Peter Carl Wilhelm von Hohenthal

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Peter Carl Wilhelm von Hohenthal

Peter Carl Wilhelm Freiherr von Hohenthal , since 1790 Count von Hohenthal , also modernized Peter Karl Wilhelm Count von Hohenthal , (born April 20, 1754 in Trossin , † January 15, 1825 in Dresden ) was a German lawyer and Saxon minister.

Life

origin

Peter Carl Wilhelm comes from the Saxon noble family Hohenthal . He was the son of Peter Freiherr von Hohenthal (1726–1794) (and through his mother a great-grandson of Johann Burckhardt Mencke ) and Christiane Dorothea Elisabeth (née von Häseler).

Career

After studying law, which von Hohenthal finished with a dissertation in 1774, he entered the Saxon civil service in 1775. Quickly making a career, he became a secret war and mountain ridge in 1781 and the secret finance council in the following year. From 1800 he served as President of the Court of Appeal and from 1807 as Conference Minister . In 1815 von Hohenthal was a member of the commission which led the final negotiations for the Congress of Vienna in Preßburg , in which the reorganization of the now reduced Kingdom of Saxony was determined. In 1820 he was appointed senior tax director.

In 1803, von Hohenthal acquired the royal lordship of Königsbrück together with the manor Steinborn for 246,000 thalers. Here he promoted charitable endeavors and, for example, vouched for 2000 thalers for the savings bank in Königsbrück, which was established on December 23, 1818 and is considered the first savings bank in Saxony. But otherwise he also supported various charitable endeavors. He was also the owner of the Glauschnitz manor , which he gave to his Peter Carl. He was active as a writer, among other things, in the legal and economic field.

Count Hohenthal was a Freemason and a member of the Minerva Lodge for the Three Palms in Leipzig; in the Masonic obedience of the Strict Observance he used the name Eques a meta . He died in 1825 and was buried on January 18 at the Elias cemetery in Dresden in field C 9-2.

family

Peter Carl Wilhelm married Christiane Sophie von Watzdorff (1759–1814) in 1779 . One year after Sophie's death, he married Ernestine (1774-1829), the widow of the court preacher Reinhard (1753-1812) and daughter of the geologist von Charpentier (1738-1805). Von Hohenthal had nine children, all from his first marriage. However, only two daughters and two sons survived him:

Estate and posthumous honors

The extensive library, which also contained maps, music and copperplate engravings, was publicly auctioned in Dresden in 1829. In 1877 the market square , which was built in 1729 in Dresden's Friedrichstadt , was officially named after Hohenthal. In July 1946 the place was renamed after the communist Christian Beham (1906–1945), but since February 1993 it has been called Hohenthalplatz again. Architecturally, the square is shaped today by the still-preserved main building of the former Hohenthalstift, a dormitory from the 1970s and a green area that was recreated based on the historical model from 1888.

Works

  • De Ambitu Politiae Eiusque A Iustitia Discrimine . Breitkopf, Leipzig 1774 (legal dissertation, University of Leipzig).
  • Liber de Politia . Hilscher, Leipzig 1776.
  • Biography of the Chur-Saxon Secret Cabinet Minister Freyherrn von Gutschmid . Perthes, Gotha 1803.
  • Appendix to the Dreßdnischen Gesangbuche, from the year 1797, which is introduced in the rule Koenigsbrück and in other Graeflich Hohenthalischen localities . Oldecop, Oschatz 1811.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Schmidt : The family of the counts of Hohenthal. Book printing of the orphanage, Halle 1896.
  2. ↑ His Excellency… [Dedication to Peter Carl Wilhelm v. Hohenthal, Reichsgraf, on the day of the homage, September 28, 1804]. Meinhold, Dresden 1804.
  3. ↑ Annett Kschieschan: Königsbrücker Sparkasse is the oldest in the country. In: Saxon newspaper. January 10, 2009. Kamenz edition, p. 18.
  4. ↑ General Handbook of Freemasonry , 2nd edition, first volume, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1863, p. 639.
  5. ↑ Ernestine von Hohenthal: My beloved consort… [Dedication to Peter Carl Wilhelm von Hohenthal, Kgl. Saxon. Conference Minister, in celebration of February 5, 1824]. Meinhold, Dresden 1824.
  6. ↑ Directory of a very important book collection, encompassing all scientific branches ... in which a distant part of the library ... of the late Mr. Conference Minister Count von Hohenthal ... is consigned ... which, along with various atlases, maps, music, ... also copperplate engravings from Dresden on 12. August 1829 and the following days… to be publicly auctioned by Georg Moritz Segnitz, Königl. Saxon. Book auctioner and valuer. Gardener, Dresden 1829.
  7. ↑ King Anton I returns to Friedrichstadt - the monument will be put up again on Hohenthalplatz after restoration. In: dresden.de. State capital Dresden, May 18, 2000, accessed on December 14, 2016 (press release).
personal data
SURNAME Hohenthal, Peter Carl Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenthal, Petrus Carolus Guiliemus LB ex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer and Saxon Minister
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Trossin
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1825
Place of death Dresden