Johann Friedrich von Seeau

Count Johann Friedrich von Seeau auf Würting (born August 5, 1659 in Steyr , † December 5, 1729 in Gmunden ) was a commissioner in the Imperial Administration in Bavaria .

Life

The headquarters of the Seeauers, who come from the Salzkammergut, is the "Seeauergut" at the northern end of Lake Hallstatt in Bad Goisern , which still exists today . Johann Friedrich von Seeau was born on August 5th, 1659 in Steyr. His father was Elias von Seeau (1608–1670), who was related by marriage to the Weiß von Würting family through his first wife, Susanna Magdalena Alt von Altenau. In 1650 he took over the Würting moated castle from an administrator and later u. a. Litzlberg Castle (1664) and Piberstein Castle (1665) took over. His mother was Maria Elisabeth von Pranckh , with whom Elias von Seeau was married for the second time.

As part of his school and academic training, he attended the Jesuit school in Linz, the grammar school of the Salzburg Benedictine University (forerunner of the University of Salzburg ), where he then studied philosophy until 1675 and also attended law lectures.

In June 1681 he married Maria Eleonora Herrin von Gera (and his brother Johann Ehrenreich von Seeau zu Helfenberg (1666-1708) married her sister Maria Barbara Herrin zu Gera in the same year), took over his rich inheritance after reaching the age of majority and obtained in January 1682 the elevation to the baron rank. Six years later he became Salzamtmann in Gmunden and took over the management of the entire Salzkammergut . In this function he tried to reform the administration and alleviate the plight of the chamber property workers. In the meantime he acquired u. a. the renaissance castle Helfenberg , which remained in the family for almost two hundred years until 1893.

After his wife had nine children, she died in the summer of 1691, giving birth to a tenth child. Thereupon Johann Friedrich von Seeau married Maria Anna Cäcilia Countess von Wildenstein in Graz in January 1692 , who bore him twelve more children in the course of the marriage.

His performance in the position of Salzamtmann ultimately led to the fact that he was able to advance Kaiser Leopold over 17 million guilders for his war chest, which had a positive influence on his further career. In 1698 he was appointed treasurer, in 1699 (together with his brother Johann Ehrenreich von Seeau) raised to the rank of imperial count, in 1700 entrusted with the management of the Chamber Commission in Transylvania and during the Austrian occupation of Bavaria in the War of the Spanish Succession, with the management of the Bavarian chambers.

However, he did not want to stay long in the position in Transylvania, which is why he traveled to Vienna in November 1701 and asked in vain for his release. Instead he was sent to the state parliament in Transylvania in 1702 as royal commissioner. Nevertheless, in the same year he succeeded in handing over the position of director-general for Transylvania to his brother Johann Ehrenreich "on recommendation".

Christian Probst reports that Count von Seeau was in charge of finance and taxation in the Imperial Administration in Bavaria as commissioner. As the highest tax official who had to meet the excessive tax demands of the Viennese court in Bavaria in times of war , he was of course in a very bad reputation among the people. According to Christian Probst, he was soon the most hated man in the administration. In February 1706 Baron von Petschowitz was appointed to support him.

The various offices also meant that he was absent several times from his main place of work in the Salzkammergut, so that mismanagement and infidelity spread there, which Johann Friedrich von Seeau could not prevent. As a result, his reputation suffered and he lost his mandates. In 1729 he finally died in Gmunden . His grave is in the family crypt in the Paulan monastery in Oberthalheim (today part of the market town of Timelkam in the Vöcklabruck district in Upper Austria ). The grave inscription contains the obituary for his first wife in the left inscription field, while the right half has been left free because his second wife died in Graz and is also buried there.

Others

In the Lehel district of the Bavarian state capital Munich , the Seeaustraße, named after Johann Friedrich von Seeau, leads from Lerchenfeldstraße to Oettingenstraße.

See also

• Sendlinger Murder Christmas

literature

• Christian Probst : Better to die Bavarian. The Bavarian popular uprising in 1705 and 1706 . Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7991-5970-3
• Christoph Brandhuber: Latin Baroque Inscriptions in Upper Austria ( PDF ), dissertation for obtaining a doctorate at the Faculty of Culture and Social Sciences at the University of Salzburg, Department of Classical Studies, Salzburg 2013, pp. 214-216.

Web links

• List of actors in the Bavarian uprising in 1705 and 1706
• Seeau Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Haus Seeaugut, formerly the free seat Gut Seeau , accessed on November 25, 2017.
2. ↑ Family tree according to the Seeau Foundation , accessed on November 25, 2017.
3. ↑ Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck : The praiseworthy gentlemen estates Deß Ertz-Herzogthumb Austria whether the Ennß, as: prelates, gentlemen, knights, and cities or genealogical and historical description, of the same arrival, founding, building and planting , Coat of arms, shield, and helmets, your monasteries, lordships, castles, and cities [e] tc., [E] tc , Volume 2, pp. 832 to 834. Passau: G. Mangold, 1747.
4. ^ Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now , Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
5. ^ Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces of Upper Austria . 2nd Edition. Wilhelm Ennsthaler, Steyr 1992, ISBN 3-85068-323-0 .
6. ^ Family Gera according to the Seeau Foundation , accessed on November 25, 2017.
7. ↑ Helfenberg Castle. In: events.at. November 6, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Tourist Association Bohemian Forest: Revertera Castle in Helfenberg. In: boehmerwald.at. November 6, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Family files Seeau Zl. 158/1911 (stored in the Schlüsselberger Archive), Landesarchiv Oberösterreich (PDF), accessed on November 25, 2017.
10. ^ Joseph Chmel: The Austrian historian: 2nd volume . Carl Herold, Vienna 1841, ISBN 1-143-46855-4 , p. 23 ( full text / preview in Google book search).
11. ↑ Count Joseph Kemény: German Treasures for the History of Transylvania, Volume 2 . J. Thilsch and Son, Klausenburg 1840, ISBN 978-0-243-89484-0 , p. 301 ( full text / preview in Google book search).