Heinrich von Brühl

Who was Heinrich von Brühl?

Heinrich, count von Brühl, was a German statesman at the court of Saxony and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The incumbency of the ambitious politician went along with the decline of both states. Brühl was a skillful diplomat and cunning strategist, who managed to attain control over of Saxony and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, partly by controlling its king, August III the Saxon, who ultimately only could be accessed through Brühl himself.

Historian and writer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski wrote a novel under the title "Count Brühl", in which he described Heinrich as an oppressive dictator.

Brühl was a member of the powerful German von Brühl family.