Franz Stadion, Count von Warthausen
- Franz Stadion, Count von Warthausen
Franz Stadion, Graf von Warthausen (July 27, 1806 – June 8, 1853), son of the Austrian diplomat Johann Philipp von Stadion. Born in Vienna, he was a statesman who served the Austrian Empire during the 1840s. 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 (his draft of a constitution in March 1849 was "octroyed," or decreed, but 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."
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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.
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