Anton Joseph Emanuel Kraus

Anton Joseph Emanuel Kraus (since 1845: Knight of Elislago ) (born October 9, 1777 in Vienna , † March 25, 1860 ibid) was an Austrian diplomat and civil servant.

Life

Anton Joseph Emanuel Kraus came from a civil servant family; his father was a councilor at the court war council and his grandfather was the Lower Austrian chamber procurator .

Anton Joseph Emanuel Kraus also joined the Court War Council in 1796, at the age of nineteen, and three years later, in 1799, became a field war designer at the Royal Hungarian General Command. In the same year he was employed at the court and state chancellery in the diplomatic service and served as legation secretary at the imperial embassy at the royal Danish court in Copenhagen . He received after the Messenger of local, Count Carl Wilhelm Ludolf was recalled in 1801, the post of chargé d'affaires in time of armed neutrality of the north, during the British colonial French conflict . During his stay he familiarized himself with the Nordic languages ​​and conditions and traveled to Denmark and Sweden .

In 1804 he returned to his homeland and, as there were no further prospects in his career so far, resigned from his legationary post and became court chamber secretary in the Department of the Interior for Italian Affairs. In 1806 he was transferred to the court chamber and headed the commercial department there for several years.

In 1809, during the enemy invasion , he accompanied the imperial court to Hungary , where he was commissioned to bring the Galician treasury to Greater Oradin.

In June 1812 he was appointed government advisor to the Lower Austrian provincial government and in 1818 he became a consultant to the commercial court commission, from which he was transferred to the general court chamber as a real court advisor in August 1824 .

In January 1831 he became an assessor of the court commission in matters of justice law and in 1843 he was appointed assessor of the court chamber in the field of coinage and mining.

In both 1835 and 1839 he directed the work on the trade exhibition and in 1845 he was appointed deputy to the Hofkammer President Baron Karl Friedrich von Kübeck . In 1847 he took part in the deliberations of the commission appointed to reform the juridical-political curriculum as an assessor.

He retired on May 29, 1849.

Anton Joseph Emanuel Kraus was married to Elise Lago († 1830). They had eight children together. His grandson was the later Lieutenant Field Marshal Heinrich Krauss von Elislago (born May 2, 1862 in Prague , † July 30, 1932 in Lilienfeld ).

Act

Anton Joseph Emanuel Kraus worked on the improvement of the study system, on the establishment and upgrading of the Polytechnic Institute , on the revision of the legislation in commercial and commercial matters, on the promotion of river and sea navigation, the transit trade, on the removal of intermediate tariffs the regulation of the consular system, the preparation of commercial statistics and the completion of the library of the court chamber, of which he was director.

He wrote treatises in 1841 on the tariff reform, which at that time was supposed to prepare the transition from the prohibitive system to the protective tariff , and in 1846 on sugar taxation.

Awards

For his services to the state, Anton Joseph Emanuel Kraus was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Leopold Order on September 28, 1845 , and then he was raised to the hereditary knighthood with the addition of Elislago , in memory of his wife Elise Lago , who died in 1830 .

Fonts (selection)

• Attempt to establish political science on an unchangeable basis, by a statesman . Vienna 1835.
• Spirit of Austrian legislation encouraging inventions in industry compared to English, French and North American legislation . Vienna 1838.
• The ethical state principle or propaedeutics of political science . Vienna 1841.
• The Christian principle of state . Vienna 1842.
• Draft of a new Austrian customs tariff on the basis of a timely and appropriate transition from the system of trade bans, recognized as no longer tenable, to the system of strong protection of domestic industry and legal trade with foreign countries, together with the associated preparatory work . Vienna 1842.
• Anton Joseph Emanuel Ritter von Kraus Elislago: a car biography handed down to his children and friends in memory . Vienna: Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, 1849.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Kraus Ritter von Elislago, Anton Joseph Emanuel . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, pp. 147–149 ( digitized version ).