Johann Julius von Hecht

Johann Julius Hecht , von Hecht from 1762 , (* 1721 in Halberstadt ; † March 8, 1792 in Hamburg ) was a Prussian privy councilor , envoy and minister to the Lower Saxony Empire .

Life

Hecht was born the son of Philipp Reinhold von Hecht (1677–1735). His father was a royal Prussian resident in Frankfurt am Main and a ministerial resident in the Upper Rhine Empire . 1729 he was by Emperor Karl VI. raised to the imperial nobility. He married a daughter of the businessman Beck. She was the mother of Johann Julius.

From March 1736 he studied at the University of Helmstedt and in December 1740 he was first secretary of the legation at the Prussian embassy in Munich at the Bavarian court, later he moved as such to the court of Electoral Saxony in Dresden . In January 1752 he became the Prussian Minister-Resident at the Lower Saxony Reichskreis and postmaster in Hamburg. At the beginning of July 1752 he was appointed royal Prussian Privy Councilor and Privy Legation Councilor .

At the end of August 1752 he took up his work as a resident in Hamburg and was also accredited in the free imperial and Hanseatic cities of Bremen and Lübeck . During the Seven Years' War , Hecht provided the Hamburg press with extensive information and thus actively influenced a pro-Prussian mood. In May 1762, Hecht negotiated with the Swedish representative Adolf Friedrich von Olthof about a separate peace between Prussia and Sweden . Both were able to sign the peace treaty in Hamburg on May 22, 1762 . For his services, Hecht was raised to the Prussian nobility , the nobility diploma was already issued on May 8, 1762.

Through his marriage to a Hamburg patrician daughter , Hecht came into contact with the highest circles in Hamburg society and gained important insights into the world of trade and finance. Prussian merchants from Berlin and Breslau stated that Hecht's information was important for their business. In 1780, after the first partition of Poland , King Friedrich II of Prussia commissioned him to win wealthy Hamburg citizens for the purchase of West Prussian lands. In 1783, Hecht fell seriously ill. After more than 51 years in royal Prussian service, Johann Julius von Hecht died on March 8, 1792, at the age of 71, in Hamburg. He appointed his nephew Gottfried Konrad Hecht as heir .

literature

• Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 389-390 .
• Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexicon of the Prussian monarchy . Volume 1, Ludwig Rauh, Berlin 1855, pages 331-332. ( Digitized )

Web links

• Entry about Hecht, Johann Julius von in CERL Thesaurus