Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold von Horn

Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold von Horn , from 1697 Count von Horn, († 1709 ) was a Mecklenburg government official and diplomat from Swedish Pomerania .

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold von Horn came from the line of the Pomeranian aristocratic von Horn family based on Gut Schlatkow and was the son of the Pomeranian chancellor and diplomat Philipp von Horn and his wife Agnesa von Mörder.

Horn was the district commissioner of the Pomeranian knighthood in Swedish Pomerania, before he was appointed assessor at the Wismar Higher Tribunal in 1675 . From 1689 to 1694 he was the extraordinary Swedish envoy to the court of Emperor Leopold I in Vienna . In Vienna he converted to the Catholic faith.

He then went to Mecklenburg-Schwerin , where he in 1695 prime minister (prime minister) and the Duke Geheimerratspräsident the government Friedrich Wilhelm I was. The Duke sent him in 1696 because of his experiences and connections as a Mecklenburg-Schwerin ambassador to the Imperial Court in Vienna. His task was to promote the connection of Mecklenburg-Güstrow to Mecklenburg-Schwerin in the Mecklenburg inheritance dispute at court .

On August 12, 1697, Horn was raised as the ducal Mecklenburg Privy Council president and envoy in Vienna by the emperor to the rank of imperial count with the salutation "high and well-born". Since January 1698, he represented the Schwerin claims to the negotiations that had started in Hamburg , which were finally ended in 1701 with the Hamburg settlement , produced the Mecklenburg-Strelitz region and sealed the third main division of Mecklenburg .

In a "rank and court order" issued in Schwerin in 1704, Horn held the highest (1st) class. The Duke granted him special permission to hold private Catholic worship services.

family

Horn was first married to Anna Magdalena Rotermund , the daughter of District Administrator Philipp Gützlaf Rotermund (* 1607, † 1667) and Margarete Dorothea von Rotermund. The marriage had two daughters, Sophie Agnese Margarethe and Martha Magdalena. In Vienna, Horn is said to have met a woman whose name has not been passed down and who is said to have moved him to convert . His wife Anna Magdalena died around 1696, allegedly from grief over her husband's change of faith. Horn married the imperial court lady Ludovika Raduit de Souches on March 22, 1699. He is said to have had two sons with her. His two daughters, whom he unsuccessfully tried to convince to convert, are said to have died an unnatural death in 1701 on the Hornschen Gut Divitz .

literature

Heiko Droste: In the service of the crown. Swedish diplomats in the 17th century . In: Nordische Geschichte Vol. 2, Lit-Verlag, Berlin-Hamburg-Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9256-5 , p. 396 ( digitized version ).
Carl Gesterding: Genealogies and / or family foundations of Pomeranian families especially knightly. First collection, Berlin, 1842, Volume 1, pp. 104f.

Web links

Literature on Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold von Horn in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

^ Nils Jörn: Greifswalder, Rostocker, Bützower and Erlanger professors at the Wismar Tribunal . In: Dirk Alvermann, Jürgen Regge (Ed.): Justitia in Pommern . LIT Verlag, Berlin-Hamburg-Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-8218-7 , p. 209, footnote 12. ( digitized version )
^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume V, page 358, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984.
↑ Ernst Boll : History of Meklenburg with special consideration of the cultural history . Part 2, Neubrandenburg 1856, pp. 199–201 ( digitized version )
^ Carl Eduard Vehse: History of the German courts since the Reformation . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1856, pp. 201–202 ( digitized version )
↑ State Main Archives Schwerin, 2.12-1 / 23 Correspondence of the dukes with councilors and other officials, No. 3159.
^ Message from the person who allegedly happened to Count von Horn's two daughters at Divitz ( Memento from January 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Horn, Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mecklenburg government official and diplomat from Swedish Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH	17th century
DATE OF DEATH	1709

[1] Nils Jörn: Greifswalder, Rostocker, Bützower and Erlanger professors at the Wismar Tribunal . In: Dirk Alvermann, Jürgen Regge (Ed.): Justitia in Pommern . LIT Verlag, Berlin-Hamburg-Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-8218-7 , p. 209, footnote 12. ( digitized version )

[2] Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume V, page 358, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984.

[3] Ernst Boll : History of Meklenburg with special consideration of the cultural history . Part 2, Neubrandenburg 1856, pp. 199–201 ( digitized version )

[4] Carl Eduard Vehse: History of the German courts since the Reformation . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1856, pp. 201–202 ( digitized version )

[5] State Main Archives Schwerin, 2.12-1 / 23 Correspondence of the dukes with councilors and other officials, No. 3159.

[6] Message from the person who allegedly happened to Count von Horn's two daughters at Divitz ( Memento from January 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive )