Philipp von Krauss

Philipp von Krauss , raised to the nobility by Emperor Ferdinand I in 1835 as a knight of Krauss , from 1847 Baron von Krauss , (born March 28, 1792 in Lemberg ; † June 26, 1861 in Vienna ), was a civil servant in the Austrian Empire and of 1848 to 1851 in the cabinet of Felix zu Schwarzenberg k. k. Finance minister.

family

His brother Karl von Krauss (1789–1881) was 1851–1857 kk Justice Minister, his brother Franz a civil servant. They came from a Bavarian-Austrian civil servant family; her father held a post in the crown land of Galicia . A son of Franz, also called Franz von Krauss , became police chief in Vienna in 1885 .

Life

Philipp von Krauss studied in Lviv Jus and entered 1811 in the civil service. After the Napoleonic Wars he was successfully used in the reorganization of Galician finances. In 1826 he was drawn into the Austro-Russian negotiations in Vienna on trade with and in Galicia and, based on his skills, was appointed to the General Court Chamber (the forerunner of the Ministry of Finance) in Vienna.

In 1847 he was transferred back to Lemberg and appointed Vice President of the Gubernium (the forerunner of the Imperial and Royal Lieutenancy).

In the course of the March Revolution he was appointed kk finance minister on April 2, 1848 and, despite the strong political upheavals of those years, remained so until December 26, 1851. In 1860, the secret council acted as president of the audit office ( supreme control authority ) and was, of Emperor Franz Joseph I appointed, from April 29, 1861 until his death a few weeks later, Vice-President of the newly constituted manor of the Reichsrat .

On June 24, 1861, Krauss, who lived at Wallnerstrasse 267 near the imperial Hofburg in the center of Vienna, suffered a stroke on the way from Schönbrunn to Hetzendorf (both suburbs of Vienna with imperial castles), from which he died two days later. The Kaiser visited Krauss at his sick bed. Krauss was buried on June 28, 1861 in the no longer existing Matzleinsdorf cemetery in a suburb of Vienna.

The president of the manor, Prince Karl von Auersperg , spoke on the death of Vice-President Krauss:

In this dignified statesman the crown loses one of its most loyal and most trusted followers, the state one of its most dutiful caretakers and promoters of the highest and most important state interests.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Krauss, Philipp Freiherr von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, pp. 150–157 ( digitized version ).
• Franz Philipp von Sommaruga:  Krauss, Philipp Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 85-88.
• Andreas Cornaro:  Krauss, Philipp Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 717 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . Volume 6: Kraatz - Menges. De Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-25036-1 , p. 38 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see Franz von Krauss
2. ^ Lehmann's general address book for… Vienna… , 1861 edition, p. 166 or p. 183 of the digital copy
3. ^ Daily newspaper Wiener Zeitung , Vienna, No. 147, June 26, 1861, p. 2338
4. ^ Daily newspaper Die Presse , Vienna, No. 174, June 27, 1861, p. 4
5. ↑ Stenographic Protocols. 12th meeting of the Lords House of the Reichsrath on July 1, 1861 , p. 97