Johann Ludwig von Goltstein (1717–1779)

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Johann Ludwig Franz Anton Joseph Adam Graf von Goltstein (baptized October 5, 1717 in Düsseldorf ; † September 5, 1779 ibid) was an Electoral Palatinate civil servant and finance minister .

family

Johann Ludwig von Goltstein was the son of Johann Ludwig Graf von Goltstein (1689–1731) from the Goltstein family . The father was Jülich-Bergisch bailiff, secret councilor , court chamber president and from 1726 chancellor and later governor of the Jülich-Bergisch country .

Johann Ludwig married the Comtesse Anna Maria von Schaesberg († 1776), daughter of the Jülich-Bergischer Hofkammerpräsident and later Minister of the Electoral Palatinate , Count Johann Friedrich von Schaesberg . His son Joseph Ludwig Franz de Paula Graf von Goltstein became the Privy Councilor and President of the Council of State of the Grand Duchy of Berg .

Life

Johann Ludwig Franz von Goltstein studied from 1737 to 1739 at the University of Leiden law . In 1731 he became bailiff of Geilenkirchen , in 1739 chamberlain to the Electoral Palatinate and in 1740 Jülich land commissioner. In October of the same year he swore up in the college of the Jülich knighthood and was appointed real councilor in Düsseldorf . In 1757 he was appointed President of the Court Chamber in Düsseldorf, and on November 11, 1768 he was promoted to governor with an annual salary of 2,600 Reichstalers . As governor, he was also president of the Jülich-Bergisches Oberappellationsgericht from 1769 to 1776. On August 14, 1774 he was appointed secret minister of state and conference for the finance department in Mannheim . In 1775 he resigned from the ministerial office.

In 1767 Goltstein was one of the founders of the Düsseldorf Masonic Lodge La Perfaite Amitié ; from 1768 he acted as "Deputy Provincial Grand Master" of this lodge.

The city honored him by naming Goltsteinstrasse for his services to the urban development of Düsseldorf .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Robert Minder Freemason Politician Lexicon. From Salvador Allende to Saad Zaghlul Pascha . Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2004, p. 117