Markus von Wickenburg

Markus von Wickenburg (born April 13, 1864 in Baltavár , Kingdom of Hungary ; † August 6, 1924 in Budapest ), full name Maria Marcus Matthias Konstantin Graf von Wickenburg , was an (Austrian-) Hungarian ministerial official and state secretary.

Life

Wickenburg studied law, earned the Dr. jur. and entered the royal Hungarian civil service. After working in the Hungarian Postal Savings Bank , the Tax Inspectorate in Fiume , the Ministry of Finance in Budapest and the Hungarian State Railways , he became State Secretary of the Hungarian Ministry of Commerce in 1902. Retired in 1903, he was reactivated on March 30, 1912 as head of the trade section in the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Ministry, where he worked until February 1917.

After the outbreak of World War I , Privy Councilor Wickenburg, in a memorandum from the end of August 1914, considered the “destruction of Serbia with an annexation of important areas of this state” as the best solution. For Wickenburg, the Serbian war goal was just a step on the way to further expansion: “The direction of this expansion is the East for us”, through “the mastery of the two main arteries to Constantinople and Salonika ” as well as the achievement of supremacy on the Danube Takeover of all traffic on the Balkan Peninsula. Wickenburg even called for the "direct route to Persia" via Asia Minor. Wickenburg, according to Andrej Mitrović the most radical among the authors of the Ballhausplatz -War Target- memoranda , declared that the continued existence of an independent Serbian state, however weak and small, was the wrong solution. A reduced Serbia remains "a glowing hearth of irredenta " and "an eternal threat to our diplomatic situation". Even Fritz Fellner says Wicke Burg's memorandum would be even stronger than the other proposals of the Vienna ministerial "of the imperialist ideology of reaching beyond territorial conquests economic expansion to Asia Minor to Persia also committed".

Individual evidence

^ Fritz Fellner (Ed.): Fateful Years of Austria 1908-1919. Josef Redlich's political diary. Volume 3: Biographical data and registers. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78617-7 , p. 225.
Deutsches Adelsarchiv: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels . Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1983, Volume 82 (IX), p. 470.
^ Rudolf Agstner (ed.): Heinrich Wildner: Diary 1915/1916. The somewhat different reader on World War I. (= Research on the history of the Austrian Foreign Service , Volume 10) Lit, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-50602-3 , p. 262.
↑ Andrej Mitrović : The Balkan plans of the ballroom bureaucracy in the First World War (1914-1916). In: Ferenc Glatz, Ralph Melville (eds.): Society, politics and administration in the Habsburg monarchy. Steiner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-515-03607-5 , pp. 343-371, here: p. 361.
↑ Andrej Mitrović: The Balkan plans of the ballroom bureaucracy in the First World War (1914-1916). In: Ferenc Glatz, Ralph Melville (eds.): Society, politics and administration in the Habsburg monarchy. Steiner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-515-03607-5 , pp. 343-371, here: pp. 354ff.
Wolfdieter Bihl : On the Austro-Hungarian war aims of 1914. In: Yearbooks for the history of Eastern Europe NF 16 (1968), pp. 505-530, here: pp. 510f.
^ Fritz Fellner: Memoranda from Austria. The Austrian Central Europe Discussion in Science and Politics 1915/16. In: Emil Brix , Thomas Fröschl , Josef Leidenfrost (Hrsg.): History between freedom and order. Gerhard Stourzh on his 60th birthday. Böhlau, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-222-11870-1 , pp. 145–162, here: p. 149.

personal data
SURNAME	Wickenburg, Markus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wickenburg, Maria Marcus Matthias Konstantin Graf von (full name); Wickenburg, Mária Márk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian civil servant and state secretary
DATE OF BIRTH	April 13, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Baltavár , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	August 6, 1924
Place of death	Budapest

[1] Fritz Fellner (Ed.): Fateful Years of Austria 1908-1919. Josef Redlich's political diary. Volume 3: Biographical data and registers. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78617-7 , p. 225.
Deutsches Adelsarchiv: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels . Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1983, Volume 82 (IX), p. 470.

[2] Rudolf Agstner (ed.): Heinrich Wildner: Diary 1915/1916. The somewhat different reader on World War I. (= Research on the history of the Austrian Foreign Service , Volume 10) Lit, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-50602-3 , p. 262.

[3] Andrej Mitrović : The Balkan plans of the ballroom bureaucracy in the First World War (1914-1916). In: Ferenc Glatz, Ralph Melville (eds.): Society, politics and administration in the Habsburg monarchy. Steiner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-515-03607-5 , pp. 343-371, here: p. 361.

[4] Andrej Mitrović: The Balkan plans of the ballroom bureaucracy in the First World War (1914-1916). In: Ferenc Glatz, Ralph Melville (eds.): Society, politics and administration in the Habsburg monarchy. Steiner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-515-03607-5 , pp. 343-371, here: pp. 354ff.
Wolfdieter Bihl : On the Austro-Hungarian war aims of 1914. In: Yearbooks for the history of Eastern Europe NF 16 (1968), pp. 505-530, here: pp. 510f.

[5] Fritz Fellner: Memoranda from Austria. The Austrian Central Europe Discussion in Science and Politics 1915/16. In: Emil Brix , Thomas Fröschl , Josef Leidenfrost (Hrsg.): History between freedom and order. Gerhard Stourzh on his 60th birthday. Böhlau, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-222-11870-1 , pp. 145–162, here: p. 149.