List of provincial presidents of the Duchy of Bukovina

Duchy of Bukovina

State President was in 1861 confirmed some years previously used title of each of the Emperor in Vienna appointed country heads of Bukovina in the Habsburg monarchy since 1804 in the Empire of Austria , from 1867 to 1918 in Austria-Hungary . Up until 1786 high officers of the imperial army acted as the highest state administrators; as a result, it was civil officials with the titles of district chief (until 1849) or state government president (from 1849).

In 1849 Bucovina, until then one of the districts of Galicia , was declared an independent crown land . The years 1849-1854 were a transition period during which the former district office gradually became an independent state administration. One can only speak of such a thing from May 29, 1854. The seat of the state administration was in Chernivtsi .

In 1861 and 1868 there were legal definitions of the state chiefs; It was noted that the chief official of Bukovina did not have to bear the title of governor, as in most other crown lands, but was to be designated as the country's president. This was also not a lieutenant, but a state government. Apart from these designations, however, the tasks of the state president and his staff were the same as in all other crown lands.

From 1873 onwards, the seat of the kk state government was in a historic building on Franz-Josefs-Platz, a park in Chernivtsi. Immediately adjacent was Austria-Platz with the Austria Monument. The streets that branched off from Franz-Josefs-Platz on both sides of the building to the south were called Spleny-Gasse (east) and Kuczurmarer Straße (west). To the north, Rathaus-Strasse led to Ringplatz , the city center.

Former military administration (1780), later district court

Seat of the state government of the Bukowina in Chernivtsi, on Franz-Josefs-Platz (left) at the corner of Kuczurmarerstraße (right), 1873–1918, seen from Austria-Platz, construction status before the addition in 1905

Seat of the state government after the addition of one storey, after 1905, also seen from Austria-Platz

Gabriel Freiherr Splény von Miháldy , Lieutenant Field Marshal (1774–6 April 1778)
Karl Freiherr von Enzenberg , Lieutenant Field Marshal (April 1778– October 31, 1786)

District Chief:

Joseph Ritter von Beck (1786–1792)
Basil Freiherr von Balsch (1792–1803)
Franz von Schreiber (1803-1805)
Franz Adam Ritter von Mitscha (1805-1807)
Johann von Platzer (1807-1817)
Joseph (Baron) von Stutterheim , Lieutenant Field Marshal (1817–1823, Baron from 1819)
Johann von Melczechen (1823–1833)
Frantz Kratter (1833-1838)
Casimir von Milbacher (1838–1840)
Gheorghe Isăcescu (1840–1849)
Eduard Ritter von Bach (February – July 1849)

State Government President:

Anton Freiherr Henniger von Seeberg (July 1849–1 March 1853)
Franz Freiherr von Schmück (March 6, 1853 provisional state president; May 29, 1854– November 27, 1857 first independent state president)
Karl Graf von Rothkirch-Panthen (February 18, 1857 – May 1860)
Jakob Ritter von Mikuli , head of the provisional governorate of Bukovina (September 1, 1860– March 1, 1861)

Country President:

Wenzel Ritter von Martina , first state president of the Duchy of Bukovina (March 26, 1861– May 2, 1862)
Rudolph Count of Amadei (May 31, 1862– October 30, 1865)
Franz Ritter Myrbach von Rheinfeld (October 30, 1865– October 4, 1870)
Felix Freiherr Pino von Friedenthal (October 4, 1870– July 8, 1874)
Hieronymus Freiherr von Alesani (August 18, 1874– February 8, 1887)
Felix Freiherr Pino von Friedenthal (February 14, 1887– August 1, 1890)
Anton Graf Pace, Freiherr von Friedensberg (January 9, 1891 head of the state government, August 1, 1891– May 17, 1892)
Franz Freiherr von Krauss (May 22, 1892– June 7, 1894)
Leopold Graf von Goëß ( entrusted June 8, 1894 until further notice ; November 15, 1894– December 16, 1897)
Friedrich Freiherr Bourguignon von Baumberg (December 16, 1897– February 27, 1903)
Prince Konrad zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (February 25, 1903– October 1, 1904)
Oktavian Freiherr Regner von Bleyleben (October 1, 1904– December 15, 1911)
Rudolf von Meran (January 1, 1912– December 31, 1916)
Josef Graf von Ezdorf (May 1, 1917– November 5, 1918)

During the First World War , Bukovina was temporarily a theater of war. Because of the incursions of the Russian army, the last country president had to set up his official residence outside of Bukovina several times. He officiated in Vatra Dornei , then in Klausenburg (both in the Kingdom of Hungary ), then in Prague ( Kingdom of Bohemia ) and in Stanislau ( Kingdom of Galicia ), but finally again in Chernivtsi. On November 6, 1918, Ezdorf handed over the official business to representatives of the Ukrainian and Romanian population of Bukovina, since no help was to be expected from the disintegrated Imperial Austria in balancing the different national interests and claims of the population of Bukovina.