Hans Hoyos-Sprinzenstein

Hans Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (born May 5, 1923 in Horn , † December 20, 2010 in Horn ; full name: Johannes Nepomuk Felix Franz Maria Rudolf Pius Gregor Hoyos-Sprinzenstein ) was an Austrian forester and large landowner .

family

Hoyos-Sprinzenstein came from the Spanish noble family Hoyos , who immigrated from Spain to Lower Austria in the 16th century . He was the son of the politician Rudolf Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (1884-1972) and his wife Marie Karoline, nee Hartig (1893-1967; until 1919 Countess von). His great-grandfather was Count Ernst Karl von Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (1830–1903). He was unmarried and childless.

Life

Hans Hoyos-Sprinzenstein attended the Horn Gymnasium , did military service from 1942 to 1945 and, after the end of the war, studied agriculture and forestry at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. After graduating, he worked in the management of family estates in Lower Austria. After the death of his father in 1972 he inherited the land and forest estates Drosendorf , Horn, Raan and Rosenburg . A particular concern for him was the preservation of the castles belonging to these properties, which he had extensively renovated.

He has held numerous public offices, inter alia as vice president of the Federation of agriculture and forestry holdings in Austria, as chairman of the association Lower Austrian forest enterprises, as a member of the Forestry Committee of the Conference of Presidents of the country Austrian Chambers of Agriculture and the State Farmers 'Council of the Lower Austrian Farmers' Federation .

Honors

In 1978 he was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece . In 1993 the city of Horn granted him honorary citizenship.

literature

• Michael Salvator Habsburg-Lothringen: The Hoyos Family. History and personalities. In: Nobility in Transition. Politics, culture, denomination 1500–1700. Catalog of the Lower Austrian State Exhibition Rosenburg 1990, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3854600194 , pp. 565–576.
• Hans Hoyos: Horner castle lords from the Hoyos family. In: Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Höbarthmuseum and Museum Association in Horn. Horn 1980, p. 206ff.
• Hans Hoyos: My life in Horn . In: Erich Rabl, Anton Pontesegger: Memories of Horn . Horn (Museumsverein in Horn) 2001, ISBN 3-902168-00-5 , pp. 65–114.
• Horn mourns the loss of Dipl.-Ing. Hans (Imperial Count) Hoyos. In: Horner community news. No. 2, 2011, p. 30. Online version as PDF.
• Peter Melichar: > 200 hectares. Large estate in Lower Austria in the first half of the century . In: Peter Melichar , Ernst Langthaler , Stefan Eminger (eds.): Lower Austria in the 20th century. Volume 2: Economy, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2008, pp. 575–632. ISBN 978-3-205-78246-9
• Mourning for Hans Hoyos Niederösterreichische Nachrichten of December 29, 2010.
• Obituary in the farmers' newspaper from February 1, 2011, with picture .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Nobility Repeal Act 1919 .
2. ↑ Genealogy of the Hoyos family.
3. ^ Mourning for Hans Hoyos Niederösterreichische Nachrichten of December 29, 2010.
4. ↑ Horn mourns the loss of Dipl.-Ing. Hans (Imperial Count) Hoyos. In: Horner community news. No. 2, 2011, p. 30. Online version as PDF. ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.