Nicholas of Flondor
Baron Nikolaus "Nicu" von Flondor (born June 27, 1872 in Storozynetz (Storojineț) , † May 22, 1948 in Brașov (Kronstadt) ) was a large landowner and an Austrian and Romanian politician from the Flondor family . He was three times mayor of the city of Chernivtsi (1920, 1922–1926 and 1938–1940).
Life
As one of five nobles from Bukovina , Flondor attended the Imperial and Royal High School in Chernivtsi . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Franz Joseph University . After the exams he entered the civil service as an administrative lawyer . In 1890 he became a member of the academic association Junimea and in 1903 he was elected to the board of the Central Office for Economic Development of Bukovina .
Politically, he was a member of the Bukovinian state parliament (1908-1914), first in the Romanian National People's Party, then in the Romanian Christian Social Party, and finally from 1910 in the Romanian National Party, of which he was elected in 1912. From 1911 he headed the parliamentary committee on finance and was a member of the state committee.
On application, he and his descendants - in contrast to his brother Johann von Flondor - were raised to the baron status by the highest resolution of Emperor Franz Joseph I of August 10, 1913 on Ischl and diploma in Vienna on March 11, 1914, after he had passed in 1912 had been awarded the Commander's Cross of the Austrian Imperial Leopold Order .
After the Imperial Russian Army had occupied the capital of the Habsburg Crown Land by the Cossack General Dmitri Grigoryevich Pavlov , Flondor was deported to Siberia with other dignitaries, including the mayor of Chernivtsi Salo von Weisselberger . After 14 months he returned as part of a prisoner exchange.
After the war, on November 12, 1918, Nikolaus was appointed State Secretary and General Inspector for Finance and also Minister of Defense in the Provisional Government of Bukovina under his brother Johann (Iancu). In contrast to Alexander Freiherr von Hormuzaki , the last governor of Bukovina, he broke his oath on the emperor. In his office he had the war hero Major General Eduard Fischer and his wife arrested, taken to Iași and imprisoned.
At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 , he accompanied Prime Minister Ion IC Brătianu as an expert on the economic and financial situation of Bukovina. For the Partidul Național Liberal he was a member of the parliament of Greater Romania . From 1920 he was elected three times mayor of Cernăuți (Chernivtsi), 1920, 1922–1926, the last time 1938–1940 and was an honorary citizen of Noua Suliță (Nowosielitza) .
family
Nikolaus was the son of Georg Ritter von Flondor (born October 11, 1826 in Storojineț; † June 13, 1892, ibid) and Isabella Dobrowolski von Buchenthal (born August 14, 1835 in Rogojeşti ; † February 14, 1890 in Storojineț), he was also the brother of Theodor (Tudor) and Johann (Iancu) von Flondor. On July 4, 1899, he married Helene (* October 25, 1879, in Carapciu ; † August 7, 1970, in Vienna ), daughter of Modest Ritter von Grigorcea, and had three children with her: Radu (* February 20, 1900 in Czernowitz ; † November 29, 1956 in Bucharest ), Ambassador of Greater Romania in Vienna, married on July 13, 1946 in Brașov to Maria Vasiliu († 1979 in Bucharest); Alexander (born February 4, 1902 in Noua Suliță ; † August 18, 1987 in Offenbach ) and Helene (born February 22, 1904 in Noua Suliță; † August 25, 1944, Iași ). The latter was murdered by Russian soldiers when the Soviets invaded. Her husband Peter von Bohosievicz (born October 28, 1904, † August 21, 1953) was deported and died in a Soviet Russian camp. The family was evacuated and had to move into a domicile in Râşnov near Braşov for years .
coat of arms
1914: Divided, above a green crown of leaves in red, below in blue two growing out of iron rings, red-armored golden bear paws facing each other. The golden crown of barons rests on the main edge of the shield. On the helmet with red and gold blankets on the right, blue and gold on the left, a growing red-tongued and red-armed golden bear, holding the golden crown of leaves in its paws enclosed with iron rings.
literature
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrliche Häuser 1915 to 1939
- Mihai-Stefan Ceaușu: Parlamentarism, partide și elită politică în Bucovina Habsburgică (1848–1918) , Editura Junimea, Iași 2004
- Nicolae Ciachir: Din Istoria Bucovinei (1775-1944) , Editura Oscar Print, București 1999, ISBN 973-9264-53-0 .
- Erich Prokopowitsch: The nobility in the Bukowina , Südostdeutscher Verlag, Munich, 1983
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Erich Prokopowitsch: The nobility in the Bukowina , Südostdeutscher Verlag, Munich, 1983, pp. 123, 141 ff
- ↑ a b Vlad Gafița: "Iancu Flondor (1865-1924) și mișcarea națională a Românilor din Bucovina", Editura Junimea, Iași 2008, p. 178
- ↑ Mihai-Stefan Ceaușu: Parlamentarism, partide și elită politică în Bucovina Habsburgică (1848-1918) , Editura Junimea, Iași 2004, p. 483
- ↑ Ernst Hofbauer: Blown Traces , Ibera Verlag, Vienna 1999, p. 159
- ↑ Nicolae Ciachir: Din Istoria Bucovinei (1775-1944) , Editura Oscar Print, Bucureşti 1999, p 82
- ↑ (News) Welt sheet No. 270, from Tuesday, November 26, 1918, p. 5
- ↑ Ioana Andreea and Mihai Pânzar: Originea familiei Flondor , Editura Flondor, Rădăuți, 2007
- ↑ Geneanet, Nicholas of Flondor
- ↑ http://www.coresno.com/adelslexikon/61/1432-lex-flondor.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flondor, Nicholas of |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flondor, Nicu von (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Large landowners as well as Austrian and Romanian politicians from the Flondor family |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Storozynetz (Storojineț) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1948 |
| Place of death | Brașov (Kronstadt) |