Johann Ernst Hoyos-Sprinzenstein

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Imperial Count Johann Ernst Hoyos von Sprinzenstein, Baron von Stichsenstein (born February 24, 1779 in Horn , Lower Austria , † October 28, 1849 ibid) was an Austrian nobleman, officer and court official.

Johann Ernst Hoyos von Sprinzenstein, lithograph by Joseph Kriehuber , 1834

Life

Johann Ernst Hoyos came from the noble family Hoyos , who immigrated from Spain to Lower Austria in the 16th century ( Juan de Hoyos came around 1525 in the wake of the later Emperor Ferdinand I ). Johann Ernst was the son of Count Johann Philipp Joseph (1747-1803) and his wife Maria Christina Princess of Clary-Aldringen (1755-1821). At the age of 20 he joined the Austrian Landwehr and became the commander of a battalion that he maintained out of his own pocket - he even distributed his own fee among the officers of his battalion. With his battalion he took part in the campaigns of 1813, 1814 and 1815 in Italy and France. In the latter year he entered the army as a colonel (without salary). In 1821 he became a real privy councilor and then chief steward of King Ferdinand V of Hungary (later Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria). In 1826 he received the Grand Cross of the Leopold Order , in 1836 he was made Knight of the Golden Fleece and Major General , and around 1838 Lieutenant Field Marshal .

Hoyos was married to Therese Countess von Schlabrendorf (1781–1862), a niece of the "Parisian hermit" Gustav Graf von Schlabrendorf and heiress of the great Silesian estates around the Schweinhausburg , which she bequeathed to her youngest son, Count Rudolf Hoyos von Sprinzenstein . Count Hoyos was not a professional soldier, but he took part in the Napoleonic Wars as a volunteer in the Vienna Landwehr from 1809 to 1815 . He became a battalion commander and after the war he was given the rank of colonel. In the following years he worked in civil functions and at court. He also took over the management of the forestry school in Maria Brunn. From 1823 to 1834 he was Obersthof- and Oberstjägermeister. In 1834 he was awarded the rank of Lieutenant Field Marshal.

The memorial chapel which commemorates the riding accident of 1849.

After the outbreak of the March Revolution in Vienna, Hoyos, already 70 years old, was appointed Commander in Chief of the Vienna National Guard on March 14, 1848 , but was unable to pacify Vienna with his rather moderate methods. In conflict with radical forces, he resigned, but after a mass petition from his supporters, he resumed his function and was sent to Innsbruck to see the emperor to return, whom he now asked to remove from his position. When he returned to Vienna, on May 27, he was held hostage under the supervision of the revolutionary citizens' committee. He should be arrested for maintaining the achievements of the May Revolution. After the overthrow of the revolution, an investigation was launched against him which led to his discharge. Hoyos now withdrew to his private life at his castle near Horn , where he suffered a riding accident in the neighboring Mold on October 23, 1849 and died as a result. A memorial chapel at this point reminds us today.

After the extinction of the Lamberg-Sprinzenstein line, Johann Ernst inherited the Fideicommiss in 1831 according to the will of his ancestor Ferdinand Max Graf von Sprinzenstein of January 21, 1671 and has been called Count "Hoyos-Sprinzenstein" since then.

Trivia and honors

Hoyos was known in particular as a promoter of forestry and as a "affable" person.

In 1900 the Hoyosgasse in Vienna- Wieden (4th district) was named after him.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael S. Habsburg-Lothringen: The Hoyos family. History and personalities. In: Nobility in Transition. Politics, culture, confession 1500-1700. Catalog of the Lower Austrian State Exhibition Rosenburg 1990, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-85460-019-4 , pp. 565-576.
  2. ↑ Friedrich Frh. V. Haan: Genealogical extracts from ... published wills , in New Yearbook "Adler", Volume 10, Vienna 1900, p. 257 archive.org
  3. ^ On the Genealogy of Counts Hoyos in BLKÖ, Volume 9, Vienna 1863, p. 348, on wikisource

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personal data
SURNAME Hoyos-Sprinzenstein, Johann Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoyos von Sprinzenstein, Johann Ernst Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian nobleman, court official and officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH horn
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1849
Place of death horn