Julius von Falkenhayn

Minister Julius von Falkenhayn

Julius Graf von Falkenhayn (* February 20, 1829 in Vienna ; † January 12, 1899 there ) was an Austrian politician and agriculture minister.

Life

Julius came from the old Naumburg noble family Falkenhayn and was the son of the general of the cavalry Eugen Graf von Falkenhayn (1792-1853) and the Caroline Countess Colloredo-Wallsee (1802-1835). His older brother was the ultra - montane -minded Count Franz von Falkenhayn (1827–1898), hereditary member of the Austrian manor house .

Falkenhayn first entered the Austro-Hungarian  Army, from which he resigned as Rittmeister , and then took over his rule in Sankt Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut in Upper Austria .

Here he was repeatedly elected as a member of the Upper Austrian state parliament and finally appointed governor of Austria ob der Enns for a short time . He was one of the federally - ultramontanist to party and dealt with financial matters.

After he was elected in the new elections to the House of Representatives in Wels in July 1879 in place of the liberal Franz Gross , the Emperor appointed him Minister of Agriculture in the Eduard Taaffe Ministry on August 12 , in which he represented the extreme right wing of the Reichsrat .

He also held the honorary title of kuk  chamberlain and secret councilor .

Falkenhayn married in 1857 in Bratislava , the widowed the year 1856 Victoria Eugenia Countess Keglevich de Buzin , nee Countess de Folliot Crenneville (* 1816), daughter of the Imperial and Royal Cavalry General Ludwig Graf Folliot de Crenneville and Viktoria Judith Baroness von Poutet .

Since 1891 he was an honorary member of the Catholic student association KÖStV Austria Vienna .

Works

In 1874 he published a book on the finances of Austria, in which he endeavored to prove the savings which could be achieved in a federalist organization of the monarchy; a second work dealt with the finances of Austria during the first equalization period. Both writings, however, were fairly superficial.

literature

• Falkenhayn Julius Graf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 285.
• Roman Freiherr von Procházka : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian noble families. Degener & Co, Neustadt (Aisch) 1973, p. 89.
• Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck :  Falkenhayn, Julius von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 15 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Biography of Julius Falkenhayn, Count von- on the server of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Moritz von owner	Governor of Austria on the Enns in 1871	Moritz von owner
Jerome of Colloredo	Agriculture Minister in Cisleithanien 1879–1895	Ferdinand von Blumfeld