Johann Christian von Hennicke

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Johann Christian von Hennicke, engraving by Johann Christoph Sysang

Johann Christian Hennicke , from 1733 von Hennicke , from 1741 Baron von Hennicke , from 1745 Count von Hennicke (born June 13, 1681 in Halle (Saale) ; † June 8, 1752 in Wiederau ) was an influential administrative officer from Electoral Saxony and Poland .

Count Johann Christian von Hennicke, engraving by Christian Friedrich Boetius

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Hennicke came from a humble background. He lost his parents early: his father in 1696, his mother in 1699. His father Johann Hennicke was under-Bornmeister at the salt works in Halle. Orphaned, the boy came to live with relatives, later the Prussian Commerce Councilor Johann August Schubert took him to his home in Halle, where he held a position as a clerk. When the Prince of Saxony-Zeitz stayed in Schubert's house and finally died there in 1710, the ducal Saxon-Zeitz chamber director met the young Hennicke. Through him Hennicke received a position in the court chamber of the Duke of Saxony-Zeitz. Here he was promoted to chamber director of the Naumburg Abbey and from 1718 worked as a commercial and mining company in the Saxon region.

On July 22, 1728 he was raised to the knightly imperial nobility in Graz , notified in Kursachsen on March 12, 1733. In 1737 he acquired the baroque palace in Wiederau , south of Leipzig, which another civil climber, David von Fletscher , acquired around 1700 –1705 had it built and decorated with magnificent wall paintings.

Count's coat of arms of those von Hennicke

Under the son of Augustus the Strong, August III. , Hennicke gained the favor of the Queen and the increasingly powerful Prime Minister Heinrich Graf von Brühl , who both promoted him to a considerable extent. As a thank you for this, Hennicke, who was considered greedy, corrupt and vain, took several unpleasant decisions. Brühl saw to it that Hennicke was appointed Privy Councilor and Vice-Chamber President and, during the imperial vicariate of the Elector-King, on February 8, 1741, for his elevation to the baron class and on September 7, 1745 as conference minister of the Electorate of Saxony to the imperial count .

Hennicke's wife, Countess Sophia Elisabeth, née (von) Götze, died in July 1749 at the age of 63. Count Hennicke left only one son: Friedrich August. He became the Saxon-Polish chamber director in Merseburg and Zeitz as well as the secret chamber and mountain ridge. He was married first to Margaretha Sophia, nee von Schönberg, who died in February 1745 at the age of 21, then to Wilhelmina Hyppolita, nee von Berlepsch , who died in May 1753 at the age of 30. Due to his death at the age of 34, without male descendants, on December 11, 1753, the Counts of Hennicke died out of the male line again. Apparently, the relatives who remained bourgeois then made claims to the estate of the younger Count von Hennicke, such as the Bornknecht Johann Christian Hennicke zu Halle, but the daughter Christiana Sophia Countess von Hennicke inherited the paternal goods and became mistress of Wiederau, Großstockwitz and Kleindalzig . She married the Saxon-Polish head chef Gottlob Erich von Berlepsch auf Urleben († 1798) and died on January 11, 1789. The Count Hennicke family crypt is located in the Wiederauer Johannis Church.

Music and film

Johann Sebastian Bach composed the cantata BWV 30a Angenehmes Wiederau for the celebration of the taking over of the palace and Gut Wiederau by Hennicke in 1737 . Hennicke was played by the actor Eberhard Esche in the film series Sachsens Glanz und Preussens Gloria .

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Christian von Hennicke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ July 20, 1692 is also rumored. See e.g. B. Gottlieb Schumann , European Genealogical Hand-Book , Leipzig 1752, p. 180.
  2. ^ Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt : Pagus Neletici et Nudzici , Halle 1755, p. 631 f. , Gottfried Mayer : Reliable biography , 1766, p. 131.
  3. ^ Austrian State Archives : AT-OeStA / AVA Adel RAA 191.3
  4. ^ Ernst Hasse : History of the Leipzig Trade Fairs , Leipzig 1883, p. 32.
  5. ^ Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage, I. HA GR, Rep. 41, No. 2155 (Intercession for the Bornknecht Johann Christian Hennicke in Halle because of his claims to the estate of the younger Count von Hennicke, who died in Dresden.)
  6. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Wiederau: The Wiederauer Johannis Church
personal data
SURNAME Hennicke, Johann Christian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hennicke, Johann Christian Graf von (full name); Hennecke, Johann Christian von; Hönnicke, Johann Christian; Hennicke, Johann Christian Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Saxon and Polish administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1681
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1752
Place of death Again