Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl
Franz Xaver Josef Freiherr von Unertl (born February 21, 1675 in Munich ; † January 22, 1750 there ) was the electoral Bavarian secret council chancellor and conference minister.
Life
In 1691 he completed his studies at the Jesuit high school in Munich (today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ) and then took up law studies in Ingolstadt .
According to Christian Probst , Unertl was secretary of the Imperial Administration in Bavaria in 1705 . Under Elector Maximilian II. Emanuel he was court counselor and secret secretary and after the occupation of the Munich Rent Office he entered the service of the imperial administration, where he managed the estate finances and represented his authority in the Bavarian landscape .
Unertl was soon regarded as the most reliable Bavarian official, which is why administrator Count Löwenstein entrusted him with the management of the investigation into the ringleaders after the Bavarian popular uprising in 1705/06 . Although he made himself hated by the population, he retained the favor of Max Emanuel because he had brought Munich's secret archive to safety during the occupation of Munich and, according to Christian Probst, apparently remained in secret contact with him. When the elector returned to Bavaria, he immediately took over Unertl again. His role in the Austrian occupation during the War of the Spanish Succession remains unclear.
Even after his return in 1715, Max Emanuel appointed neither a new Council Chancellor nor a Vice Chancellor of the Secret Council until the end of his government in 1726, after the last Vice Chancellor Wämpl had died in 1704. The new elector Karl Albrecht then made Unertl secret council chancellor from 1726 and he maintained this position for more than twenty years. Franz Xaver Andreas von Praidlohn did not follow him until 1749 .
Since the question of succession of the Habsburgs in Vienna was open, Max Emanuel's successor Karl Albrecht protested with the Electoral Palatinate and Electoral Saxony in 1732/33 against the confirmation of the Pragmatic Sanction by the Reich and at the same time had his Chancellor Unertl work out a "Deductio jurium" in which now the entire Austrian heritage was claimed. Unertl had the fate of Max Emanuel in mind in 1704 and later warned of the consequences of war, albeit unsuccessfully. The leading conference minister Ignaz von Törring stood for a great power policy to which the elector had also subscribed.
After Karl Albrecht's death in 1745, Unertl could no longer appear politically, even though he retained his office for a few years.
His sister Maria Johanna was married to the important salt merchant Johann Baptista Ruffini .
literature
- Langheiter, Alexander: Franz Xaver Josef Freiherr von Unertl . In: Wurst, Jürgen and Langheiter, Alexander (Ed.): Monachia. Munich: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 2005. P. 150, ISBN 3-88645-156-9 .
- Christian Probst : Better to die Bavarian . The Bavarian people's uprising in 1705 and 1706, Süddeutscher Verlag Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7991-5970-3 .
- Edmund von Oefele : Unertl, Franz Xaver Joseph Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 767-769.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 2, p. 55.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Unertl, Franz Xaver Josef von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Unertl, Franz Xaver Josef Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | electoral Bavarian secret council chancellor and conference minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1675 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1750 |
| Place of death | Munich |