Franz Joseph von Albini

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Portrait of the Elector of Mainz statesman and General Feldzeugmeister Franz Joseph von Albini

Franz Joseph Martin Freiherr von Albini (* 1748 in Sankt Goar ; † January 6, 1816 in Dieburg ) was a German politician and statesman .

life and work

Only his grandfather, Franz Anton Albini, was ennobled; his father, Kasper Anton von Albini, became a baron as an electoral chamber judge in 1788.

Franz Joseph Freiherr von Albini was born in Sankt Goar in 1748 , where his father was a Hessian civil servant ( Landgrave Hessian chancellery director ) at that time . After studying in Pont-à-Mousson and Dillingen , Franz Joseph received his doctorate in Würzburg . He was trained in the Reichshofrathspraxis in Vienna and entered in 1770 as court and government councilor in the service of the prince-bishop of Würzburg.

As early as 1775, as present status of the Franconian district, he came to the Imperial Court of Justice, and after having served here, alongside his father, for twelve years not without distinction, in 1787 by appointing the Mainz Elector Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal as a secret Reich trainee at the Imperial Court to Vienna. Here he quickly won the trust of Emperor Joseph II and was used by him on several missions. In 1789 he was accepted into the Frankish imperial knighthood .

In 1790 Albini acquired the manor in Dürrenried . In the same year he became electoral court chancellor and minister, united all Mainz ministries in his person since 1792 - in that year as directorial election ambassador for the last German emperor election - and legitimized himself as a capable administrative officer. In the same year he was a member of the council of war in the besieged Mainz fortress .

From 1797 to 1799 he led the board of directors as ambassador from Mainz at the Rastatt congress .

On September 1, 1799, during the French War, he moved to the Rhine as the Mainz General Feldzeugmeister with the troops and the Landsturm organized by him , gained advantages against Charles Pierre François Augereau several times , and only returned to his ministerial business in Aschaffenburg at the end of the year .

Albini became director of the Reichstag and governor of Regensburg and remained the latter until 1810. Through personal influence on Emperor Franz, he achieved the establishment of a general administrative council for the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt under his chairmanship.

In 1802 the Hessian Landgrave Ludwig X. Albini donated the former Hohenstaufen and former Electoral Mainz large four-cornered moated castle Dieburg , which he had almost completely laid down in 1809 and rebuilt as a palace and family seat.

After his ministerial salary was reduced from 20,000 guilders to a tenth, he retired. In the summer and autumn of 1815 Albini moved in Frankfurt. He fell ill, and before the Federal Assembly opened, he died on his estate in Dieburg on January 8, 1816.

The Albinistraße in Mainz is named after him.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Klemm: Around the Zeilberg: Maroldsweisach market with all districts . Maroldsweisach 1988, p. 82.
  2. ^ "Albini, Franz Josef Martin Freiherr von". Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
personal data
SURNAME Albini, Franz Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albini, Franz Joseph Martin Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankt Goar
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1816
Place of death at Hanau