Johann Friedrich Karg von Bebenburg

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Johann Friedrich Ignaz Karg Freiherr von Bebenburg

Johann Friedrich Ignaz Karg Freiherr von Bebenburg (born February 21, 1648 in Bamberg ; † November 30, 1719 in Bonn ) was Colonel Chancellor and Prime Minister .

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After finishing school, Karg von Bebenburg began studying philosophy at the University of Bamberg in 1664 , which he completed in 1666 with a doctorate. He then moved to the University of Rome to study theology there. After he had obtained his doctorate in this field in 1668, he studied both rights at the Universities of Prague and Padua with the degree of Dr. jur. utr. in 1676. In the meantime, Karg von Bebenburg was ordained a priest in 1672 and was promoted to the clerical council of the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and Würzburg, Peter Philipp von Dernbach (1619–1683). After Dernbach's death, the elector Max II. Emanuel von Bayern (1662–1726) appointed him clerical council director and dean of the Frauenkirche in Munich .

Karg proved his diplomatic skills when he campaigned for the elector's brother, Prince Joseph Clemens of Bavaria (1671–1723) to be coadjutor in Regensburg and Freising from 1683 , even though he was still a minor. As Karg von Bebenburg in 1688 as a legacy on behalf of Emperor Leopold I (1640–1705) to Pope Innocent XI. (1611–1689), it was again thanks to his efforts that Joseph Clemens was confirmed by the Pope after his election on July 19, 1688 as Archbishop of Kurköln. Previously, after the death of Cologne Elector Maximilian Heinrich von Bayern (1621–1688), his coadjutor Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg (1629–1704) expected to be elected as his successor, and received two votes more than Joseph Clemens but there were too few for the required two-thirds majority. Nevertheless, von Fürstenberg seized this office with the help of the French, but was not recognized by the Pope. Thanks to the diplomatic skill of Johann Friedrich Kargs von Bebenburg, it was finally possible to change the cathedral chapter and prevent Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg's subsequent application in Liège. Now the way was clear for the election of Joseph Clemens of Bavaria as elector and archbishop, and after his proclamation, he thanked Karg for his efforts by being appointed minister of state. Historically, this entire process is one of the triggering factors for the subsequent War of the Palatinate Succession (1688–1697). Due to these war circumstances, Joseph Clemens could not take up his new domicile and stayed in Bavaria for the time being. Even Karg von Bebenburg, still in Cologne, was unable to prevent the French and the bombing of cities in the Rhineland, nor could the resentment that still existed in the cathedral chapter.

Finally, Karg was called to Munich in 1690 to assist Joseph Clemens in his further expansive plans such as the coadjutorship in Hildesheim and Liège. On February 2, 1694, Karg was appointed Chancellor of the Privy Council and, after the war in the Rhineland had calmed down for the time being, he was finally able to put together the planned government team in Bonn. In addition, the elector promoted him to colonel chancellor in 1698 and also confirmed his ennoblement to imperial baron. In the course of the War of the Spanish Succession , the elector sided with Louis XIV of France (1638–1715) in order to be able to rule in the Rhineland in peace and to receive financial support. For this purpose, Karg signed the secret alliance with France on February 13, 1701 in Brussels on his behalf and also allowed French troops to be stationed in the Rhineland in return.

Now, however, Karg von Bebenburg and his prince-bishop fared just like Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg 12 years earlier and they were forced to flee into exile in France in 1702 due to an alliance of anti-French troops loyal to the emperor who conquered the Lower Rhine and Maas regions. Karg remained a loyal advisor and companion to the elector and his brother Maximilian Emanuel even in exile. For the support of Louis XIV. Karg was entrusted with the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel in 1703 , but without having to take on church duties.

After years of exile in Namur, Lille and Valenciennes, among others, Johann Friedrich Karg von Bebenburg only reappeared as a delegate, negotiating partner and co-signatory in 1713 at the Peace of Utrecht and in 1714 at the subsequent Peace of Baden and Peace of Rastatt . From 1715 the way was clear again for him to resume his official duties in Cologne after the Dutch troops had left this area. Johann Friedrich Karg von Bebenburg remained in his office until his death in 1719 and, as a convinced representative of princely absolutism and Jansenism, was repeatedly involved in violent disputes with the cathedral chapter and the estates.

Over the years, despite the unrest, he always had time to publish numerous valued but also provocative publications, which, in addition to his entire extensive private library, were later bought by the Aachen journalist and newspaper publisher Peter Josef Franz Dautzenberg (1769-1828) and then transferred to the holdings of the Aachen City Library were included.

Works (selection)

  • Peaceful thoughts about the religious union in Germany from the Word of God, Concilis, Patribus, church history compiled ; Wurzburg 1679
  • pax religiosa seu de exemtionibus et subjektionibus religiosorum opusc. ; Wurzburg 1680
  • feciacis pacis rel. ; Bamberg 1683
  • Isagoge parascevattica succinctam meditandi methodum utrusque testamenti. Conc trident. Et status ecclesiast notiam continens ad usum conferentiarum cleri Bamberg. et Herpibol ; Wuerzburg, 1683
  • Diss. Sopra I concilii Romani di Giov. VIII .; Rome 1686
  • Diss. Theol. ad constitute. Greg. P. de immunitate locali ecclesiarum seu de jure sacri asyli ; Cologne 1690
  • Erotemata mixtimque problemata juris can. et civ. illustria una cum XIII dissertationibus ad utrumque jus proemalibus ; Rome, 1728, posthumously

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SURNAME Karg von Bebenburg, Johann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karg von Bebenburg, Johann Friedrich Ignaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Chancellor and Minister of State
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1648
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1719
Place of death Bonn