Franz Stadion, Count von Warthausen

Franz Stadion, Graf von Warthausen
Interior Minister of the Austrian Empire
In office 21 November 1848 – 28 July 1849
Monarchs	Ferdinand I (1848) Francis Joseph I (1848–1849)
Prime Minister	Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg
Preceded by	Baron Anton von Doblhoff-Dier
Succeeded by	Baron Alexander von Bach
Personal details
Born	(1806-07-27)27 July 1806 Vienna, Austrian Empire
Died	8 June 1853(1853-06-08) (aged 46)

Franz Stadion, Graf von Warthausen (27 July 1806 – 8 June 1853), was an Austrian nobleman and a statesman, who served the Austrian Empire during the 1840s.

Early life

Franz was born in Vienna, into the Stadion-Warthausen line of the House of Stadion, as a son of the Austrian diplomat Count Johann Philipp von Stadion-Warthausen and his wife and cousin, Countess Maria Anna von Stadion-Thannhausen (1777-1841).

Biography

From 1841 he was Governor of the Austrian Littoral (with its capital at Trieste), from 1847 to 1848 Governor of Galicia (where he freed the peasants from labor duties), and from 1848 to 1849 he was Interior Minister and Minister of Education. He advocated constitutional government, decreed the Imposed March Constitution in March 1849 which was never enacted, and in 1849 promulgated the Gemeinde (municipality) legislation that granted governmental autonomy to all municipalities in the Austrian empire. Lewis Namier, in 1848: The Revolution of the Intellectuals (p. 18), calls him "one of the most enlightened and efficient Austrian administrators."

External links

• AEIOU | Franz Stadion, Graf von Warthausen

Bibliography

• R. Hirsch, Franz Graf Stadion (Vienna, 1861).
• Rudolph Mattausch, "Franz Graf Stadion (1806-1853)" in Neue österreichische Biographie ab 1815: grosse Österreicher, vol. XIV (Zurich-Leipzig-Vienna, 1960), pp. 62-73.