Alfred von Königsegg-Aulendorf

Count Alfred von Königsegg-Aulendorf

Alfred Joseph Graf zu Königsegg-Aulendorf (born June 30, 1817 at Aulendorf Palace ; † October 27, 1898 in Vienna ) was an imperial and royal major general and chief steward of Empress Elisabeth .

Life

Count Alfred came from the Swabian noble family of Count to Königsegg that in the Kingdom of Württemberg to the Standesherren belonged, and was the son of Hungarian magnate Franz Xaver Karl Alois Graf zu Koenigsegg-Aulendorf (1787-1863) and from Hungary originating Maria Anna Josepha Countess Károlyi de Nagykároly (1793-1825).

As early as 1851 as Rittmeister of the "Kaiser Ferdinand" Cuirassier Regiment No. 4 Adjutant , in 1854 he became Emperor Franz Joseph's wing adjutant .

On April 15, 1857 in Vienna he married Countess Pauline von Bellegarde (born April 2, 1830 in Vienna; † May 27, 1912 in Munich ), the daughter of Count August von Bellegarde (1795–1873) and Baroness Julie von Gudenus ( 1795-1865). Wife Pauline was the granddaughter of the Austrian field marshal and statesman Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde (1757-1845). She had been her lady-in-waiting since Empress Elisabeth's first days in Vienna . Against the opposition of the court, the empress made her Obersthofmeisterin and her husband Obersthofmeisterin in 1862 . In 1883, after the death of his older brother, Count Gustav, in 1882, Count Alfred entered the Wuerttemberg Chamber of Notaries , to which he belonged until his death, but never appeared there in person. He was represented in the Württemberg Chamber by his son Franz Xaver (1858–1927).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Also, Count zu Königsegg-Aulendorf - cf. Baden-Württemberg State Archive: Königsegg-Aulendorf, Alfred; Graf zu or Graf Königsegg zu Aulendorf - cf. Military Schematism of the Austrian Empire (1851, p. 8/1855, p. 7)
2. ↑ Diplomatic Archives for Contemporary and State History, Volume 21 (1830), Royal Declaration concerning the constitutional conditions of the Count's House of Königsegg-Aulendorf
3. ↑ Genealogical-historical-statistical almanac: on the year 1835, p. 397
4. ^ Military Schematism of the Austrian Empire (1851), p. 8
5. ↑ Military Schematism of the Austrian Empire (1855), p. 7
6. ^ Württembergische Vierteljahrshefte für Landesgeschichte (1882), p. VIII

literature

• Erich Hillbrand :  Königsegg-Aulendorf Alfred Graf von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 40.
• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 461 .