Karl von Collas

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Karl Maximilian Ernst Ludwig von Collas , officially also called Báró Collas Károly in Hungary (born December 25, 1869 in Arad an der Maros , † May 26, 1940 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian citizen of German descent. He was the Royal Hungarian Undersecretary of State and head of the political-administrative department of the provincial government of Bosnia-Herzegovina .

family

He was the son of the landowner Robert von Collas (born September 13, 1819), master of the Nieder-Sodow estate, Opole district ( Upper Silesia ), Nakel , Deutsch Krone district ( Pomerania ), Tállya, Zemplin district (Hungary) and Kisfalu ( Hungary), and Helene, nee Countess Larisch-Moennich (born March 29, 1836), Freiin von Ellgoth and Karwin., A daughter of Major General Joseph von Larisch .

He himself remained unmarried.

Life

According to Collas' own notes, he began studying law at the Albertus University in Königsberg in 1890 . Since 1889 he was a member of the Corps Normannia Königsberg . In 1893 he moved to the University of Budapest . He then served as a one-year volunteer in the Hussar Regiment "King Humbert of Italy" (1st Kurhessisches) No. 13 with promotion to lieutenant in the Kuk Hussar Regiment (Vacant) No. 12 . Afterwards he worked in the county administration as an honorary chair judge (district judge). From 1896 to 1897 Collas served in the Austro-Hungarian Hussar Regiment No. 12.

In 1900 he was appointed Political Adjunct 2nd class in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian administration, became branch manager in Grakovo in 1906 , district head in Petrovac in 1908 and was transferred to Sarajevo in 1909 as a state parliament clerk .

Soon after, he became in 1911 a personnel officer of the political administration of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one year later, government commissioner of the City of Sarajevo, 1913, Government and Präsidialchef the state government and in 1915 Councilor and head of the political-administrative division. In 1916 he was appointed head of the political agenda in the Ministry for Bosnia-Herzegovina in Vienna.

After the collapse of the monarchy, he retired into private life during the revolutionary regime in 1918, but returned to work in November 1919 and was appointed liquidation commissioner for the royal Hungarian government in the Austrian government (liquidation of the common ground army , finances, foreign missions with mutual Accounts of the two governments), which initially, according to Collas in his notes, required a huge apparatus: 72 officers, including 16 staff officers and 4 frigate captains , and 2 envoys .

From 1921 to 1925 he was also a representative of the Hungarian government at the Reparations Commission in Paris and at the army accounting office in Berlin. He also acted as head of delegation at the conferences and a. in Stockholm, Lugano, Venice and in Bern.

In 1929 he asked for his impeachment because his sister Helene von Collas (1864-1931), who ran his household for him in Budapest, was seriously ill in 1928, had an operation in 1929 and was cared for by him. This request was not granted until 1931. His sister died on June 8, 1931 in Vienna.

Honors

literature

  • Sigismund von Dobschütz: The Huguenot family von Collas. A tribe list over more than 600 years and 20 generations from 1390 to the present day. GENEALOGIE, Heft 3, S. 465f., Verlag Degener & Co, Neustadt (Aisch) 1999, ISSN  0016-6383 .

Individual evidence

  1. Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses 1868. S. 144.
  2. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 90 , 50