Konrad Bethmann

Konrad (also called " Conrad " ) Bethmann (* 1652 in Goslar, † 1701) was as mint master of the Mint, and in the service and worked on behalf of secular and ecclesiastical lords.

Life

He was born in Goslar, the seventh child of the merchant Andreas Bethmann, four years after the Peace of Westphalia was the Thirty Years' War to an end. In the former German patchwork of small and medium principalities itself ambitious officers, and entrepreneurs offered numerous opportunities to professionally advance.

After leaving his hometown, he served as the Mint in Doemitz (Mecklenburg), also from 1683 as Master of the Mint of the Princess of Nassau- Holzappel in Cramberg an der Lahn, then from 1687 as Master of the Mint for the Teutonic Order in Friedberg (Hessen ), and finally from 1692 Master of the Mint for the Archbishopric and Electorate of Mainz, Aschaffenburg.

Among the oldest accessible via online access archival materials about the family Bethmann in Frankfurt am Main is one of a criminal complaint, the Bethmann 1685 reimbursed on behalf of the House of Nassau. Under the rubric of " the Jews resisting strangers " of the case is summarized in the archive as follows:

Conrad Bethmann, princely Nassau- Schaumburg shear mint master, against Menckestraße and Abraham for pike (father and son) for the theft of Schaumburg Hellern in Schwalbach near Königstein and receiving stolen property. Defendant stated that they have acquired the stolen coins in good faith. Arrest for Abraham, released on position of 304 Rt safety. Comparison of Abraham with the Nassau- Schaumburg will cellar Contains: Medical reports about the health of imprisoned Abraham pike; Legal opinion of the Syndics.

He left behind his widow Anna Elisabeth (1654-1727) a considerable fortune.

Family

As a Protestant, the widowed Anna Elisabeth and her children left the archdiocese and moved to Lutheran Frankfurt am Main; there it was easier for her to fulfill their religious obligations, they also found there recording with relatives. Three of the daughters of Conrad and Anna Elisabeth married with Frankfurt citizens. Her son Simon Moritz Bethmann (1687-1725) worked as a bailiff in mountain Nassau on the Lahn.

According to Helbing (p. 23), another son lies in the graveyard of St. Lazarus in Regensburg buried. The inscription of his grave stone reads:

" Readers!

Here you may choose what you will not find, and find what you do not seek her. You sought a Müntze and find more than one Müntze:

Dust, earth and ashes of a righteous Christians, namely, from the erstwhile high nobly born and high scholar Mr. Balthasar Johann Bethmann, Sr. High Princely Highness the Governing Mr. Country Graffen to Hesse -Darmstadt, best- meritiert - has-been mountain -Rath, the high praiseworthy upper - Rhenish Kreyses Müntz -Rath and General Warden, who born anno 1697 d August 12 in Brunswick, as Müntz Master glorious been to Darmstadt from 1706 anno 28 years long, there for a mountain - worthy Rath collected from 1734, from the Hochlöbl. Upper Rhenish Kreyss to Müntz - Probation ad comitia deputired ano 1737, seelig died in 1738 d 26 Juny his fame full age in the 59th year.

Now you know what is for Müntz in that grave, wass their salary, their value, and embossed title. Now they are not the shining though. In God, but live happily. "