Helene Vetsera

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Helene Vetsera
Coat of arms of Albin Freiherr von Vetsera, husband of Helene Baltazzi

Helene Freifrau von Vetsera (* 1847 in Marseille as Helene Baltazzi ; † February 1, 1925 in Vienna ) was a Greek - Austrian noblewoman and mother of Mary Vetsera .

Life

Helene Baltazzi was the daughter of a Greek banker. She was considered the richest girl in Constantinople when she married the Austrian diplomat Albin Ritter von Vetsera (1825–1887) in 1864. Her brother was the equestrian Alexander Baltazzi .

In 1870 Albin Ritter von Vetsera was raised to the baron status. The third of four children was born in 1871, daughter Maria , who would go down in history seventeen years later through her death. The family initially lived in a building at Schüttelstrasse 7-9 and later, from around 1880, in a palace at Salesianergasse 11 in Vienna. The baroness ran a large house and lived in the best of circles. Helene survived all of her children and lost her fortune in the inflation after World War I. She died impoverished in Vienna in 1925. She was buried in the local cemetery of Payerbach in Lower Austria.

Mayerling

After the tragedy of Mayerling , in which the Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf shot his beloved Mary and then himself on January 30, 1889 at her request, she fell out of favor at court and in aristocratic society. She herself denied complicity in the affair, but raised serious allegations in a justification against her former friend Countess Marie Louise von Larisch-Wallersee , who she accused of the coupling between her daughter and the Crown Prince.

progeny

Survival

Helene Vetsera was played by Adrienne Gessner in the film Crown Prince Rudolf's Last Love (1956) by Rudolf Jungert .

In the film The Crown Prince (1989) by Miklós Szinetár , Helene Vetsera was played by Ildikó Hámori .

In the film Crown Prince Rudolf's Last Love (2006) by Robert Dornhelm , Helene Vetsera is portrayed by Alexandra Vandernoot .

literature

  • Heinrich Baltazzi-Scharschmid, Hermann Swistun: The Baltazzi-Vetsera families in imperial Vienna , Böhlau, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-205-07160-3 .
  • Gerd Holler: Mayerling: the solution to the riddle. The death of Crown Prince Rudolf and Baroness Vetsera from a medical point of view , book club Donauland Kremayr and Scheriau [u. a.], Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-217-01051-5 .
  • Fritz Judtmann: Mayerling without myth. A factual report , 2nd, improved edition, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-218-00364-4 .
  • Brigitte Sokop: That Countess Larisch. Marie Louise Countess Larisch-Wallersee, confidante of the empress - ostracized after Mayerling , 3rd, improved edition, Böhlau, Vienna [u. a.] 1992, ISBN 3-205-05527-6 .
  • Hermann Swistun: Mary Vetsera. Companion for Death , Ueberreuter, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-8000-3727-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerd Holler: Mayerling, new documents on the tragedy 100 years later , Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna [u. a.] 1988, ISBN 3-85002-269-2 , p. 89
  2. ↑ http://www.pratercottage.at/2013/10/05/mary-dear-am-donaukanal-die-haeuser-der-familien-vetsera-und-baltazzi-schuettelstrasse-11-ab-1870-und-praterstrasse /
  3. ↑ Adolph Lehmann's general housing indicator: together with trade and Business address book for dkk Reichshaupt- u. Residence city Vienna a. Surroundings. Vienna 1880, p. 920
  4. ↑ Neue Freie Presse - Deaths (PDF; 10.6 MB) anno.onb.ac.at. S. 6. February 22, 1901. Accessed on May 24, 2013.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / anno.onb.ac.at  

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personal data
SURNAME Vetsera, Helene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vetsera, Helene Baroness of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian nobles
DATE OF BIRTH 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1925
Place of death Vienna