Jakob Friedrich von Fritsch

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Jakob Friedrich von Fritsch

Jakob Friedrich von Fritsch (born March 22, 1731 in Dresden , † January 13, 1814 in Weimar ) was a Saxon statesman.

Live and act

Fritsch came from a baronial family. He was the eldest son (six siblings) of Thomas von Fritsch and his wife Johanna Sophie von Winckler. Fritsch studied law and after successfully completing his degree in 1754, Duke Ernst August II gave him a job in his Eisenach administration.

In 1756 he went to Weimar in the same position and was appointed a "secret trainee lawyer" there. As such, Fritsch was a member of the Secret Consilium between 1762 and 1800 . Under Anna Amalia von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , Fritsch took over the management from 1767. In 1762 he joined the Masonic lodge Zu den Drei Rosen in Jena, which he temporarily headed as a master from the chair .

Fritsch was married to Johanna Sophie von Haeseler (born September 29, 1735, † October 14, 1830) and had a son, Karl Wilhelm von Fritsch .

In 1772, Fritsch was entrusted with the management of the entire ministry with the rank of "Real Secret Council" . When Grand Duke Karl August came of age in 1775 and took over the business of government, Fritsch was the only one to vote against the admission of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to the Weimar Secret Consilium . In 1800 Fritsch resigned all of his offices and retired into private life as a result of his increasingly bad eye condition.

Baron von Fritsch died at the age of almost 83 on January 13, 1814 in Weimar, where he found his final resting place.

The family was able to secure two volumes of letters from the archive at Seerhausen Castle with 256 historically valuable letters to Jakob Friedrich von Fritsch and his son Karl Wilhelm von Fritsch, including 25 from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . The community of heirs handed them over to the Saxon State Archives in 2011 .

After the death of his older sister, he inherited her manor Großgestewitz , which he left to his son.

reception

When Goethe wrote the play Torquato Tasso , Baron von Fritsch served him as a model for the politician Antonio Montecatino .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias Ossyra: Sächsisches Staatsarchiv receives historically valuable letters - including 25 Goethe originals.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Leipziger Volkszeitung from December 14, 2011, accessed on December 15, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / nachrichten.lvz-online.de  
personal data
SURNAME Fritsch, Jakob Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon statesman
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1731
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1814
Place of death Weimar