Egbert Belcredi

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Egbert Belcredi

Egbert Graf Belcredi (born September 2, 1816 in Ingrowitz , Moravia , Austria-Hungary ; † October 11, 1894 in Lösch near Brünn ) was an Austrian officer (kk  Rittmeister ), member of the House of Representatives of the Austrian Imperial Council and a Czech patriot.

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The Belcredi family came from Lombardy and was elevated to the bohemian hereditary nobility by Maria Theresa in 1769 . Belcredi was a large landowner and entertainer in Moravia. He owned the lordships of Lösch / Líšeň near Brno , now part of the Moravian capital, and Ingrowitz / Jimramov (both castles came back into Belcredi's possession after 1989) and Bosenitz / Tvarožná . The son of Count Eduard Belcredi (* July 16, 1786; † September 5, 1838) and Countess Maria von Fünfkirchen (1790-1860) had two sisters and two brothers and married on March 7, 1848 Countess Christiane von Nostitz and Rokitnitz . He was the older brother of Count Richard Belcredi (1823-1902), 1865-1867 top politician in the Austrian Empire .

Egbert Belcredi was a staunch advocate of the Bohemian constitutional law, which in Cisleithanien was completely superimposed by the national legislation because the German Bohemians and German Moravians in alliance with the other Germans of the western half of Austria-Hungary were against the countries of the Bohemian Crown from the legislation in Vienna to detach.

He was one of the most influential conservative politicians in Moravia in the second half of the 19th century. Already in late March he belonged to the class opposition and was in close contact with his cousin Baron Viktor Franz von Andrian-Werburg . He was a member of the Moravian Estates and the Moravian Landtag in 1848 and again from 1861 until his death in 1894. From 1868 to 1894 he was President of the Matice Moravská , an important scientific association.

In 1860 Egbert Belcredi was one of the founders and co-owners of the Viennese conservative daily Das Vaterland - newspaper for the Austrian monarchy , of which he was in charge from 1888 until his death. In 1877 he was President of the first general Austrian Catholic Congress in Vienna. From 1879 to 1891, in the period before the introduction of universal and equal male suffrage, Belcredi was a member of the Imperial Council for the Moravian landowners according to curia law .

Belcredi wrote diaries that were transcribed in the 1970s by the Brno historian Antonín Okač and are currently being edited by the Commission for Modern History of Austria, founded around 1900 under the direction of Lothar Höbelt .

He was an honorary member of the Catholic student association KÖStV Austria Vienna .

literature

  • Ralph Melville: The Moravian politician Count Egbert Belcredi (1816–1894) and the post-feudal reorganization of Austria. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1988.
  • Jiří Malíř: Egbert Graf Belcredi - The noble politician in the field of tension of nationalism. In: Etudes Danubiennes , Paris 2003, ISSN  0769-3656 , vol. 19, No. 1/2, p. 101 ff.
  • Lothar Höbelt, Johannes Kalwoda, Jiří Malíř (eds.): The diaries of Count Egbert Belcredi 1850–1894. Based on preliminary editorial work by Antonín Okáč. (= Publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria, Vol. 114), Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-20067-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Otmar Freiherr von Aretin:  Belcredi, Richard Graf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , pp. 26-28 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Data from the website of the Commission for Modern History of Austria
  3. ↑ Information about the newspaper on the website AustriaN Newspapers Online - Historical Austrian newspapers and magazines of the Austrian National Library
personal data
SURNAME Belcredi, Egbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Belcredi, Egbert Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer and member of parliament
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingrowitz , Moravia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1894
Place of death Extinguish near Brno