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The Nobility, Jewish Assimilation, and the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Service in the Late Imperial Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2009

William D. Godsey Jr
William D. Godsey Jr
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postdoctoral fellow at the Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Abteilung Universalgeschichte, D-55116 Mainz, Germany.
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On the surface, there would appear to be little cause to explore the connections between Jews and the bureaucracy of the Austro-Hungarian foreign office in the last decade before the outbreak of World War I. During the tenures of foreign ministers Count Alois Aehrenthal (1906–12) and Count Leopold Berchtold (1912–15), no Jew belonged to the diplomatic corps, and only one functionary from the central office in Vienna is known to have entered the service professing Judaism. The situation within the Ballhausplatz certainly did not reflect that found in the other mainstay of the unified Dual Monarchy, the Habsburg armed forces, which contained an extraordinarily high percentage of Jewish officers, particularly in the reserves. Our knowledge of the experience of Jews in Central Europe's other major foreign office, the Wilhelmstraβe in Berlin, merely reinforces the view that few formal ties existed between Jews and diplomacy.

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Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 27 , January 1996 , pp. 155 - 180
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Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 1996

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17 The sixteen great-great-grandparents of Hugo Henikstein (b. 1910), whose family had converted little more than one hundred years before his birth, included Josef von Henikstein, Elisabeth Zacher von Sonnenstein, Franz von Scholl, Santina von Resic, Count Josef Ledóchowski, Maria von Zakrewska, Count Hugo Logothetti, Baroness Paula Bartenstein, Count Moritz O'Donell, Princess Christine de Ligne, Count Johann Franz Hardegg, Countess Franziska Choiseul, Count Georg Thurn-Valsassina, Countess Emilie Chorinsky, Count Ferdinand Pálffy, and Princess Sidonie Lobkowitz. Note the many families of the aristocracy represented in this list. For Henikstein's Ahnentafel, see Jäger-Sunstenau, “Die geadelten Judenfamilien,” 1:59–60.

18 For other examples of such marriages, see Schnee, “Adel aus dem Hoffaktorentum,” chap, in Hoffaktoren an süddeutschen Furstenhöfen, 311–45; and Hanns Jäger-Sunstenau, “Die Nachkommen des Karl Raphael Ritter Joel von Joelson” (unpublished), folder Joelson, Nachlaβ Johann Baptist Witting/Hans von Bourcy, Schrenck Library, Charlottesville, Va.

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20 For a sample of marriages between aristocratic males of at least the rank of count and women from Jewish backgrounds during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, see the appendix. Many other noblemen beneath the rank of count had also concluded marriages with women from Jewish or formerly Jewish families. A Jewish heritage was also introduced into the high nobility via unions between aristocratic males and women drawn from the monarchy's “second society” of bureaucratic and entrepreneurial nobility, many of whom were allied with families of Jewish origin. The marriages of Count Hermann Künigl (1866–1910) with Friederike von Reininghaus (1876–1941), whose mother belonged to the Jewish entrepreneurial family Mautner-Markhof, and of Count Karl Kornis (1869–1918) with Baroness Irma Fejérváry (1869–1950), whose mother belonged to the wealthy Jewish commercial family of Biedermann, provide only two of many examples of such connections.

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27 In her book on the Jews in Vienna, Rozenblit suggests, using the work of the sociologist Milton Gordon, that total assimilation occurred through intermarriage (Rozenblit, The Jews of Vienna, 3). In a later essay, she chastises Steven Beller for allegedly counting “anyone who had any Jewish ancestor at all as a Jew.” She concedes only that converts or possibly the children of converts might have “experienced their Jewish backgrounds,” arguing that “surely that experience ended at some point” (Rozenblit, “The Jews of the Dual Monarchy,” 177–78). Plenty of evidence, however, indicates that the restrictive definition adopted by Rozenblit is no less unsatisfactory than Beller's and is perhaps less realistic, given the actuality of social and racial anti-Semitism in fin-de-siècle Austria-Hungary. On this point, see also Pulzer, Peter, The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria (no place, 1964), 6Google Scholar.

28 Baron Otto Franz, a diplomat who through his mother belonged to the Wittgenstein family, may well have imbibed the tradition of “aesthetic idealism” that the Wittgensteins felt they had preserved as an element of their own Jewish patrimony. See Janik, Allan and Toulmin, Stephen, Wittgenstein's Vienna (New York, 1973), 172–73Google Scholar.

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32 Figures for religious affiliations of the general population in Transleithania are drawn from László Katus, “Die Magyaren,” in Die Völker des Reiches, vol. 3, pt. 1 of Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918, ed. Wandruszka and Urbanitsch, 441.

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48 Mérey to his stepmother, Marianna von Mérey, Feb. 27, 1901, HHStA, Nachlaβ Mérey, carton 4. Since the research for this article was completed, the Nachlaβ Mérey has been reorganized and recataloged by Dr. Lajos Gecsényi, the Hungarian liaison archivist at the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv in Vienna. The carton numbers may therefore no longer correspond.

49 Mérey to Aehrenthal, Sept. 13, 1905, HHStA, Nachlaβ Aehrenthal, carton 3. Mérey wrote, “Für die Posten eines Civilagenten kommen erst nur die Generalkonsuln Ippen und Oppenheimer in Betracht. Ersteren hielte ich für intelligenter und er hätte, obgleich er auch Judenstämmling ist, nicht so einen penetrant jüdischen Namen.”

50 James A. Treichel, “Magyars at the Ballhausplatz,” 174.

51 Esterházy to Aehrenthal, Sept. 5, 1896, HHStA, Nachlaβ Aehrenthal, carton 5.

52 Fürstenberg to Berchtold, Nov. 26, 1907, Moravský zemský Archiv (Brno) (MZA), Rodinny archiv Berchtoldū, carton 134, folder 464/12, fols. 24–29.

53 Czernin to Francis Ferdinand, memorandum dated Feb. 1909, HHStA, Nachlaß Franz Ferdinand, carton 12.

54 Count Anton. Wolkenstein-Trostburg served as ambassador to France from 1894 to 1903.

55 Czernin to Francis Ferdinand, memorandum dated Feb. 1909, HHStA, Nachlaß Franz Ferdinand, carton 12.

56 Weimarer historisch-genealoges Taschenbuch des gesamten Adels jehudäischen Ursprunges (Weimar, 1912), 281Google Scholar. This work and the one published under the same title in Munich the following year are better known under the name Semi-Gotha.

57 Weimarer historisch-genealoges Taschenbuch des gesamten Adels jehudäischen Ursprunges (Munich, 1913), 77–78Google Scholar. The Semi-Gotha retracted its assertion that the Wickenburgs were originally Jewish. The two issues of the Semi-Gotha attributed Jewish origins to the families of twenty-six diplomats and Ballhausplatz officials.

58 See the thorough discussion, based on archival sources, of Aehrenthal's family background in Wank, Solomon, “A Note on the Genealogy of a Fact: Aehrenthal's Jewish Ancestry,” journal of Modern History 14, no. 3 (09 1969): 319ndash;26CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

59 Hueck, Walter v., ed., Adelslexikon, vol. 3, Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels (Limburg an der Lahn, 1975), 118Google Scholar. The family had been ennobled as “Eißner von und zu Eisenstein.”

60 Wank, “A Note on the Genealogy of a Fact,” 325. Aehrenthal's closest, albeit still remote, connection to a Jewish clan came through his brother-in-law, Count Simon Wimpffen, whose grandmother, Marie Eskeles, was the daughter of a Jewish banker.

61 For lists of such men in all areas of government, see Bihl, “Die Juden,” 9407–48. Bihl includes the name of only one diplomat who served under Aehrenthal and Berchtold, the others on his list of “diplomats” being in fact consular officials.

62 At least one other diplomat from an originally Jewish family is known to have served during the dualist era. Nikolaus von Gutmannsthal-Benvenuti entered the corps on Haymerle's watch, but retired in 1891 at the rank of attache after only ten years. His departure took place immediately after the death of his father, at which time he inherited the family estates in Carniola.

63 Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Gräflichen Häuser 1914 (Gotha, 1913), 238–39.

64 Jäger-Sunstenau, “Die geadelten Judenfamilien,” 1:55.

65 Kuno Des Fours's mother was Countess Auguste Coudenhove, while his aunt Maria Des Fours married Count Joseph Czernin and his uncle Arthur Des Fours wed Countess Michaela Bukuwky.

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67 McCagg, Jewish Nobles, 56–57; Wininger, S., Groβie fudische National-Biographie, 7 vols. (Czernowitz, 1925–1936), 1:373Google Scholar. The son of Michel Lazar (Freistädtler) Biedermann, Gustav Biedermann de Üszög et Mosgó, became the grandfather of Count Felix Brusselle-Schaubeck and the great-grandfather of Baron Felix Gerliczy. Brusselle's mother and Gerliczy's grandmother, who married the Hungarian minister president, Baron Géza Fejérváry, were daughters of Gustav.

68 For the histories and kinship connections of many of these families, see Hanns JägerSunstenau, “Die geadelten Judenfamilien.” For the Kaans and Wodianers, see also Putz, Franz, “Die österreichische Wirtschaftsaristokratie von 1815–1859” (Ph.D. diss., University of Vienna, 1975), 402ndash;3, 478ür personengeschichtliche Forschung, Bensheim, Germany, for making available to me material about the WittgensteinsGoogle Scholar.

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71 For the Hevesys (formerly Bischitz), see Barcsay-Amant, Zoltán v., “Ungarische adelige Familien, die in der Zeit ihrer Adelung oder knapp vorher der israel. Religion angehörten,” in Adeliges Jahrbuch 1936/43 (Lucerne, 1969), 258–59Google Scholar.

72 Baron Adolf Seidler (father) to the foreign office, Jan. 2, 1899; foreign office to Seidler, Jan. 17, 1899, Archiv der Republik (Vienna) (AdR), Neue Administrative Registratur (NAR), Fach 4, carton 165. The letter from the foreign office explained that “dermalen ein Bedarf an Candidaten fur die auswärtige Carrière nicht vorhanden ist.”

73 Wininger, Groβe Jüdische National-Biographie, 6:225.

74 See Weil's application for admission to the foreign office dated Apr. 29, 1886, in which he records his religion as “mos[aisch]” (HHStA, AR, F4, carton 373, personnel file Otto von Weil). I have not been able to determine a precise date for the family's conversion.

75 Isaac Landman, The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, 10 vols. (New York, n.d.), 3: 584–85; Wininger, Groβe Jüdische National-Biographie, 2:62–63.

76 See Bihl, “Die Juden,” 940–48.

77 On this point, see Godsey, “Aristocratic Redoubt,” 175ff.

78 Semi-Gotha (1913), 820. The editor attacked the foreign office for harboring “unheimlich viele, durch die Taufe cachierte, Hebräer und Judensprossen.”

79 Zirkular, Oct. 25, 1913, HHStA, AR, F4, carton 452, unnamed folder, fol. 74.

80 Wernicke, Anneliese, Theodor Anton Ippen. Ein österreichischer Diplomat und Albanienforscher, Albanische Forschungen, ed. Stadtmüller, Georg, vol. 7 (Wiesbaden, 1967), 11Google Scholar.

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82 Kanzleiverordnung, Dec. 2, 1913, HHStA, AR, F4, carton 452, unfitted folder, fol. 58.

83 Rappaport, the son of a banker, was born in Vienna in 1868 and was baptized according to the Roman Catholic rite on September 18, 1883. Eugen Rappaport (Alfred's father) to the foreign office, ca. 1886, HHStA, Konsular Akademie, carton 11, folder 1886, no. 90.

84 Foreign office to Prince Konrad Hohenlohe, draft letter, Jan. 29, 1916, HHStA, AR, F4, carton 280, personnel file Alfred Rappaport: “Ende 1909 sah sich Graf Aehrenthal veranlasst den genannten Funktionär, welcher einer der besten Kenner des Orients, insbesondere Albaniens, ist, als Subreferenten für die albanischen Angelegenheiten in die Zentralleitung des Ministeriums des Äuβern einzuberufen, woselbst er so vortreffliche Dienste leistete, dass ihm sowohl im politischen Referate für die orientalischen Angelegenheiten als auch im kirchenpolitischen Referate die Stellung des Stellvertreters des Referentes anvertraut werden konnte.”

85 Kanzleiverordnung, Apr. 14, 1914, HHStA, AR, F4, carton 452, untitled folder, fol. 45.

86 Vortrag Goluchowski to Francis Joseph, Sept. 14, 1905, AdR, NAR, F4, carton 116, personnel file Richard Oppenheimer, in which the foreign minister praises Oppenheimer's expertise in international finance.

87 Jäger-Sunstenau, “Die geadelten Judenfamilien,” 2:128.

88 See the discussion of this issue in Godsey, “Aristocratic Redoubt,” esp. chap. 1.

89 For a fine treatment of this question in Germany, see Mosse, The German-Jewish Economic Élite, 161–85.