Friedrich Karl Kasimir von Creutz

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Friedrich Karl Kasimir von Creutz (born November 24, 1724 in Homburg before the height ; † September 6, 1770 , ibid) was a German poet, philosopher, publicist and politician.

Origin and education

Creutz was the son of Baron von Creutz and the M. Kath. Elis. († 1724 ?, pastor's daughter from Uhrweiler in Alsace ). Creutz, actually Johann Christian Würth von Mackau, from 1727 then Baron von Creutz and Herr zu Würth (1682–1732) was the gray eminence of the noble houses, alchemist and deceiver. He was confidante of Landgrave Ernst Ludwig von Hessen-Darmstadt, who was very interested in alchemy . From around 1715 Creutz was closest adviser to Landgrave Friedrich III. in Homburg, whom he encouraged to resume the prospecting of an alleged gold mine . He had laboratories and an apartment in the Holzhausen Oede at the gates of Frankfurt am Main . This remote area had previously been used for tanning since 1663 and the associated considerable odor nuisance kept the curious away. This was financed by the wealthy Frankfurt patrician family Holzhausen .

The godfather of Friedrich Karl Kasimir von Creutz was Landgrave Kasimir Wilhelm (1690–1726), the brother of Landgrave Friedrich III. and father of Landgrave Friedrich IV. Creutz lived in what would later become the Sinclair House and was raised by court masters with his two older brothers. Since the father died in 1732, the sons apparently also lost his income. The principal of the Homburg school, who continued to teach the young Casimir, soon died. Creutz therefore developed his legal and political education autodidactically . His new sovereign Friedrich IV wanted Creutz to attend the university, but Creutz preferred to work in the civil service.

Life

In 1746 he was appointed Hofrat by Friedrich IV. Even Johann Jacob Moser and Councilor of Kalm had tried to rehabilitate the Homburger Finance, but the mismanagement that under Frederick III. had already led to the formation of an imperial debit commission could not be resolved. Promoted to the Council of State at the age of 27, Creutz was appointed First Minister for Frederick V by the guardian government. The older Hessen-Darmstadt line tried to regain Hessen-Homburg as early as 1747 . In 1751 Darmstadt troops again moved into Homburg and Landgrave Ludwig VIII claimed the guardianship of Friedrich V. Von Creutz fought, led trials and launched complaints with the Reichshofrat . In 1754 he finally brought a lawsuit against Emperor Franz I for breach of the peace . In 1755 he was imprisoned in Gießen for one and a half years by Hessen-Darmstadt .

In 1756, Creutz finally achieved the breakthrough in 1756, when he was promoted to privy councilor and imperial councilor of the imperial court: With the early coming of age, which he was still fighting through, Friedrich V took over the government of the Landgraviate on March 22, 1766. In order to put an end to the quarrels with the Darmstadt cousins, the so-called "comparison point" - a waiver by Hessen-Darmstadt of sovereign rights over Hessen-Homburg - had previously been signed. In this treaty, the little country received extensive internal sovereignty, Hesse-Darmstadt only reserved the relationship with the emperor and the empire. It represented Hessen-Homburg at imperial and district assemblies and also raised imperial and district taxes for Homburg. Friedrich married in a dynastic and diplomatic marriage on September 27, 1768 with Karoline von Hessen-Darmstadt (1746-1821 / daughter of Landgrave Ludwig IX of Hessen-Darmstadt and Henriette Karoline von Pfalz-Zweibrücken , the great Landgravine ). Diplomatic missions in Berlin , Vienna and at the Electoral Palatinate court followed. Creutz had long suffered from overwork , from which he ultimately died in 1770 in the presence of his sovereign and former protégé Friedrich V.

Since 1762 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

In addition to poems, odes and tributes, Creutz also wrote psychological and philosophical writings. His attempt on the soul from 1754 is based on Christian Wolff and tries to prove its preexistence and immortality. His dispute with the philosopher Christian Heinrich Hase is also moving in the same direction.

  • Freyherr von Creuz, Prince of Hesse-Homburg, ecclesiastical Cammerjunker and Councilor (1746) sings of the death of his most generous Prince
  • Odes and other poems (1750)
  • Impartial investigation of the question: whether a ruling gentleman, according to the imperial electoral capitulation and other imperial constitutions, is entitled to himself and under his own power with the sovereignty, which he claims to have in a divided or resigned gentleman, to protect and to take possession of it, but to put it out of the possession of someone in dispute? (1750)
  • Odes and other poems (1752)
  • Experiment over the soul (1754)
  • Seneca (1754)
  • The graves (1760)
  • Attempt at a pragmatic story of the strange meeting of the German national spirit and the political trifles on the Römer in Frankfurt (1766)
  • The True Spirit of Laws (1766)
  • New Political Trifles (1767)
  • Patriotic humiliation of the notorious master and servant (1767)
  • The relics under moral quarantine (1767)
  • Friederich Carl Casimirs von Creuz Oden and other poems (1769)

All works except for the joint work with JF Jungert ( L'esprit de la legislation , London 1769) were published by the Frankfurt bookseller and publisher Franz Varrentrapp (1706–1786)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elschenbroich.
  2. ↑ Doerr.
  3. ↑ Elschenbroich.
  4. ↑ Will.
  5. ↑ Hannelore Limberg: "See this hospitable house, all around the water of the spring" : from the Große Oed to the Holzhausenschlösschen; the metamorphosis of a patrician property and its functional change in the historical, social and topographical context. Dissertation, Frankfurt, 2012.
  6. ^ EG Steinmetz: From the hunting diary of Landgrave Kasimir Wilhelm von Homburg . In: Messages from the Association for History and Regional Studies in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (1936)
  7. ^ Fried Lübbecke: Small fatherland Homburg before the height. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1981, p. 131 f. ISBN 3-7829-0254-8
  8. ^ Judges: Creuz, Friedrich Karl Kasimir Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 4 (1876), p. 593.
  9. ^ Barbara Dölemeyer: From the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg to the secondary residence of the Hohenzollern. In: Bernd Heidenreich, Eckhard G. Franz (ed.), Kronen, Kriege, Künste. The House of Hesse in the 19th and 20th centuries. Frankfurt: Societaetsverlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7973-1142-9 , p. 57 f.
  10. ^ Member entry of Friedrich Carl Casimir Freiherr von Creutz at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 20, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Creutz, Friedrich Karl Kasimir von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, philosopher, publicist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH Homburg vor der Höhe
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1770
Place of death Homburg vor der Höhe