Franz Wilhelm von Happe

Franz Wilhelm von Happe

Franz Wilhelm von Happe (born September 4, 1687 in Berlin ; † July 1, 1760 in Berlin) was a Prussian secret budget and war councilor, state minister and heir to Lanke , Prenden , Uetzdorf and Sophienstädt.

Life

origin

Happe's grandfather Wilhelm Heinrich Happe (1625–1700) was a tax collector, heir to Lanke and Uetzdorf and, from 1652, chamber clerk in the secret state chancellery of Elector Friedrich Wilhelms . He was raised to imperial nobility in 1695 and on March 1, 1698 received the Brandenburg nobility recognition.

His father Otto Wilhelm von Happe (* around 1657 in Berlin; † August 1, 1718), heir to Lanke and Uetzdorf, was a privy councilor to King Friedrich Wilhelm . His mother Marie Elisabeth von Burgsdorf († 1726) was the daughter of a Wroclaw patrician.

career

Happe received his first lessons at the school in Utrecht . This was followed by studies in Halle (registered on March 1, 1705) until 1708. After completing his studies, he traveled to Holland and England and in June 1710 to Lunéville via Nancy and Metz . In 1709 he took part in the campaign in the War of the Spanish Succession as a volunteer . Since his father did not agree to a military career, he went to The Hague in May 1711 to be introduced to King Friedrich I. This sent him as an embassy cavalier to Frankfurt am Main for the emperor election of Charles VI. and in February 1712 to Utrecht as an embassy cavalier at the peace congress . In 1713 he traveled to Paris and then went to Berlin in 1714. In 1715 he was appointed district administrator and chamberlain , in 1716 sent to Denmark as Envoyé , in 1718 as a secret war councilor at the General War Commissariat , in 1721 as envoy to the court in Dresden , from 1722 on a member of the provincial commission and soon as its director. On May 1, 1726, he was sent to Stockholm as Envoyé . From July 31, 1727, he was Finance Councilor in Department II and President of the Kurmark War and Domain Chamber with the character of a minister. On June 21, 1731 he became a real minister in the general directorate , was initially head of Department I in the successor of the dispensed von Creutz , and in March 1747 he moved to Department IV.

family

In 1714, Happe married Baroness Maria von Wrede († 1717), the daughter of the Elector of Cologne Chamberlain and Councilor in the Principality of Westphalia, Freiherr von Wrede. The three sons Alexander Christoph, Prussian captain , Ludwig Wilhelm (1716–1791), Prussian war council and Ernst Wilhelm, Prussian captain, emerged from the marriage.

Residences

In 1668 the Lanke estate came into the possession of the Happe family, who erected the first permanent knight's seat with stately buildings there. After the death of Franz Wilhelm von Happe, the property changed hands. Around 1688 Wilhelm Heinrich Happe had a house built at Brüderstraße 10 in Berlin, which remained in the family's possession until 1737. In 1736 Franz Wilhelm von Happe received the property at Leipziger Straße 5 from King Friedrich Wilhelm I as a gift and inheritance. According to plans by Johann Carl Stoltze and Friedrich Wilhelm Diterichs , he had a palace built by 1737, which was sold in 1753 and became the seat of the Prussian War Ministry in 1819 .

literature

• Johann David Cube: Funeral Sermon, on S. Excellenz, the Hochwohlgebohrnen Lord, Mr. Franz Wilhelm von Happe . Georg Ludewig Winter, Berlin 1760 ( full text in the Google book search).
• Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 380 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Laurenz Demps: Berlin-Wilhelmstrasse. Ch.links Verlag, 4th edition September 2010, p. 254.