Franz Ferdinand Schiller

Franz Ferdinand von Schiller, lithograph by Gabriel Decker , around 1840

Franz Ferdinand Schiller (born July 15, 1773 in Pontebba , †  August 18, 1861 in Graz ); (1823 Edler von Schiller / 1840 Freiherr von Schiller) was an Austrian mining clerk.

Life

Franz Ferdinand Schiller, who was born in Pontebba as the son of the chief miner official accountant Franz Xaver Schiller, was orphaned at the age of 3 and grew up with his aunt Therese Trukmiller. He had to break off a law degree in Vienna for lack of money and entered the civil service as an accountant intern. With a scholarship he was able to graduate from the Bergakademie Schemnitz from 1793 to 1796 . After a few years as an engineer in Schmöllnitz and in the court bookkeeping in Vienna , he became a montanist state accountant in Klagenfurt in 1801 . There he married the widow Theresia Hassenbauer, born in 1803. of Franconia. In 1809, after the French invasion, he formed the provisional state administration together with district chief von Fradenek and police director Pausinger . Thanks to a pay-as-you-go system, this managed to evenly distribute the burdens caused by the crew and thus make it more bearable for the Carinthians. In 1810 he became an accountant for the court bookkeeping in Vienna , in 1814 he became a senior chambergrave of Austria and Gubernialrat in Eisenerz (Styria) , and from 1815 he was again in Vienna.

Shortly after his knighthood in 1823, he was entrusted with the management of the Salzkammergut in Gmunden in 1824 . As Salzoberamtmann he succeeded against much opposition to make the Salzkammergut profitable again by abolishing privileges, downsizing, modernization and new buildings. An occasional guest in his house was Franz Schubert , who spoke of him in a letter as the "King of the Salzkammergut". In 1840 he was raised to the baron status, in 1845 he was made an honorary citizen of Gmunden .

On the occasion of his retirement in 1844, his subordinates left with an album with views of all the businesses in the Salzkammergut, which can now be viewed in the Upper Austrian State Museum in Linz . He died in Graz in 1861 .

Services

1824 to 1844 management, modernization and expansion of the Salzkammergut

literature

• Review of the life of Franz Freiherr von Schiller . Graz 1861 (Graz Regional Library).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schiller, Franz Ferdinand Freiherr von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 29th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1875, pp. 316–318 ( digitized version ).
• Richard Schiller: The Schiller families , Stuttgart, Hoffmann, 1909.
• Carl Schraml: The Upper Austrian saltworks from 1818 to the end of the Salt Office in 1850 . Vienna 1936.
• Intern.Schubert Society (Ed.): Schubert: the documents of his life by OE Deutsch . Bärenreiter Verlag 1964.
• G. Hattinger:  Schiller Franz Ferdinand Frh. Von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 134.