Friedrich Sigismund Waitz von Eschen

Friedrich Sigismund Waitz von Eschen called Hilchen (born June 19, 1745 in Sontra ; † October 14, 1808 in Kassel ) was a Hesse-Kassel diplomat and administrative officer from the Waitz von Eschen family .

origin

Friedrich Sigismund Waitz von Eschen was born as the eldest son of the Upper Chamber Councilor Johann Friedrich Hilchen zu Nauheim and his wife Karoline Dorothea Magdalena. The maternal grandfather was Minister Jacob Sigismund Waitz von Eschen . Since his sons had all died and his daughter was the only one of his eight children who had survived, Jacob Sigismund Waitz von Eschen adopted his son-in-law and thus ensured the continued existence of his name.

Life

Friedrich Sigismund Waitz von Eschen was appointed War and Domain Council and Bergrat in 1770. In 1773 he was the youngest member of the newly formed general directorate of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel. His grandfather's falling out with Landgrave Friedrich II. 1773 initially ended the grandson's career. After the Landgrave had refused the request to transfer the management of the Landgrave's salt works from grandfather to grandson, Friedrich Sigismund asked Waitz von Eschen for a release from his offices. On September 30th, he was removed from office by the Landgrave. However, he remained connected to the Landgrave House. He was appointed secret legation councilor and was envoy to France.

Only after the death of his grandfather in 1776 was Friedrich Sigismund Waitz von Eschen again given an administrative function at the Kassel court. On March 17, 1781 he became director of the tax college. From September 23, 1782 until his death, he was director of the Commerz College in Kassel . In 1786 he became mine and salt works director and director of the blue color works. Even though it had given him a large number of his grandfather's functions, his influence was far less. The Landgrave repeatedly used him diplomatically. In 1795 he succeeded in concluding the peace at Basel between Hesse and the French Republic . Landgrave Wilhelm IX. honored him in 1796 with the appointment as real secret minister of state and curator of the universities of Marburg and Rinteln. In 1804 he got his family accepted into the Hessian knighthood .

Friedrich Sigismund Waitz von Eschen was accepted into the Masonic lodge Zu den drey Löwen in Marburg in 1767 ; later he was a member of the Kassel lodges Zum Tale Josaphat and Zum krönten Löwen .

family

On December 9, 1791, he married Sophie Dorothea von Rheinfarth (born May 29, 1761 - August 12, 1816).

• His son, Karl Siegmund Waitz von Eschen (1795–1873) was chamberlain to Elector Wilhelm II and a member of the Schönfeld district ; In 1867 he became a liberal-conservative spokesman in the Prussian manor house .
• His daughter Sophie Eleonore (1793-1838) was married to District Administrator Georg von dem Bussche .

literature

• Harm-Hinrich Brandt : The Kassel Chamber of Commerce and Industry and its predecessors, 1763–1963, 1963, page -6264
• Wilhelm Grotefend:  Waitz, Friedrich Siegmund, Imperial Baron von Eschen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 599-602.
• Waitz von Eschen called von Hilchen, Friedrich Sigismund Freiherr von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on June 3, 2017 .