!!!Matzinger, Franz Freiherr von

b. St. Poelten (Lower Austria), March 23, 1817, 
d. Weidling (Lower Austria), Aug. 22, 1896, civil servant. Entered 
into state service in 1839, from 1850 employed in the Ministry of the 
Interior. 1874 Director-General, 1883 to 1892 President of the Court 
Building Committee. M. was one of the most capable civil servants of 
Franz Joseph's central administration. From ca. 1856 devoted himself 
especially to the expansion of the city; he was the author of the 
Emperor's decree of 1857, which launched the City Expansion programme 
and did not confine himself to its bureaucratic aspects but brought 
his influence to bear on artistic and cultural issues, so that he may 
rightly be called one of the fathers of the Ringstrasse, the circular 
avenue around Vienna's first district.

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