Reichspfennigmeister

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Reichspfennigmeister Zacharias Geizkofler

The office of Reichspfennigmeister existed in the Holy Roman Empire since the 16th century . The Reichspfennigmeister were appointed by the emperor and were in charge of an imperial treasury.

history

The office of Reichspfennigmeister existed at the realm level since 1543. The spatial separation of the office between the Saxon Reich circles and the Upper German Reich circles took place in 1557 at the Reichstag in Regensburg. On this two Reichspfennigmeister were appointed for the first time, each responsible for one of the two areas. At the same time, Leipzig was added to the list of so-called Legstädte, in which taxes were collected by the imperial estates.

The Reichspfennigmeister were appointed by the imperial estates until 1566 and were only responsible for collecting a certain tax. From the Reichstag in Speyer in 1570, however, the estates left the appointment to the emperor. In addition, they waived the accounting and this only took place with the emperor. The office was thus effectively part of the imperial financial administration.

tasks

The Reichspfennigmeister in Leipzig administered the Saxon imperial districts , while Augsburg was responsible for the Upper German imperial districts. The seat in Augsburg, however, developed into the central seat of this authority.

The Reichspfennigmeister calculated the imperial taxes of the imperial estates and were responsible for collecting the taxes that had previously been collected by the competent imperial districts in the leg cities of Augsburg, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, Nuremberg and Regensburg. These Legstädte had to advance a considerable part of the collected taxes and thus took on the role of banks.

These taxes were mainly the tax called Kammerzieler , which was used to finance the Imperial Chamber Court, and the Roman months , which were used to finance the Imperial Army .

The Reichspfennigmeister were accountable to the Reichstag and, in some cases, were considered currency and financial experts of their time.

Reich Chamber of Commerce

There was a special Reichspfennigmeister at the Reich Chamber Court, whose powers were laid down in the Reich Chamber Court Rules. He collected the court fees of the parties to the dispute, administered the taxes paid into the court's cash register, known as the sustentation fund, and paid the salaries of the judge, the presidents and assessors, and other court clerks. The taxes were usually only paid irregularly, so that the court was often unable to work because salaries could not be paid for months.

Official

Upper German Reichspfennigmeister

Surname Term of office Life dates Remarks
Wolf Haller from Hallerstein 1557-1566
Georg Ilsung 1566-1580 around 1510–1580 appeared as early as 1553/54 with the title Reichspfennigmeister
Maximilian Ilsung 1580-1583 Son of Georg Ilsung
Johann Achilles Ilsung 1583-1589 Georg Ilsung's nephew, dismissed due to insufficient credit and deficiencies in collecting Reichshilfen
Zacharias Geizkofler 1589-1603 1560-1617 resigned from office in 1603, probably due to financial difficulties due to the funds advanced by him
Matthäus Welser 1603-1608 1553-1633 municipal builder in Augsburg
Hubert von Bleymann ? -1657 † 1657 Merchant, pfennig master of the Duchy of Jülich and war commissioner
Achatius von Hohenfeld 1658–? 1610-1672
Wilhelm Lothar von Hohenfeld 1651-1710 Son of Achatius von Hohenfeld
Wilhelm Ludwig von Hohenfeld 1703-1763 Son of Wilhelm Lothar von Hohenfeld and thus grandson of Achatius

Reichspfennigmeisters in the Upper and Lower Saxon Imperial Circle

Surname Term of office Life dates Remarks
Damian von Sebottendorf 1557-1585 1519-1585
Christoph von Loß the Elder 1585-1609 1548-1609
Christoph von Loß 1609-1620 1574-1620; Son of Christoph von Loß the Elder
Joachim von Loß 1620-1637 1576-1633 Brother of Christoph von Loß the Younger
Johann von Ponickau 1584-1642
Friedrich von Metzsch 1579-1655 Imperial Council, Electoral Saxon Council and Senior Consistorial President
Wolff Siegfried von Lüttichau 1656 - 1610-1671 Imperial Councilor and Chancellor, Privy Councilor and Chamberlain of the Elector of Saxony
Johann von Burkersroda
Ernst Dietrich von Taube 1661-1694 Electoral Saxon Chamberlain
Johann Georg von Meusebach
Christoph Dietrich Bose the Younger 1701 (?) - 1707 (?)
Hieronymus von Münchhausen
Thomas von Fritsch 1746 - probably during the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) last Saxon Reichspfennigmeister

Reichspfennigmeister at the Reich Chamber of Commerce

Surname Term of office Remarks

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Martina Schattkowsky: Reichspfennigmeister in the Upper and Lower Saxon Reichskreis. For communication between the emperor and imperial estates around 1600 . In: sheets for German national history . 2001, p. 17–38, here p. 20 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  2. ↑ Lukas Winder: The creditors of Ferdinand I, Maximilians II and Rudolf II (1521-1612) . Vienna 2013, p. 35 ( univie.ac.at [PDF]).
  3. ↑ a b Peter Lengle: Reichspfennig champion. In: Stadtlexikon Augsburg. Retrieved August 1, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Lukas Winder: The creditors of Ferdinand I, Maximilian II and Rudolf II (1521-1612) . Vienna 2013, p. 35 ( univie.ac.at [PDF]).
  5. ↑ a b Lukas Winder: The creditors of Ferdinand I, Maximilian II and Rudolf II (1521-1612) . Vienna 2013, p. 35 ( univie.ac.at [PDF]).
  6. ↑ Lukas Winder: The creditors of Ferdinand I, Maximilians II and Rudolf II (1521-1612) . Vienna 2013, p. 41 ( univie.ac.at [PDF]).
  7. ↑ a b Magnus Ulrich Ferber: Welser, family. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria. Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Bernd Warlich: Bleymann [Bleimann, Pleymann], Hubert Freiherr von. In: The Thirty Years' War in personal testimonies, chronicles and reports. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b Achaz II Vrijheer van Hohenfeld. In: genealogieonline.nl. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .
  10. ^ Josef Leeb: RTA RV 1556/57 . S. 1153 f . ( reichstagakten.de ).
  11. ^ A b Martina Schattkowsky: Reichspfennigmeister in the Upper and Lower Saxon Reichskreis. For communication between the emperor and imperial estates around 1600 . In: sheets for German national history . 2001, p. 17–38, here p. 18 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  12. ↑ Martina Schattkowsky: Loß, Christoph von (zu Schleinitz and Stösitz) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  13. ^ A b Peter Rauscher: Review of: Martina Schattkowsky, Between Rittergut, Residenz and Reich. The world of the electoral Saxon nobleman Christoph von Loß auf Schleinitz (1574–1620) Leipziger Univ.-Verlag, Leipzig 2007. In: Früheuzeit-Info , 21 (2010), 1 + 2, pp. 215–217, here p. 215
  14. ↑ Gustav Adolf Poenicke: Album of the castles and manors in the kingdom of Saxony . tape 4 , 1856, pp. 53 ( full text Wikisource ).
  15. ↑ Saxon biography
  16. ↑ a b c d Martina Schattkowsky: Reichspfennigmeister in the Upper and Lower Saxon Empire. For communication between the emperor and imperial estates around 1600 . In: sheets for German national history . 2001, p. 17–38, here p. 28 (note 44) ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  17. ↑ Gustav Adolf Poenicke: Album of the castles and manors in the kingdom of Saxony . Issue 16 of Section Erzgebirgischer Kreis, 1856, p. 122 ( full text Wikisource ).
  18. ↑ Christian Heinker: Christoph Dietrich von Bose d. J. (1664-1741) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  19. ^ Gerhard Schmidt:  Fritsch, Thomas Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 624 f. ( Digitized version ).