Leopold von Wolkenstein-Trostburg

Leopold Graf von Wolkenstein-Trostburg

Leopold Graf von Wolkenstein-Trostburg (* July 8, 1800 in Passau ; † January 30, 1882 in Trient ) was Tyrolean governor and belonged to the influential Tyrolean noble family of Wolkenstein-Trostburg . He was the first real governor since the state constitution was abolished by the Bavarian government and the only governor elected between 1805 and 1918.

Life

Count Leopold von Wolkenstein-Trostburg was born the son of Count Anton von Wolkenstein-Trostburg, who was Minister of the Grand Ducal Würzburg, and his wife Maria Anna, née Countess Firmian .

Count Wolkenstein-Trostburg was appointed kuk chamberlain in 1835 . At the first session of the “Tyrolean-Constituent Provincial Landtag” on June 16, 1848, Count Wolkenstein-Trostburg was elected “President” with 34 out of 51 votes; he held this office until 1852. Although the office of governor was separated from that of governor in the same year, he was initially only given the title of president, as the request for the election of a governor was referred to the constitutional committee and remained there for a long time. When on February 21, 1852 an imperial decree in the sense of resurrected absolutism decreed that the respective imperial governor should head the estates representation, Count Wolkenstein resigned from his office. Only on October 20, 1860, the office of governor was reintroduced, which should be occupied by the emperor. Count Wolkenstein was appointed to this on November 27, 1860, but resigned from this office on March 9, 1861, as a new state constitution had come into force through the February patent 1861.

In 1860 he was appointed to the enlarged Reichsrat and in 1861 a lifelong member of the manor house . After a year, he made the declaration that he could not take part in the meetings because the consultations were beyond the competence of the house.

Count Wolkenstein had remained unmarried. He spent his old age partly at the Trostburg near Waidbruck and in the Palais Wolkenstein in Trieste . He was buried at the foot of the Trostburg in Waidbruck.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Wolkenstein-Trostburg, Leopold Johann Baptist Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 58th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1889, p. 60 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Sigmund Hahn: Reichsraths-Almanach , p. 82 , 1867
• Richard Schober: History of the Tyrolean Parliament in the 19th and 20th centuries (pp. 523-524). Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 1984. ISBN 3-7030-0131-3 .

Web links

Commons : Governors of Tyrol  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Heiss : Tyrolean nobility on the threshold of modernity: Crisis and reorientation using the example of the Wolkenstein people. In: The Wolkensteiner. Facets of the Tyrolean Nobility in the Late Middle Ages and Modern Times, ed. v. Pfeifer, Gustav / Andermann, Kurt (publications of the South Tyrolean Provincial Archives 30), Innsbruck 2009, pp. 361–380, here p. 367.
2. ^ Richard Schober: History of the Tyrolean Parliament in the 19th and 20th centuries . Universitätsverlag Wagner (Innsbruck), 1984, ISBN 3-7030-0131-3
3. ^ Otto Stolz : Geschichte des Landes Tirol , Volume I, p. 655 , 1955