Viktor Wassilko von Serecki

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Victor Graf Wassilko (around 1895)

Viktor (Victor) Count Wassilko von Serecki (born May 19, 1872 at Berhometh Castle ; † July 13, 1934 in Chernivtsi ) was K. u. K. Chamberlain , Lieutenant d. R., and a high Romanian Orthodox spiritual dignitary from the Wassilko family .

Family celebration at Berhometh Castle in 1904, Viktor in the foreground

biography

The youngest son of Baron Alexander Wassilko von Serecki attended the grammar school in Chernivtsi (Cernăuii) after private education up to the sixth grade, then the Imperial State High School of Rădăuți ( German  Radautz ) until he passed his Matura in 1892 .

He then volunteered for military service, where he first served in the Kuk Dragoon Regiment "Archduke Albrecht" No. 9 and was released in 1893 as a sub-lieutenant in the K. uk Uhlan Regiment "Archduke Carl" No. 3 .

He then began studying law in Chernivtsi, which he successfully completed in 1898 before devoting himself to theology.

At that time he was very committed to the Romanian society "Junimea" , the most influential intellectual, cultural and political Romanian association of the 19th century. In 1893/94 he was their librarian and controller and in 1894 was elected by a large majority as their vice-president and administrator of the treasury. Later he was a great sponsor and honorary chairman of this institution.

Viktor was appointed Greek Orthodox field curate in February 1914 in relation to the evidence of the kk Landwehr at Landsturmbezirkskommando 22. During the First World War he served as a Romanian Orthodox K. u. K. Military pastor with the rank of Rittmeister and was awarded, among other things, the Spiritual Cross of Merit 2nd Class on the white-red ribbon .

Grave of Viktor Wassilko von Serecki in Berhometh

In 1926 he held the offices of exarch and Romanian Orthodox archdeacon in Vienna . After his retirement he acted as pastor for the hospitals in Chernivtsi.

Viktor was already honored on December 19, 1905 with the title of kuk chamberlain and by the highest resolution of August 29, 1918 ( Eckartsau ) by Emperor Karl I, because of his loyalty to the state and his personal sacrifices, elevated to the rank of count.

family

Before taking the priestly vows, he married May 24, 1903 on the Jadova Florica estate (born July 14, 1878 in Zadowa (Jadova); † April 2, 1914 ibid), daughter of the landowner Alexander Ritter von Gojan (Goian). The marriage was divorced on February 20, 1909, possibly in order not to deny Viktor a later spiritual career.

The only son Iancu (born March 22, 1904) was kidnapped as a prisoner in the USSR after the invasion of Soviet troops as a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact and died there in an internment camp in 1942 for unknown reasons.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Count Wassilko von Serecki

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.

literature

  • The Gothaischen Genealogical Pocket Books of the Nobility S – Z, p. 606, GB, Gotha 1919
  • Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses Part B, 114th year, Gotha 1941
  • 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

Web links

Commons : Viktor Wassilko von Serecki  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses Part B, 114th year, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1941, pp. 536–537
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated May 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bukowina.info
  3. ^ Annals of the Society "Junimea", p. 434 f., No. 363
  4. ↑ Neue Freie Presse No. 17785, from Sunday, March 1, 1914, p. 49
  5. ↑ Field Sheet No. 1134, Saturday of December., 8, 1917, page 4
  6. ↑ Erich Prokopowitsch: The nobility in the Bukowina, Südostdeutscher Verlag, Munich, 1983, p. 130
  7. ↑ a b Letter of nobility 1918
personal data
SURNAME Wassilko von Serecki, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wassilko von Serecki, Viktor Freiherr; Wassilko-Serecki, Viktor Freiherr von; Wassilko-Serecki, Viktor Graf von; Vasilco de Serecki, contele Victor; Wassilko von Serecki, Viktor Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Orthodox clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Berhometh Castle
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1934
Place of death Chernivtsi