Stephan Wassilko from Serecki

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Stephan Graf Wassilko von Serecki 1918

Stephan Graf Wassilko von Serecki (born June 10, 1869 at Berhometh Palace ; † August 31, 1933 in Salzburg , buried in Vienna , Grinzinger Friedhof ) was K. u. K. Kämmerer , K. u. K. Rittmeister retired, Ministerialrat in the Interior Ministry as well as a doctorate in law and non-fiction author from the Wassilko family .

Origin and family

Stephan was the second eldest son of the Privy Council and governor of the Duchy of Bukovina , Alexander Freiherrn Wassilko von Serecki .

On May 3, 1894, he married Rosa Freiin von Krauss (* July 2, 1869 in Krems an der Donau ; † January 6, 1950 in Vienna ), daughter of the former lawyer and police president of Vienna, Franz Freiherren von Krauss (from 1892 to 1894 regional president Bukovina) and his wife Berta von Thoren (1843–1908). The couple had a daughter, Zoe . This died unmarried.

biography

Wassilko passed his Abitur at the Chernivtsi grammar school and then completed his military training, appointed on December 22, 1890 as a lieutenant in the reserve of the kuk dragoon regiment of Eugen Freiherrn von Piret de Bihain No. 9. He then studied law in Vienna and became a Dr. jur. PhD.

Stephan entered the civil service, was sovereign commissioner, then district commissioner.

Stephan Graf Wassilko 1915

In 1900 he was employed as a lawyer in the K. u. K. Ministry of the Interior in Vienna was appointed as the deputy of the representative of the Ministry of the Interior at the Central Statistical Commission and was then district commissioner in Czernowitz. In 1909 he and his daughter converted from the Orthodox to the Roman Catholic rite on the occasion of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of His Majesty's reign. In the same year he was given the title and character of a Section Council with Forbearance of the Tax, then on December 1, 1915 that of a Ministerial Council on the same conditions. As a section council, the Minister of the Interior had appointed him from June 1, 1914, to replace the deputy in the Ministerial Commission for Agrarian Operations in the Agriculture Ministry, Count Karl von Lodron-Laterano .

At the beginning of the war he volunteered as a reserve officer and was with the Planter's Army in the Landwehr battalion of Colonel Papp on the Russian front. With rank of November 1, 1914, he advanced to lieutenant and led his own Hutsul company. In the battle for Chernivtsi near Toporăuţi and Rarancze (Rarancea) (Bukowina) he was so seriously wounded in both legs in the night battle of Rarancze on May 9, 1915 that he was in the military hospital of Sathmar (Satu Mare) , after five operations, as a result of one Sepsis the left leg had to be amputated. It was decorated with the Military Merit Cross (KD.) 2nd Class and the Iron Cross 2nd Class on a white and black ribbon (imperial approval to wear from January 23, 1916). His superior, Colonel Papp, wrote: “Rittmeister a. D. Stephan Freiherr von Wassilko-Serecki was the commander of a Hutsul company from the end of February 1915. On May 9, 1915, he was the first to be wounded in the battle near Rarancze, when he led his company to a counter-attack against the enemy who had penetrated a base and was far ahead of them. "(Signed PAPP, mp Obst.)

As a result of the injuries he suffered, Stephan had to end his military career, but was promoted to Rittmeister (retired) on November 20, 1917.

The Minister of the Interior appointed the Ministerial Council to represent the Ministry of the Interior in the Ministerial Commission for Agricultural Operations in February 1918. On June 1, 1918, the Emperor also awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Austrian-Imperial Leopold Order for his services as Ministerialrat in the Ministry of the Interior .

Stephan was already honored with the title of kuk chamberlain on December 19, 1905, and by the highest resolution of August 29, 1918 to Eckartsau (diploma of October 19 in Vienna) by Emperor Karl I for his loyalty to the state and his personal sacrifices raised to the rank of count.

After the war he devoted his time increasingly and successfully to the writing of bridge textbooks in several editions with extensions, although he suffered greatly from the consequences of his war injuries. The count was buried in the Grinzing cemetery, where his wife and daughter also rest.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Count Wassilko

A blue shield, in which an upright arrow is surmounted by a crescent moon, the downward-facing tips of which are each studded with a six-pointed star, all of this golden. On the main edge of the shield rests the golden count's crown with nine visible pearl prongs, raised by an open, crowned tournament helmet, surrounded on both sides by blue, gold-backed ceilings. From the crown of the helmet emerges a natural peacock frond of two rows with five feathers each, shot right through by a golden arrow. Below the shield there is a bronze-colored arabesque on which two upright natural stags, facing each other and holding golden crosses between their antlers, stand as shield holders.

All family members of the Wassilko family were originally of the Romanian Orthodox faith. Stephan converted to the Roman Catholic Church in honor of the emperor in 1910 .

Works

  • Auction Bridge, Manz-Verlag, Vienna Leipzig, 1919, 115 pages
  • Auction bridge and contract bridge, Manzsche publishing and university bookstore, Vienna Leipzig 1926, 138 pages
  • Kontrakt-Bridge Platfond, Manz-Verlag, Vienna Leipzig, 1928 completely revised edition, 193 pages
  • Kontrakt-Bridge Platfond with American count Manz-Verlag, Vienna Leipzig, 4th revised and expanded edition, 1930, 259 pages

Picture gallery

  • Baron Krauss and Bertha von Thoren after 1860

  • Announcement of the wedding of Rosa Freiin von Krauss in 1894

  • Rosa, born Baroness von Krauss 1900

  • The brothers Alexander, Stephan and Georg Wassilko von Serecki around 1905

  • Rosa, born Freiin von Krauss 1915

  • Zoe Countess Wassilko 1918

  • S. Wassilko, Bridge textbook 1930

  • Grave of Stefan Graf Wassilko, wife Rosa and daughter Zoe in Grinzing

literature

  • The Gothaischen Genealogical Pocket Books of the Nobility S – Z, p. 606, GB 1919
  • Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses Part B, pp. 536-537, 114th year, 1941
  • Heinz Siegert (ed.), Nobility in Austria, Kremayr & Scheriau publishing house, 1971
  • Erich Prokopowitsch, The nobility in the Bukowina, publishing house "Der Südostdeutsche", Munich 1983
  • Ion Drăguşanul, Bucovina faptului divers, Vol. 1,2, Editura Bucovina Viitoare, Suceava, 2002
  • Mihai-Ştefan Ceauşu, Czernowitz 1892 in: Wladimir Fischer (ed.), Spaces and Borders in Austria-Hungary 1867–1918: Approaches to Cultural Studies, Francke Verlag 2010

Web links

Commons : Stephan Wassilko von Serecki  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogischen Taschenbuch der Graefliche Häuser part B, pp. 536-537, 114th year, 1941
  2. ^ Appointment decree , issued by the Imperial and Royal War Ministry
  3. ^ Electrical engineering and mechanical engineering, Volume 18, authors: Elektrotechnischer Verein Österreichs, Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker, Österreichischer Verband für Elektrotechnik, Springer Verlag, 1900, p. 487
  4. ↑ James Houran (ed.): From Shaman to scientist: essays on humanity's search for spirits, 2004, Verlag Scarecrow Press Inc., page 143
  5. ^ Austria. Central Statistical Commission, Statistical Monthly, Volume 36, Verlag A. Hölder 1910, p.
  6. ↑ Pilsener Tagblatt No. 336, from December 4, 1915, p. 5
  7. ↑ Bukowinaer Post No. 3152, from Sunday, June 7, 1914, p. 5
  8. ↑ Subdivision land register sheet to the main land register booklet 1888/241 E 14
  9. ^ Reichspost No. 423, from Wednesday, September 8, 1915, p. 7
  10. ↑ Wiener Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung No. 5131, from Wednesday, March 15, 1916, p. 3
  11. ^ Field Post 435 on May 18, 1915, Vienna
  12. ↑ Lndw.Vogs.Blatt No. 186 BC November 20, 1917
  13. ^ Heinz Siegert (ed.), Adel in Österreich, Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, 1971, p. 129
  14. ↑ Zoe Countess Wassilko von Serecki, Origin and Fate of Count Wassilko von Serecki in Quality of Time, Publication of the Austrian Astrological Society, Vienna 1987, p. 15
  15. ^ Reichspost (afternoon edition) No. 88, from Saturday, February 23, 1918, p. 2
  16. ↑ Neue Freie Presse - Abendblatt No. 19336, from Tuesday, June 25, 1918, p. 1
  17. ↑ Erich Prokopowitsch: The nobility in the Bukowina, Südostdeutscher Verlag, Munich, 1983, p. 130
  18. ↑ a b Letter of nobility 1918
personal data
SURNAME Wassilko von Serecki, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wassilko von Serecki, Stephan Freiherr; Wassilko-Serecki, Stephan Freiherr von; Wassilko-Serecki, Stephan Graf von; Wassilko von Serecki, Stephan Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Berhometh Castle
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1933
Place of death Salzburg