Raitherr

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In the Habsburg Monarchy until the 18th century, Raitherr was the name of a class (or city) official who checked the tax collection and carried out the audit. The term was derived from the former Upper German word raiten (for to count).

history

Raitherren were appointed by the estates of a country (a county, a duchy, an archduchy) on a case-by-case basis and for a limited time. If the invoice checked by the Raitherrn was correct, a Rait letter was issued to the tax collector . From the early 17th century on, the ad hoc appointed Raitherr was replaced by a Raitkollegium (also Raitrat ) appointed by the respective estates ; its officials were called Raitmeister.

From the middle of the 18th century onwards, tax collection was increasingly taken over from the provinces and estates by agents of the reigning monarch in Vienna. In 1765, Landlady Maria Theresa lifted the Standing Committee and the Raitrat as state organs.

The supreme audit authority since 1761 was Maria Theresias Hof-Rechen-Cammer , who was responsible for the estate accounting. It can be regarded as the forerunner of the Supreme Audit Office established by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1866 , which was replaced in Austria in 1919 by the Audit Office responsible to Parliament, which still exists today .

Raitofficier were mostly called civil servants of the state administration (bookkeeping, accounting chamber).

literature

  • Gerhard Putschögl: The rural authority organization in Austria above the Enns: from the beginning of the 16th to the middle of the 18th century. A contribution to Austrian legal history (= research on the history of Upper Austria. 14). Linz 1978, 393 pages.
  • Gerhard Putschögl: On the history of the Raitkollegium of the Upper Austrian state estates. In: Communications from the Upper Austrian Provincial Archives. Year 14, Linz 1984, pp. 291–304 ( online (PDF; 3.9 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
  • Georg Heilingsetzer : The Upper Austrian Estates after the Thirty Years War. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 137a, Linz 1992, pp. 91-102 ( PDF (1.2 MB) on ZOBODAT ).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Raitofficier was z. B. the lowest official rank of the main cameral commissions of the court chamber, see "Instructions for the commissions of the court chamber", Vienna 7 February 1714 archive.org p. 63ff