Georg Fisslthaler

Georg Fisslthaler (born April 1, 1786 in St. Florian near Uttendorf ; † November 14, 1845 in Wels ) was initially a court clerk in Mattighofen and Obernberg am Inn and later administrator of the counts' estates from Aurolzmünster in Upper Austria's Innviertel . Between January 1809 and February 1810 he wrote a diary in which, among other things, the troop movements of the Austrian and French armies around the town of Mattighofen at that time were described.

Life

family

Fisslthaler was born in 1786 as the son of Michael Fisslthaler, the miller and owner of the Erlmühle in St. Florian near Uttendorf ( Braunau district , Upper Austria ). He was the youngest of six children. The father sold the mill in 1802 and moved to Mattighofen as a master baker. The brother Michael moved to Salzburg as a miller and founded a miller dynasty there that lasted until the First World War. In November 1811 Georg Fisslthaler married Elisabeth von Poth, the daughter of the postmaster von Altheim , Josef Ignaz von Poth . Their son Joseph later became postmaster of Schrems in Lower Austria, and in turn was the father of Karl Fisslthaler , a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament and a member of the Reichsrat . A daughter of Georg and Elisabeth Fisslthaler married the knight Carl Grimus von Grimburg. After the death of his wife Elisabeth, Georg Fisslthaler married Barbara Raab in 1826. Their daughter Barbara Theresia married Moriz Ritter von Eigner in 1848 , who later became governor of Upper Austria. After the death of the second wife, Georg Fisslthaler married Franziska Köppl in 1828, who, however, died in childbed a year later. Georg Fisslthaler retired in May 1845 due to increasing dementia and died under medical care in Wels in November 1845.

job

Georg Fisslthaler received a school education in Salzburg . In January 1808 he first came as an intern at the Mattighofen District Court. In February 1810 he was promoted to second clerk. During the year 1810 he accepted a position at the Obernberg am Inn regional court. From 1822 Fisslthaler came into the service of the Counts of Taufkirchen. He held the position of caretaker and brewery administrator of Aurolzmünster. He was able to keep this position when, in 1830, the Aurolzmünster Castle had to be ceded to the Bavarian Count Maximilian von und zu Arco-Valley . In May 1845 Fisslthaler was retired due to illness.

diary

Georg Fisslthaler kept a diary from the beginning of January 1809 to the end of February 1810. A smaller part is about entries of a personal nature, the larger part of the content relates to events in and around Mattighofen. In early 1809 Austrian troops were concentrated in Mattighofen and the surrounding area in order to take action against the Napoleonic army . After the Battle of Eggmühl , however, the victorious French marched into Austria. Due to his position at the Mattighofen Regional Court, Fisslthaler was jointly responsible for accommodating the respective units. In his diary there are therefore many details of the troop movements first of the Austrian and then the French army.

literature

• Armin Watzer (editor): The diary of Georg Fisslthaler. Berenkamp Verlag Hall in Tirol / Vienna 2010. ISBN 978-3-85093-248-6
• Rudolf Mitterbauer: The "von Poth" family raised to the nobility. In: Der Bundschuh - Series of publications Museum Innviertler Volkskundehaus , Volume 10, Ried im Innkreis 2007. ISBN 978-3-902121-87-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Upper Austrian Provincial Archives : Aurolzmünster Manorial Archives (PDF; 557 kB)