Zeno Welser from Welsersheimb

Minister Zeno Graf Welser von Welsersheimb, 1894

Zeno Philomenus Count Welser von Welsersheimb , Baron zu Gumpenstein (born December 1, 1835 in Laibach , † February 2, 1921 in Tab , Hungary ) was an Austrian officer , most recently Feldzeugmeister , as well as a diplomat and politician.

Coat of arms of Count Welser von Welsersheimb

Life

Zeno was the son of Count Leopold Caspar Vincenz Welser von Welsersheimb, Otto Welser von Welsersheimb was his brother. At the age of 17 he entered the military as a cadet . In 1853 he became a lieutenant and in 1857 a captain in the general staff. In 1866 he was promoted to major and wing adjutant to Archduke Albrecht during the war of 1866 .

He then became military officer in Paris (until 1870) and then in Berlin (until 1875). 1882 Emperor promoted him Franz Joseph I to Field Marshal Lieutenant . From 1880 to 1905 he acted as the kk national defense minister under nine kk prime ministers . In 1887 the Kaiser appointed him a member of the manor house of the Austrian Imperial Council ; this was abolished by the first republican government on November 12, 1918.

He came from the Augsburg patrician family Welser and was 1117th bearer of the Order of the Golden Fleece , the highest-ranking order in Imperial Austria.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Welser von Welsersheimb, Zeno Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 54th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1886, pp. 241–243 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Zeno Welser von Welsersheimb - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Meyers Lexicon 1888

Individual evidence

^ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Count XVII, Volume 130 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISBN 3-7980-0830-2 , p. 546.

personal data
SURNAME	Welser from Welsersheimb, Zeno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Welser von Welsersheimb, Zeno Philomenus Graf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian officer, most recently Feldzeugmeister as well as diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 1, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH	Laibach
DATE OF DEATH	February 2, 1921
Place of death	Tab , Hungary

[1] Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Count XVII, Volume 130 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISBN 3-7980-0830-2 , p. 546.