Christoph von Katsch

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Christoph Katsch , von Katsch since 1705 , (born September 15, 1665 in Halle (Saale) , † July 12, 1729 in Berlin ) was a Prussian Minister of Justice.

Life

Origin and family

Family coat of arms of the Halle Pfänner family Katsch

Christoph Katsch comes from a Halle family of Pfänner, who lived in Halle as early as 1470. His parents were the Rats- Worthalter , Upper Born Champion and panner in Hall Christoph Katsch (1632-1699) and Maria Elisabeth Dürfeld (1639-1677), a granddaughter of Christoph von Dürfeld (1525-1583). His first marriage in 1687 was Maria, née Werner, widowed Jacobi (1648–1720). A second marriage followed with the Prussian chief steward Christiane Freiin Wolfskeel von Reichenberg († 1748). Both marriages remained childless.

Career

Noble coat of arms of Christoph von Katsch

Katsch visited the school in Halle and studied until 1686 in Leipzig the rights . In 1687 he opened a law practice at the court and chamber court in Berlin . He was promoted to general auditor in 1699 and thus became the highest military court and administrative clerk, which he remained until his death. Katsch was promoted to war council in 1702 and appointed to chamber judge in 1703. He was dubbed as already Secret State Minister when he was in the Prussian on January 18, 1705 nobility ennobled was. The background to the elevation was also to give him a place on the noble bench of the chamber court. In addition, he was appointed as a secret councilor in the judicial department of the secret council and highest appellate authority. In 1712 he was appointed secret war councilor and head of department for judicial matters in the new central tax authority, the General War Commissariat reorganized by Grumbkow . At that time he had already won the favor of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm . His indefatigability and relentlessness, with which he, in addition to his work as chief auditor of the brands, led the lawsuits of the sovereign treasury with the Brandenburg nobility and helped enforce the allodification of the knightly fiefs in 1717 , prompted the now king, Katsch, after Bartholdi's death on June 8, 1718 to appoint the real secret council, minister of state and general auditor of the army and to entrust in the secret council of state with the division of all war, civil, judicial, criminal and fiscal matters. On January 23, 1723, he was finally appointed Vice-President of the new General Directorate and Conducting Minister of the Fifth (Justice) Department. He was friends with Samuel von Cocceji , to whom he was also a sponsor and who finally completed the Prussian judicial reform that he, Katsch, had prepared.

Katsch bought the manor Döberitz on May 15, 1706 from Heinrich and Levin Ludwig von der Gröben . By 1711 he also acquired the Ferbitz estate . The Döberitz village church was built in 1712–1713 in place of the previous building , also with the help of a grant from the king, with elaborate church furnishings made of dark oak wood. The furnishings were rich in allusions and coat of arms of the von Katsch family. As a result of the evacuation of the village, the equipment came to Ferbitz. Since this village was also cleared, the equipment was probably brought directly to Haage , where it is still to this day. Katsch was buried in Döberitz near Berlin.

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  1. ↑ a b c Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class increases and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, p. 14.
  2. ^ Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt: Pagus neletici et nudzici , 1755, p. 70 ff.
  3. ↑ Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The king. Prussian and Churfürstl. Brandenburg Really Secret State Council on its bicentenary foundation day on January 5th, 1805. Berlin 1805, p. 404, no. 149.
  4. ↑ Almut Andreae, Udo Geiseler: Die Herrenhäuser des Havellandes: a documentation of their history up to the present , 2001, p. 104.
personal data
SURNAME Katsch, Christoph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Katzsch, Christoph von; Katzsch, Christoph; Katsch, Christoph; Katzsch, Christophorus; Katsch, Christophorus de; Katshius, Christophorus; Katschius, Christophorus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Minister of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1729
Place of death Berlin