Baltazzi

Baltazzi was the name of a Greco-Austrian family. The Baltazzis came from Smyrna, where they ran a bank, and later they settled in Vienna. Theodor Baltazzi had won the favor of Sultan Abdülmecid I as a banker in the Ottoman Empire around 1850 . As a financial advisor, he became wealthy from the tolls for the Galata Bridge in Constantinople. He and his English wife, Eliza Sarell, gave birth to a total of ten children.

The wealthy Baltazzi family had found acceptance into the highest social circles due to the extraordinary riding talent of their four sons, Aristide, Alexander, Hector and Henri (Heinrich). They were welcome guests and participants on Europe's turf fields. The riders enjoyed the sympathy of the British heir to the throne Eduard VII and the riding enthusiast Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary , with whom they were introduced by her sister Marie in Bavaria on the occasion of a hunt for Belvoir Castle . Alexander and Aristide jointly owned the famous racing horse Kisbér . They won the English Epsom Derby in 1876 and became known as the Baltazzi brothers. Her brother Hector, famous as an obstacle rider and by far Austria 's greatest amateur jockey of the 19th century , lived in Paris from around 1895 until the beginning of the war in 1914, from where he had to return to Austria; he died in Vienna while visiting the Jockey Club for Austria .

Even Helene Vetsera accompanied her happy brothers on the hunts and was among other participant in the imperial-royal hunting parties on Castle Gödöllő , the Hungarian hunting residence of Empress Sissi. Despite Helene's marriage to the Austro-Hungarian diplomat Baron Albin Vetsera in 1864 and their good contacts with the aristocratic society in Vienna, the Baltazzis did not succeed in advancing to the "First Society" of the high aristocracy. After the death of Helene's daughter Mary Vetsera on January 30, 1889 in Mayerling , the Baltazzi family fell out of favor with the emperor and the high nobility. The brothers were accused of being involved in the tragedy in which Crown Prince Rudolf and her niece Mary were killed, and they were followed by the police for months. Helene had lost her reputation. Thanks to the intercession of Prince Edward VII , only the brothers could still benefit from their fame as equestrians. Before the First World War, the Baltazzis sold their properties in Constantinople. After the war they finally lost their possessions in the Czech Republic, where Aristides had founded a stud in Napajedla in 1886 .

people

• Alexander Baltazzi (* 1850 in Vienna; † November 24, 1914)
• Aristide Baltazzi (born January 13, 1853 in Constantinople , † October 24, 1914 in Vienna )
• Evelyne Baltazzi (1854–1901) ∞ Georg Graf Stockau (1837–1922). Together with his brother-in-law Alexander Baltazzi , he picked up the body of his niece Mary Vetsera from Mayerling .
• Charlotte Baltazzi (born June 17, 1856 in Constantinople, † May 15, 1875 in Venice), married to Johann Ladislaus Ludwig Georg Maria Gobert Graf von Erdödy
• Hector Baltazzi (born September 21, 1851 (possibly 1854?) In Therarphia near Constantinople; † January 2, 1916 in Vienna), racing rider, father of the conductor Clemens Krauss
• Heinrich Baltazzi (born August 5, 1858 in Therapia, Constantinople, † February 17, 1929 at Leesdorf Castle near Baden )
• Helene Vetsera (* 1847 in Marseille as Helene Baltazzi ; † February 1, 1925 in Vienna)

literature

• Yearbook of the Jockey Club for Austria . Course of publication: proven 1903-1932. Verlag des Jockey-Club, Vienna, ZDB -ID 2209526-3 .
• Victor Silberer : The Jockei Club for Austria. On the founding history of the club . Beck, Vienna 1917.
• Heinrich Baltazzi-Scharschmid, Hermann Swistun: The Baltazzi-Vetsera families in imperial Vienna. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1980, ISBN 3-205-07160-3 . (With family tree).
• Haderer, Stefan: The Baltazzis. A family's rise and fall in the Habsburg Empire . Royalty Digest Quarterly 2/2019. Falköping 2019, ISSN 1653-5219
• Haderer Stefan : The Baltazzis: From the Bosporus to Imperial Vienna Wiener Zeitung, February 29, 2020 online

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stefan Haderer: The Baltazzis. A family's rise and fall in the Habsburg Empire . In: Ted Rosvall (ed.): Royalty Digest Quarterly . June 25, 2019, ISSN  1653-5219 , pp. 15-16.
2. ^ Stefan Haderer: The Baltazzis. A family's rise and fall in the Habsburg Empire . In: Ted Rosvall (ed.): Royalty Digest Quarterly . June 25, 2019, ISSN  1653-5219 , pp. 15-24.
3. ↑ Alexander Baltazzi †. In:  Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung , year 1914, No. 82/1914, November 29, 1914 (XXXV. Year), p. 1014 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
4. ^ Victor Silberer:  Hector Baltazzi †. In:  Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung , year 1916, No. 2/1916, January 9, 1916 (XXXVII. Year), p. 19 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
5. ^ Stefan Haderer: The Baltazzis. A family's rise and fall in the Habsburg Empire . In: Ted Rosvall (ed.): Royalty Digest Quarterly . June 25, 2019, ISSN  1653-5219 , pp. 15-24.
6. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) † Aristide Baltazzi. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 18021/1914, October 25, 1914, p. 13, center right. (Online at ANNO ). ,
   Aristide Baltazzi †. In:  Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung , year 1914, No. 78/1914, September 1, 1914 (XXXV. Year), p. 966 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
7. ↑ Gerd Holler: "Bratfisch whistled wonderfully" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1980 ( online - Apr. 7, 1980 ).

Remarks

1. ^ Jockey Club for Austria , founded on December 28, 1866 in Pressburg . - See: Jean Paul Bled, Marie-Therese Pitner (translator): Crown Prince Rudolf . Böhlau, Vienna (inter alia) 2006, ISBN 3-205-05238-2 , p. 150, online .
   The club restaurant was located in the house Augustinerstraße  8, Vienna Inner City , which was destroyed in 1945 by bombs Philipphof .

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