Count Erich Kielmansegg
Erich von Kielmansegg ( born February 13, 1847 in Hannover, † February 5, 1923 in Vienna) was a senior civil servant and politician of the Austro -Hungarian monarchy. He served 23 years as governor of Lower Austria and in 1895 was briefly Prime Minister of Cisleithania, the Austrian half of the Habsburg monarchy.
Life
His parents were Edward Kielmansegg, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hanover and Juliane von Zesterfleth ( 1808-1880 ). Kielmansegg grew up in Hanover and Frankfurt am Main, studied in Heidelberg and fled with his family in 1866 after the German war to Vienna. He studied law at the University of Vienna and entered the Austrian government service in 1870 and was a 1871-73 secretary of Prime Minister Adolf von Auersperg.
1876-1881 served as Kielmansegg district captain of the district of Baden, to which also scored the territory of present-day district Mödling. 1882 to 1886 he worked in the state governments of the Crown Lands Bukovina and Czernowitz in Carinthia and Klagenfurt. Then he was at the Home Office as Section Chief Director of State Police. He married in 1884 in Czernowitz Anastasia Lebedewna of Lebedeff (* 1860).
From October 17 1889 to June 28, 1911 (1895 interrupted his premiership ) was Kielmansegg governor of Lower Austria. He was thus the "most important " Lower Austrian governor of the era. During his tenure, the incorporation of numerous suburbs in Vienna falls in 1890. Therefore He is the creator of Greater Vienna in the imperial period (not case- Vienna at the time of the Nazis to be confused ). The Danube regulation, the expansion of the Vienna River and the Danube Canal, he ran at the forefront.
From 18 June to 2 October 1895 was Kielmansegg as confidant of Emperor Franz Joseph, Austrian Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of its transition Cabinet. His caretaker government was intended from the outset to lead the current fiscal up to the installation of a definitive government Kasimir Felix Badeni.
In 1906, a report drawn up by him firm reform entered into force simplified the file processing in Lower Austria. This " Kielmanseggsche firm reform " was imitated in many crown lands. From Kielmannsegg Sports and Tourism and the new cars were promoted. Politically, he could not prevail against the Social Democrats or the Christian Socialists under Karl Lueger.
Kielmannsegg died on February 5, 1923 in his home in the town hall street in Vienna with pneumonia, his final resting place he found on the Döblinger cemetery in the 19th district of Vienna Dobling.
Writings
- Walter Goldinger (ed.): Imperial House, statesmen and politicians. Records of the Imperial governor Erich Graf Kielmansegg. Publisher of History and Politics, Vienna 1966.