Franz Folliot de Crenneville

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Franz Folliot de Crenneville, lithograph by Vinzenz Katzler , 1862
Coat of arms of the Counts Folliot de Crenneville
Altmünster cemetery - funerary inscription with title and achievements of Count Folliot de Crenneville-Poutet
Altmünster cemetery - grave of Count Franz Folliot de Crenneville-Poutet

Franz Maria Johann Count Folliot von Crenneville , since the name unification in 1887 Count Folliot de Crenneville-Poutet (born March 22, 1815 in Ödenburg , † June 22, 1888 in Gmunden ), was Austrian field military officer and owner of Infantry Regiment No. 75, Privy Council , Adjutant General of the Emperor and Chamberlain .

biography

The son of Louis Charles Folliot de Crenneville joined the naval college in Venice , became a lieutenant in the Kaiserjäger regiment in 1831 , captain in 1837 , chamberlain to Emperor Ferdinand in 1841 and rose to colonel and adjutant wing until 1848. In 1849 he led a grenadier battalion, at the head of which he fought in the campaign against Piedmont and against Garibaldi during the raids in Romagna , then the Count Kinsky infantry regiment .

The officer was appointed major general and brigadier in Tuscany on March 11, 1850 , and then on March 1, 1853 also commander of the occupation forces and the city and port of Livorno . During the Crimean War, the Count represented Emperor Franz Joseph I at Napoleon III as military representative in 1855 . in Paris the Austrian interests.

On March 27, 1857 he was appointed field marshal lieutenant and division general in Cluj-Napoca ( Transylvania ) and Croatia . In 1859 he distinguished himself at Montebello and Solferino , but was seriously wounded, as a result entrusted with the management of the presidential office of the army high command, further promoted in October 1859 to the secret council and first adjutant general of the emperor, as which he also the presidium of the central chancellery and the lecture had on all personal matters of the army. In 1860 he became the owner of Infantry Regiment No. 75.

With his appointment as Feldzeugmeister on January 4, 1867 (real FZM on January 1, 1870), the officer, who had earned various army reforms, concluded his military career. In that year the monarch entrusted him with the office of chief treasurer, in which function he also implemented the reorganization of the imperial collections. At his suggestion, after the two court museums were built, all art collections were combined in these buildings. He also took care of the training of capable young local copper engravers and medalists and the award of travel grants to young artists. The count was the recipient of numerous awards, including a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (1867) and Chancellor (1870) and holder of the Grand Cross of the Leopold Order (1860).

After his retirement on April 1, 1884, he spent his old age in his mountain castle near Gmunden and turned his interest to the history of this city and the promotion of the artistic sense of its trade. After his wife Hermine, daughter of Count Hermann von Chotek von Chotkow and Wognin, had died, the death of his best friend, the cavalry general Karl Count Bigot de St. Quentin (1884), and the passing of the elderly mother Victoria, the last baroness von Poutet (1789-1882), whose name Folliot added to his own with imperial approval (1887), the last years of his life.

Since the name association in 1887 with that of the family of the imperial barons of Poutet, the family called itself Folliot de Crenneville-Poutet .

Franz Folliot de Crenneville-Poutet and his wife are buried in the Altmünster cemetery on Lake Traunsee .

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  1. ^ A b Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: "German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relationship", 3rd volume A – Z, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1854, p. 123
  2. ↑ a b Neue Deutsche Biographie Volume 5 (1961), p. 287
  3. ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk Generalität 1816–1918, Austrian State Archives, 1907, p. 48
  4. ↑ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Volume 48 (1904), pp. 614–616
  5. ↑ a b Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Volume 48 (1904), pp. 614–616
personal data
SURNAME Folliot de Crenneville, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Folliot von Crenneville, Franz Maria Johann; Folliot de Crenneville-Poutet, Franz Maria Johann Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian general and art patron
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Ödenburg
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1888
Place of death Gmunden