Johann Aloys Josef von Hügel

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Johann Aloys Josef Freiherr von Hügel

Johann Aloys Josef Baron Hill (* 14. November 1753 in Koblenz ; † 30th August 1825 or 1826 in Hietzing in Vienna) was a diplomat, statesman and Imperial Konkommissar the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg , and kept from 1796 to 1800 the crown jewels , according their escape from their centuries-old repository in Nuremberg, in Regensburg. He later moved them to the emperor's treasury in Vienna. He was also instrumental in the expert opinion on the laying down of the imperial crown by Franz II .

origin

His parents were the Trier court chamber councilor Matthias Hügel († 1782) and his wife Anna Gertrud Dötsch . His father was also the general taker of the secular estates of the Niedererzstift in Koblenz.

Life

After completing his own studies, he became an attorney in Koblenz in 1776 , later a court advisor and a privy councilor of state. In 1787 he married the daughter of Professor Holthof from Mainz. For his work as Electoral Trier electoral ambassador since 1790 and his associated work for Leopold II , he received the title of Reich Baron in 1791 .

After temporarily falling out of favor with the Elector of Trier, von Hügel joined the imperial service in 1793 in Regensburg at the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg and led the Directory of the Imperial Council and the three votes of the Emperor: the Austrian, Burgundian and Lorraine votes. At that time, the representative (Konkommissar) of the imperial government at the Reichstag was Prince Anselm von Thurn und Taxis . In 1794, von Hügel became his successor. His superior was the Reichshof Vice Chancellor Prince von Colloredo. In 1796 and 1798 he published several political pamphlets under a pseudonym.

In July 1796, von Hügel secretly took over most of the imperial regalia from the imperial city of Nuremberg and brought them to Passau for about a month. The other part was delivered in September. Later they were brought to Regensburg by Freiherr von Hügel and were kept there until 1800 in the Palais of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis. It was not until 1800 that he delivered the crown treasure to the imperial treasury in Vienna.

In 1804 von Hügel was called to Vienna and in 1806 he wrote an expert report on the renunciation of the throne on behalf of the emperor and advocated further safekeeping of the imperial regalia in Vienna. Some inquiries from Nuremberg about the return were already refused.

After 1806 he was the Imperial Austrian envoy to various states of the Confederation of the Rhine , but resigned from his public offices after Metternich's appointment as Chancellor.

In 1813 he was entrusted with the government of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt . After this territory was given up after the Congress of Vienna , von Hügel retired.

He died in Hietzing near Vienna in 1826.

Descendants and inheritance

In 1787 in Mainz he married Susanne Holthoff (1768–1837), a daughter of the Mainz court doctor Dr. med. Franz Wilhelm Holthoff and Anna Ursula Wehenkel . The couple had two sons and three daughters, including:

  • Clemens Wenzel (1792–1849), director of the State Archives
  • Carl Anselm , naturalist
  • Maria Anna Franziska (born October 15, 1793)
  • Maria Dorothea Franzisca (born October 6, 1803) ∞ Count Anton August Karl Heinrich von Hardenberg (1802–1849), Hanoverian Legation Councilor, envoy in Berlin and Dresden

His grandchildren include: Anatole von Hügel (1854–1928), the anthropologist, and Friedrich von Hügel , the religious philosopher.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the ADB 1826 is given as the year of death, in the NDB and the dissertation of UM Dorda 1825. Wolfgang Burgdorf named 2003 (in: 1803 - Wende in Europäische Mitte, Regensburg 2003, p. 428) again as 1826 as the year of death.
  2. ^ Genealogical paperback of the German count's houses for the year 1844, p.240

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SURNAME Huegel, Johann Aloys Josef von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hill, Johann Aloys Josef Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Diplomat, statesman and imperial commissioner
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH 1826
Place of death regensburg