Andrew of Morsey

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Andreas von Morsey , actually Andreas Freiherr von Morsey called Picard (born July 1, 1888 in Hohenbrugg in Styria , † July 16, 1951 in Vienna ) was an Austrian court and state official.

Life and work

Morsey was born in 1888 as the first of three children of Baron Franz Adolf von Morsey (1854–1926) and his wife Elisabeth Princess Lobkowitz (1856–1936) in Styria.

Morsey changed in 1913, after serving at the k. and k. Military - to which he remained connected as a lieutenant in the reserve - and a degree plus doctorate as a “ concept intern ” in the service of the Habsburg heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand . In his household, Morsey acted as a chamberlain, head of house for the Archduke's children and personal assistant to the Archduke.

In June 1914, Morsey accompanied the Archduke on an inspection trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina, during which the Archduke fell victim to an assassination attempt on June 28 in Sarajevo , which Morsey witnessed. Morsey, who personally participated in the arrest of the assassin Gavrilo Princip , wrote various essays and articles about Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the assassination attempt in the following years, for example on June 28, 1924 in an essay for the Austrian daily Reichspost .

In 1916 Morsey married Princess Olga Maria Paula zu Windisch-Graetz (1893–1987). The marriage was divorced in 1937. In his second marriage he married Sofie Kast von Ebelsberg (1895–1974).

In the 1920s Morsey became chairman of the association of civil mayors of Styria and leader of the local homeland security . In this capacity he was involved in the suppression of the National Socialist July coup in 1934 and then, in his function as head of the intervention department of the Fatherland Front, advocated mild treatment of the Nazis who were less involved in the coup (so-called " minor participants "). Morsey wrote that he feared a joint imprisonment of such "misguided" with ideologically entrenched National Socialists could radicalize the former even further.

In 1938 Morsey was arrested by the Nazi regime and spent a total of four years in the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps .

After 1945 he was head of department in the Federal Ministry for Asset Protection and Economic Planning (" Krauland Ministry" ).

In the later years of his life, Morsey wrote an autobiography, which he did not publish, but gave Sophie Countess von Nostitz-Rieneck , the daughter of the Archduke, to. These or their descendants have not published the work to this day, but made it available to various historians such as the British Gordon Brook-Shepherd for research purposes.

literature

  • Morsey, Andreas Freiherr von: Konopischt and Sarajewo. In Berlin. Mon.-Hh., year 12, pages 486-499

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ Worldroots.com ( Memento from January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Theodor von Sosnosky: Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Oldenbourg, Munich 1929. p. 208.
  3. ↑ Robert Kriechbaumer (ed.): Austria! and Front Heil! From the files of the General Secretariat of the Patriotic Front. Inside views of a regime . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2005 ISBN 3-205-77324-1 , p. 108
  4. ↑ Kurt Bauer: Socio-historical aspects of the National Socialist July coup 1934. Dissertation, Vienna 2001 ( digitized ; PDF file; 2.81 MB). Bauer comes to the conclusion: "The available empirical findings confirm this statement in the core" (note 385 on p. 155)
  5. ↑ Rudolf Grasmug: Hohenbrugg vineyard. A borderland fate . Weishaupt Verlag, Gnas 2000 p. 66
  6. ^ Austrian official calendar 1949, p. 98
personal data
SURNAME Morsey, Andreas von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morsey, Andreas Freiherr von; Morsey called Picard, Andreas Freiherr von; Morsey-Picard, Andreas Freiherr von; Morsey, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian court and state official
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenbrugg vineyard
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1951
Place of death Vienna