly Chancellor of the Duchy of Magdeburg Gottfried von Jena as Minister of State and District President. In 1722 he bought two of the three manors owned by Heinrich Clemens von Starschedel and became the lord of the manor and patronage in Lodersleben. After his death, his son Carl Ludolph von Danckelmann succeeded him as patronage. His daughters Beate Sophie Juliane (born January 13, 1690; † September 16, 1716) and Constantina Concordia Perpedua († June 24, 1724) were married to the government councilor Hans Adam von Ende (November 9, 1686; † 1746) .

Nikolaus Bartholomäus is the progenitor of all later living members of the Danckelman family.

Wilhelm Heinrich von Danckelman

Wilhelm Heinrich (born August 15, 1654 in Lingen; † April 14, 1729), Privy Councilor, was envoy to the Kurmainzer Hof, chancellor of the Principality of Minden and envoy in Hamburg .

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  1. ↑ Hans Taubken: The history of the written language in the city…. Lingen from the 16th to the 19th century. (PDF; 3.9 MB), p. 16/17, 1981, Bohlau Verlag Cologne / Vienna, archived at LWL , accessed on September 3, 2011.