Georg Ludwig von Sinzendorf

Georg Ludwig Count of Sinzendorf

Georg Ludwig Graf von Sinzendorf (born June 17, 1616 in Isenburg, † December 14, 1681 in Vienna ) was an imperial statesman .

Life

He came from the Austrian noble family of the Sinzendorf and was the son of Baron Pilgram von Sinzendorf and his wife Susana, a native of Trauttmansdorff .

Sinzendorf entered the imperial service and was appointed vice president of the court chamber in 1646 . In 1648 he was elevated to the rank of count with the rest of his family . In December 1653 he publicly converted to Catholicism during the Reichstag in Regensburg . In the same year he was raised to the rank of imperial count. In 1654 he became Imperial Hereditary Treasurer, in 1656 a member of the Privy Council and soon afterwards, as the successor to David Ungnad von Weißenwolf, President of the Court Chamber. He was the highest financial authority of the new emperor I. Leopold ago.

In 1654 he bought the county of Neuburg am Inn from Count Salm-Neuburg . He had the local castle Neuburg am Inn expanded significantly. He was married to Regina Jörger von Tollet in 1645 , who died in 1660. On November 30, 1661, he married the 16-year-old Dorothea Elisabeth, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg, in Linz . After the fire of Passau 1662 Sinzendorf left the Church of the Capuchin monastery Passau in Innstadt rebuild and 1677 there d a marble altar by W. Weißkircher. J. set up. In 1662 he bought the Gföhl zu Jaidhof estate with the Jaidhof Palace there , which he expanded. In 1665 he founded the village of Dommelstadl near Neuburg am Inn , where he had seven more houses built in 1676 and eight more in 1677. In 1669 he bought the rule Postoloprty in Bohemia for 240,000 fl . It consisted of the town of Postoloprty and 31 villages.

In 1667 Sinzendorf received from Emperor Leopold I from his father, Emperor Ferdinand III. , And granted at the court in Vienna established Mariensaeule as a gift and had this to Wernstein am Inn bring. He had inscriptions attached to the column, which describe the development of the column up to its installation in Wernstein, whereby he did not fail to mention that for him this was " sumptuosis impensis statuit ", ie "associated with high costs".

Removal of all offices and exile

Sinzendorf was, not least because of his rapid rise at the imperial court, one of the richest men in the country, but he was increasingly exposed to allegations of corruption. Among other things, he is said to have operated a counterfeit at Wernstein Castle . In 1679, for example, the emperor put 13 uniform questions to the individual members of the court chamber council about the state of affairs in the financial system and the administration of the court chamber.

As a result, criminal proceedings were initiated against Sinzendorf by a special court. On October 19, 1680, he was convicted of neglect of office, perjury, embezzlement of around 2 million florins , fraud, forgery, corruption, extortion and theft to repay 1,970,000 guilders as well as loss of all offices and exile, his county Neuburg moved in. The fine was reduced by a quarter through a pardon. Sinzendorf sold part of his property in order to be able to pay the fine. Christoph Ignaz Abele , who played a key role in his fall, became his successor.

At the request of his wife Dorothea Elisabeth, he was allowed to stay on his property despite being exiled, but he died in 1681. His eldest son Christian Ludwig died at the age of 16 in the battle of Mohács in 1687 , his second son Philipp Ludwig became court chancellor of Emperor Charles VI.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Sinzendorf, Georg Ludwig . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 35th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1877, pp. 17–19 ( digitized version ).
M. Mitterwieser: The industrial enterprises of Count Sinzendorf and the development of Dommelstadel. In: East Bavarian border marks. 19, 1930, ISSN 0078-6845 , pp. 56-60.
Hansdieter Körbl: The court chamber and its unfaithful president. A financial authority at the time of Leopold I (= publications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. Vol. 54). Böhlau et al., Vienna et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78376-3 .

Web links

Commons : Georg Ludwig von Sinzendorf - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on Georg Ludwig von Sinzendorf in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Entry on Georg Ludwig von Sinzendorf in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )

Individual evidence

^ Johann Veselý, History of the princely Schwarzenberg domaine Postelberg , self-published, Prague 1893, pp. 28–30.
^ Walter F. Kalina: The Marian columns in Wernstein am Inn (1645/47), Vienna (1664/66), Munich (1637/38) and Prague (1650). In: Austrian magazine for art and monument preservation. 58, H. 1, 2004, ISSN 0029-9626 , pp. 43-61, here p. 54.
^ John P. Spielman: Leopold I. Not born to power. Verlag Styria, Graz et al. 1981, ISBN 3-222-11339-4 , p. 86.

personal data
SURNAME	Sinzendorf, Georg Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sinzendorf, Georg Ludwig Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	imperial statesman and owner of the county of Neuburg
DATE OF BIRTH	June 17, 1616
PLACE OF BIRTH	Isenburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 14, 1681
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Johann Veselý, History of the princely Schwarzenberg domaine Postelberg , self-published, Prague 1893, pp. 28–30.

[2] Walter F. Kalina: The Marian columns in Wernstein am Inn (1645/47), Vienna (1664/66), Munich (1637/38) and Prague (1650). In: Austrian magazine for art and monument preservation. 58, H. 1, 2004, ISSN 0029-9626 , pp. 43-61, here p. 54.

[3] John P. Spielman: Leopold I. Not born to power. Verlag Styria, Graz et al. 1981, ISBN 3-222-11339-4 , p. 86.