Friedrich Wilhelm August Carl von Bose

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Friedrich Wilhelm August Carl Graf von Bose (born January 9, 1753 in Bayreuth , † September 9, 1809 in Dresden ) was the royal Saxon cabinet minister , real secret council and high court marshal under the Saxon elector and later King Friedrich August I. He was also the owner of the manor the property Netzschkau , Limbach , Gamig and Neuschönfels .

Life

Carl Graf von Bose came from the Vogtland line of the Saxon noble family von Bose , who deliberately refrained from using the nobility predicate when spelling his name until 1715 . He was the second child and the only son of the Electorate Chamberlain Friedrich Carl Graf von Bose (1726–1767) and Juliane Wilhelmine, née. von Putbus from the house of Einsiedelsburg (1728–1798).

When Bose was 10 years old, his father met the seven-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Bayreuth, where he was staying at that time as the Brandenburg-Bayreuth Oberhofmarschall . This encounter was to be the starting point for a longstanding relationship between this family and Mozart.

As a young man he joined the Electoral Saxon service. His first trip on behalf of the Saxon Elector took him to Stockholm as envoy . He later became Lord Chamberlain and Court Marshal in Dresden . In this position, one of his main merits was that he made the electoral library accessible to the public.

Count Bose played an important role in Saxony's negotiations with Napoleon . First he was sent to Berlin with a letter to Napoleon on October 28, 1806 . Elector Friedrich August III. formulated the request for formal recognition of Saxony's neutrality . Bose himself was supposed to inform Napoleon orally that the Saxon minister, Count Johann Adolph von Loss , had been appointed by the elector to lead the peace negotiations. A few days later, Bose himself was given negotiating powers by the Saxon elector . As a result, Saxony sided with France and joined the Confederation of the Rhine . In return for further financial and military demands, the electorate was raised to a kingdom by Emperor Napoleon and Friedrich August III. its King Friedrich August I Bose took the post of leading minister of Saxony after the dismissed Count Loß. Due to his imminent death, Bose did not live to see the turning point in the Napoleonic Wars .

family

Carl Graf von Bose married Charlotte Wilhelmine Countess von der Schulenburg on May 26, 1782 (* May 21, 1760 on Wolfsburg ; † April 8, 1813). She was court lady and canon of the Queen of Prussia and canon of St. Mary's Church in Münster . From this marriage came 3 children:

  • Malthe Gustav Carl (1783–1848), royal Saxon chamberlain and envoy in Madrid
  • Carl August (1787–1862), Royal Saxon Real Privy Councilor and Court Marshal
  • Juliane Charlotte (1789–1848), Chief Chamberlain of Princess Friederika of Prussia ⚭ 1807 Moritz Levin Graf von der Schulenburg-Burgscheidungen (* 1774 - † September 4, 1814)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Theodor Flathe:  Bose, Friedrich Wilhelm August Karl Graf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 186.
  2. ↑ Konrad Sturmhoefel: Illustrated history of Albertine Saxony , 1st department. From 1500 to 1815 . Hübel and Denck, Leipzig 1908.
  3. ^ August Graf Bose in Stadtwiki Dresden
personal data
SURNAME Bose, Friedrich Wilhelm August Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bose, Carl Graf; Bose, Carl Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Saxon Minister, Real Privy Councilor and High Court Marshal
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1809
Place of death Dresden