Századok – 2016
2016 / 3. szám - TANULMÁNYOK - Kurucz György: Adminisztráció, gazdálkodás, adósságkezelés. Gróf Festetics László pénzügyi helyzete az apai örökség átvételétől a zárgondnokság időszakáig (1820-1830)
580 KURUCZ GYÖRGY Adminisztratív egységek Zárgondnokság előtt (ft) Zárgondnokság alatt (ft) Megtakarítás (ft) készpénz deputátum összes készpénz deputátum összes készpénz deputátum összes Directio 39 761 10 283 50 044 27 727 4 871 32 599 12 033 5 412 17 445 Udvari, georgikoni, keszthelyi uradalom 58 736 71 188 12 924 27 494 27 198 54 692 31 248 43 989 75 232 Kemend 13 318 21 231 34 549 8 032 10 560 18 592 5 285 10 670 15 956 Vasvár 9 634 14 643 24 278 7 344 8 621 15 965 2 290 6 022 8 312 Ság 7 584 14 294 21 878 4 366 5 853 10 219 3 218 8 441 11 659 Balaton-szentgyörgy 7 347 11 272 18 619 4 960 6 215 11 175 2 387 5 056 7 444 Szentmiklós 489 8 748 15 238 5 588 6 568 12 156 901 2 180 3 081 Szalkszentmárton 8 646 13 422 22 069 6 304 9 286 15 590 2 342 4 236 6 479 Csurgó/ Berzence 26 954 32 939 59 894 17 835 22 312 40 147 9 119 10 627 19 746 Csáktornya 30 741 42 984 73 725 21 140 32 025 53 165 9 601 10 959 20 560 Sopron 2 119 1 562 3 681 1 486 1 169 2 655 633 392 1 025 Összesen 216 943 9. táblázat. A birtokigazgatás összesített működési és adminisztrációs költségei a zárgondnokságot megelőző és a konszolidációs időszakban (váltóforintban krajcárok nélkül) ESTATE MANAGEMENT, FARMING, DEBT SERVICING The Finances of Count László Festetics from the Period of Taking over His Inheritance to the Early Phase of the Sequestration of His Estates, 1820-30 by György Kurucz (Summary) As the descendant of a Transdanubian aristocratic family, Count László Festetics (1785-1846) inherited large estates and a manageable amount of liabilites from his father, Count György Festetics (1755-1819), who has since been considered an outstanding member of Hungarian noble society on account of his foundations to promote contemporary intellectual life, including the establishment of a farming college in 1797 in order to train stewards and disseminate modem fanning technique as well as profit-oriented estate management. This paper is a case study examining the question of how and why Count László Festetics, despite being a successful producer of agricultural goods as well as capitalizing on the short lived boom following the Napoleonic wars, was nonetheless so adversely affected by the overall European crisis of marketing agricultural products. The author also tried to reconstruct the stages of the process in which he gradually became completely indebted, leading to his voluntary sequestration, whereby he waived his financial independence and an authorized sequestrator was designated to manage his estates and deal with his outstanding debts. The latter issue is of special importance,
