Julius August von der Horst

Julius August Freiherr von der Horst

Julius August Friedrich Freiherr von der Horst (* 1723 ; † 1791 ) was a Prussian minister and confidante of Friedrich II.

Life

Julius August von der Horst was provost of Levern Abbey , Lord of Haldem , Steinlaken and Sögeln .

He was the son of the state deputy, secret Oberfinanzrat, commissaire en chef of the County of Lingen and Tecklenburg, Friedrich von der Horst (1693–1762). Julius August enrolled at the Academy in Lingen on March 7, 1740 , and later further studies in Groningen and Halle.

He entered the Prussian civil service in 1746 and began working for the War and Domain Chamber in Minden . From 1749 to 1753 he was war and domain councilor as well as chamber deputy and district administrator in Lingen. After the end of the Seven Years' War , von der Horst was appointed President of the Kurmark in Brandenburg in 1763 . In this office he contributed significantly to the transfer of the tax administration to management. Frederick II therefore appointed him in 1766 as a real secret budget and war council as well as vice-president and conducting minister in the general directorate. As such, he was involved in setting new tax rates. Julius August von der Horst was also responsible for all tobacco matters as well as for the trade, factories and manufacturing departments. He was also the first president of the maritime trade founded in 1772 . Because he was apparently not up to the task, he was replaced in 1774.

Due to illness he had to leave the civil service. Freiherr von der Horst is the only minister who was dismissed in honor by Friedrich II. He was also one of the king's few confidants in his last years. A very extensive correspondence took place between the two even after von der Horst had left Potsdam. One of the last letters from the king at all was addressed to von der Horst and is dated August 10, 1786.

Through his marriage to Isabella Judith Sophie von Langen , von der Horst acquired the Sögeln estate near Bramsche in the Osnabrück region in 1750 . In 1775 he had Haldem Castle expanded and acquired goods in Haldem that had previously belonged to a branch of the von Horst family. In 1776 he bought Hollwinkel Castle . This is still the seat of the von der Horst family today . He dealt intensively with family history and has also published about it.

Minister von der Horst died during a cure. The daughter Wilhelmine had a memorial column erected on Haldem for her father, Minister Frederick the Great. Today the memorial stands in the park of Hollwinkel Castle.

Recognition of nobility

On May 11, 1844, all descendants of the Minister von der Horst in Potsdam received recognition of the hereditary baron status.

literature

Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Freiherrliche Häuser volume III, page 189, volume 21 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1959.

Individual evidence

↑ Manfred Wolf: The manors in Haldem in the 16th and 17th centuries. Communications of the Mindener Geschichtsverein, year 57 (1985), pp. 27-44.
^ Walter Tenfelde: Album Studiosorum Academiae Lingensis 1698-1819. Lingen 1964, p. 41.
^ 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. 441 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
^ Eberhard Laux / Friedrich Teppe: The modern state and its administration: Contributions to the history of development since 1700. Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998, pp. 48–49 ( limited preview in Google book search).
↑ General German Realencyklopadie for the educated classes: Conversations-lexikon. Vol. 13, Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1847, p. 169 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
^ Carl Eduard Vehse: History of the German courts since the Reformation. Hoffmann and Campe, 1851, pp. 135, 145–146 ( limited preview in Google book search).
↑ On the history of Sögeln

Web links

Family history ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

personal data
SURNAME	Horst, Julius August from the
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Horst, Julius August Friedrich Freiherr von der (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian Minister
DATE OF BIRTH	1723
DATE OF DEATH	1791

[1] Manfred Wolf: The manors in Haldem in the 16th and 17th centuries. Communications of the Mindener Geschichtsverein, year 57 (1985), pp. 27-44.

[2] Walter Tenfelde: Album Studiosorum Academiae Lingensis 1698-1819. Lingen 1964, p. 41.

[3] 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. 441 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[4] Eberhard Laux / Friedrich Teppe: The modern state and its administration: Contributions to the history of development since 1700. Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998, pp. 48–49 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[5] General German Realencyklopadie for the educated classes: Conversations-lexikon. Vol. 13, Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1847, p. 169 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

[6] Carl Eduard Vehse: History of the German courts since the Reformation. Hoffmann and Campe, 1851, pp. 135, 145–146 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[7] On the history of Sögeln