Johann Heinrich von Piper

Johann Heinrich von Piper

Johann Heinrich Piper , from 1736 by Piper (born January 1, 1680 in Carnitz near Treptow an der Rega , † May 19, 1752 in Berlin ) was a Prussian tax clerk under King Friedrich Wilhelm I and Friedrich II in Prussia.

career

Piper was the son of the economic inspector and later bailiff Johann Piper and his wife Katharina born. Hoffstaedten.

After studying in Rostock and Königsberg, Johann Heinrich Piper entered the Prussian civil service in 1707. On February 20, 1711 he was appointed chamber secretary in Königsberg. On April 21, 1717, the king appointed him as a secret council to Berlin in the General Accounting Chamber, newly founded in 1714, with a salary of 900 thalers. In addition to his later successor Christian Ludwig von Tieffenbach , Piper distinguished himself with his work under President von Creutz as extremely capable in billing and budget issues. On March 2, 1723 he was promoted to head of the domain department of the Upper War and Domain Computing Chamber and was proposed to the king two years later for appointment to the newly established general directorate . Here, however, Friedrich Wilhelm I only appointed him as the deputy of the Secret Finance Council Julius von Pehne in the 4th Department. A promotion to the Secret Finance Council was initially not available. The king himself turned them down after a request from the Directory on July 31, 1727.

After the departure of Mr. von Creutz, Friedrich Wilhelm I recommended him in 1731 alongside Tieffenbach for the position of successor to the general controller of finances. He raised Piper to the nobility on August 28, 1736 because of his magnificent house construction in Berlin. Frederick II finally reactivated for him on April 12, 1744 the old title of President of the Upper Computing Chamber, which had been suspended since the founding of the General Directory. He held this position until his death in spring 1752; a four-week vacation on his property that had just been granted to him two days earlier could no longer take place.

In addition to his offices in financial administration, von Piper headed the Berlin poor directorate under the direction of the general directorate, in whose 6th department he was appointed as a secret senior finance, war and domain council after 1740. King Friedrich II released him from the management of the Armendirektorium when he was appointed President of the Upper Computing Chamber. As a permanent deputy he was also at the Kurmärkische Städtkasse and first director of the Berlin Charité .

Private life

On April 10, 1720, Piper married Anna Sophia Fuchs, daughter of the wealthy mayor Johann Christian Fuchs in Fürstenwalde , and one year later bought a prestigious house on Berlin's Königsstrasse . In 1735 he also bought the Wesendahl manor in the Oberbarnim district and in the same year came into the possession of the Sandow and Bergen manors in the Sternberg district and Riesnitz in the Crossen district as an inheritance from his father-in-law .

Piper's widow survived him by 20 years and died on May 19, 1772 in Berlin. He had eight sons and five daughters with her, five of whom were sons and two daughters who died as children. His son Wilhelm Christian von Piper (1732–1811) also entered the service of the Oberrechenkammer and was its director from 1802 to 1809.

literature

• Theodor von Ditfurth, On the history of the Royal Prussian Upper Chamber of Accounts , Berlin: Druck und Verlag der Reichsdruckerei, 1909.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Acta Borussica, Vol. IV, pp. 128/129.
2. ↑ Acta Borussica, Vol. III, p. 456.
3. ↑ Prussian Yearbook, Vol. XVI, No. 2, p. 163.
4. ↑ Weekly relations of the strangest things from the realm of nature, the states and the sciences, which are provided with useful comments as well as short treatises, No. 22, 1, (May 30, 1752), p. 338 .