Maximilian Daublebsky von Sterneck

Maximilian Daublebsky Freiherr von Sterneck, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1866

Portrait bust in the Army History Museum , 1895.

Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresa Order

“Sterneck” year badge of the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt

Maximilian Daublebsky Freiherr von Sterneck zu Ehrenstein (born February 14, 1829 in Klagenfurt , † December 5, 1897 in Vienna ) was an admiral from the baronial Daublebsky von Sterneck family and from 1883 until his death in command of the Austro-Hungarian Navy .

origin

Maximilian Daublebsky Freiherr von Sterneck and Ehrenstein came from a patrician family from Budweis in southern Bohemia , who had been mayors of the city for generations (see Steeb / Sterneck).

family

His father Joseph Daublebsky Freiherr von Sterneck and Ehrenstein (born May 1, 1775 in Prague; † April 29, 1848 in Klagenfurt) studied law in Prague, whereupon he became an ascendant at the Moravian-Silesian land law in Brno from 1795 to 1796. His career then took him to Cracow and from there to Lemberg, from where he was assigned to the Inner Austrian Court of Appeal in Klagenfurt in 1815 as an Appeal Council. From 1817 to 1823 he worked in Fiume. Moved back to Klagenfurt, he was appointed President of the kk town and country law in Carniola on February 4, 1823. In Ljubljana he worked until November 1, 1827. The Kaiser then appointed him President of the Imperial and Royal City and Land Law as well as the Criminal and Exchange Court in Klagenfurt. He held this position until 1834, after which he became President of the Inner Austrian and Coastal Appeal and Criminal Higher Court in Klagenfurt. On September 4th, 1834, he was appointed governor and president of the Carinthian estates by Emperor Franz I, who was followed by Emperor Ferdinand I in 1835 with the dignity of a real secret council.

His youngest son Maximilian, born in Klagenfurt on February 14, 1829, came from his second marriage to Franziska Freiin von Kaiserstein in 1817 (* Krastowitz Castle October 25, 1790, + ibid. June 12, 1862).

Life

Maximilian Daublebsky Freiherr von Sterneck zu Ehrenstein became an officer in the imperial-royal navy of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and in 1859 a corvette captain . In 1864 he was promoted to frigate captain . Under Rear Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff , he was appointed captain of his flagship SMS Archduke Ferdinand Max . In the naval battle of Lissa in 1866 he succeeded in sinking the enemy Italian flagship Re d'Italia, which was impossible to maneuver due to a hit, with a ramming blow and emerged victorious on the side of Tegetthoff. For this act he received the Knight's Cross of the Leopold Order with the war decoration immediately after the battle and on August 29, 1866 the Order Chapter awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresa Order .

In 1866 Maximilian Daublebsky von Sterneck was appointed military port commander of Pola ( Pula ). In 1872 he was promoted to Kontre-Admiral , in 1883 to Vice-Admiral and appointed naval commander. In 1888 he reached the end of his military career with the rank of admiral .

Together with Johann Nepomuk Graf Wilczek, he carried out an escort trip to the Arctic Ocean in 1872 in order to set up a supply depot on the Barents Islands for the Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition led by Karl Weyprecht , the commander, and Julius Payer . For this he had chartered the little sailor named Isbjörn . After separating from the expedition ship Tegetthoff , Sterneck and Wilczek sailed through the Kara Sea into the mouth of the Pechora . The river trip ended on October 15, 1872, after which the trip was continued by post steamboat via Perm , Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod to Moscow .

When Baron von Sterneck died in 1897, his body was stored in the Catholic garrison church Madonna del Mare (German: Our Lady of the Sea / Croat. Gospe od Mora) in S. Policarpo, which was built at his request from 1891 to 1898 for the Naval Arsenal , a district of Pola in Istria, while his heart was touched and buried in the crypt of the church of St. Ulrich near Krastowitz in Carinthia.

From an extramarital relationship with the widowed Amalie Pabst, b. Matz Freiin von Spiegelfeld (1834–1910), he had a son, Maximilian Daublebsky (1865–1939 (ennobled October 16, 1918 with "von Eichhain")), who became Vice-Admiral i. R. brought the Austro-Hungarian Navy and was raised to the nobility on October 16, 1918 with the title "von Eichhain". He was with Elisabeth Freiin von Minutillo (1881–1939), a daughter of Admiral i. R. Franz Freiherr von Minutillo (1840–1916), married.

Namesake

The island of Sterneckøya, which belongs to Spitsbergen , the Sterneckoppen mountain on Jan Mayen and the Sternecksund in Franz-Josef-Land are named after Maximilian von Sterneck.

As a commemoration, the 1998 class of the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt chose the name “Sterneck”.

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich von Pöck	Navy commander 1883–1897	Hermann von Spaun

literature

• Maximilian Daublewsky von Sterneck and Ehrenstein: Count Wiltschek's North Pole voyage in 1872 . In: Petermanns geographische Mittheilungen, Volume 20, Gotha 1874, pp. 65–72; 117-120; 132–142 and Cards 4, 6, 16.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Sterneck zu Ehrenstein, Maximilian Freiherr von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 38th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1879, p. 301 f. ( Digitized version ).
• K. Wollanka: Daublebsky von Sterneck zu Ehrenstein, Maximilian, Freiherr von . In: Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog . Berlin 1898, Volume 2, p. 387
• Oskar Criste:  Daublebsky, Maximilian, Freiherr von Sterneck zu Ehrenstein . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 623-625.
• Daublebsky von Sterneck Maximilian Frh .. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 171.
• Nikolaus von Preradovich :  Daublebsky, Maximilian, Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 523 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Christian Steeb: "Military Fortune - Private Misfortune". On the biography of the hero of Lissa Maximilian Daublebsky Freiherr von Sterneck zu Ehrenstein (1829–1895). In: Journal of the Austrian Society for Religious Order 77, February 2010, pp. 1–18.
• Christian Steeb / Tomas Sterneck: The Daublebsky barons von Sterneck zu Ehrenstein. On the history and genealogy of the line of a Bohemian noble family that has been based in Carinthia for almost two hundred years. (= Archive for Patriotic History and Topography Vol. 104), ed. v. History Association for Carinthia, (Klagenfurt 2011).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The Austrian admirals. Volume II 1885-1914, Bibliotheksverlag, Osnabrück 1997, p. 249.
2. ↑ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The KK or KuK Generalität 1816–1918 ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Austrian State Archives, Vienna 2007, p. 33 (PDF). 
3. ↑ (see: Heribert Sturm : Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Lands. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Vol. I, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , p. 233 f. name bearer Daublebsky von Sterneck)

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