Joseph Anton Gabaleon from Wackerbarth-Salmour

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Joseph Anton Gabaleon from Wackerbarth-Salmour

Joseph Anton Gabaleon von Wackerbarth-Salmour (* 1685 in Turin ; † June 2, 1761 in Nymphenburg near Munich) was an Electoral Saxon cabinet minister , chief steward and diplomat.

Life

In 1704 Giuseppe Antonio di Salmour entered the service of his sovereign, the Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia . 1707 married his mother Katharina von Salmour , the widow of the Piedmontese dragoon captain Giovanni Michele Gabaleone, Count von Salmour († 1691), and in second marriage widow of the Margrave Karl Philipp von Brandenburg-Schwedt († 1695), in Vienna in third marriage his future Stepfather August Christoph von Wackerbarth , through whose mediation he entered Saxon services in the same year. Wounded in 1709 at the Battle of Malplaquet in the War of the Spanish Successionended his military career as a captain in Prince Eugen's army .

In 1712 he was appointed chamberlain in Dresden . Between 1713 and 1719 he traveled on unofficial diplomatic missions to London, Munich and Vienna. From 1723 to 1727 Wackerbarth-Salmour was the first permanent envoy of Saxony to Munich . When the Electoral Saxon cabinet minister Jacob Heinrich von Flemming suddenly died in Vienna in 1728, Wackerbarth-Salmour, who was in Vienna for private matters, took over negotiations with the imperial court. From 1730 to the summer of 1731 he was ambassador to Rome.

From 1731 until his death in 1761 he was chief steward of Prince Elector Friedrich Christian . From April 1733 to March 1734 Wackerbarth-Salmour was cabinet minister together with General Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin in Poland to secure the election of Friedrich August II as Polish king.

Wackerbarth-Salmour owned the Wackerbarth Castle in Lößnitz and the Zabeltitz manor . He was a knight of the Polish Order of the White Eagle , the Knightly Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus and the Order of St. January .

literature

  • Paul Wackerbarth-Salmour: Count Wackerbarth-Salmour. Chief Steward of the Elector of Saxony Friedrich Christian. A contribution to the history of the reorganization of the Saxon state in 1763 . Library of Saxon History and Regional Studies, Volume 4, Issue 2, Verlag S. Hirzel. Leipzig, 1912.

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predecessor Office successor
- Saxon envoy in Munich
1723–1727
Gabriel von der Lieth ( Gt )
François Joseph Wicardel de Fleury Saxon envoy in Vienna
1728–1730
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? Saxon envoy in Rome
1730–1731
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- Saxon envoy in Naples
1738–1739
Giuseppe di Salvatico