Friedrich Wilhelm von Schlitz

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Schlitz
Coat of arms of the von Schlitz gen. Von Görtz

Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Schlitz named by Goertz (born June 5 . Jul / 15. June  1647 greg. In slot ; † 26. September 1728 in Hannover ) was privy and electoral brunswick-lüneburgischer Chamber President . He was the owner of the town and castle Schlitz in the Hessian Vogelsberg district .

family

His parents were Johann Volprecht von Schlitz called von Görtz (1602–1677), hereditary marshal of the Fulda diocese, captain of knights and director of the imperial knighthood in Franconia and his wife Anna Riedesel zu Eisenbach (1626–1681). Friedrich Wilhelm was the younger brother of Johann Friedrich . His father was on July 15, 1677 Wien in the realm baron raised himself in 1726 to the Imperial Count .

He married on October 20, 1680 in Bruchhausen Anna Dorothea von Haxthausen (* March 6, 1663 - December 6, 1728), heiress of Abbenburg and daughter of Hermann Christian von Haxthausen and Anna Gertrud von Grappendorf . The couple had several children including:

  • Johann (April 30, 1683; † June 28, 1747) Castle captain, treasurer ⚭ 1718 Dorothea von Schlitz called Görtz (* August 22, 1696; † September 1, 1773), daughter of Georg Ludwig Sittich von Schlitz called Görtz (1655– 1696), Prince-Hesse-Kassel Major General and Governor of Rheinfels Castle and Katharina Maria von Künsberg from the House of Thurnau
  • Anna Meta (February 2, 1686; † 1762)
⚭ Bodo von Oberg († 1713), privy councilor and chamber president of Hanover
⚭ 1714 Conrad von Ranck (1664–1739), Hesse-Kassel and Swedish lieutenant general
  • Ernst August (* 1687; † April 6, 1720) Chief Chamberlain ⚭ Dorothea Maria Justina Chalon called Gehlen (* March 19, 1694; † February 5, 1770); her son Karl Friedrich (1715–1750) married Katharina Eva Sophie Freiin von Wrisberg (1721–1769 ) in 1737 and founded the line of barons (from 1817 counts) von Schlitz called von Görtz and von Wrisberg (Görtz-Wrisberg) at Wrisbergholzen Castle , Rittmarshausen, Limmer, Wesseln etc.
  • Charlotte Sophie (1688–1689)
  • Karl Friedrich (1690–1703)
  • Christina Henriette (* 1695; † April 19, 1766) ⚭ Baron Rudolf Johann von Wrisberg (* 1677; † August 30, 1764)
  • Friedrich (1698-1717)
  • Christian Ludwig (1698-1720)
  • Sophia (* December 3, 1700; † November 6, 1771) ⚭ Friedrich Wilhelm von Wurmb (* 1690: † April 7, 1768) Duke of Saxe-Gotha Chamberlain

Life

Schlitz was Privy Councilor and Chamber President of Elector Georg Ludwig of Braunschweig and Lüneburg (Hanover), who as King George I founded the Hanoverian line on the English throne. "Georg relied on his Chamber President Görtz, who was a great financial expert, for routine matters. Görtz was considered to be exemplary incorruptible." At the beginning of the 18th century, Friedrich Wilhelm had the Hallenburg Palace built in Schlitz . A fire in 1755 and the later expansion by one floor changed the appearance of the classicist castle, which is now used by the " Hessian Academy for Music and Cultural Education " as a state music academy .

In 1711 he was electoral ambassador for his circle in the election of Charles VI as emperor . in Frankfurt (Main) . In the work " Continuatio Diarii ... " published in 1712 on the occasion of the election there is a portrait of the politician by the Nuremberg engraver Joseph à Montalegre .

1714-16 he had the Rittmarshausen Castle built. In 1725 he had a new central brewery built beneath the Schachtenburg in the castle town of Schlitz . The lintel stone above the entrance to the so-called " Tenne " still shows his initials and the year of construction . The brewery only became the property of the company " Sämmliche Riedesel Freiherren zu Eisenbach (Industriebetriebe) OHG " in Lauterbach in 1967 .

literature

  • Hans Friedrich Reck: Served under three rulers for 43 years: Friedrich Wilhelm von Schlitz gen. Görtz, Prime Minister of the English King Georg I. In: Hessian homeland. Issue 22, 1998, pp. 87-88.
  • Ragnhild Hatton : Georg I a German elector on England's throne. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt 1982, ISBN 3-7973-0398-X , p. 177 ff.
  • Jürgen Rainer Wolf: In foreign service: The barons Johann (1644–1699) and Friedrich Wilhelm (1647–1728) von Schlitz gen. Von Görtz , in: Archive for Hessian history and antiquity NF 71 (2013), pp. 99–130 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Gottfried Biedermann : genealogical register of the Reichsfrey immediate knighthood of the Landes zu Franken Löblichen localities Rhön and Werra , 1749, p. 120 digitalized family tree
  2. ^ Ragnhild Hatton: George I a German elector on England's throne. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt 1982, ISBN 3-7973-0398-X , p. 177 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Schlitz, Friedrich Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlitz called by Görtz, Friedrich Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chamber President, Privy Councilor
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1647
PLACE OF BIRTH slot
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1728
Place of death Hanover