Anton Maria Stupan von Ehrenstein

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Baron Anton Maria Stupan von Ehrenstein (* before 1726; † December 12, 1776 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Privy Councilor of State .

Life

Anton Maria Stupan von Ehrenstein came from a noble family who immigrated from Graubünden to Styria . Anton Maria Stupan von Ehrenstein was elected as a legal scholar to the government council on September 2, 1726 in the Styrian state parliament. He was accepted into the Styrian Landsmannschaft on November 29, 1749.

Because of his knowledge of state administration, he was appointed to the Council of State established under Maria Theresa on December 30, 1760 , and included three ministers of state , including the state chancellor , and three other aristocrats. In 1763 Maria Theresa strove for further various reforms, so the neighboring countries lost the right to their own administration and the estates lost their say in government decisions. Against the resistance of the estates, Anton Maria Stupan von Ehrenstein defended the reform efforts of Maria Theresa that began in 1749. The " Directorium in publicis et cameralibus " was created, a central authority in which all internal administrative matters of the hereditary lands were united.

He was also Ministerial-Banco-Deputations-Hofrat for Wiener Stadt-Banco (State Bank), which was responsible for the repayment of national debts and the raising of cash for the state budget from interest-bearing capital contributions; the share capital was formed from the income of certain state offices (which were ceded to the city banco) and from contributions from the crown lands .

He drafted memoranda to inform Joseph II about the conditions and the constitution of the inner Austrian provinces with the title "Brief message about the inner condition and constitution of the Archduchy of Austria under and over the 'Enns" ". The second reads: “On the highest orders of all subservience, instruction on the condition and current constitution of the Inner-Austrian Lands”. Some of his views are likely to have influenced Joseph II later; therefore the communication of his description of Inner Austria is of value.

Anton Maria Stupan von Ehrenstein was elevated to the status of hereditary baron in 1765 .

After religious unrest broke out in Upper Styria , Murau , Großlobming and Gogelsbach near St. Georgen am Reith in 1773 and several hundred people wanted to become Lutheran, the Bishop of Seckau demanded that strict measures must be issued, in the form of corporal punishment and secondment to the military and the limitation of reading and writing classes. Anton Maria Stupan von Ehrenstein opposed these demands at a meeting of the State Council, "... it is a well-known fact that there are secret Protestants in many Austrian countries, if one wants to initiate all investigations against them, impose punishments, which ones What damage, what a stir, what loss of time and money this would cause! ". So the State Council decided against the proposal of the Seckau bishop.

On May 12, 1774 a new Statute of the State Council was issued, which Anton Maria Stupan von Ehrenstein together with Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg , Carl Friedrich Hatzfeldt zu Gleichen , Freiherr Tobias Philipp von Gebler and Freiherr Franz Karl von Kressel von Gualtenberg (1720– 1801). It continued the old traditions of the State Council.

Anton Maria Stupan von Ehrenstein had three sons:

  • Ottokar Ernst Stupan von Ehrenstein, real councilor of the court chamber;
  • Felix Matthäus Stupan von Ehrenstein (* 1743; † January 26, 1800), councilor at the court chancellery, with him this sex went out;
  • Johann Vincenz Stupan von Ehrenstein.

Awards

Anton Maria Stupan von Ehrenstein was a knight of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Stupan von Ehrenstein, Anton Maria Freiherr . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 40th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1880, pp. 202–204 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ New genealogical-schematic Reichs- und Staats-Handbuch before the year .. bey Franz Varrentrapp, 1774 ( google.de [accessed on January 28, 2018]).
  3. ^ Alfred Ritter von Ritter von Arneth: History of Maria Theresa ʼs von Alfred Ritter von Arneth: Maria Theresa ʼs last reign 1863-1780. 1 . W. Braumüller, 1876 ( google.de [accessed on January 28, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Imperial and royal, as well as arch-ducal, then the capital and residence city of Vienna State and class calendar: on the merciful year of Jesus Christ ... adorned with a scheme. 1760 . Kaliwoda, 1760 ( google.de [accessed January 28, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Alfred Ritter von Arneth: Johann Christoph Bartenstein and his time . C. Gerold's Sohn, 1871 ( google.de [accessed on January 28, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Jan František Novák: New Prague Tytular and Logiaments Calendar, In honor of the Prince H. Wenceslai, martyr and patron of the Kingdom of Böheim . Printed in Carolin by Witib Cathar. Labaunin, 1767 ( google.de [accessed January 28, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Stupan von Ehrenstein, Anton Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Privy Council of State
DATE OF BIRTH before 1726
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1776
Place of death Vienna