Anton Kochanowski from Stawczan

Anton Kochanowski von Stawczan 1877

Anton Kochanowski , from 1873: Anton Kochanowski Ritter von Stawczan (Polish Antoni Kochanowski ze Stawczan ), from 1898: Anton Kochanowski Freiherr von Stawczan (born November 17, 1817 in Tarnopol , Galicia , † September 10, 1906 in Czernowitz (Cernăuți) ) came from an old Polish noble family. He was k. (u.) k. Politician, long-time mayor of Chernivtsi, member of the Bukovinian state parliament , the Austrian Imperial Council and governor of the Duchy of Bukovina .

Coat of arms Kochanowski von Stawczan, barons 1898

biography

Anton Kochanowski von Stawczan was the son of Anton Corvinus Kochanowski (1785–1841) from the Korwin coat of arms cooperative, a large landowner on Stawczany and Kiczera in Galicia and a descendant of the well-known Polish poet Jan Kochanowski . He started school in Tarnopol in 1822, but his father and his family moved to Chernivtsi in 1823 because of his transfer as district secretary. From 1827-1835 he visited then the Gymnasium of Chernivtsi, then studied at the University of Lvov law and has worked in various solicitors in Lvov and Stanislav than Konzipist .

From June 1847 Kochanowski passed three exams: for legal representative in Czernowitz, for the civil law office and the office of border treasurer. With the decree of the Ministry of Justice on August 13, 1850, he became a legal representative in Chernivtsi, later (1868–1875) even president of the Bukovinian Bar. Because of his appointment as governor, he resigned from this office.

Anton Kochanowski joined the German Liberal Party early on, as its mandate he was successfully active in numerous public bodies in the following decades. He has been a member of this body since the formation of the Czernowitz municipal council in 1864. After the resignation of the mayor Jakob Ritter von Petrowicz, he was elected to this office for the first time for the remaining period of two years. He held the post before his election as governor from 1868–1870 and 1872–1876. At the same time he was a member of the Reichsrat from 1866–1874 and a member of the state parliament from 1868–1904. During this time he was appointed Deputy Governor for the first time in 1868 and for the second time in 1871.

1874–84 Kochanowski held the dignity of governor of Bukovina, initially for four years. For another six years since the death of his predecessor Eudoxius Freiherr von Hormuzaki in 1878. From 1900 to 1904 he was again deputy governor.

After being voted out of office as governor, he was once again head of the municipal administration of the state capital as mayor, first as the successor to the late Wilhelm von Klimesch, then, always re-elected, until 1905. Under his leadership, the municipality experienced an unparalleled development. Above all, he took care of the construction of electricity and waterworks, the expansion of the sewer system and the construction of an electric tram.

Kochanowski was honored and honored many times for his services on April 10, 1873 as the owner of the Order of the Iron Crown 3rd class in the hereditary knighthood with the predicate "von Stawczan" and with the highest resolution of Emperor Franz Joseph I on November 30, 1898 (Diploma of February 22, 1899) on the occasion of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the reign of His Majesty in the baron.

Anton Kochanowski von Stawczan had been an honorary citizen since 1889 and honorary mayor of the city of Chernivtsi since April 4, 1905, and mayor Kochanowski-Gasse in Chernivtsi was named after him.

predecessor	Office	successor
Eudoxius Freiherr von Hormuzaki	Governor of the Duchy of Bukovina 1874–1884	Alexander Wassilko von Serecki

Awards

Order of the Iron Crown (III class) (1872)
Commander's Cross of the Imperial Austrian Order of Franz Joseph (1875)
Order of the Iron Crown (2nd class) (1884)
Order of St. Anne, 2nd class (1888)
Commander of the Royal Romanian Order “Star of Romania” , 1898
Order of Gregorius (Commander with Star) (1898)
Royal Prussian Order of the Red Eagle 2nd class (1901)

Family coat of arms of Kochanowski ( Korwin coat of arms community )
Coat of arms Kochanowski von Stawczan (knight) 1873

Individual evidence

^ "Monthly sheet of the Heraldisch-Genealogischen Verein" Adler "", Vol. 3, printed by Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1891, p. 388.
^ Official part. In: Wiener Zeitung , No. 151/1873, July 1, 1873, p. 1, bottom left. - The place name is Polish Stawczany and the same Ukrainian. Since the place name in the expression “ze Stawczan” has to be in the genitive , this is an indication that the German form was only formed by replacing the Polish “ze” with “von”, regardless of the actual name of the place. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
↑ Erich Prokopowitsch: The nobility in the Bukowina , Südostdeutscher Verlag, Munich 1983, p. 136.
^ Peter Frank-Döfering: Adelslexikon des Österreichischen Kaisertums 1804–1918 , Verlag Herder, Freiburg 1989, p. 367.
^ "Bukowiner Post", September 11, 1906; Bukovinian News, September 11, 1906; "Wiener Zeitung", September 11, 1906; Wiener Zeitung, September 11, 1906.
^ City judge and mayor of Czernowitz 1780-1914 ( Memento from May 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
↑ http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=bur&date=19060911&zoom=33
^ "Bukowinaer Post", No. 797, Sunday, January 29, 1899, p. 4.
↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch der Austro-Hungarian Monarchy , kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1902, p. 841.

literature

Genealogical paperback of the barons houses, FB, FL , Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1909
Walter von Hueck: Adelslexikon , Vol. 1–16 (A – Z), German Aristocratic Archive Foundation, edited under the supervision of the German Nobility Law Committee, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1972–2005, name index K.
Georg Freiherr von Frölichsthal: The nobility of the Habsburg monarchy in the 19th and 20th centuries', index to his genealogies , Degener-Verlag, 2008, 362 p. Name index (Koc – Kogerer).
Peter Frank-Döfering: Nobility Lexicon of the Austrian Empire 1804–1918 , Herder, Freiburg 1989
Erich Prokopowitsch: The nobility in the Bukowina , Südostdeutscher Verlag, Munich 1983
"Bukovinian Post", September 11, 1906
"Bukovinian News," September 11, 1906
"New Free Press", September 11, 1906
Wiener Zeitung, September 11, 1906

personal data
SURNAME	Kochanowski from Stawczan, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kochanowski Freiherr von Stawczan, Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 17, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tarnopoly
DATE OF DEATH	September 10, 1906
Place of death	Chernivtsi

[1] "Monthly sheet of the Heraldisch-Genealogischen Verein" Adler "", Vol. 3, printed by Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1891, p. 388.

[2] Official part. In: Wiener Zeitung , No. 151/1873, July 1, 1873, p. 1, bottom left. - The place name is Polish Stawczany and the same Ukrainian. Since the place name in the expression “ze Stawczan” has to be in the genitive , this is an indication that the German form was only formed by replacing the Polish “ze” with “von”, regardless of the actual name of the place. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz

[3] Erich Prokopowitsch: The nobility in the Bukowina , Südostdeutscher Verlag, Munich 1983, p. 136.

[4] Peter Frank-Döfering: Adelslexikon des Österreichischen Kaisertums 1804–1918 , Verlag Herder, Freiburg 1989, p. 367.

[5] "Bukowiner Post", September 11, 1906; Bukovinian News, September 11, 1906; "Wiener Zeitung", September 11, 1906; Wiener Zeitung, September 11, 1906.

[6] City judge and mayor of Czernowitz 1780-1914 ( Memento from May 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

[7] ttp://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=bur&date=19060911&zoom=33

[8] "Bukowinaer Post", No. 797, Sunday, January 29, 1899, p. 4.

[9] Hof- und Staats-Handbuch der Austro-Hungarian Monarchy , kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1902, p. 841.