Wilhelm August von Just

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Coats of arms increase of those of Lindeman-Just and arms of those of Lindeman

Wilhelm August von Just (* 1752 ; † March 5, 1824 in London ) was a Saxon Privy Councilor and diplomat during the coalition wars .

Origin and family

Wilhelm August Freiherr von Just came from a respected Zittau family and was a son of the secret war councilor Christian Wilhelm von Just (1712–1797) and Christiane Dorothea, née. Benada (1732-1780). He had two siblings, the Finance Councilor Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Just (1766-1804) and his sister Johanne Auguste Wilhelmine, married Frank. When his father died, he and his brother acquired the Luga manor near Bautzen . On July 21, 1804, after the death of his brother Carl Friedrich, the estate of the Glauschnitz manor was divided between himself, his sister Wilhelmine and Christiane Dorothee Sophie Freifrau von Lindemann. Wilhelm August von Just remained unmarried. With his death in 1824, the baronial von Just family died out. From May 1824, the name and coat of arms passed to the universal heir, the royal Saxon major Ferdinand Wilhelm Freiherr von Lindeman.

Just coat of arms, middle-class family

coat of arms

  • Baron's coat of arms: shield split in gold and blue; in front a blue sloping bar, behind two silver sloping bars, each with a green palm branch. On the shield a five-pearl crown, on it a crowned helmet with two silver buffalo horns, each set with a green palm branch in the mouth. A man with a green wreath between the horns in a blue and gold split dress with a collar and waist band of mistaken color, embracing one of the horns with each outstretched hand. Helmet covers on the right blue-gold, on the left blue-silver. Two leopards standing in front as a shield holder.
  • Civil coat of arms: split shield, in each half a sloping beam turned inwards and each covered with a quill. Helmet with three nibs

career

Career in Sweden, Dresden and Paris

After a position as assessor in the state government of Electoral Saxony around 1777, Just began his diplomatic career with a post as Saxon legation counselor at the Swedish royal court around 1780. In 1804 he was at the electoral court of Friedrich August III. entrusted with the observance of the court ceremony. In the course of Saxony's involvement in the Napoleonic wars in 1806, Just am Dresdner Hof was one of the supporters of the alliance with France. When in 1809 the previous Saxon ambassador, Count Senfft von Pilsach , was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Dresden Cabinet and recalled from Paris, his designated successor Georg von Einsiedel delayed his departure to France for a long time. Frederick August I , who was elevated to the rank of King of Saxony by Napoleon , therefore appointed Wilhelm August von Just as ambassador for this important post. Just stayed in Napoleonic Paris until August 1810. In the same year he was promoted to the Privy Council.

In Koethen and with the secret police

In the following year he represented the royal Saxon interests in the Duchy of Anhalt-Köthen as an authorized representative . From November 1811, Major General Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Gersdorff was commissioned to monitor foreign officers in Saxony and at the beginning of 1812 the establishment of a kind of secret political police began under the said Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Senfft von Pilsach. The task was also to spy on one's own people for any criticism of the alliance with the French. Just acted as Count Senfft's deputy in the management of this secret police. In 1812 Just's appointment to the secret assistant council followed.

Second embassy in Paris

From the beginning of 1813 to mid-1814 Just was again as envoy in Paris. Because of the demolition of the pillars of the historic Dresden Elbe bridge by retreating French troops in March 1813, Just as envoy at an audience in Paris, brought Napoleon a protest note from the Saxon king, who showed little understanding for so much fuss about a bridge that was blown up in times of war. After the Saxon king was captured in Berlin from October 1813 to February 1815 and Napoleonic supremacy ended, Just reported in May 1814 of negotiations between the victorious allies about the future fate of Saxony and tendencies ( Polish-Saxon question ) that should lead to the emergence of Congress Poland .

Envoy to Hanover and England

In 1815 and 1816 he was envoy in Hanover . He remained accredited in Hanover from 1819 to 1821, while he stayed in London from 1816 to 1823 as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. Just remained unmarried and died of gout after 50 years in the Saxon service .

Literature and web links

  • Roman Töppel: Just, Wilhelm August Freiherr von , in: Sächsische Biographie, ed. from the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore eV; Entry in the online edition: http://www.isgv.de/saebi/ (accessed May 19, 2020)
  • Isabella Blank (2013): The punished king? The Saxon Question 1813-1815 (dissertation, University of Heidelberg); Online as PDF
  • Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library, Just estate
  • Papers from the estate of Geh. Rathes Freihr. von Just, the negotiations of the Vienna Congress on the dismemberment of Saxony 1814–15, Secret Cabinet 10026, Loc. 3251
  • Count Ludwig von Senfft : Mémoires du Comte de Senfft, ancien ministre de Saxe (Leipzig 1863)
  • Walter von Boetticher : History of the Upper Lusatian Nobility and its Goods 1635–1815 , Bd. 1, Görlitz 1912, p. 811; ( Online at digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de)
  • T. Flathe: History of the Electoral State and Kingdom of Saxony , Bd. 3, Gotha 1873. - DBA I.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms (Volume 2,3): The nobility of the Kingdom of Saxony. The flourishing nobility of the Kingdom of Saxony and the grand-ducal and ducal states of Saxony (Nuremberg, 1857); Page 12 Digitization and panel 11 Digitization at Heidelberg University
  2. ↑ on December 12, 1776 imperial nobility; by Elector Friedrich August III. as imperial vicar on July 31, 1790 raised to the status of imperial baron. He was the master of the Glauschnitz manor near Königsbrück
  3. ↑ a b Dresdner advertisements : 64th issue of August 9, 1804, page 3 ( books.google.de )
  4. ↑ Entry on stadtwiki.dd , accessed July 7, 2020
  5. ↑ a b Walter von Boetticher: History of the Upper Lusatian Nobility and its Goods 1635-1815 , Bd. 1, Görlitz 1912, p. 811; ( Online at digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de)
  6. ↑ Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch, vol. 5 (civil sexes of Germany and Switzerland), 9th section: fifteen hundred and fifty-nine civil coats of arms, Nuremberg 1912, p. 73 ( digitized version ) and plate 87 on p. 273 ( digitized version from gdz.sub University of Göttingen Digitization Center )
  7. ↑ Electoral-Saxon Court and State Scale Santander in 1777 (M. G. Weidmann's Erben, Leipzig 1777), page 138 ( books.google.de )
  8. ↑ probably the envoy Georg von Einsiedel (1767–1840), son of Johann Georg Friedrich von Einsiedel
  9. ↑ Blank (2013) p. 299
  10. ↑ The Saxon secret police was not a firmly established organization, but a variety of measures to monitor suspicious people. This was carried out by senior administrative officials, usually chief officers, who, in addition to their normal duties, were supposed to write regular reports on the mood in the population within their area of ​​responsibility (cf. Blank (2013) p. 299)
  11. ^ August Fournier: The Secret Police at the Congress of Vienna , pp. 83 and 234 (Books on Demand), Norderstedt, 2017. ( Online books.google.de )
  12. ↑ Isabella Blank (2013): The punished king? The Saxon Question 1813-1815 (dissertation, University of Heidelberg); Page 71 Online as PDF
  13. ↑ Blank (2013) p. 170
  14. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815–1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer (Walter de Gruyter publishing house, Berlin 2012); ISBN 9783110956849 . Pages 352 and 354 books.google.de (accessed on 19 May 2020)
  15. ^ G. Reimer: Royal Saxon Court, Civil and Military State in 1823 (Verlag Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Leipzig); Pages 52, 56 and 64 books.google.de (accessed May 19, 2020)
  16. ↑ Blank (2013) p. 440
personal data
SURNAME Just, Wilhelm August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Just, Wilhelm August Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon envoy in London
DATE OF BIRTH 1752
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1824
Place of death London