Johann Paul Hocher

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Johann Paul Hocher

Johann Paul Hocher , from 1667 Baron von Hohenburg and Hohenkrän (born August 12, 1616 in Freiburg im Breisgau (then Austrian), † February 28, 1683 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer and Supreme Court Chancellor of Emperor Leopold I.

Life

  • Family coat of arms of those Hocher (Hochherr)

  • Coat of arms of the mother from the family of those Mager von Fuchsstatt

Johann Paul Hocher was the son of Johann Arbogast Hocher (or Hochherr ; around 1570–1649) from Masmünster in Upper Alsace, professor at the University of Freiburg , and Maria Magdalena Mager von Fuchsstatt († 1650), a descendant of Berthold Mager (around 1425 / 35 – after 1498), administrator of the provincial administration in Carinthia , who was appointed by Emperor Friedrich III in 1493 . was ennobled with the predicate "von Fuchsstatt", and their line belonged to the knighthood in Carinthia. Her sister Ursula married Johann in Freiburg after 1596 and they became the first parents of those (Schmid) von Brandenstein zu Orschweier in the Ortenau Imperial Knighthood .

Johann Paul Hocher studied in Freiburg jurisprudence . In 1635 his parents sent Hocher to Innsbruck because they were worried about the Swedish war. The local court chamber president Johann Michael von Schmauß took him on and took him to the then famous lawyer Johann Baptist Drächsel in Bolzano , where Hocher gained a good reputation as a lawyer, but soon fell out with Drächsel. In 1642 , Hocher received his doctorate in law in Freiburg.

Archduke Ferdinand Karl awarded him the title of Upper Austrian Regimental Council in 1637. In 1646 he was appointed to the Real Regimental Council and in 1654 received a seat and vote in the regimental chamber. In 1655 Hocher was appointed Tyrolean Vice Chancellor and ennobled on July 9, 1660 in Innsbruck . In the same year Hocher drafted a new Tyrolean state order (constitution). In December 1660 he gave up his position as vice-chancellor and became prince-bishop of Brixen court chancellor (until 1663).

Johann Paul Hocher

At the Reichstag in Regensburg in 1665, Hocher acted as an imperial councilor and archducal Austrian envoy. After the unification of Tyrol with the other hereditary lands, Leopold I appointed him on October 1, 1665, as Upper Austrian regimental vice-chancellor. In 1665 Hocher refused the appointment to the Austrian Supreme Court Chancellor, referring to his civil birth, but accepted this dignity after his elevation to the hereditary imperial baron status (March 8, 1667) with the title of Hohenburg and Hohenkrän . The deed of foundation of the University of Innsbruck (April 26, 1677) bears his countersignature.

As a result of the magnate conspiracy , Hocher headed the special court, which sentenced the leaders of the conspiracy ( Ferenc Nádasdy , Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan ) to death in 1671.

Shortly before the second Turkish siege of Vienna (July 1683), Hocher died in the Gundelhof in Vienna ( Brandstätte 5 / Bauernmarkt 4).

Johann Paul Hocher married Anna Maria Helene Kerschbaumer von Neumarckt from Salurn in 1643 , daughter of the landowner Leonhard Kerschbaumer. From this marriage came five daughters, including Anna Franziska, Freiin von Hohenkrän. She married Johann Georg IV. Count von Kuefstein and was the mother of Johann Ferdinand I. von Kuefstein . Johann Paul is buried in the Kuefstein family crypt in Greillenstein ( Horn district , Lower Austria).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian Academy of Sciences: Repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages": Mager, Berthold.
  2. ^ Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book , Nuremberg 1605, plate 46 (knighthood and nobility in Carinthia). Friedrich Wilhelm Leitner : The skinny von Fuchsstatt. Rise and decline of a noble family in the early modern times , in: Archives for Diplomatics , Volume 40, 1994, pp. 205-251.
  3. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume VIII, p. 239.
  4. ↑ a b General Teutsches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 1, 1744, p. 107.
personal data
SURNAME Hocher, Johann Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES High Baron of Hohenburg and Hohenkrän, Johann Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1616
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1683
Place of death Vienna