Friedrich Wilhelm von Rochow (Minister)

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Friedrich Wilhelm III. von Rochow (* 1690 ; † July 16, 1764 in Ernstburg) was a Prussian minister of state.

Life

Origin and family

Friedrich Wilhelm was a member of the house Reckahn , the Brandenburg noble family von Rochow . His parents were the district administrator of the Zauchekreis and heir to Reckahn Hans Heinrich II. Von Rochow (1653–1713) and his third wife Sophie Adelheid, born von Treskow (1681–1739). He married Friederike Eberhardine von Görne (1700–1760), a daughter of the Prussian minister Friedrich von Görne (1670–1745). The marriage had 14 children, including:

Career

Rochow began his civil servant career as a chamberlain with Friedrich Wilhelm I. Afterwards he became war and domain councilor at the Kurmärkischen war and domain chamber in Berlin, where he first became the secret finance councilor and finally he was promoted to president. In 1734 he asked for and received his departure. On August 15, 1738 he was appointed real secret budget and war minister or minister of state, as well as president of both the Cleve War and Domain Chamber and all chambers in the Prussian- Westphalian provinces. He is also said to have been a member of the executive board. As a result of troop storage under Field Marshal Katte and the associated side effects on his property between the goddess and Krahne , he, meanwhile transferred to Koenigberg as provincial minister, requested leave of absence in March 1741, which the king refused to give to him as he considered him indispensable. It was not until 1742 that he received his farewell again.

Rochow had been the heir to his father's property around Reckahn since 1713, which also included Krahne, Mesdunk, Göttin and Rotscherlinde. As a family senior he carried this on to his son named above in 1760 and retired to the Prussian estates that his wife had brought him into the marriage. These included Ernstburg, Greaves , Pesseln , Schönheide and Trempen .

As church patron, he commissioned the construction of the Reckahn village and castle church in 1739 and had it completed in 1741.

literature

  • Adolph Friedrich August von Rochow: News on the history of the family von Rochow and their possessions. 1861, pp. 127-129.
  • Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The royal Prussian and electoral Brandenburg real secret Council of State on its 200-year foundation day January 5, 1805 , Berlin 1805, pp. 418–419, No. 186.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernstburg district.
  2. ↑ Christian Friedrich Hempel : Hero, State and Life-History of the most noble, most powerful King and Lord Frederick the Other, now the most glorious reigning King in Prussia, Elector of Brandenburg, sovereign and supreme Duke in Silesia etc. , Vol. 8: Which contains the story from March 1763 to October of the 1765th year . Frankfurt and Leipzig 1766, p. 337.
  3. ↑ Johannes Schellakowsky: The instruction of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia for the "General-Ober-Finanz, War and Domain-Directory" from 1723 . In: Eberhard Laux, Karl Teppe (ed.): The modern state and its administration. Contributions to the history of development since 1700 . Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07168-7 , pp. 13–33, here p. 25.
personal data
SURNAME Rochow, Friedrich Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Minister of State
DATE OF BIRTH 1690
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1764
Place of death Ernstburg