Levin von Schaffgotsch
Levin von Schaffgotsch (full name Levin Gotthard Graf Schaffgotsch called Semperfrei von und zu Kynast und Greiffenstein , Freiherr zu Trachenberg , born May 3, 1854 in Bonn , Rhine Province ; † August 1, 1913 in Salzburg , Austria-Hungary ) was the Imperial and Royal President of Salzburg .
Life
Levin von Schaffgotsch came from the Silesian noble family Schaffgotsch , which also had large estates in Bohemia . He was born on May 3, 1853 as the son of Count Josef Schaffgotsch and his wife Countess Marie zu Stolberg in Bonn. He graduated from high school in Hildesheim and studied at the University of Innsbruck from 1872 .
On January 11, 1888, he married Elisabeth Mathilde Rosa von Schönberg (1867–1940). The marriage had ten children.
On October 1st, 1878, he entered the political service of the Austrian Empire and found his first job with the Lieutenancy for Tyrol and Vorarlberg . In the following years he was transferred several times and worked, among other things, in Meran , from 1893 to 1895 as the head of the district administration in Lienz , from 1895 to 1899 as district captain in Feldkirch and in 1900 in Innsbruck . On January 7, 1902, he was transferred to Bregenz with the title of Lieutenancy Council and in August 1906 he was appointed Hofrat .
After the death of the Salzburg provincial president Clemens von Saint-Julien-Wallsee (1845–1908) he was appointed the new imperial and royal provincial president of Salzburg and took up his post, which had only existed since the former archbishopric to crown land in 1850, on 1. October 1908. On January 11, 1912, he was appointed to the Imperial and Royal Privy Council . In addition to his political and administrative tasks, he was also the president of the “Catholic-Political People's Association”, which emerged in 1870 from the “Catholic Citizens' Association”. The aim of the association was to strengthen the Catholic party direction and bring its supporters into the representative body.
On July 31, 1913, Count Levin Schaffgotsch suffered a stroke , which he died the following day. His grave, which is remarkable for its monumentality, is located at the Salzburg municipal cemetery .
His son Franz Graf Schaffgotsch (1902–1942) was a well-known painter and graphic artist and set designer for the Salzburg Marionette Theater .
literature
- Necrologist. Levin Graf Schaffgotsch. In: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde , born 1913, (Volume LIII), p. 387. (Online at ANNO ).
- Friederike Zaisberger , Reinhard R. Heinisch : Life beyond death ... Celebrities in the Salzburg municipal cemetery . Announcements from the Society for Regional Studies in Salzburg . 23. Supplementary volume. Self-published by the company, Salzburg 2006.
- Arkadiusz Kuzio-Podrucki: Schaffgotschowie. Zmienne losy śląskiej arystokracji . Bytom 2007, ISBN 978-83-923733-1-5 (Polish).
- Arkadiusz Kuzio-Podrucki: The Schaffgotsch House. The changeful fate of a noble Silesian dynasty . Drukpol, Tarnowskie Góry 2009, ISBN 978-83-61458-32-6 .
Individual evidence
Friedrich von Herberstein | Karl von Lobkowitz | Otto Franz Fünfkirchen | Eduard von Bach (provisional) | Ernst Gourcy-Droitaumont | Franz von Spiegelfeld | Eduard Taaffe | Karl Coronini-Cronberg | Ernst Gourcy-Droitaumont (2nd) | Adolf von Auersperg | Sigmund von Thun and Hohenstein | Klemens St. Julien-Wallsee | Levin von Schaffgotsch | Felix von Schmitt-Gasteiger
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schaffgotsch, Levin from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schaffgotsch from and to Kynast and Greiffenstein, Trachenberg, called Semperfrei, Levin Gotthard Graf von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | State President of Salzburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1913 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |