Siegmund Ehrenfried von Oppel

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Siegmund Ehrenfried von Oppel (born September 29, 1687 in Oschatz , † March 20, 1757 in Gotha ) was a Saxon-Thuringian lawyer , court official and statesman as well as heir and court lord on Gosda and Wellerswalde .

Life

He was a scion of the noble family of those von Oppel , the youngest of four sons of Johann Georg von Oppel (born September 12, 1635 in Dresden ; † February 22, 1696 ibid), Lord of Wellerswalde near Oschatz, and his wife Martha born von Koseritz († 1711). His grandfather Johann Georg von Oppel (born June 26, 1594; † June 19, 1661) was the electoral Saxon Real Privy Councilor and Chief Tax Director, Lord of Lomnitz , Gosda, Ober- and Niederlichtenau , Lampertswalde and Wellerswalde. After the death of his father, he grew up under the tutelage of his mother and eldest brother Gotthelf Siegfried († 1722), Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor under Augustus the Strong and Assessor on Oberhofgericht Leipzig . In 1707 he began his law studies at the Alma Mater Leucorea in Wittenberg , which he completed in 1711 with his dissertation and disputation .

He then traveled with the Electoral Saxon delegation to the election of Charles VI as emperor . to Frankfurt and then to France and the Netherlands for educational purposes . In 1712, in the War of the Spanish Succession , he joined the army of the Great Alliance as a volunteer and was briefly captured by the French.

After his return in 1714, by negotiating a settlement with the Rentkammer von Sachsen-Merseburg, he managed to buy back the Gosda estate for himself and his brothers. His grandfather Johann Georg von Oppel had bought the Gosda manor (with the three estates Gosda, Proschim and Welzow ) in 1644, and when he died in 1661, he gave his five sons joint ownership of the fief. The eldest son Ernst sold the three estates to the rent chamber of Duke Christian I of Saxony-Merseburg in 1691 due to heavy debts , but this was challenged in court by Ernst's brothers and nephews until 1714. Only then did the Rentkammer agree to cancel the purchase in return for payment of 4,000 guilders, and the brothers Gotthelf Siegfried, Christian Friedlieb, Gottlob Friedrich and Siegmund Ehrenfried von Oppel received the feudal letter for Gosda, Proschim and Welzow on October 2, 1716. Since the four had already agreed in 1708 to give the Gosda estate to Siegmund Ehrenfried, he received the fief in 1718.

1715 he received a job as Real yard and Kanzleirat and Oberappellationsrat in the health-Brunswick (kurhannoverischen) Justizkanzlei in Celle , with the assurance that first presentation spa Braunschweig to Reichskammergericht to obtain. In the same year he was nominated by King George I , the Elector of Hanover, as an assessor (assessor) at the Reich Chamber of Commerce. However, the court had not yet received any instructions from the Reich regarding the question of whether the presentation rights of the new Hanoverian and the reactivated Bohemian electoral dignity should be made possible by expanding the camera college from 50 to 54 assessors or by reducing the assessors sent by other imperial estates , and therefore, Oppel's nomination was initially not accepted. In March 1716 the plenum admitted him to the exams, but with reservations. In May 1717, Emperor Karl VI. Opole's reception, and he then moved to Wetzlar , but it wasn't until August 28, 1719 that he was finally sworn in.

In 1722 he bought the Wellerswalde estate, five kilometers north of Oschatz, which his eldest brother, who died that year, had inherited from his father, and on May 26 of the same year he married Christiane Charlotte (* 1703), daughter of the former Saxon-Eisenberg house marshal Karl August Edler von der Planitz auf Ponitz and his wife Christiane Sibylle geb. from Zehmen .

After 16 years at the Reich Chamber of Commerce, he received an invitation from Duke Friedrich III in 1735 . to come to Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg as a privy councilor . He accepted the offer and moved to Gotha in April 1736 . There he became Chancellor in the same year , succeeding Baron Johann Friedrich Bachof von Echt, who died on January 3rd of that year. In 1738 he moved to Altenburg as Chancellor and thus successor to Johann Georg von Geismar . In 1742 he was called back to Gotha as a privy councilor and at the same time appointed chamber president and chief tax director of both principalities, Gotha and Altenburg.

After the death of Duke Ernst August I of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach on January 19, 1748, when Friedrich III. von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg exercised the guardianship of the Hereditary Prince Ernst August II , Oppel headed the administration of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach for nine months.

In October 1748 he returned from Weimar to Gotha and was taken over by Friedrich III. appointed President of his Secret Council.

Marriage and offspring

His marriage to Christiane Charlotte von der Planitz on May 26, 1722, had four children reaching adulthood:

  1. Christina Dorothea (* January 12, 1724; † 1775), ⚭ November 13, 1743 Carl Emil von Uechtritz (1694–1775), Saxe-Gothaischer Privy Council, supervisor of the princely domains
  2. Carl Georg August (March 11, 1725 - January 3, 1760); Chancellor in Gotha, later Württemberg secret council and governor of the County of Mömpelgard , ⚭ April 25, 1753 Louise Auguste Amalia von Dönhoff (1730–1768)
  3. Martha Eleanor (* May 2, 1726, † 1801), ⚭ 1752 Friedrich Hartmann von Witzleben (1722-1788), Lord of Martinroda and Elgersburg , Saxony-Gothaischer Chamberlain , later Saxony-Weimarischer upper Schenk , Privy Councilor , equerry , Lord Chamberlain and Head of all court offices .
  4. Johann Siegmund (* 2 October 1730; † 25 February 1798), Saxony-Weimarischer Gentleman, Councilor, Privy Councilor and landscape Cash -Director, ⚭ I: Anna Helena Christiane von gen slot of Goertz. (August 23 * 1732, † October 2, 1760); ⚭ II: June 28, 1764 Caroline Luise Henriette von Beust ; ⚭ III: 1771 Luise Friederike von Stange

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Gut Gosda ( Sorbian Gózdź) was about 10 km west-southwest of Spremberg in the Markgraftum Niederlausitz . The estate and the small village were completely devastated in 1968/69 in the course of lignite mining in the Welzow-Süd opencast mine . ( Archives of Vanished Places )
  2. ↑ http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN688166822&LOGID=LOG_0004
  3. ↑ Tim S. Müller: Gosda / Niederlausitz: Land use change of an East Elbe manor between “Economic Enlightenment” and the dawning industrial age (1790-1860). (Lower Lusatia at the beginning of the 21st century. History and present 2.) (Dissertation Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus, 2011.) C. Waxmann, Münster, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8309-2618-4 , pp. 33–34
  4. ↑ One year after his death, in 1757, the estate fell to his son Johann Siegmund, who paid off his siblings. In 1778 he sold the manor to his nephew Karl Siegmund Emil von Uechtritz, Siegmund Ehrenfried's grandson.
  5. ↑ Kur-Braunschweig had acquired the right to own presentation with the receipt of the electoral dignity approved by the [[Reichstag (HRR)} Reichstag]] in 1708 .
  6. ↑ Sigrid Jahns: The Reich Chamber of Commerce and its judges. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna, 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-06403-7 , pp. 301-303
  7. ↑ Quarterly for Heraldry, Sphragistics and Genealogy, Xth year. Association “Herold” Berlin, Carl Heymann, Berlin, 1882, pp. 191–192
  8. ^ "Bachof von Echt, the counts, barons and lords of", in: Leopold Freiherr von Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Adels-Lexicon, First Volume AD, Reichenbach, Leipzig, 1836, pp. 158–159
  9. ↑ Ernst Friedrich von [[Seckendorff (noble family) |]] followed him as Chancellor in Altenburg.
  10. ↑ It was his second marriage
  11. ↑ In December 1765, she married the Hessen-Kassel Legation Councilor Ulrich Friedrich von Stiern (1740–1796) ( Stirn, Wolrad. Hessische Biographie. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).)
  12. ↑ Chronic by Oschatz

Web links

literature

  • Tim S. Müller: Gosda / Niederlausitz: Land use change of an East Elbe manor between “Economic Enlightenment” and the dawning industrial age (1790-1860). (Lower Lusatia at the beginning of the 21st century. Past and present 2.) (Dissertation Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus, 2011.) C. Waxmann, Münster, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8309-2618-4
personal data
SURNAME Oppel, Siegmund Ehrenfried from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chancellor, Chamber President, Privy Council President
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1687
PLACE OF BIRTH Oschatz
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1757
Place of death Gotha