Philipp Joseph von Jariges

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Philipp Joseph von Jariges (also Ph. J. v. Pandin de Jarriges , born November 13, 1706 in Berlin , † November 9, 1770 ibid) was a Prussian statesman and minister of justice. As Grand Chancellor , he succeeded Samuel von Coccejis .

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Jariges was the son of the Huguenots Joseph Pandin (1655-1720), who had become a cavalry officer in Brandenburg in 1686, and Marie Morel (1666-1729), who came from a Metz merchant family. After visiting the Joachimsthal Gymnasium , he studied from 1722 in Halle jurisprudence and entered after completion of studies in 1727 at once as a court and superintendent in the services of Frederick William I. A year later he married Marie Anne de Vignoles (1704-1760), as well and formed is described. There are rumors that Jariges owed his rapid ascent to cabinet counselor August Friedrich Eichel (1698–1768), who was friends with him and was apparently interested in his wife. In 1768 he left him his entire, quite extensive fortune, which finally fell to Jarige's daughter.

In 1729 Jariges became a member of the new Secret Audit Chamber, in 1731 a member and shortly afterwards Secretary of the Academy of Sciences . He held this post until 1748, after which he remained an honorary member for life. In 1735 he was appointed to the French consistory as a councilor. As director of the French Supreme Court in Berlin, from 1740 he held the highest position in the French colony .

In 1748 Samuel von Cocceji was promoted to the specially created office of Grand Chancellor by Frederick II , and Jariges was entrusted with his previous post as President of the Supreme Court . He became Cocceji's confidante and favorite and supported him in carrying out the great judicial reform. The relationship between the two apparently suffered from the fact that Jariges passed the Grand Chancellor over and offended several times.

After Cocceji's death in 1755, Jariges was appointed as his successor. Since he was younger than the other four ministers of justice - the feudal and criminal ministers, the minister of ecclesiastical justice and the French colonial minister - he was responsible for overseeing the "Justice Department" as Grand Chancellor, but ranked below the others.

Jariges could not build on the significant achievements of his predecessor, only the institutions of the Jurisdiction Commission and the Examination Commission, created in 1755, were among his independent achievements. The judicial reform that had begun and work on a general land law largely came to a standstill under him. Nevertheless, he enjoyed high esteem with the king and his colleagues - among them his successor Carl Joseph Maximilian von Fürst und Kupferberg (1717–1790), with whom he was friends - and was able to maintain his office until his death.

In 1765, the Réflexions philosophiques et historiques d'un jurisconsulte, adressées à son ami à Turin sur l'ordre de la procédure et sur les décisions arbitraires et immédiates du souverain , written by Jariges, appeared anonymously .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Eduard Vehse : History of the Prussian court and nobility and Prussian diplomacy . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1851, p. 273.
personal data
SURNAME Jariges, Philipp Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jarriges, Pandin de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian statesman and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1706
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1770
Place of death Berlin