Robert von Benz

Robert Benz from Albkron

Robert Benz (from 1830 Benz Ritter von Albkron or from Benz for short ; from 1838 Benz Freiherr von Albkron ; born February 20, 1780 in Elchingen ; † May 6, 1849 ) was a Bavarian-Austrian lawyer, civil servant, farmer and governor of Tyrol.

Life

Origin and education

Robert Benz was born as the son of the head of a beer brewery in the Reichsabtei Elchingen , who was known locally as one of the wealthiest residents. After attending the monastery school in Elchingen, Benz studied philosophy, law and political science in Vienna and, after completing his studies, did an internship at the Reichshofrat in Vienna.

Professional activity

In 1804 he became an accessist at the Royal Bavarian State Directorate in Munich . After the Peace of Pressburg of 1805 Tirol came to Bavaria and in 1807 Robert was kurbayerischer Benz Gubernialrat in Innsbruck . Due to his merits, he was provisional general commissioner of the Innkreis until June 24, 1809, when he had to leave Tyrol. After Tirol 1814 again part of the Habsburg monarchy had become, he was District Chief of Imst , but was also a substitute, employed in Gubernium for the state takeover. On April 25, 1821, Emperor Franz I appointed him court counselor to the Tyrolean governorate.

Because of various differences with Count Karl Chotek , he was transferred to Linz in 1824 , but here too he had differences with Governor Alois Count von Ugarte, who described him as a questionable democrat . So he came back to Tyrol in 1828. On January 7th, 1830, Emperor Franz raised him to the Austrian knighthood with the title of Albkron for his services . The predicate name was chosen because the home village of Elchingen lies in the Swabian Alb . In 1835 Benz von Albkron was included in the Tyrolean aristocratic register.

After Friedrich Graf von Wilczek left as governor, Benz was appointed provincial governor and deputy governor in 1837 and headed the governorate until 1841. As deputy governor , Benz also chaired the state parliament. In 1838 he received the Knight's Cross of the Royal Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen from his emperor , and he was promoted to the status of Austrian baron . Since he did not belong to the high aristocracy , he could not move up to governor and also not become governor.

When Clemens Graf von Brandis resigned in 1848 due to the revolutionary development, von Benz again had to take over the business of a governor . However, this time von Benz did not head the state parliament, because it met under the chairmanship of Count Leopold von Wolkenstein .

On February 19, 1849, Baron Benz von Albkron retired and placed his office in the hands of the newly appointed governor Cajetan Graf von Bissingen . Benz von Albkron died on May 6, 1849 as a result of a second stroke .

family

Robert Benz had already met the daughter Dorothea of ​​his superior, the Wetzlar- born Reichshofrat, who was the royal court councilor Johann Balthasar von Ockel (1756–1834), and later married during his internship at the Reichshofrat . When Baron Benz died, he had lived with her for 41 years in a marriage blessed with children.

One son was Ernst Johann Benz Freiherr von Albkron (1825–1870), kk Ministerialkonzipist at the Ministry of Culture and Education, who was born in Innsbruck and left a son from his marriage to Pauline von Hammerer (1831–1905), who took the name of his grandfather received: Robert Benz Freiherr von Albkron (1863–1921). This became kk district captain in Carinthia as well as a meritorious researcher of the botany of Carinthia and had from his marriage with Maria Freiin Salvadori Zanatta von Wiesenhof (1869-1962) the daughter Alexandra (1896-1969).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Court and State Schematism of the Austrian Empire , Vienna 1834, p. 722
2. ↑ ^{a b} Remembrance of Robert Benz, Freiherr von Albkron, Knight of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen, Vice-President of the Imperial and Royal Gubernium for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Tiroler Landmann , Innsbruck 1850, p. 3 f.
3. ↑ Remembrance of Robert Benz, Freiherr von Albkron, Knight of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen, Vice-President of the Imperial and Royal Gubernium for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Tiroler Landmann , Innsbruck 1850, p. 5
4. ↑ Remembrance of Robert Benz, Freiherr von Albkron, Knight of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen, Vice-President of the Imperial and Royal Gubernium for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Tiroler Landmann , Innsbruck 1850, p. 16
5. ↑ Memory of Robert Benz, Baron von Albkron, Knight of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen, Vice-President of the Imperial and Royal Gubernium for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Tiroler Landmann , Innsbruck 1850, p. 16 f.
6. ↑ Memory of Robert Benz, Baron von Albkron, Knight of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen, Vice-President of the Imperial and Royal Gubernium for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Tiroler Landmann , Innsbruck 1850, p. 17
7. ↑ Remembrance of Robert Benz, Freiherr von Albkron, Knight of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen, Vice-President of the Imperial and Royal Gubernium for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Tiroler Landmann , Innsbruck 1850, p. 18
8. ↑ Georg Christoph Hamberger / Johann Georg Meusel , The learned Teutschland or Lexicon of the German writers living now , Lemgo 1786, p. 51
9. ↑ Court and State Schematism of the Austrian Empire , Vienna 1834, p. 36
10. ↑ CERL Thesaurus, Ockel, Balthasar (1756 - 1834)
11. ↑ Memory of Robert Benz, Baron von Albkron, Knight of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen, Vice-President of the Imperial and Royal Gubernium for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Tiroler Landmann , Innsbruck 1850, p. 5 f.
12. ↑ Memory of Robert Benz, Baron von Albkron, Knight of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen, Vice-President of the Imperial and Royal Gubernium for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Tiroler Landmann , Innsbruck 1850, p. 19 f.
13. ↑ Death pictures in all of Tyrol North, East and South Tyrol, Salvadori Zanatta v. Wiesenhof Maria m. Baroness Benz v. Albkron died 1962 East Tyrol
14. ^ Gerfried Horand people: Robert Benz Freiherr von Albkron (1863-1921) and his botanical collections at the State Museum for Carinthia . In: Carinthia II . 173/93. Year, Klagenfurt 1983, pp. 221–236 (especially pp. 222–224 and 226, PDF on ZOBODAT )

literature

• Richard Schober: History of the Tyrolean Parliament in the 19th and 20th centuries (pp. 521–522). Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 1984. ISBN 3-7030-0131-3 .
• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1972, p. 317.
• Memory of Robert Benz, Baron von Albkron, Knight of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen, Vice-President of the Imperial and Royal Gubernium for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Tiroler Landmann , Innsbruck 1850 ( digitized ).