Ove Høegh-Guldberg
Ove Jørgensen Høegh - Guldberg (* September 1, 1731 as Ove Jørgensen Guldberg, † February 8, 1808 in Dollerup near Viborg ) was a Danish statesman, theologian and historian.
Life
Ove Høegh - Guldberg, son of Jutland undertaker, grew up in Horsens and received a theological and historical training. 1761 he was appointed professor of history at the Academy Soro. From 1764 he worked as a private tutor of the Crown Prince Frederick (* 1753), the half-brother of the Danish King Christian VII. Friedrich made him in 1771 to his private cabinet secretary.
The extremely diminutive Guldberg was the " strong man " behind the conspiracy, the 1772 in Copenhagen for the overthrow and execution of the Secret Cabinet Minister Johann Friedrich Struensee and Zwangsexilierung of Caroline Mathilde, the wife of moronic monarch led. Then he led the Danish cabinet, although not formally appointed as such. He could count on the support of Juliane, mother of Crown Prince and step-mother of the king, count. This hoped to help to crown her own son Frederick.
Høegh - Guldberg raised many of the reforms Struenseeschen on again and carried through numerous presidential decrees for the restoration of absolute monarchy in. These include the reintroduction of censorship of the press, the recovery of sold domains and the renewal of unlimited peasant Hofdienstpflicht (1773 ). By determining that the army exclusively Danish as official and command language is permissible (1773 ), and a 1776 statute enacted Indigenatsgesetz, which allowed access to public office only Danes from the Kingdom, but not those from other parts of the Danish general government Moreover, he urged in particular the German influence in Copenhagen back decisively. In particular, it was concerned the 1773 and 1780 demissionierende appointed Minister of State of Foreign Affairs and Director of the German firm, Andreas Peter von Bernstorff. He also turned decidedly against any separatist ideology, as it emerged in Norway; handed down his sayings are " These heinous talkers in Christiania " and " There is no Norwegians ". Guldberg was ennobled in 1777 and changed his name to Høegh - Guldberg.
In April 1784, shortly after his formal appointment as well as Minister of State, he was forced by the enlightened pretender to the throne, the only 16 -year-old Crown Prince Frederick VI. , After his coup d' État to abdicate. He was succeeded by Heinrich Wilhelm von Huth. Høegh - Guldberg was demoted to the prefect (Danish amtmand ), a post he held until 1802. He then retired to his manor Hald in Dollerup, where he in 1808, 76 years old, died.
The effect of the reign of this "conservative upstart " is today mainly in the fact seen in Danish history, that the " self-confidence of the Danish bourgeoisie strengthened [ was ], and the sense of a distinct Danish culture grew ." Under Høegh - Guldberg is reinforced the " roots at that distance until today after-effects " against Germany.