Sisinio of Pretis-Cagnodo

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Sisinio of Pretis-Cagnodo

Sisinio Freiherr von Pretis-Cagnodo (born February 14, 1828 in Hamburg , German Confederation , † December 15, 1890 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian civil servant and politician . Before his ennoblement in 1871, he had the real name Sisinio Pretis-Cagnod .

Life

Sisinio Pretis-Cagnod was born on February 14, 1828 as the son of an Austrian diplomat in the Free City of Hamburg, which is part of the German Confederation. After studying law and politics at the universities of Innsbruck , Prague , Göttingen and Heidelberg , which he received in 1850 with the title Dr. jur. graduated, he entered the civil service in 1852 at the Financial Procuratorate in Trieste. In the following year he came to the coastal Lieutenancy , but from 1855 onwards he served as a draftsman for the Imperial and Royal Central Sea Authority and from 1857 onwards he was gubernial secretary.

In 1862 he became Ministerial Secretary at the newly formed kk Ministry of the Navy, which, however, only existed during the term of office of Friedrich Moritz von Burger as Austrian Navy Minister and was dissolved again in 1865. As a result of this dissolution, Pretis-Cagnod worked in the naval section as a section council and in the following year, in 1866, joined the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Trade and Economics . In the ministry he was an expert in customs matters and was therefore involved in the drafting and conclusion of trade agreements with England, France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland.

From 1867 Pretis-Cagnod acted as head of section and was entrusted with the management of the Ministry of Commerce in the years 1870 and 1871 after the removal of the so-called Citizens' Ministry in this function in the Potocki Ministry. Following the resignation of Alfred Józef Potocki Pretis-Cagnod was that in 1871 ennobled been and from now Sisinio Baron of Pretis-Cagnodo could call, governor of the of the three crown lands of Gorizia and Gradisca , Trieste with its territory and Markgrafschaft Istria with appointed to the official seat in Trieste existing coastal land . In this position, he worked from 27 February 1871 until January 1872, before the emperor instead of January 15, 1872 Ludwig von Holzgethan that the Office of the Reich Minister of Finance was transferred, as cisleithanischer finance ministers in by Adolf von Auersperg led Government was appointed.

The Pretis-Cagnodo, who is close to the German liberals, was sent from 1872 to 1882 by the large Bohemian estates as a member of the Reichsrat in the parliament of Cisleithania . In addition to his ministerial colleagues, he did not stand out politically, but advocated the acquisition of Bosnia in 1878 .

After a crisis broke out in the Auersperg Ministry, Sisinio von Pretis-Cagnodo was entrusted with the formation of a new government by the Emperor of Austria , Franz Joseph I , in late summer 1878 at the suggestion of the former Justice Minister Eduard Herbst . However, as Herbst then refused to serve in parliament, he subsequently put this assignment back.

Pretis-Cagnodo also remained in the Stremayr cabinet under Karl von Stremayr as finance minister and only finally resigned with him in 1879. He then acted again as governor of the coastal land from 1879 to 1888. Apart from the irredentist unrest in connection with the attempted assassination attempt by Wilhelm Oberdank or Guglielmo Oberdan on the Kaiser and the death penalty imposed for it, he was able to maintain peace among the old Austrian nationalities for a long time.

Pretis-Cagnodo had already been awarded the title of Real Secret Council in 1873 . After his retirement in 1889, he was appointed to the board of directors of the Bodencreditanstalt , became chairman of the board of directors of the private company Austro-Hungarian State Railroad Company and was appointed by the emperor as a lifelong member of the manor house .

Sisinio Freiherr von Pretis-Cagnodo died on December 15, 1890 at the age of 62 in Vienna. The published obituaries referred, among other things, to numerous honorary citizenships that Pretis had received.

Web links

Commons : Sisinio de Pretis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Austrian Crown Lands at worldstatesmen.org (English), accessed on January 4, 2016
  2. ^ Wiener Zeitung of January 17, 1872, p. 1, official part
  3. ^ Obituary in the Viennese daily Neue Freie Presse from December 16, 1890, p. 5
  4. ^ Report in the official daily newspaper Wiener Zeitung of December 16, 1890, p. 5
predecessor Office successor
Karl Fidler (2.) Governor (Landeschef) of the Austrian coastal lands
1871–1872 		Gabriel from Jenny
? Minister for Trade and Economics ( Cisleithanien )
1872–1879 		?
Felix Pino from Friedenthal Governor (Landeschef) of the Austrian Coastal
Lands 1879–1888 		Teodoro by Rinaldini
personal data
SURNAME Pretis-Cagnodo, Sisinio of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pretis-Cagnodo, Sisinio Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian civil servant and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , German Confederation
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1890
Place of death Vienna , Austria-Hungary