Heinrich von Brühl

Heinrich von Brühl (1700–1763) was chief minister of Saxony and Poland under Augustus III. A page at the Dresden court from 1719, he won the elector's trust when Augustus II died in 1733 and raised the money that secured Frederick Augustus II's election as Polish king. After 1738 he served as sole minister, controlling access to the king.

His diplomacy shaped the Diplomatic Revolution of 1756, but his ruinous finances left Saxony helpless before Prussia in the Seven Years' War. He died at Dresden weeks after Augustus III in 1763.