Rudolf Hoyos-Sprinzenstein

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Rudolf Ernst Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (born July 4, 1884 in Gutenstein , † September 21, 1972 in Horn ; until 1919 Reichsgraf von Hoyos-Sprinzenstein ) was an Austrian politician and landowner .

Life

Hoyos-Sprinzenstein served as a one-year volunteer with Dragoon Regiment No. 6 after graduating from grammar school and final exams at Schottengymnasium .

He studied economics in Leipzig and forestry in Munich . In the First World War he did military service, most recently as Rittmeister . After the war he suffered losses on his properties in Drosendorf , Horn, Raan and Rosenburg because of unsuccessful speculations . He was active in the administration of his father's property and was involved in the founding of the Lower Austrian Forest Owners Association, of which he became president. He was also active in the Home Guard. As their battalion commander, he was involved in the suppression of the February fighting and the July coup in 1934 .

In the authoritarian Austrian corporate state , he held the formally second highest state office as Chairman of the State Council and President of the Bundestag from 1934 . In July 1936 he was appointed to the leadership council of the Fatherland Front . He was also chairman of the Austrian delegation to the Interparliamentary Union .

After the “Anschluss” of Austria in 1938, he was persecuted by the National Socialists for his political involvement in the corporate state . He was held in Gestapo custody several times and parts of his property were expropriated , including by the German settlement company and the Rosenburg community . After 1945, the expropriated properties were restituted. In the 1950s he was committed to re-establishing the Citizens Hospital Foundation in Horn, which was dissolved by the National Socialists.

In 1972 he died in a traffic accident in Horn.

family

Rudolf Hoyos-Sprinzenstein comes from the Spanish noble family Hoyos , who immigrated from Spain to Lower Austria in the 16th century . He was the son of Ernst Karl Heinrich Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (1856-1940) and his wife Maria Leontine Hoyos, née Larisch von Moennich (1862-1886) and grew up in Vienna , Horn and Gutenstein . He was married to Marie Karoline, née Hartig (1893-1967; Countess von until 1919) and had five children, including the forester Hans Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (1923-2010).

literature

  • Michael S. Habsburg-Lothringen: The Hoyos Family. History and personalities. In: Nobility in Transition. Politics, culture, denomination 1500–1700. Catalog of the Lower Austrian State Exhibition Rosenburg 1990, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-85460-019-4 , pp. 565-576.
  • Gertrude Enderle-Burcel , Johannes Kraus: Christian - Estates - Authoritarian. Mandataries in the corporate state 1934–1938. Ed .: Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance and Austrian Society for Historical Source Studies, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-901142-00-2 , p. 108 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b See Nobility Repeal Act 1919 .
  2. ↑ History and personalities. (PDF; 101 kB) In: rosenburg.at . March 21, 2011, accessed March 18, 2020.
  3. ↑ Miroslav Marek: Genealogy of the Hoyos family. In: genealogy.euweb.cz . January 23, 2009, accessed on March 18, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Hoyos-Sprinzenstein, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoyos-Sprinzenstein, Rudolf Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician and large landowner
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Gutenstein
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1972
Place of death horn