Karl Welsperg von Primör and Raitenau

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Karl Graf Welsperg von Primör and Raitenau

Karl Joseph Anton Graf Welsperg of primiero and Raitenau (* 1. March 1779 in Tyrol ; † 12. October 1873 in Purkersdorf , Austria below the Enns was) an Austrian Imperial Privy Councilor , politicians as well as the first District Chief of Salzburg .

Life

Karl Welsperg-Raitenau was the son of Philipp Graf Welsperg von Primör and Raitenau and Dominica von Thurn-Valsassina -Pleiburg . Together with his younger brothers Philipp and Heinrich, he came to the then famous Karlsschule in Stuttgart in 1790, the most famous student of which was Friedrich Schiller . After completing his training, he entered the civil service and soon became district chief of Judenburg in Styria, where he successfully passed his first major test in the great city ​​fire on October 13, 1807. As the Province of Salzburg after six years of service to Bayern in 1816 finally to the Empire of Austria fell, he was the first kk  Kreishauptmann the time of obderennsischen state government assumed Governing Region Salzburg ( Salzburg county ).

In 1830 the district capital Salzburg honored him “for his services to the reorganization of the magistrate and all political offices of the district as well as for the" alleviation of famine "at the time of the taxation of 1816/17 and the fire disaster that affected the city of Salzburg in 1818 , the beautification of this city and the establishment of a deaf-mute institute there and several charitable institutions, the prosperous protection through the local foundations ... the raising of the Gastein spa to the lively Flore and finally the great work of the drying up of the valleys of Gastein and Oberpinzgau ´s " with the appointment as honorary citizen of the city of Salzburg.

In 1831 he was appointed to the Imperial and Royal Privy Council and transferred to the Gubernium Ljubljana (now Ljubljana ) as Vice President . Shortly before his retirement, from December 1840 to April 1841, he ran the affairs of the state governor in the Kingdom of Illyria. In 1836 Welsperg-Raitenau acquired the Mauterndorf castle ruins , which he sold again after three years without stopping the castle from falling into disrepair. In retirement he lived in Fiume for a long time and died at the age of 94 in Purkersdorf near Vienna.

The marriage with Henriette Freiin von Türkheim († March 4, 1840), which was closed on May 19, 1807 , resulted in three sons and three daughters, of which only the first-born, Count Eugen (1808-1867), with a male descendant the line continued. Son Richard (1813–1878) embarked on a military career and died as a highly decorated field marshal lieutenant. The second marriage with Maria Anna Countess Thurn-Valsassina , widowed Countess Steinach (born January 27, 1804) remained childless.

The count is an honorary citizen of the honorary citizen of Salzburg .

Coat of arms of the Counts Welsperg von Primör and Raitenau, 1567

coat of arms

1567: Squared shield with central shield and tip grafted between field 3 and 4. Central shield of silver and black squared (family coat of arms). 1 and 4, in black on a green ground, an inward-facing, double-curved, golden lion (Michaelsburg); 2 and 3 in red a silver cross bar drawn in the form of an elongated square (Villanders and Pardell). In the silver tip there is a floating black ball (Count von Raitenau). Four helmets rise above the count's crown, of which the first three are crowned. On the right helmet, in front of a closed, black eagle flight, the Saxons turn inwards, the lion of the 1st and 4th field stands on the green ground (Michaelsburg helmet); the second wears two elephant trunks, divided transversely by silver and black with alternating tinctures (helmet of the family coat of arms); the third a high, red, crowned pointed hat covered with the silver, angular crossbar of the 2nd and 3rd field, which is decorated with three ostrich feathers, silver, red, silver, on each side and whose crown is three ostrich feathers, red, silver , red, wears (Villander's helmet). On the left helmet, on a cushion made of black and silver with silver tassels, there is a large black ball, which is studded with five ostrich feathers, alternating silver and black (Raitenauscher helmet). The covers of the right helmet are gold and black, those of the second black and silver, those of the third red and silver, and those of the left black and silver. - The tip with the ball and the left helmet (the coat of arms of Count von Raitenau, which expired in 1671) were added to the baronial coat of arms as early as 1571 with the permission of Emperor Maximilian II, which previously consisted of the squared shield with three helmets.

Literature and Sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Extract from the appointment act
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: "German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation", 2nd volume L – Z, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1853, p. 659
personal data
SURNAME Welsperg from Primör and Raitenau, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Welsperg von Primör and Raitenau, Karl Joseph Anton Graf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian civil servant, district chief of Salzburg
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1873
Place of death Purkersdorf , Austria under the Enns