A capital sum of 200 Reichsthaler courant loaned from the chamber treasury to the colonist Krückeberg No. 10 in Berenbusch (1841-1845)

In 1849 when Johann Heinrich emigrated from Schaumburg-Lippe and settled in Union Township, Adams County, Indiana, he arrived from a principality only three and a half times the size of Union Township with 20,000 inhabitants. Years earlier, in 1798, when his father Jobst wanted to purchase land from the government to enlarge his homestead yard and garden, the Schaumburg-Lippe Rentkammer, the government office in Bückeburg that managed the prince’s money, land, forests, and rural property matters.

This "Guardianship Chamber" or "Regency Chamber" was the primary governing council responsible for the administration of the state and the management of its finances and domains during the minority of the heir, Count George William. The regency was led by Countess Juliane of Schaumburg-Lippe, who was the mother of the minor heir, Count George William. She had been appointed regent in 1787 after the death of her husband, Count Philip II. Her regency, conducted with the assistance of Count Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, was notable for its beneficial reforms in economics and education.

By 1841 the regency no longer existed. This was when Johann Heinrich’s sore financial trials entered the public record of Schaumburg-Lippe. This time it would be the Rentcammer who would render a decision.

The order of the ancillary documents in the case file does not reflect the chronological order of the dates on those documents nor the events in the life of Johann Heinrich Krückeberg that those dates represent. The story flow differs from the filing order.