Samuel Ludwig Loeffler

Samuel Ludwig Löffler (born May 11, 1769 in Züllichau , † November 22, 1836 in Posen ) was a German civil servant.

Life

Samuel Ludwig Löffler was the son of a craftsman and was born into a poor family.

In 1783, at the age of 14, he became a private assistant to the customs collector Schulz in Züllichau, who then took care of Löffler's further training and enabled him to enter the civil service; he made him the heir of his property, which then only accepted the inheritance to hand it over to the needy relatives of the tax collector.

Without attending grammar school or completing a degree , he entered the civil service on July 28, 1787 as a supernumerarius (civil servant who works in preparatory service) at the customs office in Züllichau and was appointed customs assistant in Küstrin on March 4, 1789 . On August 18, 1790, he received the 4th calculator position for the Neumark excise , was third in 1795, second in 1797 and first or chief calculator in 1798. Already as the youngest calculator, it was authorized by a rescript from Finance Minister Carl August von Struensee to take over his assignments in the absence or illness of a member of the Neumark provincial excise and customs directorate.

On September 13, 1797 he was appointed extraordinary member with a seat and vote in the management; this was followed by royal cabinet ordinance of July 31, 1798, his appointment as auditor and on May 24, 1800 as chief excise and customs council; in part-time he held the post of chief calculator.

In 1806 he was war and domain councilor in the accession deputation of the Küstriner war and domain chamber; In the same year Baron Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein appointed him excise and customs director in Warsaw , but commissioned him, before he left for Warsaw, in the Cottbus district , at that time an enclave of the Electorate of Saxony , one that was more appropriate to the special circumstances To create a trade constitution. He solved this task by regulating the trade constitution in the district in such a way that the trade of Cottbus merchants was expanded significantly, the sale of domestic products was favored and the black market was limited without increasing administrative costs.

Due to the Fourth Coalition War in 1806 he could not be transferred to Warsaw; It was determined that he had been referred by the Neumark Chamber to the French authorities as an expert who had the necessary knowledge about the administration of indirect taxes and the salt debit in the Neumark and who had to carry out all orders given in relation to this. He succeeded here in that only small sums flowed into the French coffers, but significant funds were made available to the Baron von Stein.

In 1809 he was appointed to Koenigsberg as an unskilled worker for the Ministry of Finance . From there he came to Berlin in October of the same year and took over the management of the general accounting office and bookkeeping in the section for taxes, on behalf of the secret war councilor Christian Friedrich Krüger (1741-1811).

On September 12, 1810, he was appointed to the Secret Supreme Tax Council in the section of the Ministry of Finance for direct and indirect taxes, and on November 28, 1817, he was transferred to General Control as a Secret Supreme Tax Council, which was introduced on November 3, 1817; During this time, in the spring of 1813, he received the order, together with the Real Secret Chief Finance Councilor Johann Philipp von Ladenburg, the Secret Chief Finance Councilor Heinrich von Béguelin and the Secret Chief Tax Councilor Karl August von Schütz , the most important service papers from Berlin to the approach of the French Army Bring province.

In 1824 he was commissioned by the Royal Chamber of Accounts with the revision of the accounts of the Royal Main Bank and the Maritime Trading Company , until in 1825 he was entrusted with the Provincial Tax Office in Poznan; In 1836 he was appointed provincial tax director.

Samuel Ludwig Löffler was married and had three sons and a daughter.

honors and awards

• Samuel Ludwig Löffler was a third class knight of the Red Eagle Order .

literature

• Samuel Ludwig Loeffler . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 14th year, 1836, 2nd part. Weimar 1838.
• Samuel Ludwig Loeffler . In: Biographical Handbook of Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740-1806 / 15: Biographies A-L . Munich Saur 2009. p. 584.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New collection of all the Prussian laws and ordinances valid in the Prussian Rhine Province for the administration of justice and administration . Troschel, 1846 ( google.de [accessed June 17, 2020]).