Franz Karl Joseph Anton von Hompesch zu Bollheim

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Franz Karl Joseph Anton von Hompesch zu Bolheim, engraving by Johann Michael Mettenleiter

Franz Karl Joseph Anton von Hompesch zu Bollheim (born April 27, 1735 at Bollheim Castle in Oberelvenich , † August 11, 1800 in Munich ) was an electoral Bavarian treasurer and finance minister.

Origin and family

Baron Franz Karl Joseph Anton came from the noble family Hompesch and was the son of Johann Wilhelm von Hompesch zu Bollheim and his wife Isabella Francisca born. from Bylandt to Rheydt . The Grand Master of the Order of Malta Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bollheim (1744–1804) and the Canon Karl Arnold von Hompesch (1736–1803) were his brothers.

In June 1759 he married Antoinette von Hacke (* September 28, 1736; † 1778), daughter of Baron Ludwig Anton von Hacke . She became the mother of his seven children. In 1779 he married the fifty-year-old Countess Maria Theresia von Hoensbroech (* March 7, 1728 - August 11, 1800), who brought Schloss Mickeln in Himmelgeist near Düsseldorf into the marriage.

Life

Franz Karl Joseph Anton von Hompesch zu Bollheim began his civil service career in 1741 in the Duchy of Jülich-Berg . He became Colonel Jägermeister, General Busch inspector and magistrate to Düren , Pyr and Mercken; Governor in Düsseldorf and finally Chancellor of the Duchy.

In 1775 he became Minister of State and Conference Minister of Finance.

When Elector Karl Theodor took over the government in Munich in 1777, Hompesch accompanied him there and also took over the office of state and conference minister there. In this capacity he was assigned the “finance, economy and treasury matters in the electoral Bavarian, Neuburgian, Sulzbachian, Jülich and Bergisch lands” .

In 1778 he received the Hofmark Berg am Laim from the Elector as a fiefdom and, together with Maximilian von Montgelas and Ignaz Graf Arco, developed a concept for the centralization of manorial rule and for the abrupt abolition of feudal rights, which would have resulted in the liberation of the peasants . To alleviate the oppressive situation of the farmers, the assumption of all manorial rights of the monasteries , towns and markets by the state was considered, which was to be financed by the establishment of a Bavarian mortgage bank. This should have paid the old owners five percent compensation on the expropriated assets annually and financed themselves from the income from the new state property . However, the project remained unpublished and initially had no further consequences.

Even under Elector Maximilian IV. Joseph , he remained in office after his assumption of government (1799) and was considered to be a towering head at court. From the French troops under Jean-Victor Moreau , Max IV. Joseph fled with Maximilian von Montgelas in mid-1800 via Landshut and Amberg to the Prussian Bayreuth and only returned to Munich in the spring of 1801 after Moreau withdrew from Bavaria.

Hompesch died meanwhile and was buried in the entrance area of St. Michael (Berg am Laim) .

progeny

The children of Franz Karl Joseph Anton from his marriage to Antoinette von Hacke were:

The daughter Auguste Elisabeth von Spee b. from Hompesch-Bolheim
  1. Franz Karl von Hompesch (* 1760; † 1812), first in Austrian, then in Prussian service after the Peace of Basel , condottiere in British service, Hompesch Hussars , 1794–1802 in the West Indies .
  2. Johann Wilhelm von Hompesch zu Bolheim (* 1761; † 1809)
  3. Auguste Elisabeth von Hompesch (* February 22, 1763; † May 21, 1785) ⚭ Count Carl-Wilhelm von Spee (1758–1810) You are the great-grandparents of Admiral Count Maximilian von Spee , who became famous in recent German history his two sons was killed in a naval battle near the Falkland Islands .
  4. Christian Josef von Hompesch (* 1764, † 1786), canon in Trier, died of yellow fever in the army of his brother Karl von Hompesch in Santo Domingo .
  5. Ferdinand Ludwig Josef Anton von Hompesch zu Bolheim, English general (* July 17, 1766; † June 24, 1831)
  6. Isabella von Hompesch (* 1769; † 1848) ⚭ August 1, 1804 George Richard St. John, 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke (1761–1824)
  7. Louise von Hompesch (* 1776 - 4 July 1801), (affair with the French general Louis Klein )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Otmar Freiherr von Aretin:  Arco, Ignaz Graf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 338 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich Schannat , Eiflia illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel , p. 531
  3. ^ Genealogical page on Carl-Wilhelm Franz-Xaver von Spee
  4. ^ Yearbooks for Prussian Legislation, Jurisprudence and Legal Administration , Volume 47, Berlin, 1836, pp. 247 and 248; (Digital scan)
  5. ↑ Landschaftsverband Rheinland : Portal Rheinische Geschichte: Digitized Louise von Hompesch (1776-1801), canon
personal data
SURNAME Hompesch zu Bolheim, Franz Karl Joseph Anton von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian Finance Minister
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberelvenich
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1800
Place of death Munich