Victor Franz von Andrian-Werburg

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Victor Franz von Andrian-Werburg

Victor Franz Freiherr von Andrian-Werburg (born September 17, 1813 in Gorizia , † November 25, 1858 in Vienna ) was a liberal Austrian politician .

Life

Victor Andrian-Werburg studied law in Vienna from 1829 to 1833 and then worked in the Austrian civil service in Venice , Milan and Vienna. In the publication Austria and his future (3rd edition, Hamburg 1843; 2nd part, 2nd edition, Hamburg. 1847) published in 1841 , he showed himself to be an enlightened politician in the spirit of the English aristocracy . In 1844 he came to the court chancellery as court secretary .

But he left the civil service in the spring of 1846, took a lively interest in the class movements and in 1847 published the second part of the above-mentioned paper on Hamburg. At the same time, in the spirit of the Austrian estates opposition, he anonymously published the important collection of historical files on the history of the estates in Austria (Leipzig. 1846, 6 booklets).

At the beginning of April 1848 he was sent to the pre-parliament in Frankfurt by the estates of Lower Austria, where he bought himself , he was elected to the fifties committee and worked as a board member of the central committee for the holding of the elections to the Frankfurt National Assembly , in which he himself was from May 18, 1848 to represented the constituency of Wiener Neustadt as a member of parliament on March 30, 1849 . He belonged to the casino faction . He was elected Vice-President of the National Assembly, was also a member of the constitutional and central electoral committees and headed the deputation that announced to Archduke Johann that he was elected Imperial Administrator.

Grave of Victor von Andrian-Werburg in the Vienna Central Cemetery

In early August 1848 Reich envoy appointed in London, he represented in the negotiations on the Austro-Italian and the Schleswig-Holstein question Germany's interest, but returned when the Austro-German question in Frankfurt came to the fore, to the desire of the Reich Ministry back and spoke out in favor of the Kremsier draft constitution.

After Schmerling's resignation, Andrian-Werburg also gave his release. At the end of January 1849 he returned to Frankfurt, from where he returned to Vienna at the beginning of March. He has laid down his political views in the publication Centralization and Decentralization in Austria (anonymous, Vienna 1850). He opposed neo-absolutism and criticized it sharply and anonymously in his book: Austria and Its Future .

Victor Franz von Andrian-Werburg died on November 25, 1858 in Vienna and is in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (0-1-2).

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ see also: Revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian Empire

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personal data
SURNAME Andrian-Werburg, Victor Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andrian-Werburg, Victor Franz Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician, member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Gorizia
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1858
Place of death Vienna