Franz Karl Kressel von Gualtenberg (the younger)

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Baron Franz Karl Kressel von Gualtenberg (also: Franz Karl Kressel von Qualtenberg ; * 1720 at Triebsch Castle , † May 7, 1801 in Prague ) was a Bohemian civil servant.

Life

Franz Karl Kressel von Gualtenberg came from an old Bohemian patrician family from Iglau . He was a son of Franz Karl Kressel of Gualtenberg, District Chief of Leitmeritzer circle , landlord of the Triebsch and the castle stone , and his wife Josephine Pichowsky.

He still had three brothers, two of whom fell in imperial military service at a young age, as well as his brother Johann, who also served as a soldier in imperial service. After the death of his father, Franz Karl Kressel von Gualtenberg inherited the property and was thus master of Triebsch, Vrbicany and Rochov ; the goods were later inherited by his great-nephew Franz Karl Freiherr von Puteani (1782–1847).

He studied both abroad and at home and entered the civil service on his return.

In 1754 he was the first lecturer at the law faculty in Prague and shortly afterwards was called to Vienna by Empress Maria Theresa ; There he became court counselor at the Bohemian court chancellery , then real secret counselor and president of the ecclesiastical court commission ( central office for the spiritual affairs of the monarchy ) and in 1771, after the death of Count Rudolph Chotek von Chotkow , court chancellor of the " Bohemian and Austrian court chancellery" in Vienna .

On behalf of Emperor Joseph II, as a State Councilor, he made important changes in his religious policy , which was later referred to as Josephinism , of which he was the spiritual father. Franz Karl Kressel von Gualtenberg was involved in the abolition of monasteries, the establishment of new parish institutions and in the abolition of ceremonies within the service that did not raise its dignity.

In 1778 he was given the management of the fiefdoms of the Electoral Palatinate of Bavaria .

Freemasons

In 1764 Franz Karl Kressel von Gualtenberg became a member of the Prague Freemason Lodge to the Three Crowned Stars and the Vienna Lodge to the Crowned Hope , in 1779 he was made an honorary member of the Lodge The Growing to the Three Keys in Regensburg , in 1784 Provincial Grand Master of Austria and in 1786 a member the Viennese Lodge on the newly crowned hope , he was also a visitor to the Lodge on True Unity . His religious name was Virginius Optimus .

He was also a member of the Order of Gold and Rosicrucians , but resigned in April 1783.

Awards

Emperor Joseph II awarded him the Commander's Cross of the Order of St. Stephen .

Together with his brother Johann he was raised to the baron status on September 15, 1760.

Works

  • We Maria Theresa by God's grace, Roman Empress, offer everyone and those our grace and all the best. According to this, due to the sad death of the Most Serene Prince and Mr. Maximilian Joseph in Upper and Lower Bavaria, the curb-Bavarian Wilhelminian house in his man lines, we and this crown have fallen as open, so We have graciously found these fiefdoms to be good to be taken into possession by Franz Karl von Kresel, Baron von Qualtenberg. Given in our capital and residence city Vienna, the 15th January in the seventeen eight and seventieth years. Vienna 1778.

Individual evidence

  1. BLKÖ: Kressel of Gualtenberg, Franz Karl Freiherr - Wikisource. Retrieved July 6, 2018 .
  2. ^ Biographical lexicon of the Austrian Empire containing the life sketches of the memorable people who lived in the imperial state and in its crown lands from 1750 to 1850: Kosarek-Lagkner, pp. 201-203 . kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1865 ( google.de [accessed on July 7, 2018]).
  3. ^ German biography: Kressel von Gnaltenberg, Franz, Karl, Freiherr - German biography. Retrieved July 7, 2018 .
  4. Helmut Reinalter: Joseph II .: Reformer on the Imperial Throne, p. 41 . CH Beck, 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62152-9 ( google.de [accessed on July 7, 2018]).
  5. ^ Franz Carl Sales Baron Kressel von Gualtenberg - Illuminaten Wiki. Retrieved July 7, 2018 .