Friedrich Wilhelm von Haugwitz

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Haugwitz

Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Haugwitz (born December 11, 1702 in Brauchitschdorf, Principality of Liegnitz; † August 30, 1765 in Knönitz , Moravia ) was a Bohemian-Austrian statesman and administrative officer during the Enlightenment .

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm von Haugwitz was born on Gut Brauchitschdorf , today's Chróstnik, 67 km northwest of Breslau . From 1725, after converting to Catholicism , he worked in the Silesian state administration in Wroclaw, where he was soon entrusted with the management of the contribution system. After the partition of Silesia as a result of the First Silesian War in 1742, he had to leave Breslau. He then officiated as state president of the rest of Silesia, which remained with Bohemia . There he was commissioned to set up administrative structures. In 1743 he submitted reform plans to Archduchess Maria Theresa aimed at eliminating the estates with which 10-year recesses had been agreed. The jurisdiction was separated from the administration and a supreme judicial body was created.

Because of the administrative mismanagement in Carinthia and Carniola , he was commissioned to eliminate them in 1747. Two years later he rose to the position of President of the “Directorium in publicis et cameralibus” ( financial and political administration ). In 1752 he acquired Bielsko dominion , which Maria Theresa raised to free class rule in her capacity as Queen of Bohemia , but which he immediately sold on, as well as Náměšť nad Oslavou Castle , which belonged to the Haugwitz family until 1945 and again after 1989. From 1753 he held the office of Supreme Bohemian Chancellor and at the same time First Austrian Chancellor. After the directorate was dissolved in the Seven Years' War and Haugwitz was relieved of his office, he was appointed Minister of State for domestic affairs in the newly established Council of State in 1760.

During a stay at Miroslavské Knínice Castle , his dysentery worsened and he died on August 30, 1765. His body was transferred to Namiest on the Oslawa and buried on September 1 in the crypt of the Anabaptist Church. On February 19, 1768, his remains and those of his wife were moved to the new crypt of the Capuchin Church not far from Namiest Castle . In the literature, his death is incorrectly given as September 11, 1765.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dagmar Ruzicka: Friedrich Graf von Haugwitz (1702–1765). Path, achievement and environment of an Austrian-Silesian statesman. Verlag Neue Wissenschaft, Frankfurt 2002, ISBN 3-932492-48-X ; at the same time: Philosophical dissertation, University of Stuttgart, 2000, p. 32 m. Note 157
  2. ↑ J. Kotík: Letopisy rodu Haugwitzů Velká Bíteš 1997 (German: Chronicles of the Haugwitz family )
  3. ↑ Dalibor Hodeček, Dagmar Jelínková, Lia Ryšavá: Miroslavské Knínice 1262–2012 Muzejní a vlastivědná společnost v Brně (Museum and National Historical Society in Brno), Brno 2012. p. 307 ISBN 978-80-7275-093-1

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SURNAME Haugwitz, Friedrich Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haugwitz, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian-Austrian statesman and administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1702
PLACE OF BIRTH Brauchitschdorf, Principality of Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1765
Place of death Knönitz , Moravia