Franz von Falkenhayn

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Franz Graf von Falkenhayn
Grave monument in Inzersdorf an der Traisen

Franz Graf von Falkenhayn (born November 17, 1827 in Vienna ; † September 7, 1898 at Gut Ottenschlag ) was an Austrian landowner , politician and forester .

biography

He came from the old Naumburg noble family Falkenhayn and was the son of the kuk general of the cavalry Eugen Graf von Falkenhayn (1792-1853) and the star cross lady Karoline Countess Colloredo-Wallsee (1802-1835).

Falkenhayn was the landlord on his parents' Ottenschlag and on Walpersdorf . He was a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece , a knight of the Order of the Iron Crown, first class, kuk chamberlain , secret councilor and lieutenant colonel . He was also President of the Austrian Society of the Red Cross . From 1865 to 1871 he was a member of the conservative large estates in the Lower Austrian state parliament , in 1867 briefly a member of the Reichsrat and then a hereditary member of the manor , the upper house of the Reichsrat. As chairman of the regional forest research center , co-founder and long-time vice-president of the Lower Austrian Forestry School Association and President of the Lower Austrian Forestry Association, he made a name for himself beyond the state's borders and received numerous foreign honors.

In his first marriage, Falkenhayn married on May 24, 1854 in Munich Eleonore Princess of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Wallerstein (* May 2, 1834 in Munich, † July 13, 1856 in Vienna), the daughter of Prince Karl of Oettingen-Oettingen Seyfriedsberg Castle (1796–1871) and Julia Countess von Dietrichstein-Proskau-Leslie (1807–1883) from the house of the imperial princes of Dietrichstein zu Nikolsburg .

Princess Eleonore died after the birth of her only child Moriz (1856-after 1930), the last bearer of this family's name and hereditary member of the Austrian manor house. In his second marriage, Falkenhayn married on March 3, 1861, also in Munich, her sister Anna, Princess of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Wallerstein (born August 30, 1840 in Munich, † October 29, 1903 in Rittersfeld , St. Pölten district ).

From this marriage came their daughter Maria Julia (1865–1956), who later became general director of the Missionary Sisters of St. Mary, founded by her predecessor Maria Teresia Ledóchowska . Petrus Claver . Maria Julia was buried two days after her death on May 31, 1956 in the Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome.

literature

  • Roman Freiherr von Procházka : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian noble families , page 89, Verlag Degener & Co, Neustadt (Aisch) 1973
  • Biographical data of Franz von Falkenhayn . In: Niederösterreichische Landtagdirektion (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch des NÖ Landtag: 1861–1921. Lower Austria Landtag Directorate, St. Pölten, print: ISBN 3-85006-166-3 (as of January 1, 2005). Online version: PDF, 843 kB

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Friedrich: Centralblatt for the entire forestry, at the same time organ for the forestry experimental system . 24th year 1898. Verlag der kk Hofbuchhandlung Wilhelm Frick, Vienna 1898, p. 452ff
  2. ^ Albrecht Weiland: The Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome and its grave monuments. Volume I , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1988, ISBN 3-451-20882-2 , p. 307 f.
personal data
SURNAME Falkenhayn, Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Falkenhayn, Franz Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian landowner and politician, member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1898
Place of death Ottenschlag (Lower Austria)