Prussian Ministry of Treasury and State Credit
The Ministry of the Treasury and the State Credit System was founded in 1817 as the Prussian Ministry of the Treasury .
With the cabinet order of November 3, 1817, King Friedrich Wilhelm III. the separation of the administration of the extraordinary income and expenditure, the treasure and the national debt system as well as the supervision of maritime trade , royal main bank , general salt directorate, lottery, coin as well as mining and metallurgy from the finance ministry and transferred these tasks to the treasury to be newly established. State Chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg took the lead , Wilhelm Anton von Klewiz , who also headed the Ministry of Finance , was appointed President Christian Rother . Shortly afterwards von Klewiz was replaced by the president of the main bank, Karl Ferdinand Friese .
With the financial laws of January 17, 1820, the Seehandlungs-Societät and the state debt administration were spun off and placed directly under the king's control as independent institutes. The Ministry of the Treasury was essentially left with the task of accumulating surpluses from various administrative bodies as state treasures and, in crisis situations, e.g. B. in case of war to provide.
In the years after 1821 the treasury was dissolved. Most of his remaining duties were transferred back to the Treasury.
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literature
- Handbook for the royal Prussian court and state for the year 1818; Berlin: Decker 1818, pp. 71-74.
- Handbook for the royal Prussian court and state for the year 1821; Berlin: Decker 1821, pp. 127-131.
- Royal cabinet order of November 3, 1817 for the management of the higher authorities in Berlin; in: Law collection for the Royal Prussian States 1817, p. 289ff.
- Wolfgang Radtke : The Prussian maritime trade between state and economy in the early phase of industrialization (= individual publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin, vol. 30); Berlin (West): Colloquium 1981, especially p. 45f. and 50.