Otto Franz Fünfkirchen

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Otto Franz Graf Fünfkirchen (born March 19, 1800 in Steinebrunn (today Drasenhofen), † April 6, 1872 in Vienna ) was an Austrian landowner, administrative lawyer and politician from the nobility of the Fünfkirchen .

biography

Otto was the son of Count Franz de Paula Fünfkirchen and Sophie Freiin op dem Hamme called von Schoeppingk . At the age of 15 he lost his father and inherited the family estates in the Lower Austrian Weinviertel . Otto studied law in Vienna and entered the civil service in Brno in 1824 . Already two years later he left this on the occasion of his wedding to Aloysia Countess Wurmbrand-Stuppach and expanded the ancestral castle of Fünfkirchen in the Biedermeier style . A currency devaluation forced Otto to close Steinebrunn Palace in 1844.

As a result, Otto Graf stepped Pecs 1844 back into the civil service and became District Governor of Schwaz in Tyrol. 1846 is added to him to the Tyrolean governor's office to Innsbruck . During the revolutionary years 1848-49 Otto commanded as captain a Tyrolean militia battalion . Here in Innsbruck in 1848 held from May 18 to August 8 Ferdinand I with the imperial family after escaping from revolutionary Vienna.

After the failure of the revolution, Otto was appointed district president of Brixen by the young Emperor Franz Joseph in 1850 .

The high point of his career was in 1856 when he was appointed regional president of Salzburg, where he enjoyed great popularity. In 1857 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Salzburg . In 1861 Otto left civil service for good and settled in Vienna and Bad Ischl .

His wife Aloysia Countess Wurmbrand-Stuppach died on April 3, 1870 in Vienna, Otto two years later on April 6, 1872. Both were buried in the family crypt in Stützenhofen, which was newly built by Otto . The couple had four children:

  • Franz Klemens (* May 28, 1827 - May 17, 1902) Baron von Steinebrunn, hereditary member of the manor house, married to Countess Ferdinandine Brigido
  • Sofie (born June 10, 1829) married Count Ferdinand Brandeis
  • Heinrich Gundaker (* May 22, 1830; † January 2, 1885) KK chamberlain and lieutenant colonel, married to Aloysia von Liechtenstein , both buried in the family crypt in Stützenhofen.
  • Caroline Sidonie (born March 7, 1833) Lady of the Star Cross and first regent of the Savoy Ladies' Foundation in Vienna, buried in Stützenhofen.

literature

  • Fünfkirchen, Heinrich Graf: The Fünfkirchen in Vienna, Enns, Steinebrunn and Falkenstein in the Mistelbacher district , Lower Austria State Library, Bib-Sigel: NÖIL IDN: 28241

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personal data
SURNAME Fünfkirchen, Otto Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fünfkirchen, Otto Franz Graf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian landowner, member of the state parliament, regional president of Salzburg
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinebrunn
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1872
Place of death Vienna