Adolph Magnus from Hoym
Adolph Magnus Freiherr von Hoym , from 1711 Imperial Count von Hoym (* May 6, 1668 in Droyßig ; † October 15, 1723 in Ratibor , Upper Silesia ) was a royal Polish and electoral Saxon real secret council , cabinet minister, general excise inspector , Chief Tax Director and Entrepreneur.
family
Hoym came from the old Anhalt noble family Hoym and was the eldest son of Ludwig Gebhard von Hoym (1631–1711) and Catharina Sophia von Schönfeld.
Hoym became known mainly through his wife, Anna Constantia von Brockdorff , who was 12 years his junior . After her marriage in 1699, Anna Constantia lived at Burgscheidungen Castle with her husband, the director of the Saxon general excise college Adolph Magnus von Hoym, whom she knew from Wolfenbüttel. As early as 1703, however, Hoym sought to separate from his "vicious and domineering" wife. But this marriage was not divorced until 1706, partly because it kept the birth of an illegitimate child from the Count of Hoym. August the Strong became aware of the witty Anna Constantia in 1705 and brought her to court. Baron von Hoym warned August the Strong against her because he considered her unsuitable for the office of Maitresse en Titre .
On July 18, 1711 Hoym - together with his brothers Carl Siegfriedt , Ludwig Gerhard and Carl Heinrich Freiherr von Hoym - was elevated to the rank of count as imperial vicar in Dresden by August the Strong .
On March 16, 1715, all four brothers in Vienna also received the Silesian Inkolat (recognition of nobility).
Life
With the establishment of the General Excise College in 1704, a large number of authorities were created to deal with the tasks at hand. With the order of August 31, 1707, the general consumption excise was regulated for all of Saxony. Hoym was appointed here as director of the newly established Electoral Saxon General Excise College from Flemming to Dresden.
In 1707, in the newly established Secret Cabinet, Hoym was appointed Cabinet Minister and real Secret Councilor by August the Strong. But Hoym is not up to the quarrels at the Dresden court and the constant intrigues , especially those of the court bubble around Countess Henriette Amalie von Reuss .
As early as 1711 he gave up civil service at August's court and sold his goods in Saxony. He withdrew to Silesia and from then on occupied himself as an industrialist with the expansion of brass factories, etc. a. in Jakobswalde and Slawentzitz , which he had acquired in 1714 in exchange with Jakob Heinrich Graf von Flemming for the manor Burgscheidungen with the manor Birkigt .
On June 1, 1713, he sold his two thirds of the Kirchscheidungen manor to the Oberamtmann Conrad Werner Weydemeyer and received 27,500 guilders for it.
He was last married to Johanna Maximiliana geb. Countess of Friesen . This marriage also remained childless and was divorced on April 5, 1714.
literature
- Alfons Perlick : Hoym, Adolf Magnus von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 670 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984, ISSN 0435-2408 .
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| SURNAME | Hoym, Adolph Magnus from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoym, Adolph Magnus Freiherr von; Hoym, Adolph Magnus Graf von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saxon minister and Silesian entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1668 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Drunky |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1723 |
| Place of death | Ratibor , Upper Silesia |