Oswald von Thun and Hohenstein (industrialist, 1849)

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Count Joseph Oswald von Thun-Hohenstein-Salm-Reifferscheidt (born December 14, 1849 in Prague , † October 21, 1913 in Vienna ) was a Bohemian- Austrian landowner, industrialist and politician.

Oswald von Thun and Hohenstein

Life

Oswald was the son of Joseph Oswald Graf von Thun and Hohenstein (1817-1883) and Johanna, born former countess of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Hainspach (1834-1915). He studied law at the universities of Vienna , Prague and Leipzig . After completing his military service and several long trips abroad, he acted as an unpaid attaché in Tehran . In 1876 he took over the management of the goods in Klösterle an der Eger and Sehuschitz . In Klösterle he owned the Thun porcelain factory . After the death of his uncle Franz von Salm-Reifferscheidt-Hainspach, he received the inheritance of the Salm-Reifferscheidt-Hainspach line , whereupon he had a name and coat of arms association carried out. From his mother he inherited the Swetla and Habern estates with Tieß and Zboží .

In 1878 Thun married Christiana Countess von Waldstein (1859–1935) in Prague . From this marriage came the sons Joseph Oswald (1879–1942), Adolf (1880–1957) and Paul (1884–1963).

Since the death of his father in 1883, Thun had been a hereditary member of the manor house of the Vienna Imperial Council and became a leading representative of the liberal-centralist, constitution-loyal large estates . In 1900 he was awarded the Order of the Golden Fleece by the Emperor . Thun was in 1880, with interruptions until its dissolution in 1913, a member of the Bohemian Landtag and chairman of the large estates loyal to the constitution. He fought in vain for a balance between German and Czech interests in Bohemia. Badly bad health, Thun resigned as chairman in 1906 and was dependent on a wheelchair after a stroke in 1908. In 1913 he died of pulmonary edema .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thun and Hohenstein
  2. ↑ a b c d Ernst Rutkowski: Letters and documents on the history of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Volume 1: The Constitutionally Loyal Large Estate 1880–1899. Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-486-51831-3 , p. 22ff.
personal data
SURNAME Thun and Hohenstein, Oswald von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thun-Hohenstein-Salm-Reifferscheidt, Joseph Oswald von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian-Austrian large landowner, industrialist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1913
Place of death Vienna