Georg von Blumenthal

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Georg von Blumenthal (1490-1550) was a German Prince-Bishop of Ratzeburg and Bishop of Lebus. He also served as a Privy Councillor of the Margraviate of Brandenburg and Chancellor of the University of Frankfurt (Oder), commonly called the Viadrina. He was a member of the Blumenthal family.

Bishop von Blumenthal negotiated the second marriage of Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, to the Catholic Hedwig of Poland. He was twice besieged in his palaces by Protestant brigands; once at Fürstenwalde by the robber-baron Nickel von Minkwitz, an event which drew Martin Luther into the controversy, and once at Ratzeburg. He was the last Catholic sovereign ruler in northern Germany, and the only Bishop in Brandenburg during the Protestant Reformation to die a Catholic.