Franz Conrad (politician)

Franz Conrad (* 1797 in Leschkirch , Kingdom of Hungary ; † December 15, 1846 in Vienna ) was a Transylvanian politician, diplomat, court agent of the royal Transylvanian court chancellery in Vienna and authorized representative of the Saxon nation.

Life

Franz Conrad, a descendant of the Leschkirch royal judge Michael Brekner von Brukenthal, campaigned in Vienna for the German colonization issue in Transylvania . In a sense, it was the port of call for the Swabians who traveled on the Danube via Vienna to Transylvania. As early as March 27, 1846, he wrote to Stephan Ludwig Roth : “You and I will only reap rebukes before hand, here I take a lot on myself and endure a lot for the good cause.” On September 25, he lets his friend know: “I am giving you just a little proof that I appear without hesitation in the fact that His Imperial Highness, Archduke Ludwig, as well as His Excellency Baron Josika (Court Chancellor) know from my mouth that I share cause and effect with you, that I also recapitulated everything in the last audience there and here, pronounced myself more warmly for you than I ever expected from my friend. ”But soon Roth would no longer be able to enjoy this backing, because Franz Conrad suddenly on December 15, 1846 died in Vienna. On January 20, 1847, Roth wrote deeply shaken to Baron Friedrich Soterius von Sachsenheim , a nephew of Franz Conrad, who worked at the Transylvanian Court Chancellery in Vienna: “I feel so crushed and bent by your mourning message that I cannot get into it Feel able to send a condolence letter neither to the widow nor to the orphan (meaning the daughter Marie). It is impossible for me. What I lost in the Blessed One, you can, the family may guess - but I alone can know, I alone can feel it. I have a bleeding heart at the front and a now bare back at the back. It was my shield - the bridge of mediation for my purposes in life - the gentle, bright sun of my enthusiasm: the sweet images of the past were attached to it, the blossoming hopes of the future to it. It's over. Tell the widow what you want, tell Marie what you like, to comfort her, to keep her going - I can't, can't. I can only cry and complain. If I look at this death for myself, for you, for the family, for our nation, for our class and our church, for so many private individuals and corporations, for the entire fatherland - I cannot find any words of consolation, as consolation is only contempt of his worth, his merits, his love and the respect he owes him [...] Assure the poor and so small family that as long as I will live and breathe, if it is of any value to them, I will never stop with mine Hearts of belonging to them [...] "

Literature (selection)

• Friedrich Schuller: Contributions to the external history of the hereditary count of the seven chairs. In: Archives of the Association for Transylvanian Cultural Studies ( Sibiu ), NF, XXI. Vol., Issue 2/1887, pp. 313-366.
• Wilhelm Bruckner: master list of Brekner family of Brukenthal. Hermannstadt (club archive), 1910, p. 34 ff.
• Georg Adolf Schuller: The old church registers as sources of our cultural history. In: Kirchliche Blätter (Hermannstadt), 1906/1907, pp. 777–780, 791–796, 813–815.
• Georg Adolf Schuller: About the immigration of Württemberg people into the Saxony region in the years 1845–1848. In: Landwirtschaftliche Blätter (Hermannstadt), 50/1929, pp. 503–505.
• Georg Adolf Schullerus: Immigration of Württemberg people in the 18th century. In: Kirchliche Blätter (Hermannstadt), 1926/3825, pp. 467–469.
• Gustav Kisch: Leschkirch. In: Archives of the Society for Transylvanian Cultural Studies, NF (Hermannstadt), XXXIII. Vol (1905), pp. 143-144, 279; XLV. Vol. (1929), pp. 127, 291.
• Hermann Hienz: Sources on folklore and local history of the Transylvanian Saxons. Vol. IS Hirzel, Leipzig 1940, p. 217.
• Max Miller: causes and goals of the Swabian emigration. In: Württembergische Vierteljahreshefte für Landeskunde (Stuttgart), 42 (1936), p. 202.
• Rotraut Sutter: Transylvanian Saxons in Austria's past and present. Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 1976, ISBN 3-7030-0031-7 (biography Franz Conrad, pp. 26-27).
• Michael Kroner : "Bright sun of enthusiasm." 200 years since the birth of Franz Conrad, the friend and colleague of Stephan Ludwig Roth. In: Siebenbürgische Zeitung (Munich), 47/15, September 30, 1997, p. 7.