Heinrich von Bünau († 1744)

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Heinrich von Bünau (* before 1701; † July 1, 1744 in Oderwitz ) was the Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor and Vice-Chamber President as well as the manor owner .

Life

He came from the Saxon noble family Bünau , from the line that came from the Vogtland House of Pahren and was the eldest son of Heinrich von Bünau († 1701) and Maria Catharina von Bünau, née. from Hagenest . Heinrich von Bünau entered the Saxon civil service, in which some of his ancestors had already been active.

In 1703 he received the Kleinkorbetha manor in the Duchy of Saxony-Merseburg from his mother after his younger brother Rudolph became the owner of the Kreypau manor .

In the final years of the reign of Prince Augustus the Strong, Heinrich von Bünau had reached the height of his political career. In 1732 he was the Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor and Vice President of the Chamber in Dresden . At that time, his eldest son, who traditionally bore his father's name, Heinrich von Bünau, was a district councilor in Saxony-Merseburg . He was offered the takeover of the war commissariat in the Merseburg Abbey , which was, however, tied to the condition of owning an immobile property in the abbey area. His father therefore left him his manor Kleinkorbetha in 1732 and some time later moved to the Oderwitz manor, which he used as a retirement home and where he died in 1744.

Confusion of the name bearers

Due to a family law of the Bünau family, which was already in force in the 12th century, only the first names Günther, Heinrich or Rudolph were allowed to be used for male descendants. There are therefore numerous people with the name Heinrich von Bünau within the widely ramified clan . In the history of science to date, this has not infrequently led to incorrect assignments or mix-ups.

literature

  • Zedler, Volume, 4, p. 1865.
  • Newly multiplied Historical and Geographical General Lexicon , 1745, p. 652.
  • Karl Czok : August the Strong and Electoral Saxony. 2nd edition, Leipzig 1988, p. 124 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. z. B. Gottlieb Schumann: Annual Genealogical Handbook. Leipzig 1749, footnote on p. 153 .
personal data
SURNAME Bünau, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bünau, Heinrich Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Privy Council and Vice President of the Chamber
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1744
Place of death Oderwitz