Karl Joseph von Gillern

Johannes Karl Joseph Freiherr von Gillern (* 1691 in Hof , Moravia ; † 1759 in Koritschan ) was a Liechtenstein and imperial councilor and peace negotiator in the First Silesian War .

biography

Gillern came from the noble family von Gillern . After completing his studies and traveling as a gentleman , he entered the imperial military service and fought in the War of Spanish Succession .

Gillern's father, Franz Leopold von Gillern, and an uncle, Friedrich von Gillern, were already Liechtenstein officials, and so Gillern began working in a Liechtenstein law firm. In 1721 Prince Josef Johann Adam von Liechtenstein , with whom he had known since childhood, took him into his personal service on the occasion of his assumption of government as a secretarius . Gillern proved himself and after a short time became the first Liechtenstein court advisor; Josef Johann Adam entrusted him with the entire administration of the Liechtenstein dominions. In 1724 he was sent to the imperial court in Vienna as the directing Liechtenstein court advisor of all direct and indirect princely Liechtenstein possessions . In the same year he was accepted into the gentlemen's class above the Enns.

In 1729 Gillern was from Charles VI. appointed as court chamber and bancality councilor on the Herrenbank in the imperial financial administration. His position corresponded to that of a section head in the Ministry of Finance and a supervisory board in the state banking supervision.

Due to his good connections as a Liechtenstein court advisor in the Principality of Opava and family connections to Prussia ( Samuel von Schmettau ), Gillern was appointed as a peace negotiator with Prussia during the First Silesian War at the personal disposal of Maria Theresa . At the secret convention of Klein-Schnellendorf, he took over the negotiations that led to the preliminary peace of Breslau and ultimately the peace of Berlin .

Gillern was last as the imperial councilor first official in the imperial ministerial bank deputation (supervisory authority of the imperial central bank ) and right hand of its president, Reichsgraf von Chotek . In Bohemia, Gillern made a significant contribution to Maria Theresa's administrative reforms in his function as Liechtenstein court councilor .

Gillern died in Vienna in autumn 1759; he was buried in St. Stephen's Cathedral. Due to the early death of his son, he bequeathed his property, the Koritschan estate in Moravia, to his nephew Christian von Gillern.

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• Major von Duncker: Court Chamber and Bancality Council Josef Freiherr von Gillern as peace negotiator , V. Issue of the work Military and political files on the history of the First Silesian War in 1741 , Vienna War Archives
• Documentation of the Liechtenstein administration 1721-1729, house archive of the ruling Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna