Kybek, Karl Friedrich von

He began his career studying at the gymnasium in Znojmo and continued at the University of Vienna and Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague. He began by studying medicine, which he changed to study rights and political theories. As a student in Vienna, he taught people how to play the piano, so he met Ludwig Van Beethoven. In 1797, during his studies, he joined the army, wanted to be an officer, but eventually graduated from training and gained a place in the state administration, as an office worker in the Olomouc Regional Bureau (1800).

Five years later, he worked as an assistant to the Chancellor of Forensic Medicine expert Rudolph Vrbna (1805). In 1807 he was appointed to the court chamber.

In 1808, he married Fanny Bagger. He was replaced by a court clerk and served as Deputy Minister of War Karl Zichem as army commissioner (1809). In this status, he met the writer Friedrich Schlegel. Educated, dexterous and, apparently, worthily aspiring Kübeck began his dizzying career. He became a major official, a good politician and an advanced economist with extraordinary merits for the development of railways and telegraphs in the Austrian monarchy.

In 1815, he participated in the creation of the Austrian National Bank (opened in 1818). In the early 20s of the 19th century, he participated in organizing the congresses of the Holy Alliance in Ljubljana and Verona. He was close to Emperor Francis I. He organized a trip to Italy in 1825.

In 1840, he became president of the Austrian court chamber, thus the tallest man at the expense of Austrian finances. The historian Otto Urban reported that his appearance in this function was obtained by parts of the aristocratic circles of embarrassment, because Kyubek was among the clan aristocracy and originated from the ranks of the superintendent of the elite. Only in 1816 he was promoted to the status of a knight, and in 1825 to the free Lord.

He was irreplaceable not only for the emperor, but also earned the favor of the Russian tsar. The greatest merit he received as the creator of the concept of state railways and telegraphs. In 1841, he presented to Emperor Ferdinand I. a system for building a railway network for the whole empire, the main railway junctions should be part of the state railway. For the road to Trieste, he developed a version outside Hungary through Semmering, which to this day is recognized as a model of the harmonious combination of technology and nature. Merit was also about other branches, such as the connection between Prague, Usti nad Labem, Dresden.

In 1846, he presented another major project by building a state telegraph network that significantly modernized communications throughout the empire. In 1847 he stood at the birth of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He was politically opposed to Kolovrat and Metternik.

His political career continued during the revolutionary year of 1848. From March 20, 1848 to 2 in April 1848, he served as Minister of Finance of the Austrian Empire.

In the elections of 1848 he was elected by the Austrian Reichstag. He represented the constituency of Vienna — inner city II in Lower Austria, as president of the Federal Central Committee. The list of deputies from January 1849 is no more. He also acted as a member of the all-German Frankfurt Parliament.

In 1851-55, he served as president of the Reich Council. At the head of the (then still formed) body was appointed on December 5, 1850, according to the so-called March constitution of 1849. He then achieved a change in competencies in his charter, published April 18, 1851. During the year in 1851, he participated in the general review of the constitutional system.

As one of the architects of Neo-absolutism , in early 1852, from the Franz Joseph I received the Imperial Austrian Order of Leopold . Otto Urban mentions that in the early 1950s, Kybek was a major political player, the only one who competed with the power of Felix Schwarzenberg. Kyubek himself did not consider it a nobility to be the ruler of the monarchy. Considered the revolutionary events of 1848, so that the role of the nobility in them was constantly broken, the system must rely on the army and the church. However, during the Crimean War, his influence diminished, as did the Reich Council that he controlled.

He died of cholera on September 11, 1855 in Seibersdorf in Vienna. His personal life was not very happy, he had eight children from two marriages, only the younger Max Kybek survived from his five sons. For a long time he served as a member of the Moravian Terrestrial Assembly and the Reich Council.

His nephew, Guido Kybek, von Kyubau, is an Austrian government official and vice president. Granddaughter blanche Kübeck von Kyubau was a writer.

Until now, the former coal mine of Kyubek, founded at the time by the state commission, reminds of Karl Kyubek. The mine was in operation from 1842 to 1997. Next to it is Kübeck public transport stop.

• Kybek, Karl Friedrich // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.