Georg Thurn-Valsassina

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Georg Vincenz Duclas von Thurn and Valsassina-Como-Vercelli (born April 13, 1900 in Vienna , † March 4, 1967 in Taormina ) was a large Austrian landowner, hunter and conservationist.

Live and act

Georg Thurn-Valsassina came from the Austrian noble family Thurn and Valsassina . He was a great-grandson of the Imperial Feldzeugmeister Georg Anton Franz von Thurn und Valsassina .

His parents were Vinzenz Georg von Thurn-Valsassina and Adele, née Marchesa Tacoli. He attended a private elementary school, the Schottengymnasium in Vienna and the grammar school in Hollabrunn . In 1918 he started at the University of Vienna , a law degree , but moved as early as next year at the agricultural faculty of the German Technical University in Prague , where in 1922 he obtained the diploma examination.

He married Sophie Starhemberg , the sister of Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg . From 1923 Georg Thurn-Valsassina managed his parents' property in Waltsch , after the death of his father in 1928 he moved to the Hagenegg Castle in Eisenkappel .

Georg Thurn-Valsassina joined the Heimatschutz in 1929 , where he was appointed district manager in 1931 and district manager in 1932. He was also a member of the Association of Catholic Nobles . In May 1934 he became regional leader of the Heimwehr youth organization "Jung-Vaterland" and in August 1935 its deputy federal leader.

In authoritarian corporate state he was in April 1934 district leaders of the Patriotic Front (VF) in Eisenkappel. In 1934 he was also appointed federal youth leader and in this function was entrusted with the establishment of the state youth organization Österreichisches Jungvolk . He was also represented in the short-lived VF leadership council.

From November 1, 1934 to March 12, 1938 he was a member of the State Council , where he also acted as secretary.

During the reign of National Socialism , Thurn-Valsassina was imprisoned several times and deported to Dachau concentration camp in the summer of 1944 .

From 1945 to 1954 he held the position of provincial hunter of Carinthia . From 1965 to 1967 he was chairman of the Austrian Nature Conservation Union .

He campaigned for the protection of the endangered brown bear on his property in the Karawanken Mountains . He forbade his hunters to shoot brown bears because they too were entitled to a habitat.

Family-owned houses include Hagenegg Castle in Eisenkappel-Vellach and Bleiburg Castle . He is buried in the family grave in Bleiburg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Vincenz Duclas von Thurn-Valsassina-Como-Vercelli , Rodovid DE, accessed on February 2, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Gertrude Enderle-Burcel , Johannes Kraus: Christian - Ständisch - Authoritarian. Mandataries in the corporate state 1934–1938. Ed .: Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance and Austrian Society for Historical Source Studies, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-901142-00-2 , p. 246 f.
  3. ^ The leadership council of the VF. In:  Der Wiener Tag , July 15, 1936, p. 1 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / day.
  4. ↑ Thurn-Valsassina, Georg , Deutsches Jagd Lexikon, accessed on February 2, 2020.
  5. ↑ Reinhard Farkas: The nature protection association and the history of the nature protection movement. (PDF; 702 kB) In: Natur & Land: Journal of the Austrian Nature Conservation Union. Vol. 99, 2013, pp. 12-20.
  6. ↑ Obituary Georg Thurn-Valsassina (PDF; 1.16 MB) In: Natur & Land: Journal of the Austrian Nature Conservation Union. Vol. 53, 1967, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Thurn-Valsassina, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thurn and Valsassina-Como-Vercelli, Georg Vincenz Duclas von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian large landowner, hunter and conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1967
Place of death Taormina