Haller (family)
The Haller family was a well-known patrician dynasty of German descent from Krakow who played an important role in the history of Poland and Galicia from the 15th to the 20th century.
Sons of the sex
Jan Haller
Franciszek Haller
Franz ( Franciszek ) Haller (* around 1485 in Cracow, † 1527 there) was a town clerk and bookseller.
He was born the son of Johann Haller and studied at the Jagiellonian University , where he received his master's degree in 1515 . After further studies at the universities of Prague and Bologna , he returned to his hometown around 1522 as a doctor of medicine and philosophy and became town clerk of Krakow. He did not continue his father's publishing activities, but worked as a bookseller until his death and obtained important works from the ideas of the Reformation , for which he was prosecuted by the Krakow bishop. He died during a plague epidemic. His brother Stefan was a Kraków merchant and died with his wife Katharina nee Langk of the plague in 1543. Another brother was Stanislaus .
Stefan Haller
Stefan Haller (* around 1535 in Kraków, † 1592 ibid) was a merchant and member of the Kraków city council .
Stefan Haller was born the son of Franz Haller. At the age of three he lost his parents and was brought up by his uncles Stanislaus Haller and Johann Lembock. In 1551 he received the citizenship of his hometown and was allowed to inherit. When he was still a minor, he married the wealthy heiress Margareta from the Gutteter patrician family against the wishes of his tutors and the family . With the support of these relatives, Stefan became a councilor in 1560, although he was notorious in the city as a participant in numerous brawls. As a councilor he was very active and supervised the reparations of the city walls. He was very wealthy and a partner in two large trading companies with ties to Hungary and Silesia, the Gutteter trading house and the Haller & Heldt company. Due to a long-standing legal dispute with the city official Tlokinski, which Haller lost (he accused Tlokinski of bribery and embezzlement of city funds), he was deposed as councilor by King Stefan I ( Stephan Báthory ) in 1579.
Jozef Antoni Haller
Józef Antoni Haller (* around 1725 in Cracow, † 1785 there) was Cracow's richest merchant and royal commercial councilor .
Haller was married to Marcjanna Laskiewicz , the heir to an old patrician family. In the history of the family, she was the first woman to come from a Polish family.
Józef Antoni Haller was a specialist in the trade in cloth, spices and tropical fruits, which he imported via Trieste and delivered to various farms of the magnates throughout Poland. Haller owned three houses and three shops in Krakow. In his marriage he had four sons and three daughters, for whom he created the Hallersche Compagnie Foundation in 1784 : each shareholder had to leave his share in the company for ten years before he could withdraw it in installments. The company's assets in 1799 amounted to 466,210 złoty (today's monetary value around € 40 million), not including the estates, because it was at this time that the Hallers began to quit the trade to become landowners. Józef's third son Martin Aloys , married to Petronella Bartsch , received from Emperor Franz II on August 1, 1795 after the Third Partition of Poland, the hereditary Austrian nobility with the predicate Edler Haller von Hallenburg . This name, also written Haller de Hallenburg in Polish historiography , became the name of the family from then on.
Józef Haller von Hallenburg (the elder)
Józef Haller von Hallenburg (* 1783 in Krakow, † December 3, 1850 there) was landowner and Senate President of the Free City of Krakow.
Józef was the son of the first ennobled Haller, Martin Aloys , and his wife Petronella nee. Bartsch. He spoke six languages and studied law at the Jagellon University. After graduating, he became a civil servant in the Austrian administration of Krakow and continued this career even while the city was part of the Duchy of Warsaw . From 1818 to 1820 Józef undertook the usual educational trip across Europe. After returning to Krakow, he was elected Senator of the Free City of Krakow in 1833 . As such, he worked out new statutes for the local fire insurance company and savings bank. On February 26, 1836 he was elected Senate President of the Free City by the residents (the envoys ) of Austria, Prussia and Russia, who were guarantor powers in Krakow, and held office as such until 1839. Haller tried to save the independence of the Free City and had to carry out many measures ordered by the guaranteeing powers, which suffered from its popularity with the population. During his reign, Cracow developed a lot of building activity, especially in the maintenance of the city's numerous architectural monuments.
His marriage to Elzbieta Gorczynska resulted in four sons and a daughter. The two famous generals Józef and Stanisław descend from the sons Henryk and Władysław .
Józef Haller von Hallenburg (d. J.)
See Józef Haller von Hallenburg
Stanisław Haller from Hallenburg
Stanisław Haller von Hallenburg (born April 26, 1872 on the Polanka Hallera family estate near Krakow, † 1940 in Charkow ) was a landowner, general, politician and publicist .
Stanislaw was the son of Wladyslaw Haller (see above) and his wife Lucyna nee. Urbańska and cousin of General Józef. The father was a member of the Austrian Reichsrat and a landowner. Stanislaw put the Matura -Examen 1892 in Bielsko from, appeared as one year old in the Imperial Army , and decided in 1894, a career officer to become. He enrolled at the Vienna War Academy , which he graduated in 1901. In the next few years Haller u. a. Battalion commander, officer in the general staff and finally as major and later lieutenant colonel , chief of staff of the Krakow Fortress from 1912 to 1914. In 1914 he did not, like his cousin Józef, ask for transfer to the Polish legions, but instead remained the kuk black and yellow flag loyal to the last moment. In 1916 he became the commander of an artillery regiment. In 1917, promoted to colonel , he commanded an artillery brigade on the Italian front until 1918. After the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, he returned to Krakow and joined the Polish army, which appointed him deputy commander of Krakow. On January 1, 1920 he was appointed Brigadier General on the General Staff. As such, he and Józef Piłsudski created the operational plans for the Kiev campaign. During the Soviet counterattack, Haller commanded the 6th Army and was promoted to division general with the anciency of 1919 . After the war and Piłsudski's resignation in 1923, Haller took over his position as Chief of Staff and held it for a year and a half, which considerably worsened his relations with the Marshal, who resented any cooperation with the "party government". In 1925 Haller asked to leave, which he received, but a year later he took over the position of chief of staff of the associations loyal to the government during the Piłsudski May coup . After the defeat of the government troops, he was retired and occupied himself with the management of his Polanka Hallera estate until 1939, but also came out with two polemical books against Piłsudski (1926). After the outbreak of World War II , he volunteered for the army, but received no response.
In September 1939 Haller went to Lemberg , where he was arrested by the NKVD and taken to the Starobilsk camp. Probably in December 1940 he was shot dead by the NKVD in Kharkov.
The Hallers after 1945
After the last world war, the family dispersed around the world, some of them lived in Australia . In 2005, many Hallers (who are now Haller de Hallenburg ) are working in their old homeland again, as university professors or owners of companies, especially in Krakow and Katowice .