Joseph Maria Piautatz

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Joseph Maria Piautatz (born July 5, 1774 in Cluse , Savoy , Kingdom of Sardinia , † September 9, 1825 in Berlin ) was a Prussian and Westphalian civil servant. Piautatz was since the Neueingliederung of the imperial cities Nordhausen and Mühlhausen in the Kingdom of Prussia by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 as city manager operates. After the founding of the Kingdom of Westphalia, he rose as Secretary General in Göttingen and Sub-Prefect in Halle to Prefect and then worked in the Prussian financial administration until his death. Piautatz was a member of the Order of the Westphalian Crown , bearer of the Red Eagle Order, third class, and is an honorary citizen of the city of Göttingen .

Life

youth

Piautatz came from a Spanish merchant family from Savoy (then Kingdom of Sardinia ). His father went to Frankfurt am Main to open a trading house there when Joseph Piautatz was a child. Together with his brother he received private tuition at home in Frankfurt, especially to learn the German language, and finally he was sent to the spiritual high school in Fulda to learn the Latin language. At the age of 16 he left high school and began studying at Mainz University , while his brother was to take over the business of his father's bank. In Mainz he studied civil law , canon law and camera studies . In 1792 he received an offer to work in the Kurmainz government through the advocacy and financial influence of his father . This became obsolete after a republic was proclaimed in Mainz in the course of the revolutionary wars and the university dissolved before Piautatz could graduate with an exam . He then worked for a while in the Comptoir of the Father.

Through the armaments in the Old Reich , which took place in Frankfurt for the proclaimed Reich War against France, the father lent funds to Reich troops from 1791, which he did not get back after the victory of France on the Rhine. In 1793 he lost the recently founded trading house due to excessive unpaid debt claims. His sons took part in the siege of Mainz on the Prussian side against the French revolutionary army. In the Prussian Army Piautatz got a job at the field treasury of a regiment of his brother under the commandant Johann Friedrich von Székely , who soon used him for running duties. However, he only held this position until the collapse of the first coalition against France. After Prussia withdrew to neutrality vis-à-vis France and the Reich with the Basel Peace of May 1795, the government demobilized the Rhine troops. Although Piautatz remained in office for cashiers and accounting clerks until the beginning of 1796, he was then without employment or prospect of the same. In retrospect, he himself said at the time, " After my business was done, I was wished luck for my further advancement in the world and now, after my faithful service with considerable responsibility and with various sacrifices, I was actually at the point of which I was had gone out. "In Berlin, he received shortly afterwards as secretary of the expedition in the excise Division views of employment with premature alimentation.

Activity in the Prussian Chamber Administration

After moving to Berlin, Piautatz gave up the prospect of the poorly paid secretary position and decided to finish his studies at the Kurmärkischen War and Domain Chamber in Magdeburg . He completed his major exam in September 1800 as a trainee lawyer and was employed in the tax department of the Chamber, where he was employed in a variety of areas by Chamber Director Pirl. As a test piece of his administrative work, his border adjustments to the Electorate of Saxony near Treuenbrietzen were credited to the assessor and finally he was employed as such in the Magdeburg Chamber.

Shortly after his appointment as assessor, in July 1803, Count Friedrich Wilhelm von der Schulenburg-Kehnert needed new staff for the organization of the areas in Thuringia that had been affected by the Peace of Lunéville and the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and proposed Piautatz 'appointment to the War and Tax Council in front. He received the city directorate of the formerly free imperial city of Nordhausen, which came to the Principality of Halberstadt . As such, he paid homage to Friedrich Wilhelm III in October 1803. from and took care of excise regulations and arising problems in the neighboring principality of Eichsfeld and the county of Hohnstein , as well as new facilities in the city. The chamber director in Heiligenstadt , Ferdinand von Angern , praised Piautatz several times for his exemplary and successful administration in the city. This may also have been due to the fact that Nordhausen was already one of the economically strongest cities in Northern Thuringia at that time.

Official in the Kingdom of Westphalia and in Paris

After the dissolution of the chamber in Heiligenstadt with the establishment of the Kingdom of Westphalia after the Peace of Tilsit , Piautatz entered the Westphalian service in 1807. He first took part in the trips of the former Chamber Deputation to Paris, where Chamber President Christian Wilhelm von Dohm hoped to reduce the contributions for the cities and communities of the Principality of Eichsfeld and the County of Hohnstein after the war between Prussia and France. The plan failed. In January 1808, when Prefect Friedrich von Hövel took office, he was given the post of General Secretary in Göttingen in the Leine department . Soon afterwards, on July 8, 1808, he and his wife were granted honorary citizenship of the city of Göttingen. In August 1810, after the sub-prefecture in Halle had to be filled for the fourth time , he left Göttingen to go to the Saale department . At the beginning of May 1813, the prefecture in Kassel had to be reoccupied and the king appointed Piautatz to the department of Fulda with prior appointment as a member of the Order of the Westphalian Crown . After the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in October 1813, Piautatz took orders from the Allied troops and until the end of the year headed the administration of the city and the department in the dissolved kingdom.

At the beginning of 1814, Piautatz received the news in Kassel that he had been appointed to Brussels as a council in the General Government of Belgium . Soon after arriving there, he moved to Liège in this capacity . At the beginning of 1815 he was appointed to a general repayment commission, which was supposed to organize the repayment of French debts to the four winning powers Prussia, Austria , Russia and the German medium- sized states from pension funds and stayed in Paris until 1821 for this purpose. In 1817 he received the Officer's Cross of the Prussian Red Eagle Order for his work on the commission . Piautatz bought a house in Paris, which he made available to Prussian officers and officials for discussing political issues and for festivities. Financially he had no advantage from his position in Paris and the work in the repayment commission was personally unsuccessful for him. For the debts of his trading company he could hardly repay his father more than half of the money that the latter had lost in the war. This was able to pay off its own creditors with it. After working in Paris, Piautatz had to sell his house and move to Berlin penniless.

Last years in Berlin

In Berlin, soon after 1821, Piautatz was given a position as a secret finance councilor in the Prussian treasury and, after its dissolution, in the immediate commission for the reorganization of the same. The commission's plans served as a basis for reorganizing the ministry.

In September 1825 he caught a bad cold while hunting near Berlin, so that he was bedridden and after several days died of a stroke on September 9, 1825 .

family

Joseph Piautaz married a Miss Pinette Ahé, who together with him received an honorary citizenship in 1808. He had a brother Franz, who ran a silk trading business in Frankfurt after his father went bankrupt. His sister Claudine, who had also stayed in Frankfurt, was the nanny of the Brentano family .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Nekrolog Vol. 3 (1835), p. 901
  2. ↑ New Nekrolog Vol. 3 (1835), p. 902
  3. ^ Förstemann, Historische Nachrichten, p. 385
  4. ^ New Nekrolog Vol. 3 (1835), p. 903.
  5. ↑ Cf. Bettina von Arnim, Agreed in everything. Bettine von Arnim's correspondence with her son Friedmund, ed. Wolfgang Bunzel and Ulrike Landfester, (= Bettine von Arnim's correspondence with her sons, vol. 2), Göttingen 2001, p. 289.
personal data
SURNAME Piautatz, Joseph Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian and Westphalian administrative officials
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Cluse , Duchy of Savoy , Kingdom of Sardinia
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1825
Place of death Berlin , Brandenburg Province , Kingdom of Prussia