Franz Seraph von Stadion

Franz Seraphicus Stadion, Count von Warthausen and Thannhausen (* July 27, 1806 in Vienna ; † June 8, 1853 ibid) was an Austrian administrative officer in Trieste , Galicia and Vienna, Fideikommissherr (sukz. 1846), Kk Chamberlain and Knight of the Order of Malta and as a politician was a conservative reformer.

Relatives

Graf Stadion comes from the old aristocratic family of the Stadion (noble family) , was a son of the then Foreign Minister and later Finance Minister Johann Philipp von Stadion and his wife Maria Anna, née Countess von Stadion (* Mainz , St. Peter September 17, 1777, † Vienna April 1, 1841) and had six siblings:

1. Joseph Philipp Eduard von Stadion (1797–1844), Eisenhüttengewerke, who, because of his inappropriate marriage to Konstanze Radowin von Rosenstern (1811–1861) according to the family statute, renounced the Bohemian entails, which according to the family convention of January 1, 1846 on the brother Franz Seraphicus passed over;
2. Friedrich Walther Wilderich von Stadion (1799–1870), Kk Hauptmann a. D. Professed Knight and Commander of the Sovereign Order of the Maltese in Diewitz;
3. Sophie Ludowika (* 1820 in Berlin), ⚭ 1820 Anton von Magni (s), Count of Strassnitz, on Eckersdorf;
4. Marie Charlotte Adelheid von Stadion (* 1804) ⚭ Karl Graf Lanckoronski, Kk Geimheimrat and chief treasurer in Vienna;
5. Christiane Therese Euphrosine (* 1805), who died unmarried;
6. Rudolph Joseph Philipp von Stadion (1808–1882), sukz. 1853, Kk privy councilor, first governor of Moravia, then in 1848 (last) Oberstburggraf zu Prague and provincial president in the Kingdom of Bohemia , who lived in Würzburg in 1850 and in Nuremberg in 1859 with Gisela, née Countess Hadik von Futak (1823–1890), divorced Baroness von Baillou , whose marriage was ecclesiastically annulled by Rome in 1859, was married.

Life path

From 1841 Franz Seraph Graf von Stadion was the imperial governor of the Austrian coastal region in Trieste , from 1846 to 1848 governor of Galicia , where on April 22, 1848 he had the "inheritance", the last remaining form of serfdom , repealed before that generally happened on September 7, 1848 in the Habsburg lands. After the October uprising of 1848, Stadion became Minister of the Interior and Education in the government of Felix zu Schwarzenberg . He was one of the co-authors of the imposed March constitution of 1849 and is considered the father of the liberal "Provisional Municipal Law" of 1849, which for the first time provided for hierarchical local administration, but was repealed by the New Year's Eve patent. On July 28, 1849, Stadion had to cede the interior department to Alexander von Bach and remained in the government as a minister with no portfolio .

literature

• Rudolf Hirsch : Franz Graf Stadion , Vienna 1861.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Stadion-Warthausen, Franz Seraph Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 37th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1878, pp. 1–22 ( digitized version ).
• Richard Charmatz:  Stadium, Franz Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 228-234.
• Rudolf Kiszling : Prince Felix zu Schwarzenberg - The political teacher of Emperor Franz Joseph. Hermann Böhlaus successor. G. mb H., Graz / Cologne 1952; on Franz Graf Stadion Text passages in the list of persons on page 239.
• Rudolph Mattausch: Franz Graf Stadion (1806–1853), in: New Austrian Biography from 1815: Great Austrians , Volume XIV, Zurich / Leipzig / Vienna 1960, pp. 62–73.
• Roman von Procházka : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian noble families , Neustadt an der Aisch, 1973, stadion line, page 305 f.
• Ralph Melville: Nobility and Revolution in Bohemia. Structural change in rule and society in Austria around the middle of the 19th century , Mainz 1998.
• Isabel Röskau-Rydel (Ed.): German History in Eastern Europe - Galizien Bukowina Moldau , Siedler Verlag Berlin, 1st edition 1999, Franz Graf Stadion, pages 88, 91 to 93 (in the section: The year 1848 revolution and counter-revolution), 98, 122 and 393.
• S. Lippert:  Stadion-Warthausen Franz Ser. Gf. from. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 69.

Web links

• Entry on Franz Seraph von Stadion in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Communal autonomy as a base of civil society: Local autonomy and the building of national culture in Bohemia in the 19th century (English, PDF, 94 KiB)