Vladimir Logothetti
Vladimir Emanuel Alexander Count Logothetti (born August 4, 1822 in Losonctamási , today Slovakia , † December 7, 1892 in Radautz (Rădăuți) , Bukowina , today Romania ) was an Austro-Hungarian officer, politician and founder of the first volunteer fire brigade in Moravia .
ancestors
Wladimir Logothetti came from an old Byzantine family, which derives its origin from Nikephoros I. Logothetis (804-811 Eastern Roman emperor) and who has been based on the Ionian island of Zante ( Zakynthos ) since the fall of Constantinople in 1453 . In the 18th century, Giacomo (Jakob) Count Logothetti (1741–1802), who was in the service of the Republic of Venice, came to the Principality of Moldova and, with the incorporation of Bukovina, into the Austrian state association. His descendants played an important role in the defense of this province, which was on the edge of the state, and were among the dignitaries of the capital, Chernivtsi .
Vladimir's father, Hugo I. Logothetti (1801–1861) acquired after his marriage to Pauline Freiin von Bartenstein , a granddaughter of Baron Johann Christoph Bartenstein , in 1830 the goods Bilowitz and Březolupy near Hungarian Hradisch in South Moravia. He is known as the patron of the Bohemian painter Josef Mánes (1820–1871) and had him paint, among other things, “Veruna Čudová” - the most famous Mánes painting.
Vladimir was born on August 4, 1822 in the Tamassy branch (now Tomášovce, Slovakia ), where his father served as an officer. He was the oldest of seven children. A year later his eldest sister Hedwig (1823–1899) was born. As often happened back then, three siblings - Bertha (*; † 1825), Lodoiska (1826–1829) and Alfred (1830–1833) - died in childhood. The unsteady military life with constantly changing locations in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , known as the poorest part of the Austrian Empire, may have been partly to blame.
In 1830 his father bought the Bilowitz and Březolup estates in Moravia, where the family finally settled in 1839 after the inheritance from Bukovina was paid off. The younger siblings Julia (1833–1854) and Zdenko (1835–1881) were born in Moravia. Thanks to the inheritance from Bukovina and inherited money on the mother's side, the family was able to live in Moravia as a large landowner.
Career
After attending the grammar school in Brno (now: Brno ), Vladimir joined the 5th cuirassier regiment Count Auersperg in Brno as a volunteer cadet . In the revolutionary year of 1848 and during the Hungarian uprising of 1848/9, he was assigned as an officer in the 4th Uhlan Regiment in Upper Hungary , Transylvania and Italy . He was wounded several times and was particularly distinguished by his personal courage. For this he received several Austrian and Russian awards.
During the fighting he made the acquaintance of his future wife in Transylvania in the Kronstadt County (now Brașov / Romania), scion of the Catholic line of an otherwise important Calvinist Transylvanian family. The marriage followed in 1851 (see Dept. Family). As early as 1831, 1832 and 1834, Vladimir's father had submitted requests for recognition of the family's traditional and uncontested title of count, which was used in Bukovina. Because of the poor condition of the Bukovinian archives, this was initially unsuccessful. Active participation in the rescue of the empire, however, meant that on July 8, 1848, father and sons received an imperial decree with the “approval to use the foreign title of count” (Venice 1703).
Vladimir remained in active service until 1860, mainly in Galicia and Transylvania, where the first three children were born. When his father Hugo I's health deteriorated, he returned to Moravia to take over the management of the family property. He resigned as commander of the 1st Division of the Voluntary Uhlan Regiment, then in combat in northern Italy.
Vladimir settled on Bilowitz, his younger brother Zdenko went to Březolup with his widowed mother Pauline. From his wife's dowry, Wladimir had Bilowitz Castle significantly modernized and a wing added. From the picture from around 1860, the new extension can be clearly seen on the right.
After the death of his father, Vladimir was finally dismissed from active military service as a disabled person and took over the social role of the father: from 1864–1865 he was mayor of Bilowitz , from 1871 to 1877 (4th and 5th parliamentary term) Member of the Moravian Parliament, where he appeared several times in Moravian aristocratic costume.
For the development of the village of Bilowitz and for South Moravia in general, the establishment of the first Moravian volunteer fire brigade in 1869 was by far his most important act [1] . As early as 1861 and 1865, Vladimir and his younger brother Zdenko were actively involved in extinguishing devastating fires in the nearby village of Kněžpole, which awarded the two brave counts honorary citizenship in 1866. In 1869, Bilowitz also granted honorary citizenship to Wladimir, the founder and first commander of the village fire brigade. Logothetti was one of the initiators of the law of 1873 in the Moravian Parliament, which recommended the establishment of volunteer fire brigades in municipalities over 100 houses.
Vladimir was fluent in German, Polish, Czech and Hungarian. He organized competitions between Czech and German students, was active in the male choir of Hungarian Hradisch, which he had co-founded with his father, founded the first Moravian male club, the male male club Moravia in Hungarian Hradisch, in 1863 together with his brother Zdenko , and was also otherwise social active.
Three unsuccessful attempts to achieve a Moravian Compromise - in 1848, 1868 and 1871 when he himself was a member of the Landtag (the Moravian Compromise was finally agreed in 1905) - led Vladimir to decide to leave active politics and himself to dedicate again to the familiar military life. In 1877, despite massive pressure, he again refused to run for the Moravian Landtag, and instead registered as a non-active member of the Galician Landwehr Uhlan squadron.
In 1882 he became the commander of the Imperial and Royal State Stallion Depot in Drogowitz (now: Дрогобич / Drohobytsch / Ukraine) in order to change this after a year for the more important position of the commander of the larger state military stud in Radautz in Bukovina. The postcard from that time shows his official residence. He made a great contribution to horse breeding in Bukovina, especially the Hutsul horses, which are highly valued by the military .
On December 7, 1892, the stately officer, who was already seventy years old, succumbed to the consequences of an unfortunate fall from a horse. His body was transferred to Bilowitz and is buried there in the family grave. The Bilowitz volunteer fire brigade commemorates its founders every fifth year.
family
Wladimir Logothetti married on October 25, 1851 in the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Cluj-Napoca (now Cluj-Napoca / Romania) with Maria Karolina Rosalia Johanna Countess Nemes de Hidvégi et Oltszem (1826-1906). She came from the Catholic line of an old Transylvanian dynasty, the majority of whom were of the Calvinist denomination, and which had received its title from the Transylvanian prince Gábor Bethlen . They had their own pews in the still existing Hungarian Calvinist church in Fárkas útca (Wolfstrasse, now Strada Mihail Kog Klausniceanu) in Cluj-Napoca. The Catholic line had received the title of Count with Caroline's grandfather, the reconverted Ádam grof Nemes de Hídvégi († 1766) in 1755 and also had their own crypt in a Cluj-Napoca church, the Piarist or Academy Church .
The couple had four children: Hugo II (1852–1918), later an Austro-Hungarian diplomat; Alfred (1853–1923), officer and later a Romanian landowner; Rosalia (1856–1942), lady of honor of the aristocratic convent Maria Schul in Brno; and Maria (1859–1929), married to Paul Lamoral Freiherr Taxis von Bordogna and Valnigra (1852–1901).
Orders and decorations
- Imperial and Royal War Medal , Austria - 1848
- Military Merit Cross , Austria - 1849
- Knight's Cross of the Order of Saint Anne III. Class with Swords, Russia - 1849
- Knight of the Order of the Iron Crown , Austria - 1861
- Marian Cross, German Order of Knights (Austrian Branch) - 1882
literature
- Logothetti family archive 1734-1945 , now Moravský zemský archiv, Brno (Czech Republic), fund G 195
- Ernst Brückmüller, Hannes Stekl, Péter Hanák, Ilona Sármány-Parsons, Bourgeoisie in the Habsburg Monarchy: Small-Town Bourgeoisie in the Habsburg Monarchy 1862-1914. Vienna, Böhlau 2002, ISBN 32-0598-939-2 (Hungarian-Hradisch).
- Wilken Engelbrecht, Rod Logothettiů, in: Genealogické a heraldické informace III (1998), pp. 17-27. ISSN 0862-8963 .
- (red.) Alois Koch, Encyclopedia of Entire Animal Medicine and Animal Breeding VIII, Perles 1891, p. 262.
- Pavel Krystýn. Bílovičtí páni. Logothettiové. In. Ibid., Bílovice 1256-2006. Obecní úřad Bílovice / Vydavatelství Petr Brázda, Bílovice / Břeclav 2006, p. 27-34. ISBN 80-903762-7-4 .
- Vladimír Krystýn, Logothettiové z Bílovic. In: Slovácko XL (1998), pp. 221-234. ISBN 80-86185-04-4 .
- Gustav Amon von Treuenfest, Geschichte des k. and k. Uhlanen Regiment Kaiser. Publishing house of the regiment 1901.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Logothetti, Vladimir |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Logothetti, Wladimir Alexander Emanuel Graf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moravian-Austrian officer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tomášovce (Lučenec) |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 7, 1892 |
| Place of death | Radautz |