Johann von Hoverbeck

John of Hoverbeck, since 1663 Johann Freiherr von Hoverbeck (* December 1, 1606 in Alexandrowice in Krakow, † April 6, 1682 in Hohenstein East Prussia ) was a German diplomat.

Hoverbecks father, Nicholas of Hoverbeck, descendant of an old noble family of Flanders was in 1570 by Brabant after Alexandrowice, an estate village near Krakow, emigrated, ostensibly for reasons of faith. Overbeck's mother was Ursula Gutteter - Dobrodziejski from a patrician family of German descent in Krakow; her Polish noble title is doubted. The first name of the paternal grandfather Hoverbecks also was Johann.

Life

1614 Hoverbeck went to high school in Gdansk. Since 1626 he made ​​an extensive grand tour to Germany, the Netherlands, England ( Oxford University, London ) France (Paris, Academy of Sedan), Italy and Hungary. In between, he did military service abroad. So he took, inter alia, as an artillery Commissioner 1628 to the capture of La Rochelle in part, and in the summer of 1629 he participated in a campaign in Holland.

In June 1630 he returned home. He entered 1631 into the kurbrandenburgischen civil service, where he was involved in " Prussian, Polish and other foreign matters ." After he became in 1632 secretary of legation, he was in 1634 appointed kurbrandenburgischen envoy in Poland. On March 28, 1639, he received the Indigenat for Prussia. 1643 he was appointed privy councilor and raised to Baron. On December 1, 1654 him Erbtruchsessamt the Electorate of Brandenburg was transferred. As a confidant of the Great Elector Hoverbeck advocated a good relationship with Poland and thus contributed significantly to the foreign policy stabilization of Brandenburg-Prussia at. He signed, inter alia, the Treaty of Wehlau. In 1658 he received the Indigenat also for Poland. 1659/1660 he was involved as a representative of the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg on the Treaty of Oliva. A graduate of August 20, 1663 Hoverbeck was raised to the barons stand.

In thanks for his diplomatic achievements him the Great Elector 1653 appropriated the Gutsbezirk calibration media in Mazury. In the village Eich media used to be a castle had stood, which was, however, now destroyed, and of which only the basement and the foundations were left. Hoverbeck was built at the same location, a new representative mansion, which was completed in 1680, two years before his death. John of Hoverbeck was the father of Johann Dietrich von Hoverbeck (1652-1714), who also struck a diplomatic career, and by Ludwig von Hoverbeck.