Friedrich Samuel of Montmartin

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Count Friedrich Samuel von Montmartin (* 1712 in Zeitz ; † January 29, 1778 in Dinkelsbühl ) was a German lawyer and Württemberg politician.

origin

His father, Samuel du Maz von Montmartin, was one of the Huguenots who emigrated to Kurbrandenburg in 1686. His mother was Susanne Judith von Martel .

Life

Montmartin studied law at the universities in Leipzig and Leiden and then went to the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar . In 1738 he became a councilor in Bayreuth , in 1739 governor of the cities of Alt- and Neu- Erlangen and president of the judiciary in the service of the Margrave of Bayreuth , then a privy councilor and minister in the Franconian Empire .

In 1742 Emperor Karl VII appointed him Imperial Court Councilor. In these positions, Montmartin made the coming of age of Duke Karl Eugen von Württemberg , for which he gave him the position of a privy councilor in 1744, which he did not take on. In 1756, as the Reichstag envoy of the Duke of Saxe-Gotha, contrary to his mandate , he brought about the resolution of the imperial war against Prussia , for which he received the dignity of imperial count. In 1758 Duke Karl Eugen von Württemberg appointed him his minister, in 1763 he was prime minister and president of the privy council .

When he came to Württemberg, the economic situation there was very tense, while government spending rose steadily. Montmartin won the complete confidence of the Duke, to whom he was very submissive. He arranged for Colonel Rieger, who also appeared indispensable in the Duke's service, to be taken into custody. In his disputes with the Württemberg estates , Montmartin proceeded without consideration. The estates insisted on their right to refuse extraordinary taxes and urged greater thrift. Montmartin, however, called the Duke's will an absolute command and declared the ideas of the landscape committee to be seditious. Anyone who opposed him, like the landscape consultant Johann Jacob Moser , had to pay for this with severe imprisonment.

Montmartin tried to collect taxes in many ways, enriching himself with it. The officials had to buy their jobs, the mint, the tobacco and salt trade was leased, the lottery was introduced, the church property was attacked and the country's treasury was looted at gunpoint. The spring of 1764 brought a new military tax. Since the estates refused, Montmartin wanted to carry out the tax through a secret instruction to the officials. Despite the use of force, this plan ultimately failed. In the meantime, the estates had complained to the Reichshofrat , and when Montmartin no longer considered his position to be secure, he was freed from Württemberg services on May 10, 1766 with a large settlement. Nevertheless, he retained the trust of Duke Karl Eugen and was not completely removed from Württemberg until 1773.

In his last years Montmartin was knight captain of the canton Altmühl .

Name transfer

Count Ludwig Karl Eckbrecht von Dürckheim (1733–1774), the Württemberg envoy to the Imperial Court of Vienna , married Luise Friederike von Montmartin, the only child of Friedrich Samuel von Montmartin. In order not to let his wife's family name become extinct, he adopted it as a name affix, which is why the noble family has been called Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin ever since .

family

He was married twice. The name of his first wife is not known; his second wife was Friederike von Wangenheim (1729–1752). The couple had several children including:

  • Louise Friederike (1752–1770) ⚭ 1769 Count Ludwig Karl Eckbrecht von Dürckheim (1733–1774)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : German count houses of the present in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation. Volume 1, pp. 205-207, Leipzig, 1852; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Montmartin, Friedrich Samuel von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montmartin, Friedrich Samuel Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Württemberg politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1712
PLACE OF BIRTH Time
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1778
Place of death Dinkelsbühl