Karl Kolbielski

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Karl Kolbielski , also Carl Glave or Carl Glave-Kolbielski , (born August 4, 1752 in Stettin , † August 13, 1831 in Ofen ) was an adventurer, political agent, publicist, financial expert and entrepreneur.

Life

He was the son of Hermann Caspar Glave († 1786), councilor and state syndic of Western Pomerania . Like his father, he studied law at several universities; In 1771 he received his doctorate at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Halle . Glave then worked successively in the Prussian civil service as a trainee lawyer with the government in Stettin and as an assessor at the higher court in Berlin , with the government in Marienwerder and at the court in Königsberg . In 1779 he became a member of the government and was commissioned by Grand Chancellor Johann Heinrich von Carmer to reorganize the judiciary in East Prussia. But he made many enemies and in 1786 was sentenced to two years in prison for abuse of office and corruption. After serving his imprisonment, he was deported to Poland in 1788.

In Warsaw Glave became a political advisor a. a. by King Stanislaw August Poniatowski and agent of several governments. He acquired the Kolbiele rule in Galicia - hence the name Kolbielski - and brokered Polish loans to Holland.

The Austrian diplomat Franz Graf von Dietrichstein recruited him as a secret political publicist. Under changing pseudonyms, Kolbielski wrote a large number of anti-Prussian, anti-Russian and anti-French writings between 1794 and 1799, which caused a sensation due to their stylistic skill and sharp polemics. The "Letter to France's National Convention" and the "Germania in 1795" became particularly well known.

Since 1799 Kolbielski made a name for himself as an imaginative entrepreneur and project maker. With the support of the Viennese commercial, loan and exchange bank, he began to recruit English technicians and skilled workers. From Hamburg he brought Johann Thornton from Manchester to Vienna, who became important for the Austrian cotton textile and spinning machine industry. After doing competitive espionage for Austrian clients in England and Germany , he was finally expelled from England. He received an exclusive privilege for the production of spinning machines, but this was withdrawn in 1801. Kolbielski's other undertakings during this period also failed (speculative grain deliveries from Galicia to England, numerous projects for banks, insurance companies and yarn manufacturers, and the establishment of a machine factory in Sechshaus near Vienna). At the Viennese court, however, he was regarded as a financial expert, remained in occupied Vienna as an Austrian spy in 1809 and is said to have been involved in a conspiracy against Napoleon . In March 1810 he was arrested by the Austrian police and held until 1813. Then he was imprisoned for 15 years in the fortress Leopoldstadt in Hungary (now Slovakia). In 1828 he was dismissed through the intercession of Archduke Ferdinand and then lived in Ofen / Budapest .

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  1. ↑ z. B. On the political situation and the state interests of Prussia ...
  2. ↑ Herbert Matis: The Schwarzenberg Bank on oeaw.ac.at
personal data
SURNAME Kolbielski, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glave, Carl; Glave-Kolbielski, Carl; Glave-Kolbielski, Karl; Glave, Karl Georg Gottfried; Glave von Kolbielski, Karl; Glave-Kolbielski, Karol Fryderyk; Glave-Kobielski, Karol Fryderyk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Adventurer, political agent, finance expert and Austrian industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH August 4, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1831
Place of death oven