Johann Sebald Neusönner

Johann Sebald Neusönner († 1708 in Vienna ) was the electoral Bavarian secret secretary before and during the War of the Spanish Succession and the resulting Bavarian popular uprising in 1705.

In 1684 the lawyer Neusönner worked as Secretary of the War Council in the General Commissariat in Hungary during the Turkish War.

In 1697 Neusönner received the castle farm Perlachsoed , today Fasangartenstrasse 3 in Munich Ramersdorf-Perlach , from Elector Max Emanuel .

After the lost second battle of Höchstädt, Neusönner signed the surrender treaty of Bavaria to the representatives of Bavaria on November 7, 1704 at the headquarters of the imperial troops in Ilbesheim in front of Landau in the Palatinate as a representative of the Electress Therese Kunigunde (who in turn represented the escaped Elector Max Emanuel) Roman Emperor Leopold I. This ended the acts of war in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession in southern Germany and Bavaria was occupied by Austrian troops. The Electress was initially only able to exercise her sovereignty rights in the Munich Rent Office .

On February 9, 1705, Neusönner was promoted from the Electress to Hofkammerdirektor (Minister of Finance) for his loyal service.

Neusönner then contacted the Hungarian rebels and, according to Christian Probst, is said to have tried to instigate an uprising against Austria in Bohemia through agents. For these reasons, Emperor Leopold I decided in April 1705 to have the Munich Rent Office occupied.

Neusönner was arrested on May 21, 1705 and finally taken to prison in Vienna, where he died in 1708.

literature

• Christian Probst : Better to die Bavarian. The Bavarian popular uprising in 1705 and 1706. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7991-5970-3
• Ludwig Wolf: Johann Sebald von Neusönner . Festring Perlach eV, Munich 2011

Web links

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