Friedrich von Wilczek

Friedrich Count von Wilczek

Friedrich Graf von Wilczek (born July 19, 1790 in Vienna ; † February 3, 1861 there ) was an Austrian civil servant and politician.

Life

career

• 1813 Hof designed by the general court chamber
• 1814 State Council official
• 1816 secretary at the court chamber
• 1819 Gubernialrat and first head of the provisional gradient management (= tax authority) in Tyrol and Vorarlberg
• 1821 convened to the court chamber and councilor
• June 19, 1824 Vice President of the Gubernium for Tyrol and Vorarlberg
• 1825–1837 governor and governor of Tyrol and Vorarlberg
• May 22, 1837 second President of the Court Chamber
• November 25, 1840 President of the General Accounting Directorate in Vienna, where he made a special contribution to the statistical recording of the monarchy .

Political activity

Friedrich Graf von Wilczek worked as governor and governor for the economic and social improvement of the country. He especially pushed the road construction and promoted agriculture by founding an agricultural association (later state culture council ). In the socio-political area, he founded the institution for the deaf and dumb in Brixen , the “private insane asylum” in Hall (today the Hall State Hospital ) and the “Alle Laste” birthing, finding and midwifery institution in Trento .

Count von Wilczek also had to carry out the expulsion of the Zillertal Protestants decided by the Estates Congress , even if he himself was not convinced of the correctness of the decision. This was also expressed in his critical attitude towards the Tyrolean estates .

Wilczek retired on May 27, 1860. For his services he was of I. Emperor Franz Josef with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Iron Crown and the Order of Leopold excellent.

family

Friedrich Graf von Wilczek was married to Franziska de Paula Countess von Chorinsky and von Ledske (1798–1863), daughter of Count Ignaz Karl von Chorinsky and sister of Gustav Ignaz von Chorinsky . Her son Heinrich Wilhelm Joseph von Wilczek (1819–1884) allied himself with Countess Malwina von Stainlein-Saalenstein, daughter of the Bavarian ambassador Johann Gottlieb Eduard von Stainlein (1785–1833) and sister of the composer Ludwig von Stainlein .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Wilczek, Friedrich Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 56th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1888, p. 112 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Richard Schober: History of the Tyrolean Parliament in the 19th and 20th centuries (= publications of the Tyrolean State Archives. Vol. 4). Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 1984, ISBN 3-7030-0131-3 , pp. 519-520.

Web links

Commons : Governors of Tyrol  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Genealogical website about the person
2. ↑ The composer's obituary mentioning his relatives from the Wilczek family