Wilhelm Jocher
Wilhelm Jocher (born November 15, 1565 in Mauterndorf ; † May 3, 1636 in Munich ) was a German lawyer, Bavarian privy councilor and close advisor to Maximilian I of Bavaria.
Life
Wilhelm Jocher was born as the son of Christoph Jocher († 1594) and the Lucretia Kellner in Lungau , where the ancestors of the family from the Upper Bavarian Joch on the Kochelsee had emigrated. Jocher studied law at the University of Ingolstadt and received his doctorate there in 1592 . He then worked as an assessor at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer until 1604 , then entered the Bavarian service as a caretaker for Dachau , and from 1611 as a secret council . As "Crown Lawyer" ( Dieter Albrecht ) of Maximilian I, Jocher was involved in an advisory capacity in central decisions of the Bavarian politics of the epoch: the Donauwörther event (from 1607), the foundation of the Catholic League (1609), the conclusion of the Munich Treaty (1619), the ostracism of Frederick V of the Palatinate and the transfer of the electoral dignity to Maximilian after the Battle of the White Mountain (1620) and the long-term alliance negotiations between Bavaria and France that finally led to the Treaty of Fontainebleau (1631) . In 1621, Jocher made the combat pamphlet Fürstlich Anhaltische gehaimbe Canzley from the files left behind in Prague by Frederick V , which documented a conspiracy of the Bohemian rebels with European Protestantism to overthrow the imperial constitution and thus justify the intervention of the emperor and league. In the early 1630s, Jocher slowly withdrew from politics due to health issues. He was buried next to his wife Anna von Mittersbach († 1630), whom he married in 1604, in a side chapel of the Dachau parish church of St. Jakob .
literature
- Dieter Albrecht: Maximilian I of Bavaria 1573–1651 , Munich: Oldenbourg 1998 (short biography of Jochers p. 165 f .; numerous other mentions).
- Dieter Albrecht: Jocher von Egersperg, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 447 ( digitized version ).
- Felix Stieve : Jocher, Wilhelm von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 102.
Endnotes
- ↑ Georg Schmidt: The horsemen of the apocalypse. History of the Thirty Years War. Munich 2018, p. 197 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jocher, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, Bavarian privy councilor and close advisor to Maximilian I of Bavaria |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1565 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mauterndorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1636 |
| Place of death | Munich |