Carl Friedrich Hatzfeldt to equals

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Carl Friedrich Anton Graf Hatzfeldt zu Gleichen (born September 14, 1718 in Vienna ; † September 5, 1793 ibid) was an Austrian statesman .

biography

The son of the Imperial and Royal Privy Councilor Franz Hatzfeldt zu Gleichen and Anna Charlotte, née Countess von Stadion zu Warthausen , were intended for the clergy. At a young age he became canon of Mainz . In 1737, Hatzfeldt entered the civil service of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation as an imperial chamberlain . After the death of Charles VI. he remained in the service of the Habsburgs and moved to Prague in 1741 as a royal Bohemian councilor of appeal . Until the dissolution of the Lieutenancy he was a supernumerary governor and then worked as an assessor in the Chamber in Prague. In 1749, Hatzfeldt was appointed a real secret council. On November 16, 1755 he married Countess Maria Charlotte von Ostein (1733–1809).

In 1761 he was appointed President of the Court of Appeal in Prague, the German-Erbländischen Credits-Deputation and the Ministerial-Banco-Deputation. He took over the management of the entire Austrian credit system and the supervision of the Viennese city of Banco. His task was to reform and unite the state credit and cash systems to form a general treasury. Finally, Hatzfeldt was also appointed President of the General Treasury.

After the coronation of Emperor Franz I, Hatzfeldt took part in the reorganization of state finances and accounting. At his suggestion, there were changes to government bonds and the introduction of cash journals. On May 6, 1764, he was the first German to be awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Stephen for his services . In May 1765, Hatzfeldt was appointed President of the Court Chamber in succession to Count von Herberstein while retaining his previous offices .

After the death of Franz I, there was a power struggle between Hatzfeld and the president of the court audit chamber Ludwig von Zinzendorf , in which Hatzfeld sharply attacked the creation of a decentralized country bank and a state trading company, which Zinzendorf had planned. On June 6, 1768, Hatzfeldt presented the "peace and war system" for the reorganization of state finances, which was put into effect on May 5, 1769 by Maria Theresa after fierce resistance from Zinzensdorf. On August 1, 1771, as part of Hatzfeldt's plans, paper money was introduced . In 1775 the state treasury achieved a surplus for the first time.

After his appointment as the highest chancellor of the court chancellery for Austria and Bohemia, Hatzfeldt handed over his other offices to Leopold Kolowrat in 1771 . In the same year, at the suggestion of Josef II. Hatzfeldt, he was appointed State Minister and successor to Starhemberg. Hatzfeldt's clerical and conservative views became increasingly incompatible with Joseph's plans for state reform. In 1772 he asked for the negotiations on the abolition of the death penalty to be suspended, and a year later he proposed a system of government based on maintaining Catholicism as the state religion and viewing the feudal court and the wealth of the nobility as a source of popular wealth, where was declared the main task of the government to maintain the nobility.

Until his death, Hatzfeldt held the office of minister for domestic business.

After his father's death in 1733 he inherited the Bohemian rule of Dlaschkowitz . He promoted the garnet mining in Podseditz , where he built the Neugründel settlement in 1773. In 1779 Hatzfeldt had the Podseditz garnet factory built and thus laid the foundation for the garnet industry in the Bohemian Central Uplands . In 1773 he acquired the west Bohemian rule Chlumcan .

Carl Friedrich Hatzfeld zu Gleichen was a great-grandson of Melchior von Hatzfeldt .

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personal data
SURNAME Hatzfeldt to equals, Carl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hatzfeldt to equals, Carl Friedrich Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian statesman
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1793
Place of death Vienna