Rétablissement (Electoral Saxony)
The (Saxon) Rétablissement is the name given to the rebuilding of Electoral Saxony and the resurgence of the Electoral Saxon economy after the end of the Seven Years' War (1756–1763). Within a few years, the completely devastated and financially ruined country changed back to the leading German business location. Comprehensive state and administrative reforms also established the foreign and domestic policy that was decisive for Saxony up to the middle of the 19th century. The (Saxon) rétablissement is one of the most important development projects in German history.
preparation and execution
The rétablissement was still during the war in 1762 with the appointment of a "restoration commission" by King August III. (1733–1763) and Prime Minister Count Brühl (1700–1763) and started work under the Electoral Saxon rulers Friedrich Christian (1763) and Friedrich August the Just (1763–1827) and the electoral administrator Prince Xaver (1763–1768) set and continued.
Results
After only a decade, the state budget of the highly indebted Saxony, which was financially ruined by the Prussian occupation at the end of the war, reached a surplus again. In quick succession around 150 new factories were established in the country by 1800; Leipzig ( Leipziger Messe ) maintained its position as a transshipment point for intercontinental foreign trade. The reconstruction of war-torn cities and urban areas (Dresden, Wittenberg, Zittau) proceeded rapidly. New educational institutions such as the Bergakademie Freiberg (1765) or the first Realschule (1785 in Dresden) were opened. The state administrative structure was modernized, a financial plan for the administration was drawn up (1769) and state finance was centralized with the creation of the so-called General Hauptkasse (1773). However, the reform of Saxon forestry under Carl Ludwig von Lassberg , which began in 1763, failed.
The Saxon cash register , which was first issued in 1772, is famous for its relatively stable paper money .
people
The leading pioneer and organizer of the rétablissement was the Electoral Saxon administrative officer, diplomat and later Minister Thomas Freiherr von Fritsch (1700–1775). The most important employees were Friedrich Ludwig Wurmb (1723–1800), who in 1764 took over the newly established State Economics, Manufacture and Commerce Deputation (an authority for monitoring economic development and promoting company start-ups) as director, as well as the administrative officer and later chief minister Christian Gotthelf von Gutschmid (1721–1798) and his pupil Friedrich Wilhelm von Ferber .
literature
- Horst Schlechte: The State Reform in Electoral Saxony 1762–1763. Sources on the Electoral Saxon rétablissement after the Seven Years' War, Berlin (East) 1958 (= series of publications of the Saxon State Main Archives Dresden; Vol. 5).
- Uwe Schirmer (ed.): Saxony 1763 to 1832. Between rétablissement and bourgeois reforms, 2nd edition, Beucha 2000 (= writings of the Rudolf-Kötzschke-Gesellschaft; vol. 3).
- Dresdner Geschichtsverein (ed.): Dresdner Hefte - Contributions to Cultural History No. 114: Saxony between 1763 and 1813. Dresden 2013.
Remarks
- ↑ Stable paper money in the 18th century. The Saxon cash register tickets. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @ bundesbank.de (PDF 4.7 MB, p. 36ff), with illus. "1 Reichs-Thaler" from 1772; Fig. Also in: August Ludwig von Schlözer : Correspondence mostly historical and political content. Volume 2, Göttingen 1780, p. 265 , s. a. P. 320ff ; Jörg Titze: The royal Saxon infantry (IV) ... Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, 2015, p.73, annex 7.4 The "cash tickets". ; see also p. 5 of the chapter on Friedrich August, the just. in: German Temple of Honor, Volume 10, Gotha 1829; Edict because of those, at Dero Cassen, to be issued and accepted. De Dato Dreßden, May 6, 1772. @ Digitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de; Edict because of the new cash register billets to be issued at the beginning of 1804, Dresden 1803. @ digital.slub-dresden.de, accessed January 26, 2018
- ↑ "If one draws the circle a little further and includes those who continued and tried to implement the preparatory work of the Restoration Commission in the so-called commercial deputation, the Gutschmid student Friedrich Wilhelm Ferber, who was excellent in domestic and financial policy until the end of the century, should also be mentioned performed. “ Winfried Müller : The Saxon Rétablissement after 1763. in: Dresdner Hefte No. 114, p. 16/17
