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Heinrich, Count von Brühl ( Polish: Henryk Brühl, 13 August 1700 – 28 October 1763), was a Polish-Saxon statesman at the court of Saxony and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and a member of the powerful German von Brühl family. The incumbency of this ambitious politician coincided with the decline of both states.
Heinrich, count von Brühl was the prime minister and virtual ruler of electoral Saxony, who unsuccessfully attempted to strengthen the state, the rulers of which were also kings of Poland, by making the Polish crown hereditary and by acquiring a land corridor linking Poland with Saxony.
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Heinrich von Brühl, seit 1737 Graf von Brühl (* 13. August 1700 in Weißenfels; † 28. Oktober 1763 in Dresden) war ein sächsischer Staatsmann . Bedeutung und maßgeblichen Einfluss erlangte er zunächst als Geheimrat, dann als Minister und schließlich als kurfürstlich-sächsischer und königlich-polnischer Premierminister (1746–1751 ...
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Count Heinrich von Brühl was Saxony's most important statesman in the Age of Augustus. Endowed with great power by Elector Frederick Augustus II, he determined the fortunes of Electoral Saxony and Poland in the middle of the 18th century.
Heinrich von Brühl wurde 1713 Page in Weißenfels, wechselte aber 1719 als Silberpage an den Dresdner Hof. Heinrich von Brühl ist eine der bekanntesten Gestalten der sächsischen Geschichten. Man kennt ihn genauso wie August den Starken oder die Gräfin Cosel.
Heinrich von Brühl (died 1446) owned the manor of Wenigen-Tennstedt and is first mentioned in records in 1424. The familial line starts with him. His descendant Heinrich von Brühl acquired a manor at Gangloffsömmern in 1470, which became the family seat.
Jan 18, 2024 · Parts of the Brühlsche Allerlei Service. (Sothebys) The great Meissen table service known today as the Brühlsche Allerlei, produced for Heinrich, Count von Brühl, largely between 1742 and 1746, seems to have vanished entirely from public notice following the Prime Minister’s death on October 28, 1763 (figs. 1 and 2).
