Commis (Post)

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A Commis or Commis des Postes was in the 17th century, since the administrative reform of Leonhard II von Taxis , which was continued by his widow Alexandrine von Taxis , a superordinate postmaster of the Imperial Postal Service , who were subordinate to several post stations with postholders . The Italian term “luogo tenente” (governor) or in church registers “Praefectus postae”, ie postmaster, in contrast to the “magister postae”, a postmaster or “postarius”, a post keeper describes the position of a clerk rather than the German word post administrator. In the parlance of the Imperial Post Office , for example, their own postmasters were referred to as post administrators , while the postmasters of the competing state post offices were considered postmasters . A clerk was subordinate to the general inheritance postmaster in the Brussels headquarters and reported to him. As an organizer, he was responsible for the smooth flow of mail, the care of the subordinate post offices, the post office keepers working there and the adherence to the time specifications for the Ordinari post relay .

Higher-level post offices with a clerk

Such higher-level post offices were initially often located at route intersections , route sections or river crossings, such as the village post stations in Rheinhausen opposite Speyer and Lieser . Later, after the city gates were opened for mail on horseback, most of the village post offices were abandoned and relocated to cities.

The main post offices of the Imperial Post Office and the Dutch Post Office , headed by a clerk, were in the 17th century

The city of Trier was not added until 1672.

Development in the late 18th century

After the expansion of the correspondence from the 18th century, the Imperial Post Office also had upper post offices , immediate and directing post offices, and the village post stations such as Lieser, which were headed by a clerk, were either downgraded to post offices or given up. The managing post office in Rheinhausen, on the other hand, remained in existence until 1803 despite the closure plans and the partial relocation to Bruchsal in 1643 due to the intervention of the French because of the connection to Alsace.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Freytag: For postal history of the cities of Augsburg, Nuremberg and Regensburg , in APB 5/1929, pp 31-55, in correspondence with various commis des Postes , such as the "Nuremberg commis des Postes Hans Georg Haiden" 1616, p 50 or the “Augsburger Commis des Postes David Frey”, p. 52.
  2. ↑ Martin Dallmeier: Sources , Part I, page 41, with reference to FZA HFS 790, oldest repertory in the Fürst Thurn und Taxis central archive, around 1689
  3. ^ Joseph Rübsam, in: Archive for Post and Telegraphy , August 1893, pp. 537-590.

literature

  • Wolfgang Behringer: Thurn and Taxis. The history of your post office and your company . Piper , Munich / Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-492-03336-9
  • Martin Dallmeier: Sources for the history of the European postal system 1501–1806, Part I, Sources - Literature - Introduction , Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1977
  • Rudolf Freytag: On the postal history of the cities of Augsburg, Nuremberg and Regensburg , in: APB 5/1929, pp. 31–55