Johann Georg Oexle

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Johann Georg Freiherr von Oexle , also Oexl (* 1605 in Göppingen ; † May 27, 1675 in Landshut ) was the Bavarian secret council chancellor.

Life

Johann Georg Oexle was born in 1605, according to other sources also in 1606, as the son of Johann Konrad Oexle, the mayor of Göppingen . He studied law in Tübingen and Ingolstadt and converted to Catholicism. In 1629 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. In 1630 he entered the Bavarian civil service. From 1641 to 1643 he was in the Salzburg service. He returned to the service of Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria and carried out the re-Catholicization of the Upper Palatinate on the peace execution day in Nuremberg in 1649/51 . From 1652 he was the Bavarian Privy Councilor . In 1662 he succeeded Johann Adlzreiter von Tettenweis as the secret council chancellor and in 1663 the Bavarian envoy to the Perpetual Reichstag in Regensburg . In 1666 he was raised to the rank of baron . In 1667, during negotiations in Vienna , he was suspected of having betrayed secrets to the imperial court and was deposed by Elector Ferdinand Maria . His successor as the secret councilor was Kaspar von Schmid . Oexle died impoverished in Landshut in 1675.

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