Karl Georg von Hoym

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Karl Georg von Hoym
Karl Georg von Hoym, lithograph by Heinrich Wilhelm Teichgräber
Karl Georg von Hoym around 1780

Karl Georg Heinrich Graf von Hoym (born August 20, 1739 in Poblotz in the Stolp district in Western Pomerania ; † October 22, 1807 in Dyhernfurth in Silesia ) was a Prussian statesman.

origin

Karl Georg Heinrich von Hoym was born in 1739 as the son of Hans Bogislaws von Hoym, heir to Poblotz, and his wife Auguste Henriette, née von Wobeser . His father, then a Prussian lieutenant , died in 1741 in the First Silesian War . The mother died a year later. Von Hoym was then accepted by Heinrich Graf von Podewils and raised with his sons.

life and work

After attending the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg , von Hoym began studying law at the University of Frankfurt an der Oder in 1758 . He loses interest in studying and tries to learn several languages. In July 1761 he joined the cuirassier regiment of Gustav Albrecht von Schlabrendorf in Breslau as a flag junior . Von Hoym advises von Schlabrendorf to say goodbye “because of his weak appearance” and recommends him to his brother, the minister in charge, Ernst Wilhelm von Schlabrendorf . Von Hoym was employed by him on August 8, 1761 as auscultator at the Breslau War and Domain Chamber .

After a relatively short time, on April 29, 1762, he was appointed War and Domain Council. In March 1767 he becomes a privy councilor and second chamber director. In the same year he married Antonie Louise Freiin von Dyhern and Schönau (1745-1820). In 1768 Frederick the Great got to know him himself and in 1769 appointed him regional president in Kleve and in 1770 the conducting minister in Silesia, to which Hoym made a great contribution.

Friedrich Wilhelm II granted him the dignity of count in 1786 and in 1793 entrusted him with the administration of the newly acquired South Prussia . Here Hoym gave great impetus through bureaucratic despotism as well as poor administration, self-enrichment and squandering of the state property and thus initiated the black book by Hans von Held .

From 1796 he was the owner of the Kucklow Dompropstei in Western Pomerania. Its previous owner, the Prussian Field Marshal Wichard von Möllendorff , had given it to him with the approval of the king.

After the Peace of Tilsit , Hoym was retired and died on October 22nd, 1807 on his estate in Dyhernfurt near Breslau.

  • Dyhernfurth Castle , Lower Silesia

  • Mausoleum in Dyhernfurth

family

In 1767 he married the baron Antonie Louise von Dyhern and Schönau (1745-1820), a daughter of the court marshal and chamber director in Oels Freiherr Anton Ulrich von Dyhrn († 1768) and the baron Sophie Caroline von Crausen . His wife was also the heiress of Dyhernfurth. The couple had two daughters:

  • Antoinette Wilhelmine Caroline Katharine (* July 17, 1768; † November 27, 1799) ⚭ 1788 Count Joachim Alexander Kasimir von Maltzan, Baron zu Wartenberg and Penzlin (* June 24, 1764: † July 2, 1850), son of Joachim Carl von Maltzan
  • Friederike Sophie Amalie Henriette (* March 22, 1770 - † January 27, 1832) Hans 1791 Hans Gottlieb Baron von Stosch auf Löwen (Count of Prussia since July 6, 1798)

Personalities who were in contact with him

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Georg von Hoym  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Eduard Vehse: History of the German courts since the Reformation . Volume 3, Hamburg 1851, pp. 245-247
  2. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part II, Volume 6. Anklam 1870, p. 264 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Hoym, Karl Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoym, Karl Georg Heinrich Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian statesman
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Poblotz near Stolp , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1807
Place of death Dyhernfurth , Silesia