Baron Ignaz von Plener

Ignaz von Plener ( born May 21, 1810 in Vienna, † February 17, 1908 ) was an Austrian politician, Minister and Prime Minister.

Life

Ignaz Plener was the son of a high official in the Ministry of Finance. He studied from 1827 to 1833 Law at the University of Vienna in 1836 and entered into the civil service. In 1841, he came as financial advice to Eger, 1848 in Prague, later to Pest in 1851 as the national finance director to Pressburg. In 1856 he was knighted ( " Edler von " ), appointed in 1857 as a state finance director to Lviv. He was significantly involved in the enforcement of the tax administration in the neo-absolutist monarchy. In 1859, he returned as a member of the Imperial Council in Vienna, where he campaigned for parliamentary financial control.

From 1860 to 1865 Plener was the Austrian Minister of Finance. Already in 1862 he was able to present a balanced budget through austerity and reduction of banknotes in circulation. He laid the foundations for the economic upswing of the period. He was involved in the drafting of the patent in February 1861 and a member of the Bohemian Landtag. He fought the absolutist and federalist policy of Prime Minister Richard Belcredi. In protest against the suspension of the constitution, he resigned in 1865.

For Plener centralism was a necessity of life, because the Germans want and have it want it to, because in Bohemia being in the minority, with the Germans of the other crown lands form a unified whole by the Central Parliament, so they do not in the Bohemian Diet ... rise. He saw in the German (in today's parlance: German Austrian ) dominance and the undisturbed connection with the German Bohemia and Deutschmährern a fundamental prerequisite for national existence and strength of the " Austrodeutschtums ".

In the civil Ministry 1867-1870 Plener was trade minister. His special interest was paid to the expansion of the rail system through licensing of many private railways, a reform of the big banks, introduction of statistics and Liability Act, as well as the reorganization of the chambers of commerce. January 15 to February 1, 1870, he acted as transitional Prime Minister of Austria.

From 1873 until his death he worked for the conservative wing of the old liberal " Constitution Party " member of the manor. Politically, he was connected with the camp of liberalism, but struggled vividly against the secession of National Liberals as ever against the advance of the idea of a unified empire of all Germans at the expense of dynastic historically shaped by the Habsburg state understanding.

In 1888 in Vienna Waehring (18th district) was named the Plenergasse after him.

His son Ernst von Plener became the Austrian Minister of Finance, then Auditor-General. Ignaz von Plener in 1907 was charged by the Emperor to the hereditary baron.