Kaspar von Schmid

Kaspar von Schmid (* 1622 ; † September 3, 1693 in Schönbrunn ) was the electoral Bavarian secret council chancellor and conference councilor.

Life

Kaspar von Schmid was the son of Martin Joseph von Schmid. He graduated from the Jesuit high school in Munich in 1643 (today: Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ) and then studied law at the University of Ingolstadt . In 1650 he is mentioned for the first time as "Doctor of both rights and regimental councilor in Straubing", in 1651 he appears as a member of the Bavarian court council. One focus of his work was the further development of land law, another on the restoration of state finances. He was a pillar of the Elector's absolutist ideas against the estates, whose rights he saw only as granted privileges. With Korbinian von Prielmayr after 1662 he developed the France-friendly neutrality policy under Ferdinand Maria , which determined Bavaria's foreign policy direction until 1683 and ensured peace. He also took care of a tight, uniform state administration. In 1679 an unsuccessful assassination attempt was carried out on him.

At the beginning of 1683 he had to largely give up his state office when Bavaria came closer to Austria again with a new alliance. On 11 March 1688 he was appointed as electoral Bavarian Privy Council Chancellor fief - Provost and carers of trout in the electoral Bavarian baron charged. He was the master of Haslbach and Pirnbach. The Aibling foster family remained in the family until 1800.

His successor as provost and chancellor of the Privy Council was Johann Rudolf von Wämpl . From 1691 onwards, Wämpl, as the secret vice-chancellor, had been responsible for the secret council chancellery, but even after Schmid's death in 1693 he was not appointed secret council chancellor by elector Max Emanuel.

Schmid's son Franz Kaspar von Schmid Freiherr von Haslbach and Piernbach (* 1658 ; † 1721 ) was one of the leaders of the Bavarian popular uprising of 1705.

literature

Ferdinand Kramer : Schmid, Caspar Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 137 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 1, p. 90.
^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XII, Page 523, Volume 125 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2001, ISBN 3-7980-0825-6 .
^ Karl Theodor von Heigel : Schmid: Kaspar Freiherr v. S., on Haselbach and Pirnbach . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 679-683.

personal data
SURNAME	Schmid, Kaspar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kaspar Freiherr von Schmid on Haselbach and Pirnbach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	electoral Bavarian secret council chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH	1622
DATE OF DEATH	September 3, 1693
Place of death	Schönbrunn

[1] Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 1, p. 90.

[2] Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XII, Page 523, Volume 125 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2001, ISBN 3-7980-0825-6 .

[3] Karl Theodor von Heigel : Schmid: Kaspar Freiherr v. S., on Haselbach and Pirnbach . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 679-683.