Franz Gotthardi
Franz Gotthardi ( Hungarian Ferenc Gotthardi ; born 1750 , presumably in Pest ; died in July 1795 in Vienna ) was an Austro-Hungarian police officer and head of the Habsburg political secret police in Vienna.
Gotthardi was originally a merchant and coffee house owner in Pest. Under Joseph II , he advanced to the position of police director in Pest and councilor of the Oven Lieutenancy and organized informers for the Habsburgs in Hungary. After he had to leave Hungary, he returned to Vienna, where under Leopold II he became imperial-royal councilor and administrative director of the Vienna National Theater , but actually and mainly head of the Habsburg secret police and acquirer of informers and confederates , where above all the supervision and spying on the activities of the Freemasons , Illuminati and Jesuits were his tasks. Ignaz Joseph Martinovics and the writer Leopold Alois Hoffmann were also among the informers he had recruited .
Under Franz II he was deposed, indicted in connection with the so-called Jacobin conspiracy in 1795 and sentenced to 35 years in prison.
swell
- About the condemnation of some state criminals. Vienna / Weimar 1795. ( digitized version )
literature
- Gotthardi, Franz. In: Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner: Internationales Freemaurerlexikon. Amalthea, Zurich et al. 1932.
- Gotthardi, Ferenc. In: Ágnes Kenyeres: Magyar életrajzi lexikon. Akadémiai kiadó, Budapest 1967–1981. ( online ; Hungarian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gotthardi, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gotthardi, Ferenc (Hungarian form of name); Gotthardy, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Habsburg police officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1750 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | uncertain: plague |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1795 |
| Place of death | Vienna |