Peter von Goëss

Peter Graf von Goess, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1837

Johann Peter II. Count von Goëss, Freiherr zu Karlsberg and Moosburg (born February 8, 1774 in Florence , † July 11, 1846 in Vienna ), was a member of the noble Goëss family . He was Austrian Privy Councilor and treasurer, lawyer and state official, regional law president of the Styrian-Carinthian gubernium , then state governor in Galicia , and finally Lower Austrian court marshal.

biography

The son of Major General Johann Karl Anton Goëss (1728–1798) and Maria Anna Countess Christalnigg von und zu Gillitzstein (1751–1809), studied law at the University of Vienna and then entered the civil service.

From 1803 he was President of the Austrian Gubernium of Dalmatia , where he made a special contribution to fighting a famine. The public official, who is considered prudent, agile and proactive, also tried to improve the economic condition of the region through poor relief measures and job creation (road construction).

From 1804 he headed the state estates in Carinthia, from 1806 he was president of the state law of the Styrian-Carinthian gubernium. Count Goëss went down in history because he mobilized the Tyroleans on behalf of Archduke Johann. Andreas Hofer was, so to speak, “his invention”. Because Carinthia was cut off from Vienna by the French, he could risk the chess move to arm the people, which the imperial family did not like. He also built the Malborgeth fortress and organized the Carinthian Landwehr. Goëss was arrested several times by the French during the Napoleonic Wars. His commitment was rewarded with the title of Imperial Court Marshal and the lucrative office of Governor of Venice.

From 1809 he was provincial governor in Galicia and in 1815 of the Venetian provinces .

In 1825 he became Lower Austrian Land Marshal and in 1834 Obersthofmarschall and was President of the Society of Friends of Music and one of the co-founders of the Erste Österreichische Sparkasse .

From 1819 on, the count held other important functions and honorary offices: in the kk Lower Austrian hereditary tax court commission and tax regulation provincial commission, president of the kk Landwirtschaftsgesellschaft zu Wien, chief curator of the Austrian savings bank, which is united with the general pension fund, as well as an honorary member of the Imperial and Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, the Imperial and Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, the Imperial and Royal Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Natural and Regional Studies in Moravia and Silesia, the Agricultural Societies in Styria, Carinthia and Carniola.

Awards

• Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (1816)
• Knight 1st class of the Order of the Iron Crown
• Commander of the Austrian Imperial Leopold Order
• Golden Cross of Civil Honor 1813
• Knight of the Russian Imperial Order of St. Alexander Nevsky
• Knight of the Russian Imperial White Eagle Order
• Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit of the Royal Bavarian Crown
• Religious and Military Constantine Order of St. George

family

Isabella Countess von Türheim 1843

On April 1, 1799, Peter von Goëss married Karoline, Freiin von Kaiserstein (1774-1803), who died giving birth to her twins. Of the two sons from this marriage, one followed her two days later, the other passed away in 1811.

His second marriage was on October 27, 1807, with Countess Isabella von Thürheim zu Bibrachzell (* July 11, 1784 - October 6, 1855), the sister of Countess Lulu Thürheim . The only child from this marriage, Johann Anton (1816–1887), continued the line of this line.

literature

• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch des Adels (FL), Goëß, GB, 1826
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch (FL), Goëß, GB, 1941
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Volume III, Leipzig, p. 571
• Heinrich von Zeißberg :  Goës, Johann Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 323-326. (Biographed there on p. 325f.)
• Johann Zeno Graf Goëß:  Goëß, Peter Graf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 544 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Goëß, Peter Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 5th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski & C. Dittmarsch.), Vienna 1859, p. 245 ( digitized version ).
• Goëss Peter Graf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 18 f. (Direct links on p. 18 , p. 19 ).
• Bianca Kos (Ed.): The travel diary of Countess Isabella Goëss-Thürheim, Boehlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79629-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Eduard Maria Oettinger, Hugo Schramm-Macdonald: Moniteur des dates: Contenant un million de renseignements biographiques publié sous le patronage de Sa Majesté le Roi de Prusse , Volume 2, Verlag EM Oettinger, Dresden 1866, p. 129.
2. ↑ Moniteur des dates: Contenant un million de renseignements biographiques publié sous le patronage de Sa Majesté le Roi de Prusse , Volume 5, Verlag EM Oettinger, Dresden 1868, p. 45.
3. ↑ http://www.kleinezeitung.at/kaernten/familien/.../stuetzen-habsburger.story
4. ↑ Claudia Fräss-Ehrfeld (ed.): Carinthia and the Bukowina , Volume 88 of Archive for Fatherland History and Topography, Verlag des Geschichtsverein für Kärnten, 2002, p. 37.
5. ^ CH von Gelbke: Order of Knights and Medals of Honor of the Austrian Imperial State , Verlag Ludwig Schreck, Leipzig 1841, p. 9.
6. ^ CH von Gelbke: Order of Knights and Medals of Honor of the Austrian Imperial State , Verlag Ludwig Schreck, Leipzig 1841, p. 8.
7. ↑ Court and State Schematism of the Austrian Empire, Part 1, Vienna 1837, p. 42.
8. ↑ http://www.geneall.net/D/fam_names.php?id=11772