Friedrich Christoph von Görne

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Friedrich Christoph von Görne (* mid- 1734 in Gollwitz , Mittelmark ; † October 16, 1817 ) was a Prussian minister of state .

Life

His parents were the President of the Court of Justice Hans Christoph von Görne (1697–1765), heir to Kützkow , Tiekow , Lugowen , and his wife Sophie Wilhelmine Eleonore, nee. von Bassewitz († 1791). His grandfather, Hans Friedrich Christoph von Görne , had already held high offices in the Brandenburg-Prussian monarchy and so Friedrich Christoph was also looking for a career in civil administration.

After he had apparently received private tuition at home, he went to the Knight Academy in Brandenburg (Havel) from June 1749 and from March 1753 studied law at the Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) . On July 12, 1758 he began as an auscultator at the Kurmärkische Kammer and after the first legal examination in September 1758 as a trainee lawyer at the Berlin Chamber Court . In January 1760 he was already a war and domain councilor in the Breslau Chamber, from which he resigned in May 1764.

After his father's death in 1765, the heavily indebted Gollwitz property fell to him. On August 12, 1766, he married the divorced wife of Baron von Asseburg, Johanna Juliane, née Johanna Juliane, who was almost 40 years his senior. Ketzler (* around 1697). In 1767 he received the title of Chamberlain from Friedrich II and became State Director of the Principality of Brzeg . On October 2, 1768 he received the Silesian Inkolat (inclusion in the knighthood). After his wife's death in mid-1768, he inherited the Jacobine, Ober- and Nieder-Dremmling and Schimmeley estates in Silesia.

On December 4, 1774, he was appointed Minister of State and War at the General Directorate by the King and, from April 2, 1775, he was appointed head of maritime trade . At that time von Görne owned properties in four provinces: in Magdeburg (Gut Kützkow), the Kurmark (Tiekow and Bahnitz ), in Silesia (the goods inherited from his wife) and in East Prussia (grandfather's goods in Lugowen). He also bought a house in Berlin ( Palais Görne ). He had also acquired the Triebusch and Klein Saul estates in 1770 , Ellguth and Schmarcker in 1771, Klein Peiskerau in the Ohlau district in 1774 and Schiedlawe and Raschewitz in 1778.

As head of the maritime trade, he initially earned services to the bankrupt company by merging the two separate companies Compagnie de Prusse and Société maritime in 1775 . In 1777 he received the post of permanent commissioner at the Kur- und Neumärkische Knighthood Credit Association. Because of embezzlement of large sums he was arrested by the governor of Berlin on the orders of the king and sentenced to life imprisonment, his property was confiscated and his goods sold. In mid-1790 he was released from prison in return for waiver of all further claims and received an annual pension of 800 thalers. Then he retired to an estate in Havelland . In 1805 he had to serve a one year fortress arrest for "unnatural fornication" in the fortress of Magdeburg. He died on October 16, 1817 and was buried on October 29 in the Rathenower Weinberg cemetery.

Friedrich Christoph von Görne was a knight of the Order of St. John .

literature

  • Rolf Straubel: Friedrich Christoph von Goerne (1734–1817): Autonomous minister of King Friedrich II or plaything of his secretaries and foreign magnates? , BWV - Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2014

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage, VI. HA, Nl Görne, FC v.
  2. Frederick the Great: For the correct appreciation of his heart and mind . Published by Karl Friedrich Müchler, In der Rauck'schen Buchhandlung, Berlin, 1837, p. 495
  3. Memory of a scandal minister