Johann Ferdinand I of Kuefstein

Johann Ferdinand I. Count von Kuefstein (* March 26/27, 1688 Vienna; † April 12, 1755 in Vienna , buried in Greillenstein) was an Austrian nobleman, diplomat and governor of Lower Austria .

Life

Johann Ferdinand was the son of Johann Georg IV. Count von Kuefstein (1645–1699) and Anna Franziska Hocher, Baroness von Hohenkräen (Hohenkrän), daughter of the court chancellor Johann Paul Hocher . Johann Ferdinand studied (enrolled at the University of Vienna in 1699) and after the cavalier tour he became chamberlain of the later Empress Maria Amalia . In 1714 he was appointed Reichshofrat , but still served as a councilor in the Lower Austrian government. On May 21, 1716 he became a real Reichshofrat, and on May 31, he was also a real. Chamberlain and, in 1717, instead of his late brother Karl, director of the Secret Reserved Court Treasury , which he held until shortly before his death. Years followed in which he was mainly on diplomatic missions in the Reich (a consequence of the Pragmatic Sanction ). On February 13, 1730, he becomes a secret council , and on November 25, he becomes a real secret council. In 1734 he was awarded the Grand Palatinate for his services, and on July 1, 1735 he was appointed Austrian court vice-chancellor and remained so under Maria Theresa . On 29 December 1746 he will nö government governors, last governor of the regiment of Lower landing , as the Emperor Maximilian I built. Afterwards the government is called in publicis and judicial affairs are separated from administration and finances. Before the innovations were implemented, Kuefstein resigned as governor on April 23, 1749, but remained director of the secret reserved court treasury. As the senior of the family, Johann Ferdinand became Colonel Hereditary Land Silver Treasurer on January 16, 1750.

Johann Ferdinand I. Graf von Kuefstein married Maria Anna (1700–1766), daughter of Maximilian Ludwig Graf Breuner , Field Marshal, Court War Councilor, Commissioner General , and his second wife Maximiliana Christina Countess von Portia on February 9, 1719 . The only son was called Johann Ferdinand II.

After the death of his brother Johann Leopold, Johann Ferdinand I became Fideikommiss master in 1745 , the fifth living son. The following legal dispute was decided in 1747 by the Landmarschall Court, which was again appealed. It was not until 1751 that Johann Ferdinand Graf Kuefstein was legally responsible for the entails in Greillenstein , Feinfeld , Schauenstein and Burgschleinitz . Plans to separate the Greillenstein rule failed and finally he made a new entails commission (the so-called younger institute ) from the Viehofen , Zagging , Rappoltenkirchen and Sieghartskirchen rule . In the will of March 5, 1753 the primogeniture was established, only in the absence of a last male descendant his daughters, their children. Johann Ferdinand was buried in the family crypt in Röhrenbach .

Johann Ferdinand I was also the owner of the Viennese suburb Breitensee, which is now part of the 14th district of Penzing. Kuefsteingasse, formerly Antonsgasse, was named after him in 1894. It is also located in the Breitensee district.

literature

• Franz Karl Wißgrill , Karl von Odelga: scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility from the lordship and knighthood of the XI. Century up to the present time , Volume 5, Vienna 1803, pp. 300–319.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Kuefstein, Johann Ferdinand (I.) Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1865, p. 311 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Karl Graf von Kuefstein: Studies on family history , 4 volumes, 1908–28, Vienna and Leipzig, Wilhelm Braumüller, KK Universitätsbuchhandlung GmbH.

Web links

• Root list on genealogy.euweb.cz , part 2 - from Johann Georg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The last homage to Maria Theresa took place in 1743, not later