Wilhelm Heinrich von Thulemeyer

Tobacco College of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, 1737

Wilhelm Heinrich Thulemeyer (born January 6, 1683 in Minden , Westphalia , † August 4, 1740 in Berlin ; from 1728 von Thulemeyer , also Thulemeier ) was Royal Prussian Minister of Justice, from 1731 Prussian Minister of State and War Minister. Thulemeyer was a member of the Tobacco College .

Life

He came from a family originally resident in the Principality of Lippe around 1560 , who first appeared in a document with Horner councilor Gadecke Thulemeier († 1563), and was the son of a tax secretary and later director of the War and Domain Chamber in Minden.

In 1711 Thulemeyer began his career as a Prussian civil servant as the secret secretary of his uncle, Heinrich Rüdiger von Ilgen, at the royal state chancellery . He occupied himself with the education of a count of Lippe-Schaumburg. Thulemeyer became a Prussian privy councilor and state secretary and took over the supervision of the state and cabinet archives as well as the censorship of the Berlin newspapers. From 1719 he was Prussian Minister of Justice; In this function Thulemeyer was raised to the Prussian nobility in December 1728 . In 1731 he was appointed Prussian Minister of State and War. From 1733 until his death he was a director of the Königlich Joachimsthalschen Gymnasium . It cannot be ruled out that parts of his son's musical collection can already be traced back to his father's former musical possession. At that time, the family lived in a house on Friedrichswerder , in Ober-Wallstrasse.

Thulemeyer, Kaspar Wilhelm von Borcke and Friedrich Ernst zu Innhausen and Knyphausen dealt with a marriage candidate for Wilhelmine of Prussia in 1729 . Her mother sought closer ties with the Anglo-Hanoverian royal family and arranged an engagement between Wilhelmine and her nephew Friedrich Ludwig von Hanover , while her father, who was loyal to the emperor, preferred a rapprochement with the House of Habsburg. The attempt failed and Wilhelmina married Friedrich III. , Margrave of Bayreuth.

Thulemeyer had married the wealthy Ernestine Schilden (* 1705/1706) from Hanover . Ernestine Rosine Schilden was raised together with her three brothers in Laxenburg near Vienna in 1738 to the imperial and hereditary Austrian nobility and knighthood . When her husband died unexpectedly, she was widowed at the age of only 34. From this marriage came Eleonore Friderique and the later Prussian ambassador in The Hague and Justice Minister Friedrich Wilhelm von Thulemeyer (1735-1811), godchild of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia .

literature

• Robert von Blumenthal: The Thulemeier family from Horn in Lippe , in: Genealogy . Volume 36, 1987, ISSN  0016-6383 , pages 737-757
• Jörg Jacoby: Wilhelm Heinrich von Thulemeyer (1683-1740) , in: Westfälische Lebensbilder . Volume VIII, 1959, pages 57-66
• Otto Krauske:  Thulemeier, Wilhelm Heinrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 161-163.
• Wanda von Puttkamer : Wilhelm Heinrich von Thulemeyer, Royal Prussian Budget and State Minister 1683–1740 , unpublished manuscript

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official name spelling according to the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility is Thulemeyer , see Adelslexikon Volume XIV, page 426, Volume 131 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISBN 3-7980-0831-2 .
2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, page 426, Volume 131 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISBN 3-7980-0831-2 .
3. ^ Tobias Schwinger: The Thulemeier musical collection and the Berlin music tradition in the second half of the 18th century . Ortus-Musikverlag, Beeskow 2006, ISBN 3-937788-08-5 , p. 383.
4. ^ Tobias Schwinger: The Thulemeier musical collection and the Berlin music tradition in the second half of the 18th century . Ortus-Musikverlag, Beeskow 2006, ISBN 3-937788-08-5 , p. 382.