Johann, Graf von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein

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Johann VIII zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein (* October 14, 1601 † April 2, 1657 ), from 1651 Count zu Sayn-Wittgenstein- Hohenstein, was a German military, diplomat and Brandenburg governor.

Johann fought for several years in the Thirty Years' War as a Swedish colonel .

From 1633 to 1634 he was a member of the Consilium formatum . In 1642 he was appointed Privy Councilor of Brandenburg and as Brandenburg's main envoy from 1645 he was significantly involved in the peace negotiations in Münster and Osnabrück , which led to the Peace of Westphalia in October 1648 . He negotiated with Sweden the exchange of Western Pomerania for the principality of Minden and the abandoned bishoprics of Cammin , Halberstadt and the candidacy for the diocese of Magdeburg . In the end, a payment of 45,000 Reichstaler to the Swedish ambassadors was decisive.

The Great Elector, Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg , gave Count Johann the County of Hohenstein as early as 1647 for his services during the peace negotiations. In 1649 he was appointed by the elector as governor in the newly gained principality of Minden and in the county of Ravensberg . Between 1655 and 1657, with his mint master Behrend Levi , he triggered regional inflation by deteriorating coins , which led to resistance from those affected.

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Comte de Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein (14 octobre 1601 - 11 août 1653), Comte de Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (11 août 1653 - 2 avril 1657) Graf zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Lohra-Hohenstein, Herr von Klettenberg, Governor of Halberstadt, Minden, & der Kurmark

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