Anton Pace von Friedensberg

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Anton Graf Pace, Baron von Friedensberg

Anton Graf Pace, Freiherr von Friedensberg (* 14. November 1851 at Castle Thurn-gallstone at Holy Cross, County of Gorizia ; † 29. December 1923 in Vienna ) was an imperial  privy councilor , high Austrian administration officials, politicians, including State President of Bukovina , later member of the manor of the Austrian Imperial Council for life and author.

biography

Seat of the state government of Bukovina 1873–1905

The son of Karl Maria Philipp Graf Pace von Friedensberg passed his Abitur in 1870 and then studied law at the University of Graz . He entered the civil service in Krain in 1874 and became district captain of Loitsch in 1883 . Afterwards he served as ministerial secretary in the Ministry of the Interior, and in 1888 was councilor in Graz .

His short career in Bukovina began when he was transferred to the duchy in 1889, while at the same time being awarded the title and character of court counselor . As early as August 2, 1890 , he was in charge of the affairs of the sick state president Felix Freiherr Pino von Friedenthal , was subsequently appointed head of the state government on January 9, 1891, and as the new state president of the Duchy of Bukovina on August 1, 1891. He only held this office briefly. Influenced by German-speaking and Polish circles, Pace had begun to restrict the use of the Romanian language in administration and the judiciary. In spite of previous promises, he had also publicly opposed the Romanian national program of the Archbishop of Chernivtsi and Metropolitan of Bukowina and Dalmatia Sylvester Morariu-Andriewicz and his efforts for ecclesiastical autonomy. This led to the fact that, led by the chairman of the Romanian Conservative Party and governor of the Duchy Baron Alexander Wassilko von Serecki , the Bukovinian nobility, and also the Orthodox patriarch, stayed away from the ball festival given by the state president in February 1892. In the justification, Governor Wassilko Pace accused of incorrect social behavior. Although the two politicians had spoken out afterwards and settled the conflict, and even later remained in contact until the governor's sudden death, Pace could no longer be held because of his undiplomatic behavior and was recalled on May 17, 1892. Interestingly, he received honorary citizenship from the predominantly non-Romanian Czernowitz city ​​council.

Although Pace, unlike his successor Franz Freiherr von Krauss , who had been honored with a high order for his work as police chief, did not receive any honor when he left (a circumstance that attracted a lot of attention), the misfortune he suffered in his administrative career did not Cancellation. The Count was allowed to take up the position of Vice-President of the Supreme Audit Office in Vienna, was honored with the title of a Privy Councilor in 1897 and then moved to the Ministry of the Interior as Section Head in 1900, where he remained until his retirement in 1905.

Nonetheless, he was also politically and administratively involved afterwards. On December 27, 1909 he was appointed a member of the manor house of the Austrian Reichsrat for life and from 1911 to 1914 he was Vice-President of the Commission to Accelerate Legal Reform. For his work he was decorated with the Order of the Iron Crown 2nd Class (1898) and the Grand Cross of the Imperial Austrian Franz Joseph Order (1901).

Graf von Pace was considered a leading expert in the field of administrative law . He created a new legal system for the Ministry of the Interior and completely reworked Ernst Mayerhofer's six-volume “Handbook for Political Administration”. He was also closely connected to the Slovenian people and their literature from a very early age , thanks to his tutor Fran Levstik , a Slovenian poet, linguist and cultural politician. He was one of the best translators of the most famous Slovenian poet France Prešeren (Franz Preschern). Already in his youth as a high school student, Pace published the translation of a volume of poetry by the author into German (1869).

family

Anton was the son of Karl Maria Philipp Graf Pace Freiherr von Friedensberg (* February 24, 1821 in Thurn-Gallenstein; † May 30, 1884 there) and of Kamilla Freiin Schweiger von Lerchenfeld (* January 11, 1822 in Rupertshof; † 25. June 1899 in Thurn-Gallenstein). He married Marie Freiin von Winckler (born December 31, 1864 in Gorizia, † April 24, 1905 in Vienna). The couple had two children, Melitta Maria Kamilla, Countess Pace (born March 24, 1891 in Czernowitz † April 28, 1942 in Graz ) and Carlo Maria Alfred (born December 10, 1892 in Vienna).

literature

  • A. Cornaro:  Pace von Friedensberg Anton Gf .. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 279.
  • Justus Perthes: Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Graeflichen Häuser, Part B, Perthes, 114th year 1941, p. 355.
  • Heraldic-Genealogical Association "Adler"., Kais. Kings Heraldic Society "Adler": "Monthly sheet of the Heraldisch-Genealogischen Verein Adler", Volume 4, Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1900, p. 550
  • Mihai-Ştefan Ceauşu, Chernivtsi, 1892. In: Wladimir Fischer (Hrsg.), Waltraud Heindl: Spaces and Borders in Austria-Hungary 1867-1918: cultural-scientific approaches, Francke Verlag, 2010, ISBN 3-772-08239-4 , p . 409, here p. 33 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.slovenska-biografija.si/oseba/sbi400121/
  2. ↑ a b Neue Freie Presse of December 28, 1897, p. 7
  3. ↑ Mihai-Ştefan Ceauşu, Czernowitz, 1892. In: Wladimir Fischer (Hrsg.), Waltraud Heindl: Spaces and Borders in Austria-Hungary 1867-1918: cultural-scientific approaches , Francke Verlag, 2010, ISBN 3-772-08239-4 , P. 409, here p. 33 ff.
  4. ↑ Laibacher Wochenblatt of February 27, 1892, p. 4
  5. ↑ Mihai-Ştefan Ceauşu in: The historical development of the Romanian political parties in Bukovina and their most important representatives in the Reichsrat and Landtag (1861-1914), Bucharest 2011, p. 99 ff.
  6. ↑ Bukowinaer Rundschau No. 1141, from Thursday, May 26, 1892, p. 3
  7. ^ Wiener Zeitung of January 7, 1924, p. 3
  8. ↑ a b link to ÖBL
  9. ↑ http://www.geneall.net/W/per_page.php?id=1817965


personal data
SURNAME Pace von Friedensberg, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pace von Friedensberg, Anton Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian administrative officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Thurn-Gallenstein
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1923
Place of death Vienna