Karl Ferdinand von Königsegg

Karl Ferdinand Graf von Königsegg-Erps (born November 1, 1696 , † December 20, 1759 in Vienna ) was a German Habsburg administrative officer and diplomat.

Life

Karl Ferdinand was the first-born son from the marriage of the imperial chamberlain Albert Eusebius Franz Reichsgraf zu Königsegg and Rothenfels and Clara Felicitas, born. Countess of Manderscheid-Blankenheim . He was educated for the clergy and canon of Strasbourg , but in 1718 resigned his canonical and became imperial chamberlain. In 1720 he married Helene Hyacyntha Valentine, b. Countess von Erps-Boischott and called herself Königsegg-Erps ever since . The marriage resulted in two daughters and a son. Only the eldest daughter survived the father.

His younger brother was Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels , later elector and archbishop of Cologne .

Diplomatic career

His uncle, Count Josef Lothar von Königsegg , who was then the imperial ambassador in Paris , introduced him to the diplomatic service as his secretary. From 1725 to 1728 he stayed as envoy extraordinary in The Hague , then in Paris and Madrid , from where he was appointed to the Dutch Council of State in Brussels in early 1730 .

Civil servant career

From 1740 Königsegg-Erps was Real Privy Council and Vice-President of the Council of the Austrian Netherlands , from September 1742 Supreme Court Master of the governor Archduchess Maria Anna and, as an authorized minister, the leading official of this territory. After the Archduchess' death in 1744, he was appointed chief steward of the Dowager Empress Elisabeth Christine , in 1748 president of the newly founded “Münz- und Bergwesens-Directions-Hof-Collegium”, at the same time president of the court deputation “in Bannaticis et Illyricis ” and later also president of the court chamber .

On January 5, 1744 he was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece .

Königsegg-Erps occupies a prominent position in the history of Austrian administration. Contemporaries describe him as one of the most capable and hard-working ministers. “One does not see him like the other ministers at court at evening parties or on hunts. He wants to see everything with his own eyes and is therefore also the hardest-working department head in Vienna. "

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Königsegg, Karl Ferdinand . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1864, p. 229 ( digital copy ).
Anton Victor Felgel: Königsegg, Karl Ferdinand Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 333 f.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Anton Victor Felgel: Königsegg, Karl Ferdinand Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 333 f.
↑ List nominal des chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or, depuis son instiution jusqu'à nos jours , in: The House of Austria and the Order of the Golden Fleece. Edited by the Ordenskanzlei. Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz / Stuttgart 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-7020-1172-7 ), pp. 161–198, here p. 183.

personal data
SURNAME	Königsegg, Karl Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Königsegg-Erps, Karl Ferdinand Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Habsburg administrative officer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	November 1, 1696
DATE OF DEATH	December 20, 1759
Place of death	Vienna

[Bio-1] A ^b ^c ^d Anton Victor Felgel: Königsegg, Karl Ferdinand Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 333 f.

[2] List nominal des chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or, depuis son instiution jusqu'à nos jours , in: The House of Austria and the Order of the Golden Fleece. Edited by the Ordenskanzlei. Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz / Stuttgart 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-7020-1172-7 ), pp. 161–198, here p. 183.