Franz von Pillersdorf

Franz Freiherr von Pillersdorf; Lithograph by Joseph Kriehuber , 1848

Franz Xaver (III.) Freiherr von Pillersdorf (born March 1, 1786 in Brno , Moravia , † February 22, 1862 in Vienna ) was an Austrian civil servant and statesman.

Life

Franz, son of Franz Xaver (II.) Freiherr von Pillersdorf (1757–1806), Councilor at the Supreme Court of Vienna and Imperial and Royal Truchsess, studied political science and law in Vienna. In 1811 he was secretary to the court chamber , from 1813 to 1815 he supported Army Minister Anton Maximilian von Baldacci in supplying the army and managing the occupied territories in France.

, Returned from England, which he visited then to Austria, he was employed by the tax authorities, by the Emperor in 1824 I. Franz as Vice-President of the Court Chamber called 1832 Privy and 1842 by Emperor Ferdinand I to the Chancellor of the United Hofkanzlei appointed whose agendas In spring 1848 passed to the new Ministry of the Interior. In 1845 he became an honorary citizen of Vienna , in 1846 he was awarded the Order of St. Stephen .

In the revolutionary year of 1848 , Pillersdorf, whose opposition to the ruling system around Metternich was known, was appointed Minister of the Interior by Emperor Ferdinand on March 20, 1848, and Minister-President on May 4, 1848 (Metternich had left the country involuntarily on March 13th ). The liberal constitution of April 25, 1848 ( Pillersdorf's constitution ) created by him for the Cisleithan countries was not sufficient for either the revolutionaries or the crown, which he resigned on July 8. The Wiener Zeitung reported this the next day, pointing out that Pillersdorf had been interim Minister of the Interior and had acted provisionally as President of the Council of Ministers .

He was then elected a member of the Austrian Reichstag , which opened on July 22, 1848 , but was unable to influence the further course of events. After the dissolution of the Kremsier Reichstag, he remained without a public office and was even involved in a disciplinary investigation. In 1852, on the decision of Emperor Franz Joseph I , he was therefore deleted from the ranks of the Real Secret Councilors and the Knights of St. Stephen.

In April 1861 he was elected by the Lower Austrian state parliament to the new Austrian Reichsrat and chairman of the finance committee.

He died on February 22, 1862, after being fully rehabilitated shortly before.

In 1862 the Pillersdorfgasse in Vienna- Leopoldstadt (2nd district) was named after him.

Fonts

• Review of the political movement in Austria 1848–1849 (Vienna 1849);
• The Austrian finances illuminated (Vienna 1851).
• Handwritten estate (Vienna 1863).

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Pillersdorf, Franz Xaver Freiherr . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 22nd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, pp. 294–299 ( digitized version ).
• Hanns Schlitter:  Pillersdorff, Franz Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 135-137.
• W. Goldinger:  Pillersdorff (Pillerstorf) Franz Frh. Von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 77.
• Lothar Höbelt :  Pillersdorff, Franz Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 443 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Franz von Pillersdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biographical data of Franz von Pillersdorf in the Biographical Handbook of the Lower Austrian Parliament 1861–1921
• Entry on Franz von Pillersdorf in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wiener Zeitung , No. 188, July 9, 1848, p. 1